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Priorities and Focus: How to Not Have The Progressive's Version of "Stockholm Syndrome" Starting RIGHT NOW

Submitted by mahakali overdrive on Sat, 05/28/2016 - 4:42pm

Hello, I want you to click me for a moment and spend a minute watching my patterns and habits... I am here: https://www.berniepb.com

What did you see?

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I saw small slivers of hope, but I also saw a lot of apathy and despair. We've grown tired in the home stretch. We've grown angry, too angry to act. It's time to change that.

Hellraisers Journal: Jacob Waldeck Reports from Boise: Miners’ Officials Declared Guilty on Sight

Submitted by JayRaye on Sat, 05/28/2016 - 3:00pm

There are no limits to which
powers of privilege will not go
to keep the workers in slavery.
-Mother Jones
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Monday May 28, 1906
Report from Boise: Conclusion of Five Part Series by Jacob Waldeck

HMP, Court Room, Waldeck 5, Spokane Press, May 21, 1906.png

#SheLied

Submitted by Steven D on Sat, 05/28/2016 - 10:58am

To debate Bernie in New Hampshire Hillary promised to debate him in California, then backed out. #SheLied

Hillary claimed the Hillary Victory Fund supports State Democratic Parties but she & DNC kept 99% of the cash. #SheLied

Hillary's ad took all the credit for winning health care for 8 million kids, but Ted Kennedy was mostly responsible for that. #SheLied

The Federal Records Act, FOIA, and those pesky Email "Records"

Submitted by jamess on Sat, 05/28/2016 - 10:24am

Perhaps one of the harshest critiques hurled at presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, by the current State Dept Inspector General, was this:

"At a minimum, Secretary Clinton should have surrendered all emails dealing with Department business before leaving government service and, because she did not do so, she did not comply with the Department's policies that were implemented in accordance with the Federal Records Act."

Any Government Employee knows (should know) that everything you do as a Government Employee IS, and one day will (presumptive) become 'a permanent' Public Record. That is what the National Archives is all about. This is because you are working on the public's dime, so the public "has a right to know" what you are actually doing. In theory anyways ... that is what the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is supposed to be all about -- the public's "right to know" ... holding our Government "accountable", ... Sunshine is the best disinfectant, etc. etc.

"So I sez to her, I sez, Mabel!" (V)

Submitted by Nightprowlkitty on Fri, 05/27/2016 - 8:40pm

There's a real homogeneous feel to the negative campaigning these days, in the wake of Hillary's new email troubles (self-made, as though that even needs saying).

We've got pundits basically pissing in their pants at the thought of democracy in action, throwing up every boogeyman they can find to keep us from practicing democracy - from "Trump will win!" to "Racist! Sexist! Racexist! Privileged!"

Zoe Lofgren: chasing bigotry from the record

Submitted by Robyn on Fri, 05/27/2016 - 2:33pm

Gail Heriot is a law professor at the University of San Diego. When George W. Bush stacked the US Commission on Civil Rights with conservative members in 2007, Professor Heriot was involved. Now calling herself an Independent, she was an alternate delegate to the Republican Convention in 2000.

Heriot testified before a House Judiciary Committee about federal regulations this past week.

Heriot testified that the guidance issued by the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights was an example of the executive branch overreaching what the legislative branch intended.

Zoe Lofgren (D-San Jose, CA) took issue with a written statement submitted by Heriot.

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