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Groups: American Legislative Transparency Project, Shut Down the NRA, Repeal or Amend the Second Amendment (RASA), The First and The Fourth, Friends of the Philippines, I ♥ Democratic Socialism
Diaries published: 160 (1128 days since last diary on Fri Mar 30, 2018 at 09:35 PM PDT)
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When Justice Stevens says that the anachronistic Second Amendment is part of the core of what is wrong with trying to run the modern U.S, with an antique Constitution, there is no room to find fault. And when the folks way on out there on the right...
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The ending point for the march today was at the State Capitol building (starting at a high school not many blocks away). A fairly routine rallying point locally, but this gathering was not treated routinely by our Republican government. All government...
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on Sat Mar 24, 2018 at 03:38 PM PDT
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In one very real sense, the new Senator from California has the second greatest level of democratic legitimacy in the U.S. Senate. Her Senate votes carry the backing of more citizens than any Senator other than the Senior member from her state, and she...
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on Sun Jun 11, 2017 at 02:07 PM PDT
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Who knew that the actual nuts and bolts of being POTUS could be so complicated? Fortunately Bush Jr. at least had a clue, having been of that lineage and what not. But the new guy, he comes and goes on the public scene with no discernible...
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Oh how I cringed every time I heard their slogans. Whether they each really were playing to “majorities” would only be known in the end (and that part, tragically, played out in the real world). Fortunately, though only with hind sight, there was, and...
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Throughout that gigantic clusterfuck at his ranch recently, daddy Bundy made it crystal clear to the entire world that he is a special person. He intended to, and believed that he did, speak on behalf
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