The GOP believes that it is tyranny when a government takes steps to save lives, and good government when the wealthy get tax breaks. That’s because the GOP is the party of hierarchy. They don’t believe fairness and equality are possible. Hierarchy people think there’s a natural order. Some people belong on top. Others belong […]
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Today is an important anniversary. 73 years ago, on April 23, 1951, in Farmville, VA, Barbara Johns led a walkout of her segregated high school to protest the unfair and deplorable conditions of her school. What?! You don’t know who Barbara Johns was? She led her walkout more than 4 years before Rosa Parks refused
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The Zelensky-Trump phone call was released by the White House and is here. In his riveting testimony last February before the House Committee on Oversight, Cohen explained how Trump pulls people in and gets them to lie and cheat for him. Cohen quotations from here. Trump doesn’t order anyone to lie or commit crimes. He’s
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Alternate title: California shows the way California used to be Republican. We gave the nation Nixon and Reagan. Republican candidates won CA in every presidential election between 1952 and 1988 except one: By 1990, CA demographics were changing, with growing Asian and Spanish-speaking communities. Then California’s “Latino and Asian populations boomed in the 1990s.” In
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I’ve returned from Texas, after a stop in Santa Barbara for the Indivisible March. My detention center journal is now complete. Preliminary Remarks Raices needs Spanish speaking lawyers, or lawyers with translators. My husband is a native Spanish speaker, so we go as a team. The law: If asylum seekers arrive without documents, they can:
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