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Patronage Rules The 'Patronage' Presidency: James Comey's 'extraordinary' testimony on Trump. Common Dreams: "In one of the most potentially damning moments recounted in the memos, Comey describes a private dinner with Trump at the White House on January 27 in which...
CHOICE Act Is a Lump of Coal in Our Stocking
House Republicans are poised to vote on what they call the “CHOICE Act,” which is in fact the most extreme pro-Wall Street, anti-consumer bill this country has ever seen.
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Collateral Damage Russia investigation may reveal aides' excesses. The Atlantic: "As the blast radius of the Russia investigation continues to expand, Donald Trump is facing an unnerving new reality: The fate of his presidency may now hinge on the motley, freewheeling...
Trump’s Family Leave: An Empty Envelope for American Workers
The White House budget dispels any hopes Trump might keep his promise to extend a helping hand to the nation’s millions of small business workers with a family and medical leave act that works. Instead, he hands them an empty envelope.
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Gerrymander No More Supreme Court strikes down North Carolina's GOP-drawn maps for racial gerrymandering. DailyKOS: "In a major victory for voting rights on Monday, the Supreme Court affirmed a lower court ruling issued last year that had struck down 28 of North...
Rural Communities Lose Most With Health Repeal
Those of us who live in small towns and rural communities have the most to lose in the GOP health bill - and the greatest reason to fight. It won't just roll back Obamacare - it will end Medicaid as we know it.
The Unpleasant Impact of an Unserious Budget
Trump's budget means certain pain for most families and big tax cuts for the wealthiest few. But even stranger is that it relies on a set of assumptions that present a fantastical approach to simple arithmetic.
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Health Options Are Democrats becoming the single-payer party? NYT: "At rallies and in town hall meetings, and in a collection of blue-state legislatures, liberal Democrats have pressed lawmakers, with growing impatience, to support the creation of a single-payer...
Is Britain Also Feeling the Bern?
Bernie Sanders is in England to boost Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour Party’s candidate for prime minister in the snap election June 8. Corbyn is surging in British polls, and running a populist campaign that pledges radical economic reform.
Open Letter From Pittsburgh to the President on Paris Climate Pullout
Mr. President, you represent the past, not the people of Pittsburgh. We know climate change is real, regulations save lives, and clean energy creates jobs. We are moving to the future, with or without you.
