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edkohler:

spiegelman:

barackobama:

An hour and twenty minutes of the First Lady hugging people. You’re welcome.

THIS IS INSANE

Try to watch 5 minutes of this starting at around 36 minutes. The streams of people who are so proud to get to meet Michelle Obama is overwhelming. At 53 minutes, the group of girls is great awesome too.

OMG

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Supporters of Minnesota’s voter ID amendment posted this illustration of who they’re protecting us against.

Supporters of Minnesota’s voter ID amendment posted this illustration of who they’re protecting us against.

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Every political question is a battle between winners and losers, every last one. And in this battle, you want me to rush to the aid of someone like Kim Dotcom? No thanks. The information is never free. Somebody gets paid. The question is, which soulless millionaires and corporations do you want to pay?
Freddie deBoer has another take on SOPA.
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wr3n: Welcoming the RNC 08/08 February 7th, 2012 is caucus night in Minnesota. Find your caucus precinct location for all political parties here. Never caucused before? Just show up. Grass roots participation starts at the caucus. I’ve been around politics my whole life but I’m not sure I’ve ever caucused. Tonight’s the night!

wr3n:

Welcoming the RNC 08/08

February 7th, 2012 is caucus night in Minnesota. Find your caucus precinct location for all political parties here. Never caucused before? Just show up. Grass roots participation starts at the caucus.

I’ve been around politics my whole life but I’m not sure I’ve ever caucused. Tonight’s the night!

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Add up the wealth of the last eight presidents, from Richard Nixon to Barack Obama. Then double that number. Now you’re in Romney territory.
Connie Cass, “Romney would rank among richest presidents ever”
(via Ezra Klein)
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’Weird’ is the word I hear most from Republicans who have worked with him. Scott Klug, a former Republican House member from Wisconsin, who hasn’t endorsed anyone yet, says ‘Newt has ten ideas a day – two of them are good, six are weird and two are very weird.’
Robert Reich,
“Don’t wish for a Newt nomination”
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Well, it had to happen eventually: The Strib has dredged up Mitt Romney’s mid-’90s novelty hit.

Well, it had to happen eventually: The Strib has dredged up Mitt Romney’s mid-’90s novelty hit.

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The greengrocer had to put the slogan in his window, therefore, not in the hope that someone might read it or be persuaded by it, but to contribute, along with thousands of other slogans, to the panorama that everyone is very much aware of. This panorama, of course, has a subliminal meaning as well: it reminds people where they are living and what is expected of them. It tells them what everyone else is doing, and indicates to them what they must do as well, if they don’t want to be excluded, to fall into isolation, alienate themselves from society, break the rules of the game, and risk the loss of their peace and tranquility and security….
Vaclav Havel, “The Power of the Powerless”
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For Their Own Good

A historical perspective on Newt Gingrich’s embrace of child labor.

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The Rick Santorum that America doesn't know

Will Bunch argues that Santorum’s “Google problem” is a diversion from real problems with his political career and personal ethics, of which he provides a guided tour. Among the least of his offenses: “a so-called ‘leadership PAC’ created by Santorum that was supposed to fund other Republicans instead seemed to mostly pay for the lifestyle of Santorum and those around him… including 66 trips to the Starbucks in Santorum’s then hometown of Leesburg, Va., multiple fast-food outings and expenditures at Wal-Mart, Target and Giant supermarkets.”

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