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Putin's Acts Against Ukraine & Trump's Acts Against the US: Political Acts or Acts of Evil? - Mar 16, 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d43GhYvbB0Y

Steve Bannon is Back in Court: Here's why his case in very unlikely to go to trial in July - Mar 17, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLik38xOnDE

Mark Meadows' Double-Wide Voter Fraud: Meadows Now Faces Federal AND State Criminal Investigation - Mar 18, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TFDaI73qY0

A Tale of 2 Americas: First Black Woman Headed to the Supreme Court vs. Trump's Racism & Misogyny - Mar 20, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TByOfdqOWwQ

As Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's Confirmation Hearing Opens, the Republicans Launch their Attacks - Mar 21, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUq1Wtx3K0M

Glenn Kirschner on... What's Next for Trump? - Mar 21, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJQ0ZAsXOfA

Donald Trump Appeals Judge's Order Directing him to Submit to Deposition by NY AG Tish James - Mar 22, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oEZdAltnaY

Donald Trump Flips (Politically) on Mo Brooks. Could it be that Mo Brooks has Flipped on Trump? - Mar 23, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvU1jHiVIyM

Prosecutor Pomerantz Says Evidence Proves Trump Committed Felony Crimes But DA Bragg Won't Indict - Mar 24, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5drDR41-DEo

Ginni & Clarence Thomas, Mark Meadows & Trump: Corruption at the White House & the Supreme Court - Mar 25, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6RnYBw5z0g

Glenn Kirschner - "He Voted to Bury it To Protect His Wife..." - Mar 25, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8j5AtVtnzE

NY DA Alvin Bragg Refuses to Indict Trump: Candidates for NY Governor Pledge to Remove Bragg - Mar 26, 20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZDIUGOxASE

Ginni Thomas's Pipeline to the White House, a Compromised Supreme Court and the Coming Subpoenas - Mar 27, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyFbdkaypSs

Congress to Hold Navarro & Scavino in Contempt, Refer them to DOJ for Prosecution. Will DOJ Indict? - Mar 28, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3s99uaftMI

Federal Judge Finds, by a Preponderance of the Evidence, that Trump Committed Crimes Against the US - Mar 29, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtQe4goeXEA

Conversation w/Asha Rangappa: Is DOJ criminally investigating Donald Trump? How could they not be? - Mar 30, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq1MtbYqYgw

DOJ Expands Grand Jury Investigation Into Fake Electors, Insurrection Planners & Trump Associates - Mar 31, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8v0DdSVI4Y

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Conflicts of Interest & the Need for an Impeachment Inquiry

93,893 views Apr 1, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MabUBm1tMs8

Legal Recap, March 2022: From Resignation of NY Prosecutors to DOJ Expanding Criminal Probe of Trump - Apr 2, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUgqUPE7ceI

NYT: President Biden says Trump is "a Danger to Democracy" and "Should be Prosecuted" - Apr 3, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MLv2KKQ1Fo

Trump admits: "I didn't win the election." How this & other statements will be used against him - Apr 5, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbFf_1ja4j4

Ivanka Answers To January 6th Committee | Zerlina. – Apr 5, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krQ7qfed7Wk

Ivanka Trump testifies to Jan. 6 committee. If truthful, her testimony would incriminate her father - Apr 6, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ20-cK_ayU

Is DOJ Investigating Boxes of Classified Documents Trump Unlawfully Took to Mar-a-Lago? - Apr 7, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TOD_r797qg

NY DA Bragg tries to double-talk his way out of his decision to end the Trump criminal investigation – Apr 8, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koB5I146jGc

Don Jr.'s Deeply Treasonous Texts Make him a Charter Member of his Father's Election Conspiracy - Apr 9, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcdrGXKj38Y

J6 Committee Has the Goods on Trump But Debates Timing of Criminal Referral to DOJ for Prosecution - Apr 10, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UolU7QoZPAA

Big Lie booster Mark Meadows likely committed real voter fraud after yelling about fake voter fraud

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/6/2084270/-Mark-Meadows-voter-registration-listed-an-address-he-almost-certainly-didn-t-live-at-Whoops

The Model California Represents to the Nation

https://www.laprogressive.com/the-model-california-represents/

Harry Truman Helped Make Our World Order, for Better and for Worse: Institutions meant to secure peace, from nato to the U.N., date back to Truman’s Presidency. So do the conflicts threatening that peace.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/03/14/harry-truman-helped-make-our-world-order-for-better-and-for-worse-jeffrey-frank-the-trials-of-harry-s-truman

Richard Ojeda Rejoices As Trump Endorsements Flop - Mar 10, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK9jj9Oa5fY

How the final days of Trump's presidency brought America to the brink of war | 60 Minutes Australia - Oct 10, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpx19Ykhbdk

