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[edit] September 2016

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2The far-right, anti-immigrant AfD successfully campaigned against the German government's refugee policy yielding yet another frightening and disappointingly good state election result (ca. 22% of the vote) beating the federally ruling Christian Democrats to a paltry third place in Angela Merkel's home state which incidentally only has 3.7% non-German residents and during 2015 had no high-profile crimes by asylum seekers but seven arson attempts at refugee shelters.
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5Meet Trump's new deputy campaign manager David Bossie.
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12SCOTUS upholds lower court overturning NC Voter ID law in a deadlocked ruling; this empowers lower courts and state Supreme Courts should a replay of Bush v. Gore be in the cards this November.
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7After Gabon's election violence erupts as incumbent Ali Bongo is named the victor.
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16Members of Trump's Hispanic advisory board are starting to bail on his campaign after his latest hard-line speech.
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10Conservative media alliances are breaking apart over Trump
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14After visiting with the president of Mexico, who told him there was no way Mexico was paying for his planned wall, Trump doubles down and promises to build a "tall, powerful, beautiful" border wall, make Mexico pay for it, and bar immigration from Syria and Libya.

[edit] August 2016

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12Clinton has given a speech in Ohio about American exceptionalism with a former Dubya official. This comes after more neocons and corporations jump on the bandwagon.
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7Angela Corey, the Florida State Attorney who oversaw Trayvon Martin & Marissa Alexander cases, has lost her primary.
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12The Supreme Court won't reinstate North Carolina's voter ID laws.
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11Meet the man siphoning money from Donald Trump.
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5Fucking damn. CLP wipe out in NT, ALP landslide. Only have one seat, leading in one in doubt seat. Giles is even losing, albeit by 11 votes, but there's a 20% swing there. One seat has a swing of 39% away from the CLP.
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7FBI says foreign hackers penetrated state election systems. (Autoplay video)
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16Transcript of Hillary Clinton's speech on the Alt Right (it's mostly about just Trump)
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10Poll commissioned by South Carolina Democratic Party shows Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump tied in South Carolina if you take it as a four-way race. Yes, tied.
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10The Associated Press released an analysis of Clinton's meetings while Secretary of State that appears to be shoddy and misleading. The Clinton campaign asked the AP to revise or delete a Twitter post about the story, but the AP has refused.
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13Hillary Clinton has criticized for-profit colleges, while Bill Clinton has earned millions from a position at the world's largest for-profit education company.
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11Trump is between a rock and a hard place, trying to "pivot" on immigration to appear less racist without losing the support of his xenophobic base.
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13Trump: The celebrities supporting Clinton? They're sixes at best!
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11Robert and Rebekah Mercer, major funders of the Trump campaign and Breitbart, are now funding John McCain's Republican primary challenger.
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11Michele Bachmann is advising Trump on foreign policy. Yes, you read that correctly.
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4Nigel Farage to speak at a Trump rally. Ray Kurzweil was right — the singularity is near, and it's made entirely of stupid!
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11How to electorally shoot yourself in the foot: Tom Tancredo pens a Breitbart op-ed criticizing Mormons for their pro-immigrant stance. All True Christians™ know you're not supposed to take all that "love thy neighbor" claptrap seriously!
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6Trump is already helping Putin consolidate control of Ukraine.
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14Right-wing talk radio host Charlie Sykes, who has been vocally anti-Trump, is starting to realize how people like him helped fuel Trump's rise.
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10How Trump Exposed America’s White Identity Crisis.
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8Trump's real endgame: A white nationalist media empire?
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8Ukrainian-Americans are surprisingly not thrilled about Trump.
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5The lawyer who represented Hulk Hogan in his lawsuit against Gawker is now representing Melania Trump and threatening to sue publications. (More details.)
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10Sean Hannity is advising Trump's campaign. I'm sure Trump will condemn this example of the crooked media playing favorites any day now.
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12In the most shocking news of all time, many Trump campaign staffers' personal public Internet posts contain bigotry, conspiracy theories, and musings about armed rebellion.
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3Giuliani: Clinton's health is terrible! Look it up on the Internet!
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10Allegedly as far back as 2011, Donald Trump and the chief executive at NBC/Universal discussed a Trump run for POTUS so he could continue to star in The Apprentice from inside the White House.
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3The secret donor of the "Children of Israel" ghost corporation funding GOP Super PACs.
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11How Breitbart turned on Ted Cruz.
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13Surprising no one, House Republicans plan to keep alleging that Clinton committed perjury. Get ready for them to start impeachment proceedings on her first day in office if they keep the House.
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13Trump might want to get the message about his "pivot" to his security staff, because they seem to keep kicking non-whites out of his rallies.
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5Trump campaign produces first general election ad. Summary: IMMIGRANTS WILL KILL YOUR FAMILY!!! The ad cites white supremacist John Tanton's Center for Immigration Studies.
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8Trump to black voters: "What do you have to lose?" Rejected slogans: "C'mon, it'll be fun!", "You don't want people to think you're a wuss, do ya?", and "All the cool kids are doing it!"
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12Trump's 'campaign' chairman Paul Manafort quits.
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10The North Carolina Republican Party continues to not be a fan of early voting, especially on Sundays and at college campuses for some reason undoubtedly rooted in fiscal conservatism. Amusingly this touches off another family spat.
