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Dems fear party is headed to gutter from Avenatti’s sledgehammer approach | TheHill

Michael Avenatti’s attacks on the Democratic establishment are creating new friction as the party debates how abrasive an approach to take against President Trump.

Source: Dems fear party is headed to gutter from Avenatti’s sledgehammer approach | TheHill

Maybe more than anything else it’s the pathetically weak criticism of Michael Avenatti that makes me think he’s correct.

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Cheating = The American Way ?  We can choose a different path.

Strategies that let super PACs delay revealing their donors until after the election are gaining popularity among both Democrats and Republicans.

Source: The Hidden Money Funding the Midterms — ProPublica

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Resistbot

https://resist.bot/

Speaking your voice and reaching out to your elected representatives seemingly could not be any easier than it is right now. Resistbot is a wonderful tool that allows you to painlessly communicate your thoughts, wishes, complaints, congratulations, anything you care to impart, to your elected representatives as well as other institutions, and it also keeps you informed of other important things you might want to know about as a responsible, conscientious citizen of the United States of America.

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💰 or ☑️ ?

If money matters more than votes, is the United States a democracy?
byu/Natefisher876 insocialism

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Tomgram: John Feffer, Say Goodbye to the Guardrails of Governance | TomDispatch

Source: Tomgram: John Feffer, Say Goodbye to the Guardrails of Governance | TomDispatch

 

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Society Video

Watch Janelle Monae describe her relationship with voting

https://www.tumblr.com/action/177975296856/whenweallvote-janelle-monae-votes-because-her

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Good News

Cleveland Gets Rid Of Prosecutor Who Refused To Charge Tamir Rice Shooter – ThinkProgress

Source: Cleveland Gets Rid Of Prosecutor Who Refused To Charge Tamir Rice Shooter – ThinkProgress

Old story!  🙂  But still. . . .  I just watched a story about it on Free Speech TV.

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Check out @shaunking’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/shaunking/status/1035265862478032896?s=09

Two things that continue to be very broken in this country: our voting system and our puritanical, anachronistic, twisted justice system.

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Politics

Word of the day: Untenable

‘Step Down Mr. President’ – You have lied, demeaned the office
byu/mafco inpolitics

Talk about moving the goalposts.

Does the word untenable meaning anything to anyone? As in, “To further defend Donald Trump and his malicious, depraved ilk in any fashion is logically, morally, ethically, and philosophically untenable”?

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Citizen, it is your responsibility and duty to educate yourself

¯_(ツ)_/¯
byu/waterfly9604 inCOMPLETEANARCHY

Now don’t get me wrong! There should be a public education system that is stellar in every regard. But it is incumbent upon each of us (or at least those of us who want to be able to vote, or make any decisions in the public sphere) to ensure that we have a torrent of diverse information constantly flowing into our brains with which we can make decisions, compare and contrast, reach conclusions, ponder, meditate, etc., resulting in a nuanced, intelligent, wise, well-informed, reasonable, citizen of the world.

And like I said earlier this might not be for everyone. Maybe some people don’t want to put forth the effort or care or attention into doing this for themselves. In that case I would politely request that you refrain from doing anything that would affect anyone else on the planet and get used to accepting the guidance of those who do care to accept this responsibility.

How does that sound?