America's (Forgotten) Liberal Founding Father- Tom Paine
Our most important Founding Father was an abolitionist, a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and a man who donated money from proceeds of his pamphlets like "Common sense" to the American...
View ArticleFYI: The NRA Supports Colorado Bill Repealing State Background Checks
[ this is first diary I've written here since the "Thomas Paine: America's Forgotten Liberal Founding Father"" July 4th diary last year that was surprisingly well-received, given how the interwebz...
View ArticleThe Fake "God" Controversy at DNC Convention & The "Innocence of Muslims"...
Slate.com recently had a great article up titled: "The Age of Trolling--How a small band of conservatives generated half of the Democratic Convention’s headlines.". It goes into detail about how online...
View ArticleThe Age of Trolling: How Rightwing Extremists "aimed to destabilize...
On Wednesday I wrote a diary about the fake "God/Jerusalem" controversy at the DNC convention, sparked by rightwing bloggers and covered excellently by Slate.com, and compared it to the shitty video...
View ArticleShould Obama take a page out of Gov Jerry Brown's Playbook Now?
That was my original question, but it looks like he already is"I just want to make sure I got this straight. He'll get rid of regulations on Wall Street, but he's going to crack down on Sesame Street"...
View ArticleThe Obama Administration uncovered $430 million in Medicare fraud in a single...
More than the federal govt gives to PBS ($130 million more, in fact) Ninety-one people including doctors, nurses and other medical professionals were charged criminally after an investigation of...
View ArticleFeds hit Wells Fargo with mortgage-fraud suit , Obama appointee head of...
http://www.latimes.com/...The U.S. attorney in Manhattan has accused Wells Fargo of defrauding a government-backed mortgage insurance program, in another major civil case brought in the wake of the...
View ArticleYou people just don't understand how much Love that Romney has.
There's so, so much. But you people- you liberals- just don't want to accept the love that Romney is giving to you. In spades. You're so consumed by class warfare that you OVERlook his OVERtures of...
View ArticleRepublican uses Easter/Passover rites to threaten Obama over Keystone XL, as...
As the cleanup of oil sands crude spilled from a ruptured Arkansas pipeline continued Sunday, a leading Republican warned that if President Barack Obama won’t approve the controversial Keystone XL...
View ArticleHow we can make the Tea Party pay--in practical terms
Not simply writing outraged screeds, tweets, etc.Do we have to wait until 2016? Is it a fatal flaw that we can't just summarily call up an election now like other democracies are able to do, instead of...
View ArticleMany South Dakota Ranchers supported shutdown, now are seeking compensation...
Link...thousands of ranchers who last week watched helplessly as a killer early-autumn blizzard decimated 80,000 head of cattle. Calling it the state's worst economic disaster in decades, officials say...
View ArticleRight-Leaning Gallup releases new marijuana poll: 58% support re-legalization
Even though several other polls in the past year have shown majority support for cannabis reform, this is the first time that Gallup claims to have gotten a majority response.And this ain't some "slim...
View Article[NH, DC, & FL] Marijuana policy reform chugging along (mega-diary, of sorts)
History was made this week- "the first time a full house in a state legislature approved legislation to legalize and regulate marijuana for all adults." In other good news, Floridians will have the...
View ArticleChris Christie tries to use Drug War to deflect and pander; ignores bills on...
I've been on the internet for a while, and watched some TV, too. It's obvious that people will use drugs (especially marijuana) to get some free clicks or views. We've been urging the Democrats, with...
View ArticleCBS News poll: Majority favors legalization; Rick Perry tries to greenwash...
For the first time, CBS News has polled on marijuana legalizationand found that a majority are in favor or (re)legalizing marijuana.Gallup has already found majority support, as well as other polling...
View ArticleClimate Suit threatens to bankrupt the profitless National Review
http://theweek.com/...The lawsuit has not been going well for the magazine. In July, Judge Natalia Combs Greene rejected a motion to dismiss the suit. The defendants appealed, and last week D.C....
View ArticleSheldon Adelson donates 2M to fight cannabis in FL while his own foundation...
Here's your Irony Alert for the day/hour/minute:http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/...Sheldon Adelson, the mega-rich casino magnate who last week donated $2.5 million to the anti-Amendment 2 group Drug...
View ArticleThe "surge" in voter registrations in Ferguson? Apparently it "did not happen".
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/...Joan McCarter posted about the big increase in registrations here on Oct 2nd, and lots of media noted it. It was a headline I noticed while scrolling through my twitter...
View ArticleArrest Warrant issued for Mexican mayor in slaughter of students.
http://news.yahoo.com/...Mexico on Wednesday ordered the arrest of the mayor of the city of Iguala, his wife and an aide, charging they masterminded last month's attack that left six students dead and...
View ArticleMexican Governor steps down over missing students, narcoterrorism.
As I posted earlier today (but perhaps with a not-sensational enough diary title), an arrest warrant was issued for a Mexican mayor and his wife, among others, in connection to a slaughter of at least...
View ArticleI was part of confederate memorial day in alabama
This wasnt an event that i planned. We had just arrived to the local DMV-- a small, squatty building smaller than a gas station-- on a monday afternoon yesterday. A pronounced absence of cars was...
View ArticleTrying to Avoid Jail -- any advice appreciated (Minor ticket + poverty=jail)
in a nutshell: about 10 minutes ago I cracked a celebratory craft beer in a bottle , and left my overly hot Alabama apartment to try to catch a breeze and drink a beer. The road behind my apartment...
