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Weekly Pulse: Florida Governor Wants to Drug Test All State Employees

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.30.2011

Read More: Abortion, Welfare, Suzy Khimm, Minnesota Independent, Florida, Andy Birkey, Hiv, Abstinence, Cenk Uygur, Drug Testing, The Progressive, Martha Kempner, LaShieka Purvis Hunter, South Dakota, Planned Parenthood, Alternet, Young Turks, Public Sector Workers, Rick Scott, Colorlines, Labor, Ellen LaConte, Fruit, Mother Jones, Matthew Rothschild, Mike Elk, Working in These Times, Gardening, Aids, Vegetable, Politics News

By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Florida Republican Governor Rick Scott plans to force public workers and welfare recipients to undergo...

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Weekly Audit: Police Defy Order to Clear Protesters from Wisconsin Capital

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Photography, Democracy Now!, Anonymous, David Koch, Collective Bargaining, Police, Civil Rights, Middle Class, Sanitation Worker, Ddos, Layoff, Kelda Helen Roys, Dc, Mother Jones, Matthew Rothschild, Scott Walker, Protest, Dues, Rally, Andy Kroll, Union, Quorum, Illinois, New York, Martin Luther King, Budget, Solidarity, The Progressive, George Warner, Care2, The Uptake, Colorlines, Campus Progress, Wisconsin, Madison, Amy Goodman, Jessica Pieklo, Jon Erpenbach, Senate, Economy, Indiana, Politics News

By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger On Monday afternoon, the Capitol Police in Madison, Wisconsin refused to enforce an order to clear the...

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Weekly Audit: A Recall Fight Brewing in Wisconsin?

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Tens of thousands of people continue their peaceful occupation of the Wisconsin state capital to prote...

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Showdown in Madison: A Primer for the Wisconsin Protests

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wisconsin, FREE SPEECH RADIO NEWS, COLORLINES.COM, The Progressive, The Nation, Campus Progress, The Uptake, Protests, Unions, Madison, Mother Jones, Scott Walker, Working in These Times, Grittv, Politics News

by Raquel Brown, Media Consortium blogger It's been a tumultuous week in Madison, Wisconsin. Tens of thousands of state workers, teachers, and studen...

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Weekly Pulse: Egg Salad Surprise! Congress Votes to Clean Up Food Supply

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Second Trimester, The American Prospect, Statistics, Community Health Center, Reproductive Rights, Food Safety, Fertility, Cdc, change.org, Peanut Butter, Republican, Egg, Clinic, Mother Jones, Dan Peterson, Teen Pregnancy, Affordable Care Act, Aca, Grist, Paul Waldman, Birth Rate, Abortion, Women, Judy Shackleford, Abstinence, The Progressive, Democrat, Omnibus Spending Bill, Tom Philpott, Feministing, Choice, Wisconsin, Food Safety and Modernization Act, Madison, Food, Medicare, Siddhartha Mahanta, Home News

by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger It's a Christmas-week miracle! The Senate, in a vote that astonished everyone, brought the Food Safe...

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Weekly Audit: Millions of Americans Could Lose Unemployment Benefits

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Weekly Audit: Millions of Americans Could Lose Unemployment BenefitsEditor's Note: Happy Thanksgiving from the Media Consortium! This week, we aren't ...

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Weekly Pulse: Sharron Angle Mocks Insurance for Autism; The Fight to Save Food Stamps

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ms. Blog, The American Prospect, Food Stamps, Tpm, Sharron Angle, Food Stamp Benefits, The Progressive, Care2, E!, The Swan, Ectopic Pregnancy, School Lunch, Tapped, Reality TV, Nevada, Harry Reid, Plastic Surgery, Bridalplasty, Mother Jones, Body Dysmorphic Disorder, Health Insurance, Ms Magazine, Talking Points Memo, Autism, Health Care, Senate, The Washington Independent, Politics News

by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger The woman gunning for Sen. Harry Reid's (D-NV) job doesn't believe that autism exists. Yes, you hea...