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10Three people have accused one of Trump's foreign policy advisers, Joseph Schmitz, of anti-Semitic statements and actions while he served as Defense Department inspector general. Also two others claim he called Obama a Communist in a 2015 speech. Another adviser with ties to Gazprom has praised Putin and his allies and criticized U.S. policy towards Russia.
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10The far-right fever swamps are continuing to flog conspiracy theories about Clinton's health. Apparently this was started by the respected news sources National Enquirer and Infowars. Your 2016 U.S. conservative media food chain: Infowars/National Enquirer -> Breitbart/Fox News -> Trump's mouth. Newt Gingrich of all people says on Fox News that this is nonsense.
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6Hillary Clinton told the FBI she was advised by Colin Powell to use a private e-mail for non-classified communications.
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10Former DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz accidentally admits she played a role in pushing for Hillary Clinton's nomination.
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15 A CNN news anchor points out that Donald Trump is losing in all the polls. In response, his lawyer asks, "Says who?"
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18Does anyone remember that time when conservatives attacked Obama for eating a hot dog with mustard? Now, the alt-right is attacking Hillary for, wait for it... sitting on stools.
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15Michael Moore says Trump never wanted to be president, it started as a lark for a payraise from NBC.
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17Bringing his pivot round 360 degrees, Trump appoints Breitbart.com head Stephen Bannon to run his campaign.
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11Disagreeing with the elite consensus on trade, immigration, or foreign policy does not make one a Trump "enabler".
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6"This isn't the year for ideological purity. Don't vote for Jill Stein."
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14Trump campaign brings on board both Roger Ailes and a Breitbart executive. Insert joke here.
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9Hillary Clinton has picked former Colorado Democratic Senator and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to be the chair of her presidential transition team. As interior secretary, he opened the Arctic Ocean for oil drilling, and oversaw the botched response to the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico; he has also strongly supported the TPP.
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30Sick of these liberal media Shillary lies from pollsters, Breitbart runs its own poll, so there! ... Clinton comes out five points ahead of Trump.
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17You might think the Libertarian Party ticket would be getting more attention from anti-Trump Republicans, but it turns out they can't get past Johnson's love of the devil's lettuce. Something something cutting off your nose to spite your face.
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8Clinton is starting to run away with the election, with NBC News's poll tracking currently putting her at 283 electoral votes. Note that's without Ohio or Florida.
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24Donald Trump's campaign staffing choices get even more horrifying, as more Russian connections are put out in the open.
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6Guccifer 2.0 has doxed 200 Democratic House members in his latest datadump. In response, both Twitter (Autoplay video) and Wordpress have blocked him
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8The feminist criticism of Hillary Clinton.
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-12The GOP has their perfect candidate, and her name is Hillary Clinton, the true conservative of 2016. This is why the "Hillary consensus" is damaging the Left. (Autoplay video)
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3Hillary Clinton is bragging about being endorsed by John Negroponte, the US ambassador who turned Honduras into a training ground for the Contras. Staff close to her campaign say that they are encouraging Condoleezza Rice, James Baker, George Shultz and Henry Kissinger to endorse her.
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14A spokesperson for the Trump campaign gives proof for being brainless detached from reality claiming that Obama started the Afghan War, a conflict which was well into its eighth year when he took office in 2009.
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15Hillary Clinton continues to do increasingly well in the polls.
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13The Labour Party has won its appeal against the leader of the Labour Party and can stop Labour Party members voting in Labour Party elections, due to fears that the Labour Party has been infiltrated by supporters of the leader of the Labour Party.
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18In two interviews (some analysis), Trump basically confirms what many have suspected: he thinks he's winning because he has big crowds at his rallies, and he doesn't really care whether he wins the election. The RNC is starting to make plans to "cut him loose" and try to save what they can.
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11Two members of the Kennedy family condemn Trump in op-ed for his "Second Amendment" remarks, as does Ronald Reagan's daughter.
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17Trump: "Obama is the founder of ISIS." Supporter Hugh Hewitt hilariously tries to walk him back to something resembling sanity ("Obama lost the peace in Iraq") but Trump rebuffs him and doubles down on his exact statement (because he's obviously dog whistling to the far right that Obama is a Muslim who hates America).
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14Trump's economic adviser says that "Capitalism is more important than democracy".
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9New State Department emails appear to show that Clinton Foundation donors called in favors during Clinton's tenure.
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0Donald Trump's Second Amendment comments weren't criminal.
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11Trump is in fourth place among black voters.
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14Poll shows that birtherism continues to flourish, with only 27% of Republican respondents agreeing that Obama was born in the U.S. Moreover, the responses were uncorrelated with knowledge about the U.S. political system; i.e., more knowledgeable Republicans were just as likely to not believe Obama was born in the U.S.
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14According to a new poll, one in five registered Republicans want Trump to drop out of the race.
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17Trump campaign's spending so far on general election ads: $0. But why waste money on ads when you're a winner who wins all the time?
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24Donald Trump totally didn't just call for the assassination of Hillary Clinton. He just advocated "second-amendment remedies" to stop her.
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13The father of the Orlando shooter showed up at a Hilary Clinton rally. In before Trump makes a bad comment.
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12Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine says she won't support Trump. She was last reelected in 2014 and is not up for reelection until 2020.
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11Far-right Internet scream chambers' latest conspiracy theory is about Hillary's supposedly terrible health being covered up. Those exposing The Truth include Gamergate "lawyer" Mike Cernovich and, of all people, Martin Shkreli (yes, the douchebag pharma CEO).
