It's a real populist message Jeb is selling. I hope he sticks with it. pic.twitter.com/e2FJuk7vcd — Bob Schooley (@Rschooley) July 9, 2015 Demonstrating, yet again, the aristocratic Bush Crime Family disdain for us little people, as per ABC: Today, Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush, who as of-late has gone relatively gaffe-free, uttered a phrase that …
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“RAISE HELL: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins”
Courtesy commentor Tenar Darrell, there’s a Kickstarter to finish the first documentary on Molly Ivins: … Molly came up through the journalistic ranks at a time when women entering the field were relegated to the “snake pit,” a misogynistic term for the women’s columns: food, fashion and gardens. She was having none of that. At …
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Open Thread: Good for Hillary
Jennifer Epstein, at Bloomberg Politics: Less than a week after a mass shooting at a black church situated in one community with a history of racial tensions, Hillary Clinton on Tuesday visited another black church in another community struggling with racial relations. Speaking at Christ the King Church of Christ in Florissant, Missouri, Clinton welcomed …
Columbia SC Rallys to Take Down the Confederate Flag
Commentor EuralJ went to a rally in Columbia on Saturday, and sent along these photos: The women holding signs in front of the flag are my wife and daughter. I included the Tillman protest picture because a lot of people want that one to go as well – they only difference between Tillman and Roof …
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Eating-Related Open Thread: “Can We Finally Treat Food Workers Fairly?”
No Recipe Exchange tonight (everybody keep a positive thought that TaMara finds her best new house soon!), so here’s a Mark Bittman NYTimes column I’ve been saving: Two pieces of seemingly unrelated news last week show just how deficient our values are when it comes to the treatment of the lowest paid workers in our …
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Fast-Track to Nowhere
George Zornick reports at The Nation: … Senators Elizabeth Warren and Sherrod Brown sent Obama a letter demanding that he release the bracketed negotiating text of TPP before Congress votes on fast-track authority. The duo noted that even George W. Bush released the texts of the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas “several months” before …
Long Read: “Hong Kong’s Umbrella Revolution Isn’t Over Yet”
Laura Hilgers, in the NYTimes, as “A democracy movement ponders its next move“: On the final night of Hong Kong’s largest Occupy camp, a crowd of protesters swelled along an empty highway. It had been 74 days since the first canister of tear gas hit democracy supporters armed with only umbrellas, setting off what the …
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