Economic progressivism isn’t just popular now — it has been for years
From Salon: http://www.salon.com/2014/01/08/economic_liberalism_isnt_only_popular_now_it_has_been_for_years/ Those suddenly seeing a “liberal resurgence” are missing one big thing: The last two...
View ArticleD.C. man sentenced to 10 years for stabbing transgender woman 40 times
From LGBTQ Nation: http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2014/01/d-c-man-sentenced-to-10-years-for-stabbing-transgender-woman-40-times/ Staff Reports< Monday, January 13, 2014 WASHINGTON — A D.C. man who...
View ArticleIt Is Expensive to Be Poor
From The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/01/it-is-expensive-to-be-poor/282979/ Minimum-wage jobs are physically demanding, have unpredictable schedules, and pay so meagerly...
View ArticleCongress Has No Plans To Stay In D.C. To Deal With Unemployment
From Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/17/house-democrats-unemployment_n_4612641.html?ncid=txtlnkushpmg00000037 Arthur Delaney Samantha Lachman 01/17/2014 WASHINGTON — Despite...
View ArticleRunning out of ideas, Congressman suggests abortion restrictions as job creation
From Feministing: http://feministing.com/2014/01/16/running-out-of-ideas-congressman-suggests-abortion-restrictions-as-job-creatio
View ArticleWhy The Republican’s Old Divide-and-Conquer Strategy — Setting Working Class...
From Robert Reich: http://robertreich.org/post/72770488951 Robert Reich Thursday, January 9, 2014 For almost forty years Republicans have pursued a divide-and-conquer strategy intended to convince...
View ArticleSome Folks Say It’s the Beginning of the End for the Christian Right — Dream...
From Alternet: http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/idea-christian-right-retreat-almost-dangerous-christian-right The Christian Right is seizing control of state legislatures and governors’...
View ArticleI Am the New Working Poor and I’m Not Alone
From Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dennis-powers/the-new-working-poor_b_4591538.html Dennis Powers 01/13/2014 On December 23, 2013 two days before my 60th birthday, I swallowed a...
View ArticleAl Gore says use of geo-engineering to head off climate disaster is insane
From The Guardian UK: http://www.theguardian.com/world/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2014/jan/15/geo-al-gore-engineering-climate-disaster-instant-solutio Belief in an instant planet-wide quick-fix,...
View ArticleWhen Will Non-Transgender People Wake Up to Themselves?
From Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/fiona-dawson/when-will-nontransgender-_b_4592439.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices Fiona Dawson 01/14/2014 What Katie Couric’s “teachable moment” missed....
View ArticleCompany Behind West Virginia’s Chemical Spill Files For Bankruptcy
From Think Progress: http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/01/17/3181821/freedom-industries-bankruptcy/ By Jeff Spross on January 17, 2014 According to the Charleston Gazette, Freedom Industries filed...
View ArticleBig Ag’s big lie: Factory farms, your health and the new politics of antibiotics
From Salon: http://www.salon.com/2014/01/12/big_ags_big_lie_factory_farms_your_health_and_the_new_politics_of_antibiotics/ Science only gets clearer: Factory farms are accelerating an antibiotics...
View ArticleThe Real Culture of Income Inequality
From Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-conn/the-real-culture-of-incom_b_4624769.html Steven Conn 01/19/2014 Fifty years later and now it looks like Lyndon Johnson’s “War on...
View ArticleAnother Shocking Wealth Grab by the Rich — In Just One Year
From Common Dreams: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/01/20 by Paul Buchheit Published on Monday, January 20, 2014 by Common Dreams It was shown in a recent report that the richest Americans have...
View ArticleI’m coming out: as living near poverty level
From The Washington Blade: http://www.washingtonblade.com/2014/01/15/im-coming-living-near-poverty-level/ By Kathi Wolfe on January 15, 2014 I’m coming out. Not as queer — everyone knows I’m lesbian....
View ArticleTrans Woman Dares Bible-Quoting Councilman to Stone Her to Death
From The Advocate: http://www.advocate.com/politics/transgender/2014/01/17/trans-woman-dares-bible-quoting-councilman-stone-her-death A Shreveport, La., City Council member Tuesday withdrew a bill...
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