Debunking political spin, one of the things Yglesias does well:
Small donors are clearly more progressive than wine cave types, but rich Democratic donors are generally more progressive than rank-and-file Democratic voters. https://t.co/c1pLHgpI01
I have been curious about this for so long! Hard to find polls!
Most telling is that 60% of the officers have unfavorable view of Trump.
Half of active-duty service members are unhappy with Trump, new Military Times poll shows https://t.co/eIaG3lhh3C
The National Catholic Reporter exposes a pedophile ring defended by a cabal of far right ideologues including the current chair of Mike Pompeo’s Human Rights Commission.
Editorial: Finally, the Legion's terrible truth | National Catholic Reporter https://t.co/MqZWId0eiQ
A debate about blackface in the ballet world highlights a growing divide between the United States and Europe on questions of race and representation https://t.co/AOkYZPXLjL
Save the Storks, an anti-abortion organization, published a poll on November 14 showing that fewer than half of self-identified evangelical Christians in the United States identify as “pro-life.” This poll was based on online interviews with 1,000 adults nationwide ages 18 to 69.
Because what blue-collar voters in Ohio can relate to are Studio-54 theme parties in a mansion, not those elite coastal Democrats https://t.co/DKtjmq2uu6
At least two people began shooting at a house party in Chicago in the early hours of Sunday morning, according to police, who say that 13 people were shot and being treated at area hospitals.
The Associated Press reports a 37-year-old man has been charged in connection with the shooting.
No one was killed, but several victims were in critical condition, according to police.
For years, members of a secret team, Unit 29155, operated without Western security officials having any idea about their activities. But an attack on an arms dealer in Sofia helped blow their cover.
The director of a maximum-security prison in Honduras was brazenly murdered in broad daylight, in what was just the latest in a string of killings following the conviction for drug trafficking of Tony Hernández, the president’s brother, in the United States [....]
The police killed an average of 17 people every day in Brazil last year, and rogue officers are killing even more off duty. “I’m a hero to my people,” one militia leader said.
BELÉM, Brazil — The masked gunmen pulled up to Wanda’s Bar at 3:49 p.m. on May 19 and began firing the moment they left their vehicles. Two people, including Wanda herself, died on the patio.
Six-term Washington state Rep. Matt Shea is accused of participating "in an act of domestic terrorism against the United States," according to a report released Thursday.
Homeless advocates won a major victory Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court decided to leave in place a landmark ruling preventing cities from rousting people from street camps unless they offer them shelter or housing. But they’d really already won more than a year ago.
