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Fuck, I hate Hillary Clinton.

 

Literally the most expressive I've ever seen him

 

The NY Times has been in Hillary's pocket shamelessly throughout the entire primary/her recent career. I mean...they literally endorsed her as an organization.

 

Disagree?

 

Yes. Maureen Dowd has been the political desk North Star for quite a while now. The idea that the Times is in Hillary's pocket is comically wrong. There's been actual studies on this over the past few years ... Rosen and Ornstein have documented it in pretty lengthy fashion. And I subscribe to the Times.

 

White House, SXSW Throwing One-Day Festival | Pitchfork

 

EXCLUSIVE: Donald Trump made millions from Saudi government

 

lol move over, Tillich!

 

A revolution delayed: Young people trend left, but stay home on Election Day - Salon.com

Vote, young people, vote.

 

Is Rudy Giuliani Losing His Mind?

 

Excellent article:

"The power of local governments remains limited and subordinated by a century-old legal doctrine that gives state legislatures unbounded power to constrict local authority.

As a result, local citizens fighting to govern employers and landlords, to halt climate change–inducing extraction, to safeguard refugees, protect workers, stop pipelines, protect natural ecosystems, and build alternatives locally, find they don’t have the legal right to do so. Alternatively, if they happen to have the power to legislate, when they exercise it, states are able to quickly preempt them.

Gentrification is a clear example. Hard-hitting analyses have driven home the devastating impact of gentrification on poor and working class communities of color, yet far less attention has been paid to the fact that Brooklyn’s community boards or Los Angeles’s neighborhood associations or countless other local governing bodies have no power to govern development.

Or take minimum wage. The Left supports a fifteen-dollar minimum wage, but we stop short of addressing how cities can actually achieve this goal when Denver, Oklahoma City, Kansas City, New York City and thousands of other cities are legally prohibited from raising the minimum wage.

The same goes for fossil-fuel extraction — local communities like Broadview, Ohio and Denton, Texas have fought to ban fracking but neither have the democratic authority to say “no” to extraction — and refugee support — where states use their power to bar local governments from increasing protections for refugees. The Left calls for the municipalization of utilities, but doesn’t prioritize localities’ power to seize private corporate property."

Democracy at Every Level | Jacobin

 

Absolutely. Working in environmental law I see this constantly.

 

Wayne Barrett: Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani, peas in a pod

 

Tories refused to build social housing because it would 'create Labour voters', Nick Clegg says

Hah

 

AP: Greg Abbott Given $35K Campaign Donation by Trump after Trump University Probe Dropped

 

just like every white person who commits a crime, he must have a mental issue

FYI the article is great and informative, I just think headlines like that need to stop, I prefer my version a lot better:

"Rudy Giuliani is a fucking racist dick. that's all."