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      'Just Give People the Money': Progressives Rip Third Way-Approved Complicated Tax Credit Relief Proposal

      'Just Give People the Money': Progressives Rip Third Way-Approved Complicated Tax Credit Relief Proposal

      "Calling this peanuts is an insult to peanuts, an immediate tangible thing people could eat."

      Eoin Higgins
      May 21, 2020

      AA new proposal from four senators--two Democrats and two Republicans--to offer a tax credit for workers displaced by the coronavirus outbreak is under fire from progressive critics who warn the convoluted plan is both insufficient to the scale of the crisis and an affront to more simple and far-reaching alternatives.

      "Give people money," tweeted journalist Anand Giridharadas. "Money is like a refundable tax credit except useful."

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      Corporate Media 'Culpable,' Say Women's Rights Advocates, for Bolstering Trump's Abortion Lies

      Corporate Media 'Culpable,' Say Women's Rights Advocates, for Bolstering Trump's Abortion Lies

      "Donald Trump believes that YOU will believe that doctors are monsters, women are completely craven, and Democrats have black souls, because that's the only way his attacks make sense. Don't prove him right by buying this BS."

      Julia Conley
      Feb 25, 2019

      Women's rights advocates were relieved late Monday when Senate Democrats blocked an extreme anti-choice bill from advancing to a floor debate--but were soon outraged by President Donald Trump's lies about abortion care, as well as the corporate media for enabling his blatantly false characterization of the bill to stand.

      After Senate Republicans failed to meet the 60-vote threshold needed to push through the so-called "Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act," introduced by Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.), Trump attacked Democrats for their rejection of a bill that would punish doctors for providing medical care to pregnant women and allow civil action against women themselves for making an often-painful, life-or-death decision about their health and family.

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      Thomas Farr Is a Hack Too Far

      Thomas Farr Is a Hack Too Far

      Thomas Farr, an ambitious vote suppressor, was nominated for a spot on the federal bench

      Charles P. Pierce
      Nov 27, 2018

      Comes now another test for Ben Sasse, and Susan Collins, and all the other Republicans who are terribly dismayed over the vandal in the White House, and what he is doing to our precious national dialogue and to our democratic institutions. How's about you all get together and fight like hell to keep this gombeen off the federal bench. It's bad enough that Mitch McConnell has made it his life's work to salt the federal judiciary with larval Scalias, but this guy, Thomas Farr, whose entire career has been as a kept Republican lawyer, and who was primarily responsible for a voter-suppression plan that a court said targeted minority voters "with almost surgical precision," should really be a hack too far, shouldn't he?

      Ben?

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