Donald Trump’s Crown Is Starting to Slip: The former president’s vaunted kingmaking abilities have been called into question as many of his endorsed candidates are struggling in key races.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165712/trump-endorsement-struggles-2022-midterms

Clarence Thomas roasted for speech claiming the Supreme Court may lose credibility: 'Irony is dead'

https://www.rawstory.com/clarence-thomas-scotus-credibility/

Richard Ojeda Reacts To Trump's Latest Con Job: Trump Force One - Mar 12, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Hu7Ir1Pe8U

Bad News: How Woke Media Undermines Democracy - Nov 23, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTf4JYfMuoI

Batya Ungar-Sargon | Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy - Premiered Nov 14, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o6wVU6flW0

PDA Sunday Progressive Town Hall, Sunday, March 13, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CmZ89Z6Vrk

Vincent Fort: For Congress, Georgia District 13

https://fortforcongress.com/

Texas’s Abortion Bounty Law Is Inspiring Republican Lawmakers Around the Country: Spurred on by the Supreme Court’s tacit approval of the Lone Star State’s controversial abortion law, right-wing lawmakers are dreaming up even more extreme variations.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165710/texas-bounty-law-abortion-desantis

Chris Hedges brings us to TEARS with a powerful message... - Mar 12, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkrab4CgQ50

Chris Hedges | Hidden Dangers of Russia/Ukraine War - Mar 13, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh5w3wD6vWs

Republicans Keep Turning to the Same Texas Judges to Block Biden’s Policies: The party has made a habit of “judge-shopping” in the Northern District of Texas, and there’s no mystery why.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165730/northern-district-texas-judges-block-biden-policies

Why Ron DeSantis’s New Abortion Restrictions Will Be Felt Far Beyond Florida: The Sunshine State has been a comparative haven for abortion access in the South. That’s about to change dramatically.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165732/ron-desantis-abortion-restrictions-florida

The Democrats Betrayed the People of D.C.: The District is used to Republicans thwarting its independence. But local politicians are appalled that Democrats are now doing the same.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165735/washington-dc-democrats-legal-marijuana

Sen. Joe Manchin: This Is A Putin war, And He Has Weaponized Energy - Mar 16, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDs5o-2yYw4

Building Socialism from Below: Popular Power and the State: How can democratic socialists build power in and against the capitalist state? The work of Nicos Poulantzas provides us with a useful starting point.

https://socialistforum.dsausa.org/issues/fall-2018/building-socialism-from-below-popular-power-and-the-state/

Levers of Power: How the 1% Rules and What the 99% Can Do about It

https://www.versobooks.com/books/3181-levers-of-power

Attacking the substance: A review of Young, Banerjee, and Schwartz’s ‘Levers of Power’. Electoralism and mass protest are not mutually exclusive—progressives need to be active across all fields of struggle

https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/attacking-the-substance-a-review-of-young-banerjee-and-schwartzs-levers-of-power

Inside Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns' new Biden book

https://www.axios.com/jonathan-martin-alex-burns-book-biden-sinema-94352832-b1e8-465f-ada0-521729691c73.html

Congress can and must walk and chew bubble gum at the same time. - Mar 16, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-5lmn3a5wQ

Fanfare for the Common Good: What happened to Americans’ sense of community?

https://newrepublic.com/article/165636/fanfare-common-good

The Pandemic Brought New Levels of Transparency to the Supreme Court. Why End It? Real-time audio broadcasts of oral arguments have been a tremendous boon to our civic life and should be made permanent.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165763/transparency-supreme-court-oral-arguments

January 6 Recap: The RNC’s Email Platform Company Will Turn Over Documents. Plus, Proud Boys leader Enrico Tarrio will remain in jail, and Ginni Thomas admits she attended Trump’s “peaceful” rally.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165785/january-6-recap-rnc-salesforce-will-turn-documents

Hawley injects QAnon conspiracy theory into Jackson SCOTUS nomination. Democrats should shut it down

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/17/2086522/-Insurrectionist-Hawley-adds-QAnon-bile-to-the-racist-GOP-attacks-on-Supreme-Court-nominee-Jackson

'It's time for a history lesson': Georgia Democrat refuses to idly let GOP suppress the vote

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/17/2086523/--It-s-time-for-a-history-lesson-Georgia-Democrat-refuses-to-idly-let-GOP-suppress-the-vote

The Democrats Are Caught in a Policy Doom Loop: Congress can’t pass laws, so Democrats want Biden to issue more executive orders. But the conservative Supreme Court often rejects such orders, requiring Congress to pass a law. But Congress can’t pass laws …

https://newrepublic.com/article/165788/progressives-executive-power-supreme-court

