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• 5 DailyKos Headlines
• Feb 16, 2020 Pete Buttigieg retorts: Not going to 'take lectures on family values' from Rush Limbaugh Former Mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and 2020 presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg gracefully responded to Rush Limbaugh’s homophobic comments on his sexuality, marriage, and candidacy when appearing on CNN’s State of the Union this Sunday. Before we get into the clip, let’s go over how...     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
• Feb 16, 2020 Facebook changes policy for ads after Bloomberg memes make a buzz on Instagram The Bloomberg campaign “contracted” (paid) influencers to share (mostly wry, humorous) 2020 hopeful Mike Bloomberg memes on Instagram, as reported by The New York Times. Now, Facebook has changed a notable rule for paid political posts on the sites, as reported by Politico. “After hearing...     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
• Feb 16, 2020 6-year-old Florida girl committed to mental health facility for 'temper tantrum at school' A black Florida mother is demanding accountability after her  6-year-old daughter with special needs was committed to a mental health facility for a 48-hour psychiatric evaluation without her consent. Authorities claimed in an incident report CNN obtained that Nadia King was "destroying school...     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
• Feb 16, 2020 The Trump administration hopes that America's hunters and fishermen can be played for fools Over the first nine days of February, thousands of hunters, fishermen, gun aficionados, and other outdoor sports enthusiasts poured into an annual central Pennsylvania event: the Great American Outdoor Show. Prominently sponsored by the National Rifle Association, this sprawling exhibition...     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
• Feb 16, 2020 North Dakota Native Vote: An organization the Daily Kos community helped build I’m thrilled to announce that on Feb. 5, 2020, North Dakota Native Vote launched a permanent organization. You, the Daily Kos Community, helped build this much-needed group with your incredible contributions of more than half a million dollars in October 2018. Here’s the background piece...     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
• Daily Beast
• Feb 16, 2020 Democrats Come Up With an Election System That Could Hand Victory to Trump Photo Illustration by Lyne Lucien/The Daily Beast/GettyI’ve read and heard a lot of comparing Bernie Sanders’ 2020 campaign to Donald Trump’s 2016 in this respect: In both cases, you’re looking at a party outsider popular enough to get not a majority of votes but a respectable plurality,...     Daily Beast        more   
• Feb 16, 2020 American Passenger’s Coronavirus Diagnosis Raises New Fears Tang Chhin Sothy/AFP via GettyOfficials are scrambling to track down passengers who came into contact with an American woman who tested positive for coronavirus after leaving a cruise ship that was supposedly free of the bug.The nightmare scenario linked to the MS Westerdam, which is docked in...     Daily Beast        more   
• Feb 16, 2020 Joe Biden: Bernie Sanders Has ‘Never Gotten Anything Done’ on Health Care Fresh off his disastrous fifth-place finish in the New Hampshire primary, former Vice President Joe Biden took aim Sunday at the current frontrunner in the Democratic presidential primary, saying Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has “never gotten anything done” on health care.During an interview...     Daily Beast        more   
• Feb 16, 2020 Kate Middleton: How I Struggle With ‘Mom Guilt,’ and Other Royal Parenting Pressures Daniel Leal-Olivas/GettyIf you love The Daily Beast’s royal coverage, then we hope you’ll enjoy The Royalist, a members-only series for Beast Inside. Become a member to get The Royalist in your inbox every Sunday.‘There were all sorts of mixed emotions’Kate Middleton definitively stakes...     Daily Beast        more   
• Mother Jones Politics
• Feb 16, 2020 We Talked to the Man Behind That Nigerian Pete Buttigieg Fan Account. It’s Not Lis Smith. “It’s very stressful. It’s almost midnight here and I’ve just been dealing with controversies all day,” said a man claiming to behind the @easychinedu account, a pro-Pete Buttigieg account that went viral on Sunday morning after high-profile Twitter users like David Klion alleged that...     Mother Jones Politics        more   
• Feb 16, 2020 More Than 1,000 Former Justice Department Officials Urge Barr to Step Down More than 1,100 former Justice Department officials signed a public letter Sunday that recommends Attorney General William P. Barr’s resignation from office after he intervened to reduce the Justice Department’s sentencing recommendation for President Donald Trump’s friend and...     Mother Jones Politics        more   