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Weekly Diaspora: Arizona's Anti-Immigrant Crusade Continues

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: SUSAN BOLTON, Detention Centers, John McCain, Colorlines, Jan Brewer, Truthout, Sb 1070, Joe Arpaio, The Progressive, Talking Points Memo, Arizona, J.D. Hayworth, The Washington Independent, Home News

by Catherine Traywick, Media Consortium blogger Though Arizona's SB 1070 went into effect without its most controversial provisions, the legislation'...

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Weekly Mulch: How Reid's Energy Bill Undermines Senate Climate Efforts

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jobs Bill, Hydrofracture, Gasland, Renewable Energy, The Progressive, Jobs, Clean Energy, Linktv, Carteret Islands, Washington Independent, Harry Reid, Grittv, New Guinea, Mother Jones, Truthout, Energy Bill, Hydrofracking, Home News

by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger Yesterday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) introduced a limited energy bill that responds to the oi...

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Weekly Diaspora: Boycotting Arizona

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

by Erin Rosa, Media Consortium blogger Anti-immigrant fervor could be more costly than Arizona lawmakers expected. Thanks to SB 1070, a new law that r...

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Weekly Pulse: The Pill at 50 and Oklahoma's Extreme Ultrasound Law

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Food and Drug Administration, Merrick Garland, The American Prospect, Women's Media Center, RH Reality Check, Reproductive Rights, Elena Kagan, The Progressive, Pro-Life, Diane Wood, Justice John Paul Stevens, Birth Control Pill, Reproductive Freedom, Tropical Diseases, Birth Control, The Pill, Fda, Reproductive Health, Wellpoint, Anti-Choice, Talking Points Memo, Pro-Choice, Women's Liberation, Center for Reproductive Rights, Politics News

by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Fifty years ago, the Food and Drug Administration approved the first birth control pill. Needless to...

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Weekly Mulch: Cochabamba Summit to Combat Climate Change Innovatively

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Democracy Now!, Bolivia, Congress, Green Jobs, Epa, Regulation, Greenhouse Gas Polution, The Nation, Offshore Drilling, Lieberman, Carbon, Cochabamba, Cap-and-Trade, Climate Reform, Climate Bill, Un, Copenhagen, Bill Mckibben, Carbon Emissions, Clean Coal, Kerry, Lobbying, Mexico, The Progressive, Utilities, Co2, Earth Day, Colorlines, Carbon Offsets, Graham, Ghg, The Washington Independent, Green News

By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger On Monday, climate activists, nonprofit leaders, and governmental officials will gather in Cochabamba, Boli...

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Weekly Pulse: Nebraska's Sweeping Abortion Ban on Colision Course with Supreme Court

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tapped, Supreme Court, Abortion, Mental Health, Dr George Tiller, RH Reality Check, Nebraska, The Progressive, Anti-Choice, Pro-Life, Ableist, Feministing, Pro-Choice, Dan Heineman, Health Care, Justice John Paul Stevens, Politics News

By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Yesterday, Nebraska's Republican governor Dave Heineman signed a sweeping new law that criminalizes al...

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Weekly Pulse: SCOTUS Nominee Kagan a Cipher on Choice

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tapped, Supreme Court, Harriet Meiers, RH Reality Check, Solicitor General, President Bill Clinton, Mother Jones, Washington Monthly, Elena Kagan, The America Prospect, The Progressive, John Paul Stevens, Scotus, Partial Birth Abortion, Politics News

by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger On Monday, President Barack Obama nominated solicitor general Elena Kagan to replace retiring Justice ...

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Weekly Pulse: Eric Massa Backs off Health Care Conspiracy, Glenn Beck Apologizes to the Entire Country

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tapped, Eric Massa, The American Prospect, Dennis Kucinich, Washington Monthly, Rahm Emmanuel, Tpmdc, Health Care Reform, Wendell Potter, The Progressive, Glen Beck, Health Care, Alternet, Politics News

By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Former Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY) punked conservative talk show host Glenn Beck yesterday by recanting his...

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Weekly Audit: Just Who is Obama fighting for?

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: David Corn, The Washington Monthly, Spending Freeze, President Barack Obama, Financial Reform, The Progressive, Obama, Budget Deficit, The Nation, President Obama. Barack Obama, Paul Volcker, Recession, Alternet, Steve Benen, Bank Tax, Mother Jones, Zach Carter, Great Recession, Matthew Rothschild, Banks, Katrina Vanden Huevel, Talking Points Memo, Wall Street, Too Big to Fail, Rachel Slajda, Glass-Steagall, Economy, Home News

By Zach Carter, Media Consortium Blogger Progressives have waited a year for President Barack Obama to roll up his sleeves and fight for serious finan...