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14The "Never Trump" movement appears to have finally talked someone into running: Republican Evan McMullin launches Presidential campaign as an independent.
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1050 high-ranking Republican national security officials sign anti-Trump letter.
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12Over 100 Americans are rich enough to buy the whole presidential election.
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13The Trumps made their fortune by exploiting their workers, the state, and the commons. Trump also doomed Atlantic City by turning it into a personal profit generator.
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10Trump’s economic advisers are also his biggest donors, in what I'm sure is a total coincidence. Gee, I wonder what their "advice" is.
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7Scott Rigell (R-VA) endorses the Libertarian Party ticket, becoming the first member of Congress to do so. (He's also retiring at the end of this term.)
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6Trump got around to endorsing Paul Ryan, John McCain, and Kelly Ayotte on Friday, though other Republican candidates continue attempting to triangulate around Trump.
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21The Tangerine Terror has a new endorsement... from the American Nazi Party.
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9 The ANC got shellacked (autoplay video) in the local and regional elections in South Africa, the Democratic Alliance made significant gains across the board. However, the 8 percent nationwide for the batshit insane "Economic Freedom Fighters" of Julius Malema is cause for worry.
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12Idiotic Indiana governor Mike Pence, Trump's VP pick, argued against evolution in Congress because it is just a theory. He then predicted that through further scientific study, the truth of his faith will be revealed.
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16Republicans usually have the military and veteran vote in the bag. But then Trump opened his mouth.
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15Trump’s poll numbers are so bad his supporters are making up new ones.
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7New Australian One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts' antisemitic sovereign citizen crankery makes the Canberra Times. The guy was too conspiracist for Andrew Bolt.
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22Bernie Sanders wrote an OpEd for the Los Angeles Times: "I support Hillary Clinton. So should everyone who voted for me"
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9A pro-fracking businessman hosts a fundraiser for Clinton in Colorado (Autoplay video)
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13The Intercept has created a four part series on how money from abroad has entered the 2016 presidential election thanks to Citizens United.
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14Tea Party Republicans lose to moderates in Kansas's state primary elections.
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4 Apparently Jill Stein of the Green Party has chosen her running mate (The Young Turks). The fact that it took us two days to notice should tell you something. He seems even kookier than she is.
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10Reince Priebus, Newt Gingrich and Rudy Giuliani are preparing an intervention with Trump. (Oh, you're going to confront a narcissist and challenge their self-image? We'll go make popcorn.)
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8Australia's new far-right One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts is not just a climate crank, he's into Freeman on the Land woo. (Original PDF from his climate crank site. He actually sent this to the Prime Minister at the time.)
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15North Dakota's voter ID law has been struck down for being discriminatory against Native Americans.
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9Trump wants to talk to Bill Gates to see how we can close that Internet up. (Bill is not a fan.)
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14Trump: "If we have [nuclear weapons], why can't we use them?"
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9Today's Trump Topics: Trump supporters are hitting the ground to support Paul Ryan's primary challenger, Tea Party lunatic Paul Nehlen, after Trump flipped Ryan the bird and refused to endorse him. Meanwhile, Pence endorsed Ryan and McCain. So much for working together. GOP insiders are starting to freak out, with rumors of a planned "intervention" (kinda late now, guys). Trump campaign spokesperson: Obama and Hillary are responsible for Khan's death! Oh wait, sorry, just Hillary. Corey Lewandowski: hey, has anyone been talking lately about how Obama is a secret Kenyan Muslim? So a pretty normal 24 hours of Trump then.
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6House Freedom Caucus member Tim Huelskamp of Kansas loses his primary after being deep-sixed by the GOP House leadership, and now Freedom Caucus members are angry. (Well, angrier.)
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16Hillary gets her first endorsement from a Republican member of Congress, Richard Hanna (R-NY). (He's retiring, so he doesn't have to worry about getting primaried.)
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4Election Update: Is Clinton’s Lead A Bounce Or A New Equilibrium? (Fivethirtyeight)
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15Trump: hey ladies, if you're being sexually harassed, you should know to keep your mouth shut. And find a new company. And a new career.
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16Trump gets the excuses ready well ahead of time: he's "afraid" the election "is about to be rigged".
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10Sally Bradshaw, one of the authors of the post-2012 GOP "autopsy", jumps the GOP ship.
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13Trumpster fire, post-DNC edition: Trump responds to the Khan family's appearance with insinuations about radical Islam and claims he's made just as many sacrifices as they have. 17 Gold Star families demand an apology, the VFW condemns Trump, and poor old McCain, Ryan, and friends (even Pence!) once again attempt to condemn Trump while simultaneously continuing to support him. Oh, and Roger Stone and Al Baldasaro (the Trump campaign adviser who wants Hillary executed for treason) come right out and say on Twitter that the Khans are Muslim Brotherhood sleeper agents, citing nutjob Theodore Shoebat.
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11What we know about Donald Trump and his taxes so far from the '80s and '90s. Either he's bad at record-keeping or he tried to commit tax fraud several times. Also he apparently forged his accountant's signature on a return (don't worry; it's only a crime when poor people do it).
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10Clinton's possible court shortlist emerges.
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6I'm not with her because I am a superpredator.

[edit] July 2016

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6Support for Scottish independence hasn't increased since Brexit.
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4Why Hillary's nomination is important even though you may disagree with her.
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9Tom Donohue and Jennifer Pierotti, two lobbyists at the Chamber of Commerce, believe Hillary Clinton will support the TPP.