Hill Staffers Are Tired of Being an “Overworked and Underpaid” Cliché: CNCT, a new app, is adding to the increased transparency between Hill workers as talks of unionizing increase.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165756/capitol-hill-staff-app-cnct

The Democrats’ Complicated Dance With Neoconservative Heiress Liz Cheney: The Wyoming representative has been a rare anti-Trump voice among Republicans in Congress, but is that reason enough for Democrats to boost her political career?

https://newrepublic.com/article/165776/liz-cheney-reelection-democrats-odd-bedfellows-neoconservatism

Fighting for a better Oregon for Congressional District 5: We are in a time of crisis for our environment, our families, and our democracy. Please join us to build a stronger, more sustainable economy, environment, and country.

https://jamiefororegon.com/

You’d Forgotten All About Paul LePage. Don’t. He Could Be Maine Governor Again. The Republican known for his coarse and sometimes racist remarks will be the GOP nominee. And in Maine, that means he has a shot.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165784/paul-lepage-maine-governor-2022

Veteran RIPS Lauren Boebert For Disrespecting Military - Mar 17, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dteqZEtjv58

Richard Ojeda DISGUSTED With "Useful Idiot" MTG - Mar 18, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgGPf13PJD8

Richard Ojeda SHREDS Idiotic War Hawks - Mar 18, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiYOmCutY_Y

Richard Ojeda Goes OFF On Steve Bannon - Mar 18, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_k9AZzojOjc

Richard Ojeda RIPS Hannity for Quoting Kremlin - Mar 21, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-HQypLGhTY

Richard Ojeda: GOP Brainwashing Starts Young - Mar 22, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Qkj4mh0zF0

Even Pro-Lifers Help Loved Ones Who Need an Abortion: A new study shows that those who call abortion murder are still willing to lend a helping hand, when things hit close to home.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/abortion-help/

Is There a Place for Patriotism on the Left? Michael Kazin argues that ones need patriotism to engage effectively in the democratic process, while Rafia Zakaria writes that “love of the flag” undermines commitments to internationalism.

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/patriotism-left-nationalism/

When Professors’ Speech Is Disqualifying: Should academic freedom really protect those who make false and morally repellent claims? It’s time for a rethink.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165649/professors-speech-disqualifying

What Josh Hawley Would Bother to Learn About Ketanji Brown Jackson If He Weren’t Such a Demagogue: The Missouri Republican is planning on attacking Biden’s Supreme Court nominee at her hearing this week. It’s petty—but for larger reasons, it’s also tragic.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165796/josh-hawley-demagogue-ketanji-brown-jackson

Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Historic Hearing Begins—Along With the Inevitable GOP Freak-Out: Republicans are going to lean into the racism and misogyny that motivates their base because they have nothing else to throw at the nominee.

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/ketanji-brown-jackson-hearing/

A Fugitive Chinese Tycoon Met Steve Bannon. Misinformation Mayhem Ensued. The weird, wild, and scary tale of Miles Guo.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/02/guo-wengui-miles-guo-gettr-steve-bannon/

The Supreme Court May Soon Shut Down the Regulatory State. Let’s Use It While We Still Can.

Progressive Democrats are right to call for more aggressive use of regulatory powers. But like the Democrats’ congressional majorities, these may not last forever.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165802/supreme-court-chevron-deference-biden-regulatory-state

Pro-Trump Pastor Rails Against Church Being Kept Out of Government

https://www.newsweek.com/pro-trump-pastor-rails-against-church-being-kept-out-government-1689771

U.S. Going 'Way of Russia' If Trump Ally Meadows Not Charged: Kirschner

https://www.newsweek.com/us-going-way-russia-if-trump-ally-meadows-not-charged-kirschner-1689754

Trump-Backed McGeachin Stands by Appearance at 'White Nationalist' Event

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-backed-mcgeachin-stands-appearance-white-nationalist-event-1689751

Far-Right Activist Ammon Bundy's Group Doxes Judge, Encourages Protests

https://www.newsweek.com/far-right-activist-ammon-bundys-group-doxes-judge-encourages-protests-1689733

Trump Campaign Loses Legal Dispute, Ordered to Pay Ex-Staffer $350,000

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-campaign-loses-legal-dispute-ordered-pay-ex-staffer-350000-1689599

7 Things I Used to Believe—Until Putin and Trump Proved Me Wrong | Opinion

https://www.newsweek.com/7-things-i-used-believeuntil-putin-trump-proved-me-wrong-opinion-1689587

America Has a Free Speech Problem

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/18/opinion/cancel-culture-free-speech-poll.html

Is This the End of “America First”? Trump and allies like J.D. Vance and Tucker Carlson may have overestimated the appeal of the former president’s isolationism.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165821/vance-carlson-ukraine-america-first

