Laura Clawson's Profile
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Daily Kos contributing editor since December 2006. Labor editor since 2011. Laura at Daily Kos
Real Name: Laura Clawson
Location: Washington, DC
Groups: Top Comments, Daily Kos Elections, Daily Kos, Saturday Evening Geek Out, In Support of Labor and Unions, Take New Hampshire Forward!, Educator Voices, Comics, Kossack Air Force, A Fighting Chance, Daily Kos Labor, Occupy Wall Street, Transcripts and Documents, Daily Kos Economics, DKE Ticker, Five Questions
Home Page: http://labor.dailykos.com/
Twitter: lauraclawson
Diaries published: 7911 (1 day since last diary on Wed Feb 01, 2017 at 03:00 PM PST)
Comments posted: 26278 (1 day since last comment on Wed Feb 01, 2017 at 03:00 PM PST)
Diary frequency: frequent
Comment frequency: frequent
Total Recommends: 263444
Total Comment Ratings: 77190
Most Recommended Diary: How Bernie Sanders lost me ... and Hillary Clinton won me over, 2384 comments, 713 recommends
People Following Laura Clawson: 1292
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● Ugh ugh ugh ugh ugh. (See above.)
● And speaking of which, five steps to maintain unity and membership under right to work.
● Sarah Jaffe:
by Laura Clawson
 2 comments
on Wed Feb 01, 2017 at 03:00 PM PST
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Congressional Democrats want an investigation involving Russia, the Emoluments Clause, and a top member of Donald Trump’s administration: National Security Adviser Mike Flynn. The possible violations in question came before Flynn’s appointment by...
by Laura Clawson
 42 comments
on Wed Feb 01, 2017 at 11:48 AM PST
with 127 Recommends
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If it seems like there’s a protest every couple days and everyone on your Facebook feed is talking about how they plan to get involved politically, there’s a reason for that. According to a new Washington Post poll:
40 percent of Democratic women...
by Laura Clawson
99 comments
on Wed Feb 01, 2017 at 10:46 AM PST
with 134 Recommends
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House Oversight Committee Chair Jason Chaffetz is once again making it clear that Donald Trump has nothing to fear from him and can do what he wants:
Chaffetz’s committee released a proposed agenda this week, listing 43 items for potential...
by Laura Clawson
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on Wed Feb 01, 2017 at 09:59 AM PST
with 9 Recommends
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Federal workers will suffer under Donald Trump, through hiring and pay freezes, being called on to do terrible and questionably legal things, and being targeted for abuse and repression. But many of them are ready to fight—as professionals committed to...
by Laura Clawson
47 comments
on Wed Feb 01, 2017 at 09:18 AM PST
with 133 Recommends
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What do you get when Donald Trump has to talk about Black History Month? Well, insults to the media, of course—as true as “How do you know he’s lying? His lips are moving“ is of Trump, you could equally replace “lying” with “complaining about the...
by Laura Clawson
140 comments
on Wed Feb 01, 2017 at 08:18 AM PST
with 74 Recommends
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Recommended by Laura Clawson
- This year is a rebuilding year, simply put. By now, you should have accepted that we lost—by 70,000 votes—the Electoral College, which means we lost the presidential election even though we did win the popular vote by some 3 million votes. We can go...57 comments 104 Recs
- Campaign Action Click here to listen in to Agitator Radio live. The interview with Benard Simelton, Alabama NAACP President, Joe Keffer, Moral Movement Alabama and John Zippert, President Alabama New South Coalition will cover the history of their...26 comments 30 Recs
- A few weeks ago I went on a tour of the new state-of-the-art upgrade at Recycle Central, San Francisco's 200,000-square-foot recycling plant on Pier 96 run by San Francisco's garbage resource recovery company Recology. Ever since I wrote Where No...118 comments 194 Recs
- Republicans have conjured for Americans a monster more frightening than any Hollywood has ever produced for Halloween. It pales “The Shining.” It is a two-headed beast Donald Trump calls voter fraud and rigged elections. Like Hollywood creatures,...1 comments 3 Recs
- Many people are finally understanding that it is racist to dress up as other cultures for Halloween. Unfortunately, we’ll still see some people dress up this year as a character that is a race they don’t belong to. This is problematic. I’m pointing...209 comments 119 Recs
- Republican Sen. Mark Kirk has done everything he can to distance himself from Donald Trump in his bid to keep his job in blue Illinois, running against Democratic challenger Tammy Duckworth. Everything except not sounding just like Trump when...72 comments 71 Recs
- Hi there! I am a domestic policy advisor with Secretary Clinton’s campaign, and one of the areas I focus on is our country’s addiction and mental health crises—and how Secretary Clinton can take bold and ambitious steps to tackle them. Below is a brief...193 comments 93 Recs
- Absentee ballots arrived in California votes’ mailboxes on Tuesday. And in addition to a presidential race that’s one for the record books, California voters will also be voting on electing a new U.S. Senator to the first open Senate seat in 24 years,...38 comments 33 Recs
- Earlier this morning the Mike Honda For Congress Campaign filed a civil lawsuit against Ro Khanna For Congress, Inc. and Brian Parvizshahi, Ro Khanna’s Campaign Manager. The Honda campaign is accusing Brian Parvizshahi of violating the Federal Economic...91 comments 127 Recs
- Think of it as a prodigal daughter story: She starts as a lurker here, begins commenting, gets caught up in the heat and passions of this platform and takes a break, launching into the wide, wide world of social media, where she becomes a Twitter...99 comments 298 Recs
