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My name is Beth Macy.
I’m the author of best-sellers Dopesick and Paper Girl,
and I’m the Democrat who’s running against Ben Cline in VA-06.  
Virginia’s Supreme Court just overturned the redistricting referendum that our voters approved last month. 
I'm not a lawyer, and I won't pretend to have all the answers on what comes next legally.
What I do know is this: the country is on fire, and decisions like this one represent another serious step backward.…

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Willem challenged us to ask ourselves what we would do if we were living under Nazi occupation. Before all of this, I doubt anyone thought they would be complicit. I doubt anyone said to themselves, "nothing. I would cower in fear and do nothing."
But for 4 years or so we all answered that question again and again with our lives. Now here we are, answering it again... Every day. But it's no longer "what would you do during the rise of Hitler?" It's now, "what would you do after the invasion of Poland," and "what would you do after you knew about the concentration camps?"
For some people, the answer is still, "nothing."
But a lot of people have been brave in the face of it all. A lot of people have died, and a lot more will die. He will die, perhaps after a ruling by some court or other but, honestly, probably not. That's just how these things work out. Lots of people die, some for no reason, some because they stood up against injustice. A whole lot of people do nothing, until it's safe to claim victory... Until it's no longer safe to be on the other side.
That's just how these things go. Fascism is self-defeating, but it causes incredible harm on it's path of self-destruction. The more people who stand up, who risk themselves, the faster it collapses and the fewer it can hurt. That's also just how these things go. It's incredibly dangerous for everyone until enough people take some extra risk and make it safe for everyone again.
But that question still stands... Which one of those groups are you in? Are you proud of what you are doing, or will you look back with shame? Some of y'all have a lot to be proud of, but, if you're not, it's never too late to earn your way into that proud group.

Hungary is hardly a democracy at all.
It’s an autocratic, kleptocratic mafia state,
where all the levers of power are controlled behind the scenes by a single man.
Since returning to power in 2010, Orbšn has rewritten the constitution and amended it fifteen times,
changed the electoral laws to give his party structural advantages,
captured the top layerof the judiciary,
occupied the chief prosecutor’s office to protect his cronies and prosecute his enemi…

Orbán Will Lose Hungary’s Election in Two Weeks—If It’s Clean
Péter Magyar is a seemingly unstoppable force—but don’t expect the embattled Orbán to give up without a fight.

I have substantial (and that is a euphemism) over claims that government act X (X is a placeholder variable) is invalid because it infringes on a person's "religious freedom" (presumably "free exercise").
I consider that a dangerous claim because there is no clear limit to much exemption may be given to such religious claims?
Suppose my religion is Thuggee, which involves the murder of innocents. Do our criminal laws infringe on the religious freedom to pr…

Col. Lawrence Wilkerson (chief of staff to Colin Powell under George W Bush):
This administration has committed more war crimes in the last few days than I think any country since Adolf Hitler committed. And that is an incredible condemnation of this entire process.
He later says we can't win this war—and Israel might drop a nuke.
Full interview at 17:45:

The concept of a rotating villain is so funny to me. The best example is the U.S. House of Representatives where one Democrat sacrifices themselves to vote in line with the Republican party, so that all other Democrats can claim they were trying their best to do the right thing, yet in reality are just as complicit. That one Democrat always changes (rotates) so that the blame is spread equally and no particular Democratic representative makes their hands too dirty.
The latest instance…

Texas Democrats Colin Allred, Julie Johnson Head To Runoff Election (Jennifer Bendery/HuffPost)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/julie-johnson-colin-allred-texas-democratic-primary_n_69a5eca1e4b0d383f50497f6
http://www.memeorandum.com/260304/p94#a260304p94

Trump’s latest climbdown won’t undo the damage from his murderous escalation.
Republicans and Democrats, along with ordinary Americans, have seen with their own eyes that the president’s erratic behavior isn’t strategic.
This is a crazy person, who did a crazy thing, and is likely to do many more crazy things soon.
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TACO Tuesday's lasting hangover
It'll take more than Pepto to calm this shitstorm.

The democratic, liberal, dependable USA that I have known and respected for most of my adult life is dead and will not be revived even after the orange clown stops pretending to be king. It cannot, because the concept of the USA in the world outside its own borders very much depended on soft power, which requires trust. That trust is gone, completely, and probably irrevocably for at least a generation.
It saddens me deeply that all the value, all the good that this long-term stability …

Democrats should get louder in championing clean energy’s affordability and resilience from global shocks,
according to some of the party’s leading voices on the climate.
As the Iran war roils economies by raising the cost of oil and gas,
countries are aiming to accelerate their shift to cleaner energy.
But in the US, Donald Trump has sought to kill off any alternative to fossil fuels while opposing Democrats have been reluctant to tie the conflict to any action on t…