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Eric Schnederman Thank You For Pushing Me

There were rumblings that Thursday's Netroots Nation keynote address by Eric Schneiderman, the New York attorney general and the head of an Obama administration task force on Wall Street fraud, was going to be disrupted by protestors. And indeed, as Schneiderman began...

The Netroots Nation Conference -- ALEC Exposed

I'm at the Netroots Nation 2012 conference in Providence. The weather has been pretty good, a brief rainshower but otherwise sunny and pleasant day. There are panels all day, breakout sessions on various topics, state caucuses, parties, lunches, dinners, parties,...

GOP Plan To Cut OMB Silly Petty Stupid Infantile & Pathetic

Originally posted at Capital Gains and Games. Over at TPM, Brian Beutler has a story about House Republican efforts to cut the budget of the Office of Management and Budget. The story is sad and ridiculous: it shows that House Republicans have become just like the kid...

How Activists Score Wins Taking On The Banks

There is some good news in the fight for homeowners and against the big banks. Homeowners who are facing foreclosures because of unfair and often illegal practices by the major financial Goliaths are learning how to organize, how to shame bank executives and how to...

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