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"It’s reached the point where I spend more time engaging with undesirable, messy, uncreative, and soul-draining texts from Democratic strangers running for office than I do texts from friends and colleagues whom I actually know and like." charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/democrats-...

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15 years after Citizens United, which transformed every corporate treasury in America into a potential political slush fund, we now see the result: government of billionaires, by oligarchs, for plutocrats.

Are We Being Punished For A Feminist Utopia That Never Even Happened? www.wonkette.com/p/are-we-bei...

Feminist revenge "Game of Thrones" Style

Periodic reminder that while Chicago continues to try to figure out whether or not it’s possible, Forest Park has been doing municipal sidewalk plowing for decades

Indeed. When they rounded up the Japanese Americans, myself and my family included, for internment during WWII out of fear over Japanese spies and saboteurs, two thirds of us were U.S. citizens. Don’t think it won’t happen again when they come for the “undocumented.”

For years now, the right has been accusing Democrats of running a shadowy conspiracy to protect politicians who are sex predators. Democrats need to scream "WHAT ARE THEY HIDING?" until they force the report's release.

The first in an ongoing series of "Books you should read when you are so mad & sad you think you may actually burst into flames"