Happy New Year – 2015!

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1. Fighting Ignorance ‏@FightnIgnorance 26m26 minutes ago

   Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Says The Campaign Field Is ‘Being Polluted By Money’ http://huff.to/16HfDV8

   Zach Carter ‏@zachdcarter May 7

   . $MS CEO James Gorman opposes Wall St. prosecutions. But also says Glass-Steagall repeal was an error http://huff.to/1o5OSix

   Lawrence O’Donnell ‏@Lawrence 6h6 hours ago

   Tomorrow morning I will be @upwithsteve in studio.

   The Real Timers ‏@RealTimers 38m38 minutes ago

   VIDEO: @billmaher discusses the failure of the #WarOnDrugs with @johannhari101: http://youtu.be/PxmvFRtYuYQ @HBO

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2. #BoycottKoch ‏@GoodbyeKoch 8h8 hours ago

   Bernie Sanders Terrified the #Koch Brothers By Outting Their Role In the Government Shutdown http://dld.bz/cUxRU … #dontforget

   [This is from 2013 and I don’t remember seeing this. Read the article too.]

   The Hill ‏@thehill 20m20 minutes ago

   White House defending Obama remarks about the Crusades http://ow.ly/IEKuz

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3. The Independent ‏@Independent 11m11 minutes ago

   Hitler ‘would have been proud’: British director condemns US blockbuster American Sniper http://ind.pn/1zifZqW

   Greg Mitchell ‏@GregMitch 14m14 minutes ago

   Bill Moyers: This is the charred body of Jesse Washington and whites from Waco — not ISIS — burned him alive http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/02/this-is-the-charred-body-of-jesse-washington-and-whites-from-waco-not-isis-burned-him-alive/#.VNYWtKgQEhw.twitter …

   K Smith ‏@Smith83K 26m26 minutes ago

   What’s Morning Joe’s Solution To Plummeting Ratings? Book More Republican Guests http://www.politicususa.com/2015/02/05/morning-joes-solution-plummeting-ratings-book-republican-guests.html … #UniteBlue #LibCrib #TNTweeters

   Harvey J Kaye ‏@harveyjkaye 48m48 minutes ago

   Ronald Reagan’s wartime lies: The president had quite a Brian Williams problem http://www.salon.com/2015/02/07/ronald_reagans_wartime_lies_the_president_had_quite_a_brian_williams_problem/ …

   The Daily Edge ‏@TheDailyEdge 21h21 hours ago

   Income inequality now so bad that more tax cuts for Top 1% are required, say GOP brainiacs http://thinkprogress.org/election/2015/01/26/3615502/2016-republicans-income-inquality/ …

   UP Pastry Plate ‏@UPPastryPlate 50m50 minutes ago

   I want @SenSanders as POTUS @HillaryClinton as VP. @JoeBiden as SoS. @upwithsteve #uppers

   Larry Cooper ‏@coopah 53m53 minutes ago

   In Rebuke of Tennessee Governor, Koch Group Shows Its Power http://nbcnews.to/1FdYfmc via @NBCNews

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   NASHVILLE-In December, Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam, a Republican, got the deal he wanted from the Obama administration: Tennessee would accept more than $1 billion in federal funding to expand Medicaid, as allowed for in the Affordable Care Act, but Obama aides would allow Haslam to essentially write staunchly conservative ideas into the program’s rules for the state. He dubbed the reformed Medicaid program “Insure Tennessee.”

   But the state’s chapter of Americans for Prosperity, the national conservative group whose foundation is chaired by controversial billionaire David Koch, argued Haslam was just trying to trick conservatives into implementing Obamacare in their state by giving it a new name. AFP campaigned aggressively Haslam’s plans for the next six weeks, even running radio ads blasting GOP state legislators who said they might vote for it.

   On Wednesday, Haslam’s bill died in a committee of the Tennessee state senate. The vote was one of the clearest illustrations of the increasing power of AFP and other conservative groups funded in part by the Koch brothers. [more]

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4. The Daily Edge ‏@TheDailyEdge 2m2 minutes ago

   How the poor die: Koch Brothers kill popular Republican plan to give 200,000 low income Tennesseans healthcare http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/rebuke-tennessee-governor-koch-group-shows-its-power-n301031 …

   Greg Sargent ‏@ThePlumLineGS 1h1 hour ago

   WSJ raises standing questions re 3 King plaintiffs: http://www.wsj.com/articles/health-law-challengers-standing-in-supreme-court-case-is-questioned-1423264458 … And three are on cusp of Medicare: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2015/02/06/morning-plum-meet-the-man-who-could-help-cripple-obamacare/ …

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   Politico has an amazing profile of Gregory King, the Virginia man who is the lead plaintiff in the King v. Burwell lawsuit, which could gut Obamacare subsidies for millions of people across the country. Let’s just quote from it:

   The man who could cripple Obamacare isn’t shy about telling the world that he thinks the president is an “idiot,” posting altered images of the First Lady in Middle Eastern clothing and expressing his hatred for the “Democraps” who enacted the health care law.

   David M. King, 64, is the lead plaintiff on the Supreme Court case that challenges the government’s right to grant tax subsidies to millions of Americans in certain states to make health insurance more affordable. When the case is argued on March 4, King — friendly, with graying hair and a mustache — will become the public face of King v. Burwell, the most significant threat to the Affordable Care Act since the 2012 Supreme Court case that put the law’s individual mandate on the line.

   [The kicker, from the WSJ, is that King is a Viet Nam Vet and is covered under the VA, free of charge, but with what he is doing, he will take away help to pay for insurance from other people.]

   Say No To GOP ‏@SayNoToGOP 33s34 seconds ago

   Federal Communications Commission: No robocalls to cellphones without our consent. http://www.change.org/p/federal-communications-commission-no-robocalls-to-cellphones-without-our-consent?recruiter=51194707&utm_campaign=signature_receipt_twitter_dialog&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=share_petition … via @Change

   TheRittenbergReport ‏@TheRReport 3m3 minutes ago

   Christie vetoes ‘Buy American’ bills despite New Jersey’s manufacturing jobs deficit http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/02/06/1362723/-Christie-vetoes-Buy-American-bills-despite-New-Jersey-s-manufacturing-jobs-deficit …

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5. teleSUR English ‏@telesurenglish 21m21 minutes ago

   Could #Iran Pres. Rouhani be out of a job if nuclear talks fail? His Foreign Min. warns so. http://tlsur.net/1C6Bqjf

   Michael Hiltzik ‏@hiltzikm 1m1 minute ago

   ‘Free trade’ isn’t what Trans-Pacific Partnership would deliver http://fw.to/MO6TrET

   [The TPP has been cloaked in secrecy but this article gives a good idea what might be in it and why it’s bad for our country and the world.]

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   In principle, almost everyone’s in favor of free trade. It promotes international harmony, raises wages, helps economies grow. It’s an article of historical faith that the enactment of harsh protective U.S. tariffs in 1930 contributed to the Great Depression. And who wants that?

   But “free trade” has little to do with the trade deal that President Obama hopes will be a high-water mark for his administration’s foreign policy: the Trans-Pacific Partnership talks, which now involve the U.S. and 11 Pacific Rim countries — Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam.

   The pact — which has been under negotiation virtually since the turn of the century — is in trouble on Capitol Hill, where its enemies include conservatives and liberals. The overall problem may be that the TPP, as it’s known in shorthand, has become a symbol of everything that’s wrong with free trade agreements today. [more]

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   We Should Overturn Citizens United

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