03/11/2016 archive

The Daily Late Nightly Show (March Madness!)

WARNING! Sucky Blogging Ahead! What’s Friday without a little Meta? This is NCAA Tournament time and as always we’ll be following both the men and the women. The men will once again be in the CBS universe while the women will be on ESPN. Like last year each individual men’s game will be (what? Broadcast? …

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Apple v. DOJ

45 Years After COINTELPRO FBI Continues to Monitor Activists “Activism is not terrorism”: Rights groups call on Congress to investigate the FBI and DHS for surveillance of activists by Ben Norton, Salon Tuesday, Mar 8, 2016 01:13 PM EST More than 60 legal, civil rights and activist groups sent a letter to the chairs of …

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Creeping Fascism

It’s a common trope among Centrist (Right Wing Faux) Democrats to say that Donald Trump is a fascist on a par with Hitler (the more sophisticated and historically accurate will say Mussolini). If true, who exactly is responsible for creating the conditions of post-Great War (WWI, they didn’t know there would be a second) Europe …

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Pondering the Pundits

“Pondering the Pundits” is an Open Thread. It is a selection of editorials and opinions from around the news medium and the internet blogs. The intent is to provide a forum for your reactions and opinions, not just to the opinions presented, but to what ever you find important. Thanks to ek hornbeck, click on …

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The Breakfast Club (Deja Vu)

Welcome to The Breakfast Club! We’re a disorganized group of rebel lefties who hang out and chat if and when we’re not too hungover we’ve been bailed out we’re not too exhausted from last night’s (CENSORED) the caffeine kicks in. Join us every weekday morning at 9am (ET) and weekend morning at 10:30am (ET) to …

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