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Students Fight Back Against Voter ID Law That Allows Gun Licenses But Bans Student IDs
The Nashville Student Organizing Committee and a group of nine students from Fisk University and Tennessee State University, both historically black colleges, filed a lawsuit in early March against the state, alleging that excluding student IDs from the acceptable...
#republicansbelike
Congressional #Republicans who are trying to blow up US-European diplomacy with Iran would desperately like Americans to believe that they have some alternative besides war to the administration's multilateral efforts to reach a diplomatic agreement with Iran. If any...
“The American Promise” — LBJ’s Finest Hour
https://youtu.be/5NvPhiuGZ6I Fifty years ago, on March 7, 1965, civil rights activists, demonstrating for voting rights, were savagely attacked by Alabama state troopers and vigilantes as they tried to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge. That day became known as “Bloody...
The #GOP takes it a letter too far
Republicans in the mold of Roger B. Taney https://www.facebook.com/MadisonDemocrats/posts/818168374925582
Key Obama Adviser: “There’s Never Been a Time When We’ve Taken Progressive Action and Regretted It”
Whenever we contemplate bold progressive action, whether that’s the president's endorsement of marriage equality, or coming out strong on power-plant rules to reduce current pollution, on immigration, on net neutrality, you get a lot of hemming and hawing in advance...
Condemn the gang of #47Traitors
Tell Democratic leaders in the Senate to put forward a resolution condemning in the strongest possible terms the 47 Republican senators who are endangering national security to damage the presidency. https://www.facebook.com/MadisonDemocrats/posts/817383248337428
Truthdigger of the Week: Rabbi Michael Lerner
Netanyahu’s address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday was arranged by House Speaker John Boehner, a Republican, without the agreement or cooperation of the White House. The day before the speech, Rabbi Lerner and Tikkun ran a full-page ad in The New York Times...
Because nothing’s funnier than trying to blow up high-stakes multilateral diplomatic talks during crunch time!
Relax, America, we were only kidding with that letter. It’s the latest and perhaps most damaging move yet from Republicans on the Hill to piss off the Democrats who, not so long ago, were interested in helping them carry out AIPAC’s wish to blow up nuclear...
MOAR WAR!
Senate #Republicans sidestep Barack Obama and send a letter to Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warning him not to strike a nuclear deal with the president. https://www.facebook.com/MadisonDemocrats/posts/816024408473312 WE PETITION THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION to...
Why the Right Hates American History
https://www.facebook.com/MadisonDemocrats/posts/815163998559353
