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• Feb 20, 2019 Open thread for night owls: Gov't shutdown didn't stop Trump regime from processing drilling permits E. A. Crunden at Think Progress writes—Trump administration accepted 260 oil and gas drilling applications during shutdown: New data analysis shows that the government accepted 260 oil and gas drilling permit applications during the partial government shutdown last month, even as federal...     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
• Feb 20, 2019 Conservative ideology is based in the belief white people are the true victims in American society Tom Wolfe’s 1987 novel The Bonfire of the Vanities has been called “the quintessential novel of the 80s” in satirizing the racial and class politics of New York City during the era, which saw the city severely divided after multiple incidents where white and black people had different...     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
• Feb 20, 2019 West Virginia teachers win: State House tables education bill teachers went on strike to protest That was fast. West Virginia teachers went on strike Tuesday to protest an education bill that would have promoted charter schools and private schools … and within hours, the state House tabled the bill. The state Senate had already passed the bill, but with schools across the state closed...     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
• Feb 20, 2019 Steve King asks for divine intervention to get his committee assignments back Iowa Republican Steve King’s God is apparently the same God of all those people who are certain He (and it's always "He" for those people) is responsible for the performance of their favorite sports teams. Rep. King is hoping he reaches that level of fandom among his constituents, and God,...     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
• Feb 20, 2019 The press keeps gaslighting us about Trump's signature Mexico lie You can't tell the story of Trump's irrational border wall obsession without including the central, humiliating fact that he regularly promised that Mexico would pay for the 2,000-mile barrier. Yet that's exactly what the press is doing today: omitting that defining lie about the border wall....     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
• Daily Beast
• Feb 20, 2019 Why ‘Miracle Workers’ Killed Bill Maher by Exploding His Penis God needed to kill somebody.In the universe of Miracle Workers, that is the logical explanation for the TBS comedy’s best joke.“13 Days,” the episode of the Daniel Radcliffe-starring series that aired Tuesday night, finds the series’ petulant man-child God, played by Steve Buscemi, angry...     Daily Beast        more   
• Feb 20, 2019 Former FBI Director Andrew McCabe: ‘It’s Possible’ Trump Could Be a Russian Asset Former Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe continued to drop explosive soundbites Tuesday evening, telling CNN anchor Anderson Cooper that he believes “it’s possible” President Trump could be a Russian asset. Continuing his media blitz in support of his new book, The Threat, McCabe appeared...     Daily Beast        more   
• Feb 20, 2019 Stephen Colbert Mocks Bernie Sanders’ ‘Old White Guy’ 2020 Announcement CBS“The 2020 presidential election is heating up,” Stephen Colbert said in his Late Show monologue Tuesday night before revealing the latest candidate to enter the Democratic primary: Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. “Bernie made his campaign announcement this morning in the most Bernie way...     Daily Beast        more   
• Feb 20, 2019 Border Patrol Pays $125,000 to Minor Who Says She Was Assaulted by Officer Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily BeastU.S. Customs and Border Patrol has agreed to pay more than $100,000 to a young woman who says she was sexually assaulted by an officer while crossing the U.S.-Mexico border at age 17.The case, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of...     Daily Beast        more   
• Mother Jones Politics
• Feb 19, 2019 Top Trump Advisers Are Still Plotting a Dubious Nuclear Deal With the Saudis, Lawmakers Warn Top advisers to President Donald Trump plotted to orchestrate a major US national security move—the transfer of sensitive nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia—and potentially profit from the plan. That’s the takeaway from an interim staff report released Tuesday by the House...     Mother Jones Politics        more   
• Feb 19, 2019 Teachers in West Virginia Went on Strike Again—and Earned a Huge Victory Within Hours On Monday night, West Virginia teachers’ unions called for a statewide strike. They decided to walk out to protest a sweeping education bill in the state Senate that would have both sent public money to pay for private school costs and established charter schools—a bill educators saw...     Mother Jones Politics        more   
• Feb 19, 2019 Curious How Bernie Sanders Went From ’60s Radical to Democratic Front-Runner? Read On. Bernie Sanders launched his second bid for president with about as much pomp as he did his first one. In other words, not much. In April 2015, Sanders announced his candidacy via Twitter then walked outside his Capitol Hill office and held a press conference. On Monday morning, Sanders got his...     Mother Jones Politics        more   
