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‘Cause it was us, baby, way before them, and we’re still together

Firedoglake is no more. I have mixed feelings about FDL. Lots of great writers, like TBogg and Marcy Wheeler and David Dayen, got their start there. But some of Jane Hamsher’s stunts were a bit much. I...

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Just Chuck Off Already

Lot of hair-on-fire screaming this morning by Dems over Chuck Schumer (D-Tel Aviv) seeing an opportunity to sandbag the Iran deal (which is still going to pass) so he can later shrug and say “You know...

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You’ll come running back

I don’t understand why it’s vital that Bernie get out of the race and endorse Hillary immediately. I do understand why he needs to do this before the convention. But I don’t understand why it has to...

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About Hard Choices

There’s an affirmative case to be made for Hillary- she’s qualified, she’s smart, she’s motivated, she has detailed plans and will have the most progressive platform and agenda of my lifetime (thanks...

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July 3rd Tune Inn DC Meet-up

We’ll be meeting at the Tune Inn at 331 Pennslvania Ave SE for drinks and munchies this coming Sunday, July 3rd starting around 8:00 PM Hopefully it will be quiet enough for good conversation. Google...

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Jill Stein, Anti-Vaxxer and Homeopathy Sympathizer – Whocoodanode?

Dan Savage is having a fight with the Greens (details here), and part of it involves a good look at their perennial candidate, “Dr” Jill Stein.  Here’s a taste of her bullshit: I don’t know if we have...

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@WikiLeaks: Patchouli-Scented Breitbart.com

One positive thing about the Trump candidacy is that it has a way of confirming long-held suspicions, such as that the GOP base’s yearning for white nationalist politics remains strong and extends well...

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Armchair Jacobins

This is kind of hilarious. I followed Corey Robin on FB because I like to see what other people think (a good thing), and sometimes I politely commented. I just got unfriended after this exchange:...

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Oh, Well, No One’s Perfect, Amirite, Media

The long, gory details on how Russia helped to elect the Trump duma with an assist from clueless and over their head DNC employees (whose names I’ve written down and put in my MARK PENN FAIL TRAIN...

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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business

The right-wing talking points around the Flynn-Trump-Russia-Peepee story are coalescing around this “it’s not Flynn’s actions that are illegal, it’s the leaking about them from anti-Trump forces that’s...

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I’m addressing the realpolitik

My therapist said I have to stop reading and writing about Putin’s useful idiots on “the left”. It’s hard to top this from LG&M and anyway: Watching Glenn Greenwald desperately fling his hands and...

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Mission Accomplished, No Casualties

So apparently we have a new chair of the DNC, Tom Perez, and he is a fine man and will make a good chair. He immediately appointed Ellison his co-chair or whatever. This will not stop the idiot left,...

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Like a river running soul deep

I can’t think of anyone on “the left” who uses this phrase constantly, can you? That angst over what many in the White House call the ‘deep state’ is fermenting daily, fueled by rumors and tidbits...

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Clap on, clap off, the Clapper

Stuff like this makes it hard to take Glenn Greenwald seriously. First, Clapper is a liar so Dems shouldn’t quote him about not wiretapping Trump Shouldn't Democrats get someone more credible than...

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So Step Away With Your Fist Fight Ways

This ain’t back in the day: Many Americans can’t remember anything other than an economy with skyrocketing inequality, in which living standards for most Americans are stagnating and the rich are...

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