Life inside Crimea with Russia and Ukraine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzO7gIT5GYU&ab_channel=VICENews

The New Cold War

https://newcoldwar.org/ukrainian-leftist-criticizes-western-war-drive-with-russia-us-is-using-ukraine-as-cannon-fodder/

Latest by Chris Hedges 3/20

https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/15/chris-hedges-waltzing-to-armageddon/

Political history of Ukraine- substantial Documentary from Ukrainian older officials

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hgeZilgRCU&ab_channel=GlobalTreePictures

Is Putin the Victim? (w/ Dr. Justin A. Frank) - Mar 22, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4KEXkcPD6E

Ted Cruz Attacked Ketanji Brown Jackson for Affiliating With a Private School Like the One Where He Sends His Daughters: Washington’s Georgetown Day School does indeed teach inclusion—kind of like Houston’s elite St. John’s School.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165830/cruz-jackson-georgetown-day-school

Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Confirmation Hearings Reveal Republicans’ Twisted Desire to Erase Civil Rights: Republican senators haven’t been shy about wanting to roll back the clock for women, LGBTQ people, and Black Americans.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165833/braun-jackson-interracial-marriage-law

Mark Pomerantz Is Furious About Trump’s Latest Escape From Justice: The former Manhattan prosecutor watched the former president wriggle out of trouble, and he wants everyone to know.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165841/mark-pomerantz-trump-alvin-bragg

The Center for Popular Democracy works to create equity, opportunity and a dynamic democracy in partnership with high-impact base-building organizations, organizing alliances, and progressive unions. CPD strengthens our collective capacity to envision and win an innovative pro-worker, pro-immigrant, racial and economic justice agenda.

https://www.populardemocracy.org/

Marsha Blackburn Never Leaves a Culture-War Hot Button Unpressed: The Tennessee Republican bullied Ketanji Brown Jackson at least as much as the committee’s more famous men did. It’s not hard to guess why

https://newrepublic.com/article/165852/marsha-blackburn-culture-war-ketanji-jackson

Yanis Varoufakis: The West Is "Playing with Fire" If It Pushes Regime Change in Nuclear-Armed Russia - Mar 25, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=su4czYxGYxo

The Latest Eric Greitens Scandal Is Surprising to … Absolutely No One: Court papers allege that he abused his ex-wife and one of their children. But will it stop his Senate candidacy?

https://newrepublic.com/article/165826/eric-greitens-scandal-spousal-abuse

The Media Has Yet to Grasp the Full Enormity of Ginni Thomas’s Text Messages: Reports have latched on to the lurid, QAnon-inflected scandal on the surface, but they’ve yet to plumb the depths of the corruption at its heart.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165859/ginni-thomas-media-corruption-scandal

Here’s a Better Reason to Unsubscribe From The New York Times It's not the "newspaper of record." It's a rag for the East Coast rich.

https://newrepublic.com/article/154726/heres-better-reason-unsubscribe-new-york-times

Ginni Thomas Is Giving the Supreme Court a Bleeding Ulcer It Can’t Cure: The only person who can put things right is her husband, Clarence, and that’s about as likely as him voting to uphold Roe.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165858/ginni-thomas-january-6-texts

Just Because Mo Brooks Is Sparring With Trump Doesn’t Mean That Trump Is in Trouble: The former president may have shed his outside-the-Beltway skin, but his base—and the party—are even more committed to Trumpism.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165846/trump-mo-brooks-2020-election

Richard Ojeda Goes OFF On Partisan Hack Mitch McConnell - Mar 25, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MKzffEc03w

Manchin E.xplodes in R.AGE after Trump's D.IRTY 'reject' plan...promises confirm Jackson - Mar 27, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkZiqHgOarg

Manchin SH0CKINGLY takes Biden's side as V.OTE YES for J.udge Jackson... McConnell SHUTS UP - Mar 26, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXOn5IMvpT0

GOP Hostility to Ketanji Brown Jackson Goes Beyond Hypocrisy: Republicans complain about “reverse discrimination” on the Supreme Court. Their real complaint is against constitutional democracy.