View ArticleA comment on a Bernie Sanders post grabbed me, despite all my cynicism.
I'm a typically progressive millennial who's at the higher end of the generational cutpoint-- I was around and watching during the Bush years, and know what it means when the 'decline' of America is...
View ArticleU.S, EU, Japan rejected an international plan to let the UN help fight tax...
http://qz.com/...The plan, promoted by developing economies and transparency groups, was the subject of the meeting between delegations of UN members from around the world in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia this...
View ArticleUnarmed Mississippi man died after 20-minute police chokehold; told officer...
This story was on Huffpost two days ago, and The Guardian has picked it up as well. My local news site al.com also has it, albeit with a long stream of racist comments at the bottom that are better off...
View ArticleSandra Bland being smeared by police for alleged Marijuana use
First, reports hit the web that she ingested a "large" amount of marijuana in her system. A very tightly controlled narrative is being crafted by the Texas county where she was arrested. And for some...
View ArticleDrug Test the Cop who arrested Sandra Bland; and Notable tweets from Waller...
Apparently it should be national news that Bland consumed a substance that is legal in over a dozen states, even when it's possible she hasn't consumed the substance in weeks. Not to mention the fact...
View Article"The same number of Americans live in the Red Region as the Orange Region"
Very interesting infographic.http://dadaviz.com/...the 144 largest counties have almost an equal population as the 2,998 smallest counties.The Population Of The 10 Largest Counties Equals That Of The...
View ArticleMass Shooter identified as user on 4chan
The following has been posted to front page of reddit:http://i.imgur.com/...Media is picking up the story-- http://dailycaller.com/...This is not the first caucasian mass shooter to post on 4chan- the...
View Article2 Hilarious Examples of Tweets Backfiring on Trump
Well, maybe more than 2. But only one of the two examples in my diary was a news story. The other was one of those great twitter moments that happen and you want the world to see it but alas....it's...
View ArticleMarijuana legalization loses on Ohio ballot
developing updates linked here, including voting irregularities and ballot problems in Cincy.Issue 3 has failed in Ohio.*One thing that stands out is how the ResponsibleOhio campaign had to appeal to a...
View ArticleThe Police State rears its head in my college town, makes national headlines.
“Hey look at this video that just got posted, it’s going to go viral I bet”A buddy handed me his phone and I watched a video that was taken on the second floor of my buddy’s apartment, just a few doors...
View ArticleKansas family raided by SWAT team over tea mistaken for marijuana; lose...
The guiding concept that makes the USA different than the rest of the West is that we are supposed to be free from tyranny of government, according to conservatives. Yet it is conservatives doing the...
View ArticleThe electricity tax we all pay for marijuana.
It is estimated that around 1% of all electricity usage in the USA goes to indoor growing of cannabis. The vast majority of cannabis is grown indoors to elude law enforcement scrutiny, though some...
View ArticleSarah Palin, ironically, is progressive when it comes to MMJ that treats PTSD
As I blogged here several years ago when it hit the news, Sarah Palin is actually not a pot prohibitionist. Alaska represents a unique area of redstate conservatism, given that they are...
View ArticleObama/Clinton's "empathy" sure does know some strange bounds #DrugWar
Many rightwing pundits have, hilariously, tried to ‘psychoanalyze’ President Obama. And Hilary. As laughable as those attempts almost always are, I find myself doing the same thing after watching this...
View ArticleJust had a vape session with a couple other Millennials
Three of us vaporized for an hour or so and discussed politics for the first time. Not as weedy as a Bill Maher show, and no contention, either. The other two kids came form conservative religious...
View ArticleAlabama GOP legislature steps in to block raise in minimum wage
While this story happens to be from my region, it’s a hot topic nationally. Birmingham was on track to get a hike in minimum wage, with steam building in Tuscaloosa for a similar measure....
View ArticleLarry Craig, the guy from airport bathroom, is a board member of NRA.
thanks to the internet, i stumbled upon this info within a couple of minutes after reading an Emptywheel tweet about james comey. xAs you're reading Apple brief, remember after hospital confrontation...
View ArticleA half-decade of racism on Reddit prepared me for the rise of Trump's America
Here in Alabama, I’ve seen Trumpism firsthand. Three people I know were at the Madison rally yesterday for Trump. They sent me some snapchats of the event. they are all white kids under 25 voting for...
View ArticleAlabama cop was just sentenced to less time in jail for Rape than I served...
Possession of less than one ounce, with intent to distribute. That was the charge against me, which is actually a violation of the California Health and Safety laws-- ironically, given that alcohol is...
View ArticleIs Sanders actually out of it? Not so sure. And how can he help the Left now?
Usually a question in the title of a diary is meant to setup the conclusion that the author has already prepared to write. But I don’t have the answer. The question mark is a real question mark. Is...
View ArticleClinton has a Western-American problem.
There’s no denying it. Her targets, according to 538, were closer losses in WA and Alaska. a 2-to-1 loss was deemed good, but more 4-to-1 losses would keep Sanders hopes alive. WA and AK are called for...
View ArticleLink to Live Protest outside CNN in L.A.
Progressives have long complained about corporate media ( MSMS, traditional media, etc). Some are on the streets right now doing it. WATCH on periscope:www.periscope.tv/…CBS LA is reporting on it:Many...
View ArticleClinton switches tactics,buys TV ads in Kentucky that they previously pulled;...
Bernie got 15k at a crowd in California this week, and the latest poll numbers for the matchup between her and Drumpf in key swing states like Ohio, PA, FL.She’s only up one point in 2 of those states,...
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