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Daily Pulse: Obama to Outline Vision for Health Care Reform

Lindsay Beyerstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lindsay Beyerstein, Congress, Speech, Public Plan, Obama, Reform, The Progressive, Yes Magazine, Insurance, The Media Consortium, Health, Daily Pulse, Talking Points Memo, Tmc, New American Media, Healthcare, The Uptake, Politics News

This is Obama's last chance to recapture the momentum that Democrats lost to corporate-backed town hall hooligans and misinformation during the August recess.

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Weekly Audit: Four More Years of Bailout Ben

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Taxes, Deficit, The Washington Monthly, The Nation, Weekly Audit, The Media Consortium, Federal Reserve, Economy, Zach Carter, Banks, The Real News, The Progressive, Salon, Tmc, The Uptake, In These Times, Ben Bernanke, Business News

Why is the Bernanke reappointment a mistake? Put simply, Bernanke is completely culpable for allowing an economic crisis to foment.

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The Progressive Magazine Needs Our Help

Paul Loeb | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Progressive, Alternative Media, Social Change, Magazines, Robert La Follette, Politics News

The Progressive may not be able to continue without our help. I'm chipping in and hope my fellow HuffPo readers will too.

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Weekly Pulse: Mob Scene

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Abortion, Lindsay Beyerstein, RH Reality Check, Gun, Weekly Pulse, Seiu, Reform, The Progressive, Riots, Town Hall, The Media Consortium, Protest, George Tiller, Talking Points Memo, Tmc, Tea Party, Alternet, Healthcare, In These Times, Politics News

Republicans and their allies are pressuring Democratic healthcare reformers at townhall meetings around the country. Addie Stan has a blockbuster piece in AlterNet that exposes the network behind the mobs.

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Weekly Audit: Why the Rich Can't Afford to Get Richer

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Elizabeth Warren, Steven Benen, Truthdig, David Sirota, Washington Monthly, Naomi Klein, The Real News, The Progressive, Faisal Islam, Salon, John Talbott, Weekly Audit, The Media Consortium, Zach Carter, Tmc, Alternet, Simon Johnson, Home News

by Zach Carter, TMC MediaWire Blogger If we want our economy to be strong and stable, we have to start thinking about it as a product of community--n...

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Life, Liberty and the Right to Be Sick

Margo Hammond and Ellen Heltzel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rep. Tammy Baldwin, Sen. George McGovern, Health Care, Howard Zinn, Jim Hightower, Barbara Ehrereich, The Progressive, Robert La Folette, Robert Redford, Sen. Russ Feingold, Cindy Sheehan, Bismarck, Health, Politics News

Scandlen argues that "Americans are not required to buy food, clothing or shelter. Why must they buy health insurance?"

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This Week in Magazines: A Remarkably Resilient Progressive Turns 100, Eliot Spitzer Gropes to Turn a Corner

James Warren | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Progressive, Newsweek, Council on Foreign Relations, This Week in Magazines, Eliot Spitzer, National Journal, Media News

Newsweek has the most vivid rollout so far of Spitzer's obvious image rehab -- he goes jogging around Central Park with a reporter as his shame and ego continue their internal battle.

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McCain Undone By Affect And Temperament
McCain NewsLadder

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Taxes, Abortion, David Corn, Dana Goldstein, Joe the Plumber, Presidential Debate, John McCain, Don Hazen, Emily Douglas, Mother Jones, Laura Rozen, The Progressive, The Economy, Laura McClure, The Nation, #debate08, War and Piece, Katrina Vanden Heuvel, Barack Obama, Alternet, RH Reality Check, Elizabeth Gettelman, Acorn, Ezra Klein, Ari Melber, Nick Baumann, Ruth Conniff, William Ayers, Final Presidential Debate, The American Prospect, 2008 Presidential Campaign, Jonathan Stein, Home News

Special Debate Edition In the much-anticipated final presidential debate of the 2008 campaign season, the man who landed the greatest number of punch...

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