https://www.populist.com/28.06.Zimmerman.html

Dispatches: REPORT DETAILS ‘UNRAVELING’ OF MANHATTAN DA’S TRUMP PROBE THAT LED TWO PROSECUTORS TO RESIGN; TRUMP LED CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY, JAN. 6 PROBE’S LAWYERS SAY IN COURT; STATE OF THE UNION PROVIDES BIDEN BOUNCE; JOBS REPORT CONTINUES PICTURE OF FAST AND SUSTAINED GROWTH; MARK MEADOWS: LIVING IN A MOBILE HOME OR VOTE FRAUDSTER?; REPUBLICANS ARE STILL COMING FOR YOUR HEALTH CARE, RON JOHNSON SAYS; SENATE REPUBLICANS WOULD HIKE TAXES ON THE POOREST 40%; UN SETS SIGHTS ON PLASTIC POLLUTION, VOWING TO ADOPT AGREEMENT BY 2024; RUSSIAN INVASION THREATENS UKRAINE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS;

https://www.populist.com/28.06.Dispatches.html

Finkenauer Brings Her Blue-Collar Background to Race Against Grassley

https://www.populist.com/28.06.ArtCullen.html

On Ukraine, Republicans shift with the political wind | Gene Lyons

https://syvnews.com/opinion/columnists/on-ukraine-republicans-shift-with-the-political-wind-gene-lyons/article_e9fb21c6-14b2-5e52-8217-d23bf23eb9ed.html

https://newrepublic.com/article/165859/ginni-thomas-media-corruption-scandal

How Donald Trump Conned His Blue-Collar Base

https://www.populist.com/28.06.Gardner.html

The Putin-Trump Axis: Putin’s neo-fascism has rooted itself in America. What can we do?

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-putin-trump-axis?s=r

Jesse Jackson: What's needed now is a push for peace

https://tribunecontentagency.com/article/jesse-jackson-whats-needed-now-is-a-push-for-peace/

Multiple Crises Brings Out the Best and Worst in Us

https://www.populist.com/28.06.Cintli.html

Will GOP’s Putin bromance hurt them in November? Press couldn’t care less: Turning blind eye

https://pressrun.media/p/will-gops-putin-bromance-hurt-them?utm_source=url&s=r

Biden Meets the Moment in the House

https://www.creators.com/read/jamie-stiehm/03/22/biden-meets-the-moment-in-the-house

Today's Republican Party Emits Sinister Echoes Of 'America First'

https://www.nationalmemo.com/america-first

Opinion: Republicans are so eager to see Biden fail that they’d let Putin succeed

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/01/republicans-biden-fail-putin-succeed/

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ed Markey Have a Tough New Climate Pledge for Midterm Candidates

With the "Green New Deal Champions" pledge, the climate left is re-orienting for 2022—and 2030.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165865/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-ed-markey-tough-new-climate-pledge-midterm-candidates

The End of Roe? An Interview With Sacheen Carr-Ellis, MD

https://populationconnection.org/article/sacheen-carr-ellis/

Men Across America Are Getting Vasectomies ‘as an Act of Love’

https://populationconnection.org/article/men-across-america-are-getting-vasectomies-as-an-act-of-love/

Inside Ted Cruz’s last-ditch battle to keep Trump in power: The Texas senator’s effort alienated some allies and sparked questions about ties to John Eastman, a longtime friend and author of key legal memos in Trump’s efforts.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/28/ted-cruz-john-eastman-jan6-committee/

An Obstacle on the Path to the Supreme Court: Ketanji Brown Jackson confirms her qualifications.

https://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/blitts-kvetchbook/an-obstacle-on-the-path-to-the-supreme-court

Political Consulting Firms Made $1.4 Billion Simultaneously Working for Campaign Committees and ‘Independent’ Groups: Study Further Discredits Supreme Court’s Citizens United Decision, Makes Clear the Need for the Freedom to Vote Act

https://www.citizen.org/news/political-consulting-firms-made-1-4-billion-simultaneously-working-for-campaign-committees-and-independent-groups/

On Behalf of NAACP, Public Citizen and LDF Settle Lawsuit Against U.S. Postal Service to Ensure Timely Delivery of Mailed Ballots

https://www.citizen.org/news/on-behalf-of-naacp-public-citizen-and-ldf-settle-lawsuit-against-u-s-postal-service-to-ensure-timely-delivery-of-mailed-ballots/

A Federal Judge Rips Trump for Plotting a Coup: Judge David Carter said the former president and his lawyer, John Eastman, “more likely than not” committed federal crimes for their part in the January 6 insurrection.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165875/david-carter-eastman-january-6

Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Committee_for_a_Responsible_Federal_Budget

Op-Ed: CBS News giving Mick Mulvaney a paid contributor gig is an act of journalistic malpractice

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-03-29/op-ed-bardella-mulvaney-cbs

The real Ginni Thomas problem is Trump. The calls to overturn the 2020 election results were coming from inside the White House

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/03/ginni-thomas-texts-january-6-trump/629386/

GOP Sen. Collins says she'll back Ketanji Brown Jackson for Supreme Court - Mar 30, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTboiecqk4c

Judge Holds Alex Jones In Contempt After Failing To Show Up For Depositions - Mar 30, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXsImADivMI

