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How the War on Women is Unlike the War On Caterpillars

Shoq — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 21:36:44 +0000

My friend Krystal Ball is getting really aggressive about taking on Republican douchebaggery. She wanted to get this out right away, so she asked me to post it here. Feel free to copy and distribute far and wide (with attribution, please).

See Krystal discuss this in the @MSNBC video below!

How the War on Women

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BREAKING: Rush Limbaugh Charged With Womanslaughter!

Shoq — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 16:39:46 +0000

See important update at the end.

Forgive my link-baited title, but it was just as contrived, gamed, and inaccurate as this one from Paul Farhi in today’s Washington Post:

Limbaugh sees heat over comments turn down to a simmer

That awful bit of non-reporting spawed these (and other) derived items from so-called “journalists” sucking

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The Psychology of Right-Wing Identification Unpacked

Shoq — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:32:12 +0000

Note: This article, by Retired Republican House and Senate staffer Mike Lofgren wrote a piece in 2011 called “Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult,” went viral, drawing over a million unique views on Truthout, whose reporter, Jason Leopold has widely documented ethical issues.
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Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult

Shoq — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:27:39 +0000

Note: This article, by Retired Republican House and Senate staffer Mike Lofgren went viral, drawing over a million unique views on Truthout, whose reporter, Jason Leopold has widely documented ethical issues. Not wanting to reward any site that would employ such reporters, I must repost Loftgren's work here under Truthout's Creative Commons license.

by: Mike

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Help Reverse Susan G. Komen’s Decision About Funding Planned Parenthood

Shoq — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:35:26 +0000

Backstory on this issue

Progressives MUST push back against this kind of political tampering or the Right wing will learn to apply it wherever they can. Please take a few minutes and help to reverse this obscene development.

Ways You Can Help: 1) SWAMP Komen's contact form with your protest messages.

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Occupy The Courts: A More Mature Approach To Change

Shoq — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:34:44 +0000

A frequent complaint of mine and others who have supported the Occupy Wall Street Movement (OWS) from its earliest days, is that it's not demonstrated much interest or skill at organizing the coalitions that have traditonally been the hallmark of progressive political change in America.

Merely suggesting that professional organizers become involved was often met with

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Some Essays That Every Progressive Should Read

Shoq — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 22:53:38 +0000

I'm collecting articles and videos that examine many of the key problems facing Progressivism in the United States. I grow weary of tweeting them individually, so I thought I would combine them here. Where appropriate, I sometimes link to introductory blog posts which I felt might properly frame or augment the work. I also toss

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Like Him or Not, This Ain’t The Same Old David Frum

Shoq — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:09:04 +0000

Three weeks ago, I tweeted this:

@shoq: Somewhere, deep inside @DavidFrum, there’s a useful progressive yearning to be free: j.mp/tcQXDr #p2

I was being a bit glib about it, but I was trying to express an intuition about a sense I’ve had about a slow and sometimes erratic transformation

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The Pro Left Is Always Right (That’s Why They Get The Small Bucks)

Shoq — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:49:02 +0000

On the heels of some enthusiastic media response to President Obama’s aggressive posture on his new jobs plan, the professional left has been very busy pushing their latest vanity meme. Quick to seize whatever media narrative is likely to generate the most blog traffic and broadcast audiences, they lit up the Internets with self-congratulatory high-fives

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Grey Parker Educates Breitbart’s Dana Loesch: Because Someone Had To

Shoq — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 13:55:05 +0000

Grey Parker is one of those bloggers you stumble upon when someone in your stream says "you gotta read this." I did that some months ago, and ever since, I eagerly snap at his posts like a Venus Fly Trap that just got lucky. Today, Grey decided to respond to the execrable new Tokyo Rose

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