Tomorrow: Protest Pr*sident Trump's Trip to Utah to Reduce Size of Important...
Less than one year ago, President Barack Obama designated two areas in Utah and Nevada as national monuments:Today, I am designating two new national monuments in the desert landscapes of southeastern...
View ArticleCommunity: California Wildfires Check-In (Updated)
It’s after midnight here on the East Coast, but I cannot sleep. I remember so well the kindness and comfort this community offered in 2007, when my family had to flee their home during the Witch Fire....
View ArticleCommunity: California Wildfires Check-In (2)
It is bleak and smoky and hot and frightening in Southern California. Thousands of people have been forced to evacuate their homes; animals have burned to death. And our friends need us. California...
View ArticleCommunity: California Wildfires Check-In (3)
It is bleak and smoky and hot and frightening in Southern California. Tens of thousands of people have been forced to evacuate their homes; animals have burned to death. And our friends need us....
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22 Million Californians in Danger; 6 Major Wildfires; Historic Santa Ana...
There are now six major wildfires burning in Southern California. The National Weather Service has had to add a new color to its wind charts — PURPLE — to denote the strength of the Santa Ana winds...
View ArticleSouthern California is Still On Fire. Community Check-In (4) and Updates.
Southern California Community Members: We are here with you! Please check in at the second comment to let us know that you are safe. Let us know if we can help. Firefighters hoped to make more...
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Community: California Wildfires Check-In (5); Santa Barbara Threatened;...
The horrifying fires in Southern California continue to rage. Our community stands with our community members who are affected. Please check in at the second comment to let us know that you safe and...
View ArticleNoted Left-Wing Blog USA Today Scorches Occupant In Editorial
It’s been an amazing night for Democrats and for women! Cheering! And now there’s more.USA Today tonight posted this editorial.Quote of the day:A president who would all but call Sen. Kirsten...
View ArticleCan We Get This Terrific Young Progressive Elected in Wisconsin? We Sure Can!...
As we saw in Alabama last night: EVERY ELECTION MATTERS!Meet Greta Neubauer, an amazing young progressive who is running for the 66th Assembly District in Wisconsin. I support Greta Neubauer and you...
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It Is December 14th: The Saddest Anniversary. And A Profoundly Shameful Day...
It is now December 14th, again. It is, again, the saddest anniversary. It is now the fifth anniversary of a horror that our Congress has done nothing about. Absolutely nothing. This is a day when...
View ArticleProgressive Greta Neubauer Wins Seat in Wisconsin Assembly in Special Election!
Democrats are building from the bottom up, and it has been a fantastic day for great candidates in State House races in both Virginia and now Wisconsin!As a Virginian, I was so excited to see the...
View ArticleChristmas Eve in America 2017
Christmas Eve has been for all the years I can remember my favorite day of the year. I love the magic of Christmas — the generosity, good will and joy it brings. Tonight, I am fending off despair.I...
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This Week in the War on Women: New Year Edition
The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation, because in the degradation of women, the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source. ~ Lucretia MottWe have the power and duty...
View ArticlePuerto Rico: 106 Days Without Power (In Honor of My Dad)
On New Year’s Eve, Denise Oliver Velez wrote:I’m not in the habit of making New Year’s resolutions, however this year I’ll make an exception. I resolve to continue shouting, writing, tweeting, calling...
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Felon Dinesh D'Souza Appropriates Military Widow's Photo Without Permission....
This is beyond disgusting.Army Sgt. 1st Class Ofren Arrechaga, 28, of Hialeah, Florida — a member of the 101st Airborne Division — was killed in Afghanistan on March 29, 2011, while supporting...
View ArticleBreaking: 7.6 Magnitude Earthquake Off Coast of Honduras; Tsunami Warnings...
(Updating as quickly as news comes in. Other Caribbean Islands and Honduras also threatened.)NB: In Comments, terrypinder notes that the wave should be less than 1 foot by the time it reaches Puerto...
View ArticleIn Puerto Rico: Federal Incompetence and Indifference; Despair (Day 115)
The humanitarian disaster faced by Americans in Puerto Rico is now one-third as long as the entire mal-administration of the so-called Pr*sident. Their suffering— like his indifference and purposeful...