DIRECTOR’S REPORT | Recommitting to Win

https://democraticleft.dsausa.org/issues/spring-2022/recommitting-to-win/

TALKING SOCIALISM | Back to the Beginning: DSA at 40

https://democraticleft.dsausa.org/issues/spring-2022/talking-socialism-back-to-the-beginning-dsa-at-40/

Hanging Together

https://democraticleft.dsausa.org/issues/spring-2022/hanging-together/

Naming the Unnameable: Another Look at Edward Said’s Orientalism

https://democraticleft.dsausa.org/issues/spring-2022/edward-said-orientalism/

National Political Committee Sets Priorities For Coming Period

https://democraticleft.dsausa.org/issues/spring-2022/npc-priorities/

Plot to Overturn the Election (full documentary) | FRONTLINE - Mar 29, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90O-q7dgS-I

The Evil Reason the GOP Will Exploit Every Crisis The World Is Facing - Mar 30, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjXugHWVEnE

SH0CK: Trump CAN'T SAVE himself after Ivanka admits 'M.O.B' truth...Kurshner agrees - Mar 31, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X049_g8_QCg

EXCLUSIVE Poll: Fetterman Ahead In PA Democratic Senate Race - Mar 31, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4bFWcbGV6w

CBS Admits Hiring Former Trump Official Was About Getting ‘Access’ To GOP - Mar 31, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I_Ylsa6NqM

How Can We Stop Being Exploited By Our Politicians? - Mar 31, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oL1n6JQDZJs

Last Arab Democracy Dies...But Wait! There's More - Mar 31, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCDrjDFVyYY

What Can Biden Do Now to Protect the Ballot? We Asked Eric Holder and Six Other Voting Rights Experts. Here’s what the president can do, now that major reforms are dead in the water in Congress.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165620/biden-voting-rights-eric-holder-democracy-watch

Compromised - Apr 1, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v3MCAeLsfY

January 6 Recap: Judge Finds Trump May Have Broken the Law as the Justice Department Expands its Scope. The DOJ is broadening its investigation into the attack on the Capitol, but it’s not going far enough for some Democrats.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165932/january-6-eastman-emails-doj

Trump and Pence Believe in Almost the Exact Same Things: The former vice president’s new “Freedom Agenda” is basically Trumpism, minus the Russia love.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165946/trump-mike-pence-2024-primary

The QAnon Style of Politics Is Taking Over America: This isn’t a conspiracy theory. It’s the conspiracy itself.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165949/qanon-hawley-grooming-political-violence

Americans strongly disapprove of GOP pushback on Ketanji Brown Jackson: Republicans pledged to treat Jackson better than Democrats treated Kavanaugh. Americans didn’t see it that way.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/01/americans-disapprove-gop-jackson/

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin announces campaign for Congress: The former governor will run for the seat vacated by Don Young.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/sarah-palin-announces-campaign-congress/story

Chris Hedges | Cornel West: The Death Instinct - Premiered Apr 1, 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYFYTDz4bXQ

Anne Applebaum: Autocracies Don’t Believe In Rules or Norms | Amanpour and Company - Apr 1, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaldUNn-eOk

Chris Hedges | Glenn Greenwald: Biden's Military & Imperial Goons - Premiered Apr 2, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0eIw8m4WsE

GOP's New Plan Would Raise Taxes on Working People and End Social Security and Medicare: For the majority of Americans who are so poor they barely have to pay income taxes, Sen. Rick Scott’s plan is just the latest in a 40-year barrage of assaults and insults coming from the Grand Oligarch Party.

https://www.populist.com/28.07.Hartmann.html

The GOP Patriot Game: Republicans today are the least reliable partners in our democracy after five years of putting their principles in a blind trust managed by Donald J. Trump.

https://www.populist.com/28.07.Edit.html

Letters to the Editor: Focus on Republican Dogmatists; Jefferson’s Slave ‘Family’?; Banning Books; Lots of Corners; Punish Putin at the Pump; Russia Ready for Another Revolution; Most Favored Refugees?

https://www.populist.com/28.07.Letters.html

Dems are Giving Up on Iowa

https://www.populist.com/28.07.ArtCullen.html

It’s All About You, Gov. DeSantis

https://www.populist.com/28.07.Young.html

Breaking the News

https://www.populist.com/28.07.Uretsky.html

Trump Pecked And Plucked, Feather By Feather

https://www.dnronline.com/opinion/viewpoint/trump-pecked-and-plucked-feather-by-feather/article_3af1d4dd-fad9-5617-96b4-441812a8824b.html

All War Criminals Must Be Held Accountable: In Russia, the US, and Elsewhere. If international law is to count for anything, it must be enforced equally. No one, in Russia, the United States or elsewhere, is above the law.

