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Daily Kos: Scenes from Ed Markey's Boston rally with President Obama www.dailykos.com 15 TWEETS
Today I had the pleasure of seeing President Obama and a host of prominent local political figures appear at a rally for Rep. Ed Markey's campaign for the U.S. Senate. A more than overflow crowd turned out at the Reggie Lewis Center at Roxbury Community C
www.dailykos.com/story/2013/06/12/1215768/-Scenes-from-Ed-Markey-s-Boston-rally-with-President-Obama
Daily Kos: The conversation we should be having about private data www.dailykos.com 4 TWEETS
Employers want a 10-year background check, a credit check, and access to your social media accounts. Phone companies want your social security number and location information. The local drug retailer wants your phone number and your address. Landlords wan
Daily Kos: International leaders demand answers about NSA spying www.dailykos.com 3 TWEETS
While some are claiming that the Obama administration's NSA spying program isn't really happening, or that if it is happening it's no big deal, or that if it is happening and it is a big deal it's necessary to protect us from the bad guys, the internation
Austerity chieftains want to give 'corporate pirates' a big tax break while chopping safety net www.dailykos.com 79 TWEETS
You remember Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles, right? Co-chairs of the National Fiscal Commission bearing their name? The austerity freaks who want to eviscerate Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and every other New Deal or Great Society program designed
Daily Kos: PRISM break - Net products that do NOT track you www.dailykos.com 5 TWEETS
Short and sweet. You say you don't like the fact that your government is tracking you, listening to you, watching you, counting your clicks and storing your data?
www.dailykos.com/story/2013/06/12/1215763/-PRIZM-break-Net-products-that-do-NOT-track-you
Daily Kos: It isn't the crime but the cover up www.dailykos.com 1 TWEETS
Not surprisingly lawlessness in one aspect of governance opens the door for additional abuse of the privilege. So we have an ambassador crusing parks for paid consorts and was caught. Instead of drumming the ambassador out of the State Department in disgr
www.dailykos.com/story/2013/06/11/1215265/-It-isn-t-the-crime-but-the-cover-up
Daily Kos: Indian Water Rights on the Klamath (BREAKING) www.dailykos.com 6 TWEETS
In Oregon, the Klamath tribes are making what is known as a “call” on their water rights for rivers flowing into Upper Klamath Lake. The tribes want to maintain river flows for fish. The tribes have the oldest water rights in the basin and therefore they
www.dailykos.com/story/2013/06/10/1215249/-Indian-Water-Rights-on-the-Klamath-BREAKING
Daily Kos: Religious “education”, tax dollars, and why Scott Walker has it all wrong www.dailykos.com 8 TWEETS
What is the difference between an education and indoctrination? If you had to sum it up in a few words, or break it down to a single concept, what would you come up with?
Daily Kos: Open thread for night owls: NSA surveillance could turn U.S. 'citizenry into a nation of sheep' www.dailykos.com 24 TWEETS
Stephen M. Walt writes—The real threat behind the NSA surveillance programs:In fact, you should be worried, but not because most of you are likely to have your privacy violated and be publicly exposed. If you're an ordinary citizen who never does anything
Daily Kos: Open thread for night owls: NSA surveillance could turn U.S. 'citizenry into a nation of sheep' www.dailykos.com 1 TWEETS
Stephen M. Walt writes—The real threat behind the NSA surveillance programs:In fact, you should be worried, but not because most of you are likely to have your privacy violated and be publicly exposed. If you're an ordinary citizen who never does anything
Daily Kos: Americans don't want food stamps cut. Too bad Congress does. www.dailykos.com 4 TWEETS
Unlike Congress, Americans would rather not see food stamps cut, according to a new poll from Huffington Post/YouGov. Forty percent of those polled said food stamps should be cut, but 24 percent wanted the amount spent to stay the same and another 24 perc
Something's wrong! www.dailykos.com 1 TWEETS
Best Underwater Pictures: Winners of 2013 Amateur Contest www.dailykos.com 35 TWEETS
A seal in a kelp forest and lionfish on the hunt are among winning pictures of the University of Miami's annual underwater-photography contest.
www.dailykos.com/story/2013/06/12/1215592/-The-coversation-we-should-be-having-about-private-data
Daily Kos: NSA leaker comes forward www.dailykos.com 24 TWEETS
The man behind the explosive leaks of the NSA's wiretapping and Internet sweeping programs has revealed himself.The individual responsible for one of the most significant leaks in US political history is Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old former technical assi
www.dailykos.com/story/2013/06/09/1214901/-NSA-leaker-comes-forward
Daily Kos: Open thread for night owls: Fifty years gone—Medgar Evers, 1925-1963 www.dailykos.com 38 TWEETS
Fifty years ago, on June 12, 1963, white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith shot civil rights leader Medgar Evers in the driveway of his home in Jackson, Mississippi. At the hospital an hour later, he was pronounced dead at age 37. I was just 16. But that k
Daily Kos: Limbaugh Gets Pwned On Morning After Pill and By Fortune 500 Company in Same Day www.dailykos.com 369 TWEETS
Not a good day for Rush Limbaugh--poor fella got kicked while he was down.
Daily Kos: Press, polls wrongly conflate Bush and Obama NSA surveillance www.dailykos.com 9 TWEETS
Press, polls wrongly conflate Bush and Obama NSA surveillance
