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Notes"Mr. Obama has a firm grasp of the climate issue, and no one doubts that he cares about it. But as is often the case with this president, the question is whether he will exhibit a sense of urgency to match his intellectual understanding."New York Times editorial board. (via poptech)
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Notes"Sgt. Jeremy Lewis of the Moore Police Department spoke with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes Monday night about the ongoing search and rescue efforts.
“At the elementary school, we actually still have search and rescue teams in the elementary school. It is a fairly large elementary school, and also the neighborhood around it is completely destroyed, so things, of course, are on top of the rubble that was the school. So that rescue effort is still ongoing with the school,” Lewis said.
“As of right now, we are flooding the areas just trying to locate people who are still trapped either in debris or in their storm cellars. But those guys are going to start getting tired,” he continued, speaking about the rescue teams. He noted that additional resources will likely be needed on Tuesday to continue the recovery efforts.
“Being able to just find where the house was, so that we can locate the storm cellar, is even difficult at this time. And now, with it being dark, we can’t — some of our officers are having trouble that have worked here for 20 years finding different locations of addresses because there’s just not any landmarks,” he said.
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Notes"I’ve seen extraordinary change in my lifetime, some of it in the last decade. I was born in a country that had been galvanized and unsettled by the civil rights movement, but still lacked a meaningful environmental movement, women’s movement, or queer rights movement (beyond a couple of small organizations founded in California in the 1950s). Half a century ago, to be gay or lesbian was to live in hiding or be treated as mentally ill or criminal. That 12 states and several countries would legalize same-sex marriage was beyond imaginable then. It wasn’t even on the table in 2003. San Francisco’s spring run of same-sex weddings in 2004 flung open the doors through which so many have passed since.
If you take the long view, you’ll see how startlingly, how unexpectedly but regularly things change. Not by magic, but by the incremental effect of countless acts of courage, love, and commitment, the small drops that wear away stones and carve new landscapes, and sometimes by torrents of popular will that change the world suddenly. To say that is not to say that it will all come out fine in the end regardless. I’m just telling you that everything is in motion, and sometimes we are ourselves that movement.
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Republicans’ goal was never reducing the deficit–it’s eliminating the safety net.
In response to proposed food-stamp cuts, Sen. Chris Murphy decides to see what life is like on the meager budget they’d provide.
Charlotte, Detroit and Minneapolis are among the key mayoral races this year.
Reports from five states indicate that the Affordable Care Act will reduce insurance prices.
Related: what can we learn from Oregon’s experiments with health care?
Victims of foreclosure fraud held a protest in Washington today.
Banks are slow-walking the mortgage fraud settlement, leaving homeowners waiting for their compensation.
The biggest banks are still too big–and there’s a bipartisan bill to help fix the problem.
How underfunding the IRS is a subsidy to the very richest.
Walmart, Gap still holding out on signing a Bangladesh worker-safety pact.
Map of the day: your right to vote, state by state.
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Notes Virginia GOP Nominee Believes Gays Are ‘Very Sick’ And Democrats Are Worse Than The KKKThe Virginia Republican Party this weekend nominated for lieutenant governor a minister who has a history of virulent anti-gay statements, accuses the Democratic Party of enslaving African Americans, and criticized President Obama for having “Muslim sensibilities.” The former Senate candidate ,who in 2012garnered less than 5 percent of the vote in the Republican primary,bested six other candidates during the Virginia GOP convention, and will join conservative Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli on the Republican ticket. He is the first black candidate the state party has endorsed since 1988.
Here are some of the most alarming facts you need to know about E.W. Jackson:
- He has said gays and lesbians are “very sick people, psychologically and emotionally” whose minds are perverted. He has also said homosexuality “poisons culture, it destroys families, it destroys societies”
- He called alleged Democratic Party ties to Planned Parenthood “more lethal to black lives than the KKK ever was” and thinks blacks who join the Democratic Party arevoluntarily selling themselves into slavery.
- He has equated Islam with anti-semitism, and criticized President Obama for having “Muslim sensibilities,”
- He led an “Exodus Now!” movement encouraging African Americans to leave the Democratic party because opposition to same-sex marriage and government endorsement of religion means “Democrats are engaged in a concerted effort to do away with all symbols of our Judeo-Christian culture.”
- He rallied against hate crimes legislation as a “virulent strain of Anti-Christian bigotry and hatred.”
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When did you first realize that you shouldn’t have to pay taxes:
- Moments after the black guy was elected
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