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By Shoq, on February 27, 2011, at 8:30 pm
Rumblings of Boycotts are Not Boycotts
As I suspected would happen, the Koch boycott idea is gaining traction fast. That's why I hacked together this primer last week, hoping to encourage and/or report on more formalized embodiments of the idea as they emerged. I still haven't learned of one worth repeating, but I expect to any
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By Shoq, on February 24, 2011, at 10:47 am
My new BFF, Jasiri X, whose last hit, "What If The Teaparty Was Black," was one of my most popular links this year, isn't a household name yet. But I sure want to do my part to help him get there. So I asked him for reprint permission on the lyrics to this, his
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By Shoq, on February 22, 2011, at 8:17 pm
When my friend Karoli at Crooks and Liars broke the the Mark Williams story by tweeting his "let's all infiltrate the SEIU, and do to them what they do to us" page, I immediately smelled a stunt and told her that I felt we should ignore it. Great reporter that she is, she basically agreed,
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By Shoq, on February 21, 2011, at 8:10 am
UPDATE/NOTE: Twitter has a very poorly-timed bug. If you're having trouble changing your avatar, see note below.
I so rarely do this, but as I wrote in a post last week, and detailed in my primer on the crisis, what is happening in Wisconsin is too important to not do everything that we
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By Shoq, on February 19, 2011, at 10:34 pm
"Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected." Samuel Gompers
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The Wisconsin budget showdown might be the Stonewall moment of this generation. A time when the middle class finally wakes up and decides to take action, trying to save their jobs, their lives, and their nation. This
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By Shoq, on February 18, 2011, at 8:34 am
This video will tell you just about everything you need to know about what Wisconsin is all about.
If the left doesn't rise to this challenge, this nation is a lost cause. Just book a flight to Australia, New Zealand, or some other nation where there is still a shred of decency left in their cultural
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By Shoq, on February 17, 2011, at 6:23 pm
"If you break the public unions in Wisconsin you can break them everywhere." — Rachel Maddow
Ok, maybe Julian Assange didn't exactly parachute into Wisconsin. But he might have! And the pathetic fact is, that link-baiting baloney is what got you here. And that was my mission.
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