View ArticleMillions of Patriotic Americans March: Saturday, January 20, 2018 (Photos and...
From John Lewis:xThere is no sound more powerful than the marching feet of a determined people. #goodtroubleâ John Lewis (@repjohnlewis) January 20, 2018Scenes From Throughout the Country:xLet's...
View ArticleRep. Joseph P. Kennedy III to Deliver Democratic Response to SOTU
Representative Joseph P. Kennedy III, one of the Democratic Party’s rising political stars, has been tapped by top party leaders to deliver the official Democratic response to President Trump’s State...
View Article"Life" After Deportation (Not "Deportation" But "Exile")
Eleven days ago, this:His arms wrapped around his wife and two teenage children, Jorge Garcia's eyes welled up Monday morning as he looked into their eyes one last time near the entrance to the airport...
View ArticleThis Week in the War on Women
We stand in some pretty awesome shoes.xMs. Ruby Bridges, She was the first African-American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans...
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Dear Hope Hicks
You need to leave him now. I’m not talking about the Occupant (although you should do that, too). I’m talking about Rob Porter. Various accounts I’ve seen say that you are dating him. I normally do...
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This Week in the War on Women.
One hundred and five years ago today, on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration, the first women’s march took place in Washington, D.C. It was organized by Alice Paul.Alice Paul (Library of...
View ArticleLocal Journalist Takes On NYT’s Story About Entitled White Guy’s Decision to...
If you missed this dribble from The New York Times this morning, consider yourself thankful. I live with my Mom and she’s a newspaper subscriber and the Times and the Washington Post arrive at the door...
View ArticleWhat's That Sound? Amazing Teens Reshaping the Political Conversation of Our...
xxYouTube VideoI am the generation of their grandparents. And I could not possibly be more proud of this generation of activists. They have taken a moment in time — a shocking, horrific moment in time...
View ArticleMillions Marched. And Today Parkland Students Launched A Nationwide Call For...
At 6 p.m. today, David Hogg, one of the organizers of #MarchForOurLives tweeted the news about their new effort to keep the movement going:xGot it! Everyone should call for a town hall with their...
View ArticleIn Extraordinary NYT OP-ED, MSD Senior Isabelle Robinson Speaks Truth About...
MSD Senior Isabelle Robinson has written an extraordinary Op-Ed for The New York Times. Its title: I Tried to Befriend Nikolas Cruz. He Still Killed My Friends.My first interaction with Nikolas Cruz...
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May 4, 1970: 48 Years. Never Forget.
I was 13. I was doing my homework and listening to the radio that afternoon. The small suburban village outside of NYC in which I grew up — a once Republican stronghold — had been ripped apart two...
View ArticleReport: Multiple People Shot In Clayton County, GA Following Graduation...
Update: This seems to be another sad story about a country where too many people have too many guns and too many people decide to settle arguments with weapons rather than words. On a day when nine...
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Northern Virginia is FIRED UP to Flip VA-10 to Jennifer Wexton and Re-Elect...
Northern Virginia Democrats were out in force today to flip the VA-10 to Jennifer Wexton and re-elect Senator Tim Kaine! We are fired up!Thank you to everyone who showed up!Why this photo? These are...
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11-11-18 Ypres: "All that was left" Were Burned Trees. My Grandfather's...
My grandfather served as a pilot in the USMC in World War I. He wore Wings #12.My grandfather was a son of privilege. He grew up, the third of six children (all four boys graduated from Ivy League...
View ArticleThere Is No "Sanity Clause"
A 115-mile-long contract. xI am in the Oval Office & just gave out a 115 mile long contract for another large section of the Wall in Texas. We are already building and renovating many miles of...
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This Week in the War on Women: Groundhog Day
This was supposed to have been my birthday. It is also the 68th anniversary of the day a nervous young USN Ensign (home on shore leave) proposed to a college senior with whom he had been on three...
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This Week In The War On Women: We Will Not Be Silent
On this penultimate day of Women’s History Month, I celebrate the telling of our stories. This is, to me, the essence of the importance of Women’s History Month. For millennia, our stories, the...