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7Hillary Clinton's campaign was also hacked during the cyberattack against the Democrats.
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8Clinton's Vice-Presidential pick Tim Kaine is against repealing the Hyde amendment.
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21A federal appeals court has struck down North Carolina's voter ID law.
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15Clintonite Democrats open the campaign funding floodgates to lobbyists.
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17Jill Stein makes a mockery of her professional title by suggesting "people have real questions" about vaccines.
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11Leon Panetta was heckled by anti-war protestors at the Democratic convention.
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18Trump Campaign will not release Trump's taxes (Autoplay video). This makes him the first major party nominee to not release his tax returns since Tricky Dick.
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13There is nothing unprecedented about the Russians hacking the DNC.
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-4The DNC is one big corporate bribe.
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8Give Bernie's distraught supporters a break.
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14Dem convention chaos: Yes, Sanders's delegates staged a walkout after Clinton became the nominee. No, Nina Turner wasn't ejected but she was mistreated. No, this is not 1968 all over again.
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21Feelings trump facts at the Republican ultraNationalist Convention. Surprise!
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13Samantha Bee on the Twilight of the gods GOP.
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8Hillary Clinton secures the Democratic nomination.
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17George Will, long time GOP columnist, suggests Trump is hiding his tax returns so as not to reveal how much he owes Russian oligarchs and bankers.
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11The DNC has voted to keep the superdelegates but will reduce their independence.
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19Leaked DNC emails reveal the inner workings of the party’s finance operation.
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13Trump's convention speech previewed the future of fascism.
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21Mounting evidence that Russia was behind the DNC hack, and they're doing it specifically to help Trump. I'm sure his anti-NATO stance is a complete coincidence.
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10Obama's estranged half-brother will vote for Trump because he's unhappy with his brother's leadership. The very important reasons he cites for endorsing Trump are that he's "down to earth", "speaks from the heart" and is anti-PC.
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9CNN Poll after RNC: Donald Trump 44%, Hillary Clinton 39%, Gary Johnson 9%, Jill Stein 3%.
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18Debbie Wasserman-Schultz has resigned. Update: Clinton's response, "You're hired".
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4Prior to his selection as Clinton's VP, Kaine sent two letters pushing for financial deregulation, praised the TPP and voted to fast track it. He has an anti-labor record. Tim Kaine's governor campaign slogan was "I'm conservative."
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18Right-wing moll Phyllis Schlafly says there's no need for a female President, because "our greatest presidents have all been men." Somebody should tell the crone that ALL the Presidents have been men.
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11 Thanks to Tim Kaine's past as a civil rights lawyer and a well respected white mayor of a black city he also has support among black voters and his pick has already secured Virignia in the General Election. Tim Kaine's voting record: Planned Parenthood: 100%; Brady Campaign: 100%; NARAL: 100%; Human Rights Campaign "HRC", get it?: 100%; AFL/CIO: 94%.
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10Tim Kaine is already driving a wedge into the GOP. Turns out it's hard for establishment Republicans to badmouth a highly respected senator. With this Kaine also positions himself as the sort of person who will help Hillary forge good deals with Congress and pass good legislation.
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23Wikileaks releases 20,000 hacked DNC emails. The release has so far only revealed tons of credit card and Social Security numbers. Update: One of these, however, might indicate that the DNC was biased in favor of Hillary Clinton. Another reveals that Sander's campaign was a mess as DWS had to call Bernie directly in order to get the campaign to do things because they'd either ignored or forgotten to something critical. Further emails reveal that Kenneth Vogel, Politco's chief investigate reporter, made an agreement to send advanced Clinton story to DNC, that DWS put pressure on MSNBC to censor itself after they criticized her treament of Sanders, that the DNC leaked a letter from Sanders, that Super PACS were paying young voters to push back against Sanders supporters online. TL;DR: There was bias but no conspiracy. Russia may be involved.
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3The Virginia Supreme Court has overturned the governor's order to enfranchise felons.
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9Hillary Clinton has confirmed Tim Kaine as her VP pick.
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10Don't be shocked by Donald Trump.
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15David Duke announces his run for the US senate in Louisiana while being overjoyed about Trump and "many Americans" embracing the issues he championed for years and pledges to stop the "massive immigration and ethnic cleansing of the people whose forefathers created America" white people.
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11A fact-check of Donald Trump's RNC speech.
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15For whom still believes the DNC wasn't actually anti-Bernie: they plotted on using his religion against him. (More anti-Bernie schenanigans by the DNC here.)
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14Trump family would get $7 billion from his plan to eliminate the estate tax.
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13The Koch brothers have pulled $2.2 million dollars from Wisconsin Republican Ron Johnson campaign in retaliation for his support for Trump.
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5Laurie Penny attended Milo's Twinks for Trump party at the RNC so you didn't have to. "Since that day, there is absolutely nothing I have been able to say to Milo to persuade him that we are not friends."
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16Goodness, Laura... if you really wanna do that, use your left arm instead!
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18"I want to see the principles our party believes prevail in November." Cruz gives Trump a non-endorsement and gets booed off the stage
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18Trump plans to delegate all of his domestic and foreign responsibilities to his VP if he is elected president. Because that worked so well the last time.
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7Nate Silver: Clinton's lead is as safe as Kerry's was in 2004. (And safer than Obama's was in 2012, but that wouldn't get as many clicks.) Trump currently has a 38% chance of winning the election (polls-plus forecast).
