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GOP Overlords Rule with Handcuffs
GOP hardliners believe the North Carolina House Speaker speaks, and everybody else shuts up and listens. They are overlords self-empowered to muzzle and handcuff those who disagree.
Progressive Breakfast
Obama Issues Executive Order To Ease Student Debt Obama issues executive order as Senate readies vote on broader student loan reform. W. Post: "Most student-loan borrowers already have the option to limit payments to 10 percent of their income under recent legislation...
Tell Your Senator To Stand With Students And Cut Student Debt
The Senate is scheduled to vote Wednesday on a bill that would allow 40 million Americans to lower their student loan debt. Use our calling tool to let your senator know that you stand with them.
President Takes Action On Student Loans As Pressure On Senate Builds
President Obama signed an executive order today capping student loan repayments at 10 percent of the borrower’s monthly income as thousands petition the Senate to act on a bill that would allow lower rates on student loans.
"Rich People, Government People" Playing Games With People's Lives
Republicans flat-out bribe a Virginia state senator to resign, so they can block Obamacare's Medicaid expansion. This shows just how far "rich people government people" Republicans will go.
What Frightens The Right Should Empower Progressives
The "Young Gun" authors of the new conservative manifesto "Room to Grow" never mention the progressive labors and popular struggles that created the first-ever middle-class nation. But the Populist Majority must.
Meet The Genocidal Dead Colonialist The GOP Wants to Make A Citizen
Republicans can’t pass immigration reform, but they can take time out from obstructing anything that might remotely do the economy some good, to confer citizenship on a genocidal colonialist who’s been dead for over two hundred years.
Progressive Breakfast
Obama To Act On Student Loans President Obama to take executive action to reduce student loan debt. NYT: "Mr. Obama’s main action will be to expand on a 2010 law that capped borrowers’ repayments at 10 percent of their monthly income. The intent is to extend such...
The Koching of America – and of PBS: Tia Lessin of "Citizen Koch"
PBS (and its radio equivalent, NPR), while continuing to broadcast a great deal of fine programming, has increasingly come to reflect the agenda of “the one percent.” Is this why PBS spiked "Citizen Koch"?
Wingnut Week In Review: Benghazi to Berhgdahl
The safe release of an American POW is usually a cause for celebration. But there will be no yellow ribbons on the right for Army Sgt. Bowe Berghdal, who was released after being held by the Taliban for five years.