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/03/18/all-war-criminals-must-be-held-accountable-russia-us-and-elsewhere

The Unlikely Persistence of Antonio Gramsci: No one understood political battle lines better than a Communist politician from Sardinia.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165617/antonio-gramsci-live-resist-book-review-unlikely-persistence

Sherrod Brown Blames Republicans for Sabotaging the Biden Agenda: In an interview with The New Republic, the Ohio Democrat was keen to remind: “Fifty Republicans voted against the child tax credit twice.”

https://newrepublic.com/article/165940/sherrod-brown-biden-agenda-gop

It’s Bennie Thompson’s Moment to Defend Democracy: The Mississippi congressman’s long struggle for civil rights is culminating with his role atop the January 6 committee.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165905/bennie-thompson-jan-6-committee-moment-defend-democracy

It’s Time to Abolish Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings: The Founders saw no need for lawmakers to grill high court nominees. Time has only proven them correct.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165982/abolish-supreme-court-confirmation-hearings

Biden Has Handled the War Well. So Why Are His Ukraine Numbers in the Red? The economy and inflation, sure. But Ukraine? He’s done about as well as a president can. What gives?

https://newrepublic.com/article/165964/biden-polling-ukraine-invasion-midterms

Rep. Matt Gaetz Votes Against Capping Insulin Prices, Says People Should Just Lose Weight: The Florida congressman said “the price of insulin increases as waistlines increase.”

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/04/rep-matt-gaetz-votes-against-capping-insulin-prices-says-people-should-just-lose-weight/

Richard Ojeda CRUSHES Insurrectionist Madison Cawthron - Apr 4, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsK1CucioFM

Michael Madigan: The Man Who Ran Illinois. How the longest-serving legislative leader in U.S. history wielded power—until the feds caught up to him.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/04/03/michael-madigan-the-man-who-ran-illinois/

Fox Viewers Get Smarter After Watching CNN...Say What?! - Apr 4, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AERDHJerJdY

Why is the DeVos Family Showering Ron DeSantis w/Cash? - Apr 4, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk5EEY2ldzE

The Progressive Misleadership Class (w/ Chris Hedges) - Premiered Apr 4, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMh0D2-n97s

Inside Tucker Carlson’s Brain: The post-liberal intellectuals who are reshaping conservatism.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/04/03/inside-tucker-carlsons-brain/

Can Diverse Democracies Survive? Without the glue of a shared national narrative, probably not.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/04/03/can-diverse-democracies-survive/

The Too Supreme Court: Make the Constitution populist again.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/04/03/the-too-supreme-court/

Can Democrats Hold Georgia? The party did everything right to win the state in 2020—and the Republicans did everything wrong.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/04/03/can-democrats-hold-georgia/

Moderation in the Name of Liberty is No Vice: Francis Fukuyama’s calm evisceration of illiberalism on the left and right.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/04/03/moderation-in-the-name-of-liberty-is-no-vice/

How Viktor Orbán Built His Illiberal State: Fidesz’s victory Sunday was the culmination of many events that, once upon a time, we thought couldn’t happen here.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165953/viktor-orban-built-illiberal-state

Sarah Palin’s Identity Problem: Palin’s once unique brand paved the way for similar politicians to find a foothold in the Republican Party. Can she go home again?

https://newrepublic.com/article/165998/sarah-palins-identity-problem

Sununu on Trump roast at Gridiron dinner: ‘It’s all a joke’

https://thehill.com/news/administration/3258409-sununu-on-trump-roast-at-gridiron-dinner-its-all-a-joke/

Anne Applebaum, "Democracy in Crisis: The twilight of democracy" - Streamed live on Apr 4, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRo5tNQVimM

Sunday Excerpt: "Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became 'People' - and How You Can Fight Back": The Deciding Moment?

https://hartmannreport.com/p/sunday-excerpt-unequal-protection-8de

Fetterman campaign demands takedown of ads calling him a 'democratic socialist'

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/5/2090282/-Fetterman-campaign-demands-takedown-of-ads-calling-him-a-democratic-socialist

Steve Bannon Said Trump Reminded Him of Hitler. He Meant It as a Compliment. Now Marjorie Taylor Greene calls three GOP senators “pro-pedophile.” These people are sociopaths.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166017/steve-bannon-trump-hitler-republican-sociopaths

The Law Alone Can’t Halt the Christian Right’s Crusade Against Abortion and LGBTQ Rights: Liberals can’t count on the courts to protect against Republican ambitions to roll back civil rights.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166012/law-alone-cant-halt-christian-rights-crusade-abortion-lgbtq-rights

AOC hits back at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for ‘weaker sex’ attack on people who identify as transgender

https://www.rawstory.com/aoc-hits-back-at-rep-marjorie-taylor-greene-for-weaker-on-people-who-identify-as-transgender/

