JD and I are going back to CO in August… cant wait!

not really sure how the dnc is spending its money but it continues to borrow..

The DNC has been plagued with fundraising woes that leave them at a serious disadvantage compared to the Republican National Committee.

At the end of April, the RNC reported $45.6 million in contributions this year—while the DNC raised a paltry $19 m…

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It’s a dark day in America when police are lined up against Jews protesting Concentration Camps.#JewsAgainstICE

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— Joshua Potash (@JoshuaPotash) July 16, 2019

ActBlue’s ‘green wave’ continues with $246 million second quarter haul

Democratic campaigns and organizations are riding high off support from small donors.

ActBlue, the online fundraising platform used by most Democratic candidates and outside groups, announced that 3.3 million donors contributed $420 million through the platform in the first…

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HOW MORGAN HARPER’S OHIO PRIMARY CHALLENGE EXPLAINS THE HOUSE DEMOCRATIC MELTDOWN

DURING THE 2010 tea party wave, Republicans won what was then a swing seat from freshman Democratic Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy. Republicans then gerrymandered the state, packing as many Democrats as they could into Ohio’s 3rd Congressional District, which includes most of…

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While social media has disrupted the ‘blogosphere’ I think independently owned sites will ultimately outlive the social media platforms that inevitably bring censorship and regulation to creator content. The more that campaigns diversify and keep themselves from being locked into one platform or another they prevent said platform from having…[Read more]

Sanders, Omar call for Labor Department investigation of all US Amazon warehouses

A group of 13 members of Congress on Tuesday asked the Department of Labor to investigate all of Amazon’s US warehouses, citing a long list of concerns about working conditions, labor violations, injuries and mistreatment.

The group is led by Vermont Sen. Bernie…

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Bernie Sanders says he would ‘absolutely’ try to break up Facebook, Google, Amazon

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today said that if elected president he would “absolutely” look to break up online giants Facebook, Google and Amazon, offering his strongest pledge to date to pursue antitrust enforcement against the tech industry.

Asked at a Washing…

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In 2008, Democratic Socialists Endorsed Him. Now, a DSA Member Is Primarying Him.

Nas’ voice led me to Anthony Clark’s June campaign launch party in suburban Forest Park, Ill. I had misplaced the exact address and wandered until steered by distant hip-hop rhythms—I had heard that Clark was a hip-hop aficionado and followed the hint. The activ…

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Bidencare Is a Scam

After months on the presidential campaign trail, alleged Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden has finally rolled out just the sort of health care plan everyone expected of him: a marginal improvement upon the Affordable Care Act, pitched explicitly as a safer, saner alternative to Medicare for All. Bidencare would create a public…

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Bernie Should Cancel Medical Debt, Too

Bernie Sanders’s 2020 presidential campaign is picking up right where he left off in 2016. His stump speeches remain the classic Sanders jeremiad against inequality and exploitation he’s been honing for forty years. And transforming US health care by establishing the most comprehensive single-payer sys…

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JOE BIDEN IS ‘DANGEROUSLY CLOSE TO USING REPUBLICAN TALKING POINTS’, SAYS EX-CLINTON ADVISER

A former adviser to 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has said that 2020 hopeful Joe Biden is “dangerously close to using Republican talking points” and sounds like President Donald Trump when he discusses Medicare for All.

Appearing…

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Planned Parenthood president Leana Wen forced out by board

The president of Planned Parenthood has been forced out of her position after only eight months on the job.

Dr Leana Wen said in a statement she was forced out after “philosophical differences”, over the direction of the organization.

Her departure leaves the nation’s largest nonpr…

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‘The Difference Is Thousands of Lives’: Sanders Releases Chart Contrasting Biden’s Incremental Healthcare Plan With Medicare for All

As Joe Biden continued his misleading attacks on single-payer during an AARP forum in Iowa on Monday, Sen. Bernie Sanders’s 2020 presidential campaign circulated a chart highlighting the sharp and deeply…

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House orders Pentagon to review if it exposed Americans to weaponised ticks

The US House of Representatives has called for an investigation into whether the spread of Lyme disease had its roots in a Pentagon experiment in weaponising ticks.

The House approved an amendment proposed by a Republican congressman from New Jersey, Chris Smith,…

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Beloved Yosemite landmarks’ original names restored after trademark dispute

Some of Yosemite’s most well-known and beloved attractions will get their original names back, following a settlement in an intellectual property dispute that briefly changed the monikers of the national park’s hotels and landmarks.

The name change came about in a leg…

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July on course to be hottest month ever, say climate scientists

Record temperatures across much of the world over the past two weeks could make July the hottest month ever measured on Earth, according to climate scientists.

The past fortnight has seen freak heat in the Canadian Arctic, crippling droughts in Chennai and Harare and forest fires…

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Brazil must reveal investigations into journalist Glenn Greenwald, court says

Brazil’s top court has ordered the country’s justice ministry to reveal whether there are any investigations into the US journalist Glenn Greenwald, whose online news site has published material critical of Jair Bolsonaro’s administration.

The supreme court presi…

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