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14Millenials strongly prefer Clinton over Trump but 60% of them disapprove of her. This is a continuing trend with Clinton's candidacy as her disapproval ratings hit a record high.
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11Fresh statistics reveal that Gary Johnson is polling at 13%.
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15Not a politician, but their spouse. Melania Trump copied and pasted passages in her speech at RNC from Michelle Obama's at the DNC in 2008.
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22Tony Schwartz, co-author of The Art of the Deal: yeah, Trump is a sociopath. Sorry for helping craft his image.
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15Bernie Sanders:"My job is to make sure Hillary Clinton is elected president"
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13Most Americans fear election of Clinton or Trump.
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15The GOP has adopted Trump's platform positions on building a physical wall on the US-Mexico border and impose "special scrutiny" on foreign nationals seeking to enter the US from countries with Islamic terrorism. Peter Thiel will also speak at the Republican convention, here is how his policy views align with Trump's.
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19Donald Trump's VP, Mike Pence, was responsible for one of the nation's most restrictive anti-abortion laws. When he ran for a seat in the House of Representatives he promised to cut funding for HIV funding in order to fund anti-LGBT education.
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13Trump's VP selection was the usual unorganized disaster, with Trump initially denying his decision after it was leaked, and even phoning up people and asking if it was too late to change his mind.
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8Bernie Sanders will launch organizations to spread his progressive message. (Autoplay video)
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12Clinton Calms Silicon Valley’s Worries, Promises To Preserve High-Skill Visas. In other news, Trump has edge in key states.
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8The Great Republican Crack-up.
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8A VP pick means a new campaign logo, and, uhh, well, you can't say it doesn't represent Pence's "job", if you will.
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15Trump picks Mike "But cigarettes don't really kill you, right?" Pence as his VP running mate.
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15Staunch Obama critic and Sanders appointee on the DNC platform committee, Cornel West, decides to support Jill Stein for president.
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12No comment necessary: polls in Ohio and Pennsylvania show Trump with 0% support from blacks.
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8In preparation for the Republican convention, Cleveland bought 2,000 sets of riot gear, 2,000 steel batons, and surveillance equipment.
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12Donald Trump has allegedly picked Indiana governor Mike Pence as his choice for vice president. UPDATE: Pence confirmed as Trump's Vpprentice
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4My Democratic problem with voting for Hillary Clinton
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16A policy committee for God's Only Party has voted down platform provisions that would have overturned their support for traditional marriage, bans on LGBT adoption, and trans bathroom bans.
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10Shinzo Abe's ruling coalition has won Japan's upper house in a landslide election. This makes changing Japan's pacifistic constitution more likely.
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15Bernie Sanders officially endorses Hillary Clinton for President and start the hashtag #Stronger Together. (Autoplay Video)
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8And then there was one: Andrea "who?" Leadsom drops out of the running. Theresa May could be Prime Minister of the United Kingdom by the end of the week.
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17Hillary and Bernie have created a new state funded college tuition plan.
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13Newt Gingrich believes that it is harder to be black person than white person in America.
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16There is still widespread dissatisfaction with both US presidential candidates.
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13Bernie Sanders argues, "The goal isn’t to win elections, the goal is to transform America" and promptly gets booed by House Democrats(?!).
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4Bernie Sanders is "expected" to endorse Hillary Clinton next week.
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9The Parliamentary Conservative Party has finished its leadership race for party leader and Prime Minister, ousting Michael Gove with only Home Secretary Theresa May and Climate Change Minister Andrea Leadsom remaining. 150,000 registered party members are set to decide who out of the two will take charge.
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10Bob Corker and Joni Ernst take their names out of the running for Trump's VP. Wonder if the latest neo-Nazi retweet spooked them.
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13Eric Trump calls up The Washington Post and rants at them about their reporting on his father's (lack of) charitable contributions. Of course, he declined to provide any information about his father's supposedly prodigious giving. Gee, I wonder what the reaction from the right would be if Chelsea Clinton yelled at a news organization about their coverage of Hillary?
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12Trump has been praising Saddam Hussein again, continuing his pattern of praising dictators for how they "take care of" "problems". This of course has led to another round of Paul Ryan and other endorsers saying they think Trump is crazy and wrong and should be President. (Don't miss Chris Collins saying ISIS was created by Obama because Obama had no plan for Iraq after Saddam.)
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7Alternative für Deutschland is in full-on crisis mode over one of their MPs' anti-Semitic writings. Co-leader Jörg Meuthen is leading a mass walkout.
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14In the Australian elections, Malcolm Turnbull struggles, nobody has a clear majority and Pauline Hanson comes back as a senator.
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11Trump meets with possible VP pick Mike Pence, Indiana's anti-gay evangelical governor. Other members of his VP contender brain trust include Chris Christie, Newt Gingrich, Jeff Sessions, and Oklahoma governor Mary Fallin.
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19Trump continues to court the fascist vote, posting on Twitter an image featuring Hillary Clinton, a pile of money, and a coyly-placed Star of David. The image was later deleted and replaced with the Star of David removed. Update: the image came from 8chan's /pol/. Trump's campaign apparently knows who his fans are.
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5The U.S. political media has been going nuts after Bill Clinton and Loretta Lynch ran into each other at the Phoenix airport and talked. While some reasonable criticism has been made that the Clintons and Obama administration should try harder to avoid the appearance of impropriety, the right wing of course sees this as more proof of the Obama-Clinton conspiracy.