View ArticleThis Week in the War on Women: Mother's Day in Gilead
What we are watching is the sputtering outrage of the dying patriarchy. The gored oxen of cisgendered straight white entitled Republican men — emboldened by the defeat of Hillary Clinton and the...
View ArticleKamala2020: Kamala Harris For The People Is Not Just A Slogan
xYouTube VideoKamala Harris For The People — it’s not just a slogan; it’s who she is! It was just a couple blocks from this very spot that nearly 30 years ago as a young district attorney I walked into...
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Kamala2020: The Personal IS Political
I asked to host the diary today because my wonderful Mom taught me to look forward, not back, and this is the first anniversary of the day she got sick and I needed to heed her lesson.On Friday,...
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#Kamala2020 ~ Bold and Inspirational! The Leader We Need.
Yesterday, in California:Sen. Kamala Harris, the state’s junior senator and a presidential contestant, set the fist-shaking tone early on.“Democrats, we have a fight on our hands,” she said, “and it’s...
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A Beach Awash In "Courage and Horror."
“It extends in a thin little line, just like a high-water mark, for miles along the beach...Here in a jumbled row for mile on mile are soldiers’ packs. Here are socks and shoe polish, sewing kits,...
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Kamala2020 ~ A Lifetime of Fearless Leadership! A Big Night in South Carolina!
Kamala Harris’s fearlessness and leadership in the Senate and on the campaign trail are nothing new. They are who she is.Kamala Harris has never rested on the sidelines.Protesting injustice by taking...
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A Wave of Protest From Sea to Shining Sea: #LightsForLiberty
Across the United States tonight, Americans stood with #LightsForLiberty and called to #CloseTheCamps.Consider this: This movement was organized just three weeks ago.In New York City at Foley...
View ArticleThis Week in The War on Women: Our Bodies, Their Shame
So, my very first real job was as a copygirl at a great metropolitan newspaper at which I hoped to become a reporter. Nearly everyone who started at the great metropolitan newspaper in those days began...
View Article#Kamala2020: “Every day in the life of someone who's being denied justice is...
At the #EqualityJusticeForum on Thursday night, Kamala Harris introduced herself to a cheering audience by saying, “And my pronouns are she, her, and hers.”What she didn’t have to add, either there or...
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This Week in the War on Women: A Century Later, Still So Much To Do
I have always loved to vote. There is something deeply satisfying about walking into that booth (or sitting down at that table with the cardboard shield) and ticking boxes for candidates I support. I...
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Kamala2020: Nationwide Day of Action for Kamala Harris!
I wasn’t around much last weekend, because I was in Stafford, Virginia and Fredericksburg, Virginia (roughly fifty miles south of where I live) canvassing and helping to Get Out The Vote in what turned...
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Hundreds of Koalas Feared Dead as Wildfires Destroy Australian Nature Preserve
It has been a horrific seven days for the struggling koala population of New South Wales. Three hundred or more koalas are feared dead as deadly wildfires torched an important colony. xAustralian...
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#Kamala2020: RESPECT Is On The Ballot
xWhen I attend/volunteer events parallel to other campaigns, IâÂÂve noticed KamalaâÂÂs camp is always the most diverse: old/young, black/brown/Asian/white, hetero/queer, people with disabilities,...
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IGTNT: At Pensacola NAS, "Exceptional Heroism and Bravery In the Face of Evil."
Every morning and every night, the American, Navy and Marine Corps flags are raised and lowered at Naval Air Station Pensacola.As a rule, anyone who is on base and in uniform at the time the colors are...
View Article#ImpeachmentEve Protests Light Up Night Sky Across America
New York CityxHere is the best video yet of the thousands (prob well over 10k) in Times Square. #ImpeachmentEvepic.twitter.com/6N5KUrf24eâ Scott Dworkin (@funder) December 18, 2019Portland,...
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This Week in The War on Women: Pandemic Violence.
My wedding anniversary (which I try to forget but is branded into my brain) was last month, and when it rolled around this year, all I could think was how damn grateful I was that I am divorced from my...
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