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Corbin Trent and Zack Exely have left the building

Submitted by Roger Fox on Tue, 04/26/2016 - 4:10pm

On Sunday April 24th an unnamed source told me that Sanders campaign staffers Corbin Trent, the founder of Tennessee for Sanders and Zack Exely, Sanders Senior Digital Advisor had left the Sanders campaign to start something called "Brand New Congress". I was also told the soft rollout for a brandnewcongress.org would occur Monday.

Hellraisers Journal: Rebel Uprising in Dublin; Irish Republic Proclaimed from Steps of General Post Office

Submitted by JayRaye on Tue, 04/26/2016 - 12:54pm

You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age.
Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Wednesday April 26, 1916
From the New York Evening World:"Irish in Dublin Rise In Revolt"

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American Nuremberg - my blood just ran cold.

Submitted by PastorAgnostic on Tue, 04/26/2016 - 11:41am

Juan Cole has appeared at several NetRoots meetups, long before the sell-out nature of the great orange Satan became so visible. He is one of the finest students and writers about the Muddle East that I have had the pleasure to meet. Today's article is by his contributor, Rebecca Gordon, who just authored Not al-Qaeda: Abu Zubayda as Bush’s Mengele Experiment

Carbon Fee & Dividend; James Hansen is still fighting the good fight.

Submitted by tle on Tue, 04/26/2016 - 9:05am

James Hansen is still speaking out for a carbon fee & dividend system. In an interview with Yale 360 a few weeks ago, he said

The one thing, which is most important, is the assertion by the fossil fuel industry and the people who support them, that it would be expensive to solve the problem, is absolutely wrong. There have been economic studies that show if you add a gradually rising fee to fossil fuels, by collecting a fee on fossil fuel companies at the source, the domestic mine, or port of entry, and if you distribute the money to the public, an equal amount to all legal residents, it would actually spur the economy. (emphasis added)

How Low will Clinton Trolls Go? They Hacked Bernie Facebook Accounts & Post Child Porn

Submitted by Steven D on Tue, 04/26/2016 - 8:49am

From US Uncut:

The groups Bernie Sanders Activists, Bernie Believers, BERNIE OR BUST, Bernie Sanders Revolutionaries, Bay Area for Bernie, Bernie Sanders 2016 — Ideas Welcome, Bernie Sanders is my HERO, and Bernie Sanders for President 2016 were all taken down in the attack. The pages in question were reported to be down for about three hours, from 9 p.m. to midnight Monday night. [...]

Hillary Clinton, the Feminist who is Open to Taking Choice out of "Pro-Choice"

Submitted by Older and Wiser Now on Tue, 04/26/2016 - 6:07am

I am one of the tiny percentage of women who was blessed to receive a late-term abortion when I needed it. “Blessed” is a strange word to use about a procedure I literally cried throughout, but the truth is, that D&C freed me from my own private hell. Other women, mostly invisible to the public, are not so blessed. Heartbroken and grieving, they are forced by law to face additional torments.

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