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4The Austrian Constitutional Court has ruled that the presidential elections must be held again, giving the far-right Freedom Party another chance to win.
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11Workers strike at Trump Taj Mahal Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
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18The latest Trumpalooza news: another one of Trump's scams used plagiarized materials. Also Trump has been lying for decades about donating to charity. None of this will matter to Trump supporters, because they're really members of an incipient neo-fascist movement, and Trump is just a figurehead.
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9Meet Misty Snow, Democratic Senate nominee from Utah and the US's first transgender candidate.
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16You're welcome Brits: Leave campaign's biggest donor hired U.S. firm to help with campaign. Their advice: "facts don't work."
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2Pro-Clinton Democrats are confused about Sanders's endgame.
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11Trump is illegally sending fundraising emails to elected officials in multiple foreign countries.
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8Hillary sold an intelligence board seat to a rich donor.

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/287271-gop-platform-fight-gets-heated-over-lgbt-rights

[edit] June 2016

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-2Trump has accused Obama of "abusing" Israel.
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7Thomas Piketty has resigned from his position in the Labour party. His resignation is unrelated to Brexit.
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9British PM race is shaken up: Michael Gove does an about-face and enters the race, prompting Boris Johnson to withdraw. The favorite now appears to be Theresa May, who opposed Brexit.
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11Trump campaign hits up foreign politicians for donations. One little problem: it's illegal for U.S. political campaigns to accept donations from outside the U.S. This is probably ineptitude, as the contractor doing the fundraising has made other screwups.
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8Priorities USA, Clinton's main Super PAC, has taken $200K in banned donations.
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5Trump renews calls for the US to use torture after the Istanbul airport bombing.
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-260 Black Democrats, led by Bakari Sellers, wrote a letter opposing Cornel West's, James Zogby's, and Bernie Sanders's amendment to the DNC's platform that calls for then end of Israel's occupation of Palestine.
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6Hillary Clinton's answer to the problem of college debt? Deferrals for startup founders.
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8A new Reuters/Ipsos poll shows that a huge chunk of Trump supporters have a negative opinion of black people. Now who would've thought that!
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6Zephyr Teachout has won her primary in New York.
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-1A Bernie Sanders staffer pitched using double-sided coins for breaking ties in Democratic presidential caucuses in Nevada.
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5Trump has given less than $10,000 in 7 years.
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6Icelandic history professor, Guðni Jóhannesson, has been elected president.
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6Jeremy Corbyn has lost the no-confidence vote among Labour MPs. (Not that he ever at any time had their confidence, having been foisted upon them by those hundreds of thousands of plebs in the rank and file.)
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11A new WaPo poll shows Clinton with a 12 point lead over Trump. Most voters view Trump as biased against minorities but would be willing to vote for him anyway because most of them want to change the status quo in Washington.
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3The Popular party wins the Spanish election but still doesn't have a voting majority. The Socialists (PSOE) remain the official opposition at 85 seats after they refused to create a coalition government. Podemos Unidos (leftist) has gained 71 seats and Ciudadanos (centrist) has gained 32 seats. With 137 out of 350 seats PP would need a coalition partner to form a majority as would Podemos and PSOE who even together have no majority. Ciudadanos and PP would not have a majority either, but a three party coalition of any of those mentioned would
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3Bernie Sanders writing for the Washington Post: Here's what we want. But that this is not comprehensive, as he left out some major items.
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5A Short Summary of the Lesser-Known Australian Political Parties (so not Labor, Liberal/Nationals, or Greens). (Any RW editors in Australia want to write up a science and skepticism-focused one?)
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5Jeremy Corbyn will reshape his shadow cabinet and fight to stay as Labour's leader despite a coup attempt.
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16The DNC has rejected Sanders's platform proposal calling for the end of Israeli occupation and illegal settlement building in Palestine. Update: The DNC has adopted proposals to support a $15 minimum wage, abolish the death penalty, support a two-state solution to the I-P conflict, expanding Social Security, and to reinstate a modernized version of Glass-Steagall. However, the DNC has rejected proposals on creating a carbon tax, rejecting the TPP, banning fracking, tying the minimum wage to inflation, and instituting single-payer health care.
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3Sam Seder debates failed Libertarian candidate, Darryl Perry.
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11New York Democrats have made Andrew Cuomo delegation chair. During this event, a man, who is a Clinton delegate, assaulted a woman, who is a Bernie delegate.
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8The Don endorses The Donald
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22Sanders: "It doesn’t appear that I'm going to be the nominee"
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6Democrats clash over the issue of Palestine.
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12Some conservatives aren't even trying to pretend anymore.
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13Whelp, Trump's now accused of violently raping a 13 year old. Somehow I think we'll keep seeing "Clinton's a criminal" though.
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13Trump sucks up to the Religious Right: "Hey guys, the First Amendment is lame. Vote for me and I'll get rid of it!" One person not buying it is Michael Farris[wp] (founder of Patrick Henry College), who called out evangelical leaders for being essentially an arm of the Republican Party (Christian Post op-ed).
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7Trump begins to try to pick up the evangelical vote. His "Evangelical Executive Advisory Board" includes Michelle Bachmann and Jerry Falwell Jr.
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8Sanders's pick to replace DWS, Tim Canova, goes full conspiracy in his Reddit AMA.
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9Trump campaign has paid $35,000 to "Draper Sterling" ad agency
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14Wall Street donors seek to block Warren VP pick, which is silly as Warren can be more powerful as a senator than a Vice President.
