New York's State Assembly just passed a single-payer bill
Some outstanding news from Albany.Assembly passes #universalhealthcare#singlepayer#NYHealth bill! @nynurses@1199SEIU@PNHPNYMetro@NYHCampaignhttp://t.co/...— Richard Gottfried (@DickGottfried) May 27,...
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"Structurally deficient" Washington bridge faces emergency repairs,...
Is it time to do some nation-building at home yet?Sit down and prepare to be disgusted, but not surprised.Memorial Bridge between Washington, D.C. and Arlington National Cemetery Washington's iconic...
View ArticleWatch this video and weep for America.
Last week, I told you that Washington, D.C.'s Memorial Bridge -- a symbolic link from the Lincoln Memorial to Arlington National Cemetery and from the Northern to Southern United States -- is in a...
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Happiest Place on Earth? Disney forces laid-off employees to train low-paid...
According to a harrowing New York Times report, Disney laid off 250 employees last October, forcing them to successfully train their lower-paid replacements -- temporary migrants from India -- in order...
View ArticleIs Missouri stockpiling veterinary drugs to execute people? Perhaps.
BuzzFeed has been doing some great investigatory reporting as of late, and Chris McDaniel is out today with an outstanding article questioning how -- given increasing restrictions on procuring...
View ArticleBernie Sanders speaks out forcefully against mass incarceration and abusive...
For some strange reason, a few DC journalists seem to think that Bernie Sanders has a problem talking about race.It's bizarre, given how intimately many of our racial problems are tied to economic...
View ArticleThese three tweets perfectly describe the U.S. health care system.
It should come as no surprise that even with the Big F(ing) Deal of the Affordable Care Act, Americans continue to find health care unaffordable.But why do we have this horrible health care non-system?...
View ArticleThe difference between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton in one paragraph.
Politico is out with a great article exploring the historic relationship between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton.As you can imagine, Bernie was skeptical of a centrist Bill Clinton running for...
View ArticleCharleston terrorist: "almost didn't go through with it because everyone was...
This morning we have begun to learn just a tiny bit about what was going on inside the mind of terrorist Dylann Roof prior to his barbaric attack on Charleston's Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal...
View ArticleA tale of two King v. Burwell reactions: Hillary v. Bernie
With articles such as "When Your Health Plan’s Deductible Is So High That You Can’t Afford to See a Doctor" still being published in a post-Affordable Care Act (ACA) era, it should come as no surprise...
View ArticleClinton campaign staffers refer to luxury Brooklyn high-rise as "the dorm,"...
Regrettably, for Hillary Clinton campaign staffers forced to work for free, Hillary's campaign chose to set up shop in the least affordable housing market in the entire country.This, of course, is...
View ArticleYou WILL cry or smile: this is what fighting for regular Americans looks...
If you watch this video -- in full -- I can guarantee that you will either cry, smile, laugh -- or do all three. It is powerful.This, my friends, is what fighting for regular Americans looks like. This...
View ArticleAnthem Vice President fights smoking at home, happy to let poor die from lung...
Good health for you, but not for them.That's the message Anthem -- one of America's largest for-profit health insurance corporations -- sends when Wayne DeVeydt, Executive Vice President and Chief...
View ArticleBernie's awesome momentum in one glorious picture.
Tonight, in Madison, Wisconsin -- about 10,000 people, comprising the largest campaign event -- Republican or Democratic -- thus far, Felt. The. Bern.And this one image, I think, says it...
View ArticleWas JFK an "extremist"? Two excellent videos situate Bernie's thinking in...
Last night in Madison, Wisconsin, Bernie delivered a powerfully progressive speech to approximately 10,000 attendees -- the largest campaign event of the 2016 election thus far, Democratic or...
View ArticleHealth insurers planning huge 2016 premium increases: Bernie or Hillary best...
Newspapers across the country are reporting that health insurance premiums are set to skyrocket next year. From the New York Times:Health insurance companies around the country are seeking rate...
View ArticleThis is what democracy looks like -- massive crowds continue at Bernie's...
Democratic Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders packed the house in Madison, Wisconsin -- and, yes, it looks like he did the same this evening in Portland, Maine.The campaign reported that about 7,500...
View ArticleDonald Trump: "We need, as a nation, to reexamine the single-payer plan."...
When Senator Claire McCaskill attacked Bernie Sanders several weeks ago on MSNBC's Morning Joe, one of her points was that the United States does not support Medicare-for-all. In a similar vein to that...
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Georgia's flag is the real "stars and bars." It is the national flag of the...
When most people hear someone utter the words "stars and bars" they probably think of this. The truth is, however, that the "stars and bars" refers to the official flag of the Confederacy (i.e. the...
View ArticleHilarious Change.org petition of wealthy DC gentrifiers opposing new 7-11...
Like San Francisco and other coastal cities full of so-called highly-educated professionals, Washington, D.C. is experiencing profound socio-economic change, largely due to the forces of gentrification...
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