The Unlikely Success of Permanent Daylight Saving Time: Even a broken Senate is right twice a day.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165961/unlikely-success-permanent-daylight-saving-time-senate

WATCH: Amy Coney Barrett on whether there should be ethical guidelines for Supreme Court spouses - Apr 6, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_ZwiFifTAM

Here’s Nevada’s Big Pitch to the DNC to Be #1 in the 2024 Primaries: A brochure obtained by TNR lists all the reasons why the Silver State should supplant Iowa and New Hampshire. This time, the calendar might actually change.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166034/heres-nevadas-big-pitch-dnc-1-2024-primaries

Why I Don’t Like Ike

https://secularhumanism.org/2022/04/why-i-dont-like-ike/

Yes, Be Worried: Marine Le Pen Could Finally Come to Power in France: Emmanuel Macron leads the presidential race—by about as much as “Remain” led in the U.K. and Hillary Clinton led in the United States in 2016.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166041/marine-le-pen-win-president-france-2022-elections

A very full few months

https://mailchi.mp/84fd564b4063/exciting-invitations-and-why-ive-been-quiet-lately?e=e2e7d1a310

The Senate confirms Jackson, elevating the first Black woman to the Supreme Court.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/04/07/us/ketanji-brown-jackson-vote-scotus#the-senate-votes-to-move-forward-with-jacksons-confirmation

House Judiciary Committee advances domestic terrorism bill amid partisan spat: The legislation was backed by the Anti-Defamation League, the Orthodox Union and others

https://jewishinsider.com/2022/04/house-judiciary-committee-advances-domestic-terrorism-bill-amid-partisan-spat/

ADL Warns Against ‘Incendiary’ Anti-Israel Stances of Some Left-Wing Candidates in 2022 US Elections

https://www.algemeiner.com/2022/04/06/adl-warns-against-incendiary-anti-israel-stances-of-some-left-wing-candidates-in-2022-us-elections/

FY2023 COMMUNITY PROJECT FUNDING REQUESTS - Deadline to submit Community Project Funding requests: Friday, April 15, 2022, 5:00 p.m.

https://evans.house.gov/services/fy2023-community-funding-projects-requests

House holds Trump aides Peter Navarro, Dan Scavino in contempt for defying Jan. 6 subpoenas

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/04/06/trump-aides-navarro-scavino-house-contempt/7268020001/

Truly Bipartisan Supreme Court Confirmations Are Dead: Yes, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will get some GOP votes. But don’t expect either party to confirm a nomination from the other when they’re in the majority.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166045/truly-bipartisan-supreme-court-confirmations-dead

Roberts joins liberals in criticizing ‘shadow docket’ pollution ruling: In a first, chief justice agrees conservatives’ ruling marked an abuse of the court’s emergency powers

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/06/supreme-court-shadow-docket-clean-water-act/

Mary Trump: Democracy Is On 'A Knife's Edge' - Apr 7, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9ndYKDprq4

The Ketanji Brown Jackson Strategy: By championing racial equality in the form of putting a Black woman on the Supreme Court, Democrats have energized their base and garnered the support of the American people.

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/ketanji-brown-jackson-scotus/

The GOP Is Going Full QAnon: Democrats should prepare for accusations of being soft on pedophilia (or worse) in the midterm elections.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166054/marjorie-taylor-greene-ketanji-jackson-republicans-qanon

Traitor Trump BEGS Daddy Putin to Release Dirt on Biden (Malcolm Nance) | Mea Culpa Full Episode – Apr 7, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sEgsjiRjhA

Authoritarianism, Putin & the GOP Are a Threat - Apr 7, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVmphN0tdS0

I want the flag that flies to Mars to be the flag of the U.S., not of SpaceX or Blue Origin. - Apr 8, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZFy5H_cHSE

The Supreme Court Has Endangered Our Lives - Apr 8, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZGZLGO61tM

See ex-Trump official's reaction to Trump Jr.'s 'revealing' texts - Apr 9, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzt9Sdj8Qzk

Why Finland Is Happier Than America - Apr 9, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ub1BHoX_MtY

PDA Sunday Progressive Town Hall, April 10, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VckY7s5eTRk

A Fight Between the Biden Administration and Coastal Democrats Could Be Headed for the Supreme Court: Blue states like New York and California want to restore the unlimited state and local tax, or SALT, deduction. Biden’s DOJ is trying to preserve the $10,000 limit—even though Trump enacted it to punish Democrats.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166009/salt-deduction-new-york-yellen-case-supreme-court

Rep. Cheney: Jan. 6 Committee Has Enough Evidence To Refer Trump For Criminal Charges - Apr 10, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XQqAy4lKes

Researchers paid Fox viewers to watch CNN. Hear what happened - Apr 10, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZGdGLLFzUI

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