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17Bernie Sanders has garnered more votes from young people than Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump combined.
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21A few weeks ago, The Bern Report and other Sanders supporters started circulating a "Stanford study" claiming electoral fraud in the Democratic primary. Turns out, A) it wasn't a study, but a non-peer-reviewed paper, B) it was done by two graduate students in psychology, not political science, statistics, or other relevant fields, and C) the paper's methodology is flawed, and the effects disappear with better controls(Alternative analysis ending with same point).
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15Donald Trump to campaign manager Corey Lewandowski: You're fired!
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-7Fearing the dilution of minority voting strength, the Congressional Low-Information Black Caucus voted unanimously to oppose any suggestion or idea to eliminate Superdelegates and the creation of uniform open primaries in all states. Low-Info Rep. Emanuel Cleaver: "You're going to see the same thing with the Hispanic Congressional Caucus. Mr. Sanders, if he had met with either or what's called the tri-caucus, he would have found out there is no flexibility."
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-1One group of BernieBros are practicing "hassle lines" to harass Clinton delegates at the DNC Convention while other BernieBros are simulating getting arrested by cops.
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7I'm not saying Donald Trump has tiny hands. But important questions have been raised, and they can't be ignored. The American people deserve to know his hand measurements.
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12As the number of Republicans saying they won't support Trump continues to grow, and Paul Ryan essentially gives Republicans the green light to disavow him, a group of Republican delegates are attempting a last-ditch scheme to deny Trump the nomination. Who knows if it will go anywhere, but the fact that it's even happening is something.
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8New poll puts Trump's unfavorable rating at 70 percent. With Hispanics it's 89 percent. Republican leaders will be breaking out in cold sweats about now. In the same poll, Hillary's unfavorable rating is at 55 percent.
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4Anti-abortionist and Bernie Sanders Superdelegate Marcy Kaptur peddles the "Trump is a Clinton plant" conspiracy theory.
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3Matt Taibbi worries that democrats will learn all the wrong lessons from their brush with Bernie.
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2Croatia government falls as its PM loses a no-confidence vote.
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1Sanders loses convention leverage. "...it's the one thing he’s been bleeding every day ever since he dropped California’s primary by a much wider-than-expected margin last week."
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8Julian Assange said WikiLeaks is preparing to publish more of Clinton's emails. Update: A hacker cracker who calls himself Guccifer 2.0. got into the DNC's servers and stole thousands of documents, which he has sent to WikiLeaks. (The unverfied documents in question.)
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7How to cover Donald Trump fairly: A style guide by WaPo. #7: "Two words: LARGE HANDS"
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5The pros and cons of Clinton's possible VP picks
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12Bernie announces he's ready to work with Hillary. His more rabid supporters react in a calm and polite way call him a sell-out.
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13 Donald Trump takes a nosedive in the polls [1](a source that's not a youtube video)
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13Brexit campaign turns the Britishness up to eleven with a naval battle on the Thames.
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7Gaze into the abyss
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4Russian hackers have stolen files from the DNC's servers.
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6Both presidential frontrunners agree, bombing the Middle East more and increasing mass surveillance are "solutions" to terrorism.
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5WSJ notes Clinton has 17 point lead when asked who would better handle a crisis.
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-5In all probability, Google has been manipulating search results in favor of Hillary Clinton. Or, maybe it hasn't done anything of the sort. Here is the video in question.
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12Most Democrats do not want Bernie Sanders to simply return to obscurity.
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10Utah poll shows Hillary and Trump tied at 35. That's the second poll in a week that has Hillary within the margin of error in Utah.
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5Donald Trump plans Tom Brady, Ben Roethlisberger, Dana White to speak on his behalf at GOP Convention
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17Mitt Romney is considering voting Libertarian. Trump's only supporter among former GOP presidents and candidates is Bob Dole.
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4Hillary Clinton Is 2016’s Real Conservative—Not Donald Trump,by neocon Jamie Kirchick: "Clinton is the candidate of the status quo"
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4Sanders campaign accused Hillary Clinton of “looting” her joint fundraising committee to fund her presidential campaign; she did have similar “slush fund” in 2008-09
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5Top Sanders' surrogate Nina Turner is now attacking Warren
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3Elizabeth Warren endorses Hillary Clinton for president. She's also a superdelegate.
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7Here is Bernie Sanders's statement after meeting with Barack Obama.
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9President Barack Obama endorses Hillary Clinton for president. He's also another superdelegate.
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8Hillary Clinton may well be the first female nominee from a major American political party, but by no means the first.
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1Jeff Weaver: "No one is the nominee"
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5Republican Walter Jones, the noted Iraq war critic, has won a NC house primary.
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6The AP's decision to call the Democratic primary early may have lowered the turnout.
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4A Minnesota Republican has attacked her Democratic opponent for being a lesbian and half-black.
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6Obama: Sanders made Clinton a better candidate.
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3Two women of color, who happen to be Democrats, will face off to replace Barbara Boxer.
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1In an e-mail sent to his supporters, Bernie Sanders reiterated his refusal to back down.
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3Internal e-mails obtained by POLITICO reveal a peek at the recent state of mind inside the Bernie Sanders campaign. It's not a pretty picture.
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-2Bernie was perfectly fine with counting superdelegates before they voted when he called on Hillary to drop out back in 2008
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1The AP survey was the perfect end to the Democratic primary.
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7Renee Ellmers loses the North Carolina GOP primary.
