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  • Open thread: Test scores, lying and nitrous oxide

    7 December 2013, 6:00 pm

    What's coming up on Sunday Kos ...…
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  • Boeing trades workers for bootlickers

    7 December 2013, 4:30 pm

    Boeing is preparing to build its next generation 777X, an airliner whose promotional renderings make the lobby of the Bellagio look tastefully restrained. Only Boeing is not going to build the 777X at its passenger plane facility in Everett, Washington. Why?…
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  • Green diary rescue: Climate clock ticking, dealing with trash, ALEC assaults clean energy

    7 December 2013, 4:00 pm

    Every week Daily Kos diarists write dozens of environmentally related posts. Many don't get the readership they deserve. Helping improve the odds is the motivation behind the Green Diary Rescue. In the past seven years, there have been 252 of these…
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  • Midday open thread: Mandela, Cruz, Twitter hall of shame

    7 December 2013, 3:00 pm

    I ran out of thread caption jokes. Or is my saying that a thread caption joke in and of itself?…
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  • This week in the War on Workers: How the federal budget leads to Walmart's low wages

    7 December 2013, 1:55 pm

    Paul Ryan's budget ideas may be a path to prosperity for some ... but mostly those who are already plenty prosperous.…
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  • Saturday nutpick-a-palooza: Not everyone loved Mandela

    7 December 2013, 1:00 pm

    Today's source material, from the supposedly "serious" National Review:…
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  • Georgia state commissioner compares having pre-existing conditions to cheating insurance companies

    7 December 2013, 12:00 pm

    Above is video of Georgia state insurance commissioner Ralph Hudgens, who by title is ostensibly in charge of commissionering Georgian's insurance but who seems to have a less than perfect actual grasp of the subject, talking about how people with pre-existing…
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  • Animal Nuz #177

    7 December 2013, 11:00 am

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  • This week at progressive state blogs: Secessionists organize, not daddy's little girl, Medicaid

    7 December 2013, 11:00 am

    Just as states with progressive lawmakers and activists have themselves initiated innovative programs over a wide range of issues, state-based progressive blogs have helped provide us with a point of view, inside information and often an edgy voice that we…
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  • Obama pushes for extension of unemployment insurance in weekly address

    7 December 2013, 10:00 am

    But here’s the thing: if Members of Congress don’t act before they leave on their vacations, 1.3 million Americans will lose this lifeline. These are people we know. They’re our friends and neighbors; they sit next to us in church and volunteer in our…
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  • This week in science: Out of this world

    7 December 2013, 9:00 am

    This certainly seems appropriate given this week's tragic news. If there's one kind of turmoil Africa doesn't need, it's an abrupt collapse in food production:…
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  • Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: More on ALEC, more on Obamacare

    7 December 2013, 7:30 am

    Molly Jackman, Brookings…
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  • Open thread for night owls: Ta-Nehisi Coates on apartheid's oh-so-useful American idiots

    6 December 2013, 11:30 pm

    At The Atlantic, Ta-Nehisi Coates spotlights Americans who enabled South Africa's murderous racists in Apartheid's Useful Idiots. An excerpt:…
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  • Cheers and Jeers: Rum and Coke FRIDAY!

    6 December 2013, 7:10 pm

    From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE……
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  • Third Way head admits Elizabeth Warren scares them

    6 December 2013, 7:06 pm

    She's still winning.…
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  • So-called Democrats at Third Way share consultants with the Chamber of Commerce

    6 December 2013, 5:55 pm

    Sen. Mark Udall…
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  • On Nelson Mandela

    6 December 2013, 5:15 pm

    Jerry Falwell was against him. Pat Robertson was against him. Dick Cheney was against him, and William F. Buckley was against him, and George Will was against him, and Grover Norquist travelled to South Africa to be against him, and the Heritage Foundation was…
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  • New Gallup poll shows the same old numbers for Obamacare

    6 December 2013, 4:55 pm

    Here's RNC chair Reince Preibus crowing about the latest Obamcare polling numbers.52% want Congress to repeal or scale back #Obamacare…but Dems actually want to run on this law!? http://t.co/...— @Reince…
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  • Social Security expansion now very real. Thanks, Third Way!

    6 December 2013, 3:54 pm

    Rep. Allyson Schwartz (D-PA.), honorary co-chair of Third Way and gubenatorial candidate, is now a cosponsor of a bill to expand Social Security. That's after Third Way president Jon Cowan, Jim Kessler, the group's senior vice president for policy called the…
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  • Do-nothing Republicans looking to do nothing in 2014 to avoid hurting their election chances

    6 December 2013, 3:50 pm

    Elections in the six-year of a president's time in office typically produce congressional gains for the political party out of the White House. But the on-going Republican civil war could make 2014 an outlier.…
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  • Utah public health official confused on the concept of public health and vaccines

    6 December 2013, 3:30 pm

    Public health clinics in five southwest Utah counties are not stocking the HPV vaccine because the director of the regional health department thinks the vaccine is controversial and too expensive. The cost argument doesn't hold up:The three-shot series can…
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  • Midday open thread: Lost, vaccinations and orange overlords

    6 December 2013, 3:00 pm

    Today's comic by Mark Fiore is Drones come to the techopolis:…
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  • Back end Obamacare error rates falling

    6 December 2013, 2:55 pm

    Now that HealthCare.gov is working on the front end, attention has turned to the other broken part, the back end where the government forwards the enrollments to insurers. The process using what called 834s, the files containing new customer enrollments, has…
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  • Catholic Church was always pro-social justice, this Pope just makes it explicit

    6 December 2013, 2:35 pm

    New conservative boogeyman…
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  • McDonald's offers its low-wage workers advice on how much to tip their pool cleaners

    6 December 2013, 12:22 pm

    McDonald's is really having trouble with the first rule of holes. Facing bad publicity over an employee helpline telling workers to apply for government assistance and an employee tips website offering budget advice like selling belongings on eBay, McDonald's…
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  • Shutdown fervor starting to gel among hardline Republicans

    6 December 2013, 11:48 am

    The hints that the extremists in the House Republican caucus weren't going to along with leaderships idea to avoid talk of a shutdown before Christmas have become aconcrete threat. Leadership announced earlier this week that they were going to have a…
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  • Ted Cruz posts Mandela tribute on Facebook. His fans go crazy.

    6 December 2013, 11:12 am

    You'd think a tribute to one of the greatest leaders in modern history would be controversy-free, but no. The statement from Ted Cruz on his Facebook page:Nelson Mandela will live in history as an inspiration for defenders of liberty around the globe. He stood…
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  • Economics Daily Digest: The sky isn't falling from minimum wage hikes

    6 December 2013, 10:56 am

    By Rachel Goldfarb, originally published on Next New Deal…
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  • Cutting Social Security is not centrist, and neither is Third Way

    6 December 2013, 10:30 am

    Also not a centrist Democrat, in case you were wondering.…
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  • Drones come to Techopolis!

    6 December 2013, 9:50 am

    Between the driverless car, internet balloons and Amazon's delivery drones, it seemed like high time to take a closer look at the technology industry in a cartoon.  Now don't get me wrong, I'm all for the internet and technology-- it's how I've made my living…
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