• Feb 19, 2019 Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Who Is Not in a Coma, Returns to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg made her return on Monday to the Supreme Court for oral arguments for the first time since announcing she underwent surgery in December for cancer. Her public appearance comes after false conspiracy theories about her health proliferated online, and after her...     Mother Jones Politics        more   
• Plunderbund
• Feb 1, 2019 Petulant Trump Shutdown Disaster (PTSD) and the GOP’s Antipathy Toward All Things Government “It ain’t over till it’s over,” Lawrence Peter Berra famously told us years ago. And if the topic is Republican behavior in the form of hatred for all things government, including targeting public employees for retribution and engineering government shutdowns, Yogi said it for us....     Plunderbund        more   
• Jan 28, 2019 Pad lightly, Wilbur I’ve been poking around the post-shutdown comments to get a greater understanding of how the commander-in-chief’s brain-locked base reacted to his retreat from demanding big money for his storied wall. The tense body language of his apologists told me that they are struggling to make sense of...     Plunderbund        more   
• Jan 19, 2019 This Week Celebrate Public Education Public Education Partners (PEP) is hosting the second annual Public Education Celebration in the Statehouse on January 24. This notable event is open to the public. Public school personnel are encouraged to attend. You are invited to CELEBRATE PUBLIC EDUCATION! In honor of Public Education Week...     Plunderbund        more   
• Slate
• Feb 20, 2019 What Is the NYT Implying When It Suggests Donald Trump Lied About Michael Flynn’s Resignation? The New York Times put out a big story Tuesday reviewing two years of obstruction-y behavior by Donald Trump toward the Justice Department. Some of the material seems quite incriminating, including a description of a not-previously-reported incident in which Trump allegedly tried to get the U.S....     Slate        more   
• Feb 20, 2019 Covington Catholic Student in Viral Mall Standoff with Native American Activist Sues Washington Post for $250 Million The Covington Catholic high school student involved in a standoff with a Native American activist on the national mall last month is suing the Washington Post for defamation for its portrayal, according to the suit, of the MAGA hat-wearing teen as a racist instigator of the ugly interaction that...     Slate        more   
• Feb 19, 2019 The Chinese Threat is Overblown Listen to Slate’s The Gist:     Slate        more   
• The Nation
• Feb 19, 2019 Early-Childhood-Education Initiatives Are Promising More Than They Deliver Michelle Chen Pre-K programs are failing to adequately support children or staff. The post Early-Childhood-Education Initiatives Are Promising More Than They Deliver appeared first on The Nation.     The Nation        more   
• Feb 19, 2019 Take Action Now: End Trump’s Phony National Emergency NationAction Call your representatives and stage an action this week against Trump’s racist border wall. The post Take Action Now: End Trump’s Phony National Emergency appeared first on The Nation.     The Nation        more   
• Feb 19, 2019 The Eco-Police Are Coming for You! Tom Tomorrow The Green New Dealers want your private property, and they’ll stop at nothing to get it! The post The Eco-Police Are Coming for You! appeared first on The Nation.     The Nation        more   
• Feb 19, 2019 The American Empire’s Long Reach Stephanie Savell Since 2017, the US has conducted counterterror missions in 80 countries—over 40 percent of the nations in the world. The post The American Empire’s Long Reach appeared first on The Nation.     The Nation        more   
• The Hill
• Feb 20, 2019 Florida to ban dumping blood off beaches to lure sharks: report Florida is reportedly moving toward a statewide ban on "chumming," or the practice of fisherman dumping blood into the ocean along beaches to lure sharks.The Fish and Wildlife Conservation Com...     The Hill        more   
• Feb 20, 2019 Trump nominates Jeffrey Rosen to replace Rosenstein at DOJ President Trump on Tuesday announced his intention to nominate Jeffrey Rosen, the current deputy Transportation secretary, to be the next deputy attorney general.If confirmed, Rosen would replace Rod Rosenstein, wh...     The Hill        more   
• Feb 20, 2019 Arkansas governor signs 'trigger' abortion ban bill Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) on Tuesday signed into a law a measure that would automatically ban abortion if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns its 1973 landmark Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion nat...     The Hill        more   
• Feb 20, 2019 Wisconsin lawmaker refuses to cut hair until sign-language bill passes A Wisconsin state lawmaker is refusing to cut his hair until a measure addressing the shortage of skill sign language interpreters for the deaf community is passed.State Assembly Rep. Jonathan...     The Hill        more   
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