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7The Trumpster fire keeps burning as Senator Mark Kirk withdraws his endorsement of Trump. Lindsey Graham calls Trump's comments "un-American" and says other Republicans should withdraw their endorsements. So, over/under on the RNC just canceling the convention and putting Paul Ryan on the ballot instead?
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6Dick Morris is in talks to join the Trump campaign. Oh please oh please oh please oh please oh pleaaassseee.
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-11Hillary Clinton has clinched Democratic nomination, AP survey reports
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10The Trump campaign continues to be a disaster, with a yuuuge lack of manpower and top staff sabotaging each other. In standard narcissist fashion, Trump responds by bragging about his money-saving campaign.
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-3The national media is still counting the superdelegates' endorsements as votes even though the DNC has instructed them not to. Hats off to them for refusing to bow to political pressure from the DNC.
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-2Utah General Election: Trump (R) 29% (+3) Clinton (D) 26% Johnson (L) 16% (Romney won UT by 48%)...but there's still five months to go and we haven't had the conventions yet, ... but then again this is the Donald, he's still got time to make it even worse for him.
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16Trump has been involved in 3,500 lawsuits.
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11The dangers of a Trump presidency for international relations via Politico.
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-4Bernie Sanders tried to take the stage at a Spanish-language festival at Plaza Mexico. He was denied after a staffer told him that: "This is OUR event".
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0Democratic Party of Puerto Rico tells that the Sanders campaign is the one that requested a cut in the number of polling stations, due to not having enough volunteers to monitor count. The Sanders campaign responds with a "No u!", even though his campaign was already criticized back in May over a lack of resources for staff and volunteers.
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-14Hillary Clinton steals the Puerto Rico primary. Wait a second... if she's so good at this, maybe we should let her steal the election from Trump too.
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5Prominent Republicans make the Sunday talk show rounds to tell Trump to knock it off with the Mexican judges stuff. Trump promptly flips them the bird and says hey, you know, Muslim judges, not so great either! How many weeks left before the party officially splits?
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-17Cenk Uygur whines that Bernie would have had a better chance were the media kept the opinion of Superdelegates a secret, blows up when the CNN host says it's historic for a woman to become President of the US.
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6The secret of Donald Trump's success: he's the Food Babe of politics.
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3Nate Silver comments on the upcoming primary in California:"...while the polls could be off by enough for Sanders to win California they could also be off in the other direction, meaning that Clinton could win by 15 to 20 percentage points. In 2008, Clinton significantly outperformed her polls in California, in part by winning the Hispanic vote 2-to-1 over Barack Obama."
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-11Puerto Rico Dems slam the Sanders campaign for crying 'fraud'. The Sanders campaign has been accused of stealing ballot boxes with votes casted by prisoners.
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-4Low-info voters in the Virgin Islands overwhelmingly vote to join the Confederacy
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8It is possible that the Achen and Bartels study in the New York Times about Bernie supporters' motives may not have the best methodology.
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5Hillary Clinton's lead over Bernie Sanders in the polls in California has vanished while some superdelegates who have voiced their support for Clintonare seriously thinking about switching to Sanders. Update: A few superdelegates have come out to support Sanders.
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-13Do Sanders Supporters Favor His Policies? Commentators who have been ready and willing to attribute Donald Trump’s success to anger, authoritarianism, or racism rather than policy issues have taken little note of the extent to which Mr. Sanders’s support is concentrated not among liberal ideologues but among disaffected white men.
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-3Hillary Clinton has now a double-digit lead over Donald Trump. Things are only going to get ugly for Trump once Bernie drops out.
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3Puerto Rico slashes polling places for the Democratic primary.
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10Another reason why not to trust infographics. Trump tweeted out an infographic with nine charts claiming Obama's presidency was a failure. They were fact-checked. (Spoiler: the charts are misleading and/or wrong.)
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1The General Election begins as Hillary Clinton eviscerates Donald Trump in her best speech yet
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6With the Democratic candidates separated by 270 pledged delegates, and 714 unpledged delegates (of which Clinton must win some 65% to avoid a contested Convention - which she will probably refer to as a security review) up for grabs on June 7th in six state contests, only one of which is in the Eastern Time Zone, media plans to announce Clinton's nomination as NJ polls close with three hours yet to go in CA. Let's hope this doesn't cause problems turning out Clinton's voter-base.
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-5Bernie Sanders' factually incorrect delegate math earns him three Pinocchios from The Washington Post's Fact Checker
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-13Federal Court judge rejects bid by Bernie Sanders supporters for injunction in California primary. Good job, BernieBros, for wasting time and money on yet another frivolous lawsuit.
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-5Chris Matthews asked Jeff Weaver why he thinks Trump wont release his tax returns. It was an obvious setup but Jeff still responded saying there is obviously something Trump is trying to hide and that he needs to release them. Chris then hit him with the "so what is Bernie hiding?"
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10Bill Clinton gave a six-figure speech to a controversial vulture fund as his wife ran for President.
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0Sanders has accused the DNC of keeping labor union representation off the platform committee. His accusation turns out to be another lie, as he doesn't count Paul Booth for being nominated by Hillary. Also, he tries to push in a sixth nominee of his choosing despite being given only five slots
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2As his staunch supporters dig in, Bernie Sanders announces that his campaign is sufficiently well-funded to continue after the California primary. Meanwhile, Clinton's News Network CNN (first link) keeps forgetting the superdelegates have not yet voted and may well switch sides as they did for Barack Obama back in 2008.
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