• Feb 15, 2020 Report: Barr Protected Turkish Bank From Prosecution to Appease Erdogan President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Friday to claim he has a “legal right” to interfere in Justice Department cases, but insisted that he has “so far chosen not to.” Anyone following Trump’s social media presence knows that not to be the case. He regularly...     Mother Jones Politics        more   
• Feb 15, 2020 Ukrainian President Asks Trump to “Please, Please Stop Saying That Ukraine Is a Corrupt Country” President Donald Trump famously had a request for the president of Ukraine when the two leaders spoke over the phone on July 25. That request to launch politicized investigations into Joe Biden and his son turned into a months-long congressional investigation, making Trump only the third...     Mother Jones Politics        more   
• Plunderbund
• Feb 13, 2020 Vincent Price, Master of Horror, Meet the Abominable Donald Trump Just in time for the Oscars, the recent Friday Night Massacre of two of Trump's White House staff and Ambassador Gordon Sondland, along with rumors of further retribution for dissenters in his administration, provide a reminder of a classic 1971 Vincent Price film, The Abominable Dr. Phibes.     Plunderbund        more   
• Feb 7, 2020 Five Candidates For Ohio House Who Crushed It Last week, candidates for state office reported their fundraising going into the 2020 election. Here are five candidates for critical Ohio House races who reported big hauls. They'll need it going into November.     Plunderbund        more   
• Jan 23, 2020 Republicans – Whatever Happened to the Term Public Servant? Radical unelected bureaucrats. Deep state. Socialism. Loser teachers. But that’s only the short list of epithets. Nattering nabobs of negativism. Remember that one? More on that later. When it comes to hurling slime, Republicans are masters of the art of dousing people with rhetorical...     Plunderbund        more   
• Slate
• Feb 16, 2020 Meet the Person Who Tweeted “It’s Lis,” a Nigerian Man Who Is Not Lis Smith He's real, and he says he liked Bernie in 2016.     Slate        more   
• Feb 16, 2020 1,100 Former DOJ Lawyers Call on Barr to Resign for Interference in Stone Sentencing "The damage they have done to the Department of Justice’s reputation for integrity and the rule of law, require Mr. Barr to resign."     Slate        more   
• Feb 16, 2020 White House Memo Admits There Was No “Imminent Threat” Before Soleimani Assassination "Soleimani was plotting imminent and sinister attacks," Trump said at the time, "but we caught him in the act.”     Slate        more   
• The Nation
• Feb 15, 2020 Trump Wants You to Ignore His Republican Challenger John Nichols Former Massachusetts governor Bill Weld won a delegate in Iowa and almost 10 percent of the New Hampshire Republican primary vote. The post Trump Wants You to Ignore His Republican Challenger appeared first on The Nation.     The Nation        more   
• Feb 14, 2020 Republicans Have Made It Clear They Will Let Trump Become a Dictator. Will We? Sasha Abramsky Freed from all accountability by the Senate, the realtor’s inner autocrat is on full display. The post Republicans Have Made It Clear They Will Let Trump Become a Dictator. Will We? appeared first on The Nation.     The Nation        more   
• Feb 14, 2020 How Can Warren Win? By Attacking Bloomberg. Jeet Heer Her unity message hasn’t done Warren much good, but now she’s facing an ideal foe. The post How Can Warren Win? By Attacking Bloomberg. appeared first on The Nation.     The Nation        more   
• Feb 14, 2020 Visualizing the Climate Crisis in Barcelona Peter Kuper Around the world, artists sound the alarm. The post Visualizing the Climate Crisis in Barcelona appeared first on The Nation.     The Nation        more   
• The Hill
• Feb 16, 2020 Trump speaks with Turkey's Erdogan amid growing tensions in Syria President Trump spoke with Turkey's president on Saturday just days after U.S. forces clashed with Syrian government forces near an area where Turkish forces are attempting to resettle thousands of Syrian refugees....     The Hill        more   
• Feb 16, 2020 Ted Cruz takes aim at Alabama vasectomy bill: 'Yikes' Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) took aim at legislation recently introduced in Alabama by a state representative that would, if passed, ...     The Hill        more   
• Feb 16, 2020 Sanders interrupted by anti-dairy industry protesters during Nevada rally Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) was interrupted by anti-dairy industry protesters at a presidential campaign rally in Nevada on Sunday. "Bernie I'm your biggest supporter and I'm here to ask you to s...     The Hill        more   
• Feb 16, 2020 Klobuchar, Steyer unable to name Mexico's president in pointed interview Both Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and billionaire Tom Steyer were unable to identify Andrés Manuel López Obrador as the president of Mexico in an ...     The Hill        more   
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