#Congress

FIGHT TO THE FINISH #11The #DistrictOfTheDay: Iowa’s 3rdThe Democrat: Cindy Axne (inc.)The Republican: David Young~~~CURRENT RATINGS~~~Cook Political: Lean DCrystal Ball: Lean D538 Classic: Likely DMy prediction: Democratic hold ABOUT THE
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To understand what needs to happen to mitigate police brutality you need to understand the Marine Corps.In the Corps you are trained to kill with your hands, a knife, a
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The one and only Jim Hansen, the NASA climate scientist who has beat the drum on climate change since his famous 1988 briefing to Congress on global warming that was
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Gird your loins.Here it comes.And as I suspected, Barr was 100% right.BIDEN IS NOT THE SUBJECT OF AN INVESTIGATION AT THE DOJ.***gigglesnort!!!***It's THE UKRAINIAN GOVERNMENT!https://twitter.com/chiIIum/status/1262761698743599109?s=20
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NEW FROM ME:DACA recipients were promised their data would be "protected from disclosure" to ICE.But internal emails, public docs and interviews confirm ICE has access to databases that contain lots
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Democrats should take a cue from the generation of Northern Republicans that governed in the 1860s. Expand SCOTUS, kill the filibuster, admit new states, refuse to seat congressmen elected in
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Deeper dive into Trump's @WHO letter... Big threat, but clearly without intent for actual reform. Let's all be clear: this is a political tool aimed primarily at a US domestic
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Thread: Alternatives to police response. 1st up: CAHOOTS in Eugene, Oregon. https://www.eugene-or.gov/4508/CAHOOTS “This town of 170,000 replaced some cops w/ medics & mental health workers. It's worked for over 30 yrs.”#Po
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we've got to talk more about how the refusal to acknowledge white supremacy and its history – the way it is woven into all of our systems – is destroys
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The secret to reimagining US foreign policy going forward is that we abandon the false and failed constructs of American exceptionalism or even being a superpower or the leader of
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If this isn’t the most useless piece of advice. “Just go try again!”FYI: There’s actually a federal program baked into the CARES Act called “Pandemic Unemployment Assistance” meant to help
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This opinion by Judge Matthew Brann, dismissing another Trump Campaign lawsuit in Pennsylvania, is very well-writtenI'd encourage everyone to read it; it explains some of the key laws and precedents
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Fun fact. Konkan Railway under the Vajpayee government developed the Skybus Metro, an indigenous suspended Monorail designed by B Rajaram. Sadly, two engineers died in a test run. Instead of
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I wish I could sit down with every progressive who's pissed about Sanders losing the nom to Biden and pessimistic about the future, and tell them a little story about
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Trump and the GOP (including Republican intelligence leaders) are giving Russia cover as it attacks the United States. 1/https://www.npr.org/2020/08/29/907498065/director-of-national-intelligence-cancels-election-security-briefings-democrat
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Amazon told Congress that it doesn't spy on its sellers to figure out which products it should clone. Instead, the company has argued that its longstanding practice of knocking off
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