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Day: June 13, 2014

Politics for Partisans

June 13, 2014 Buck Banks

People used to participate in politics because they cared.
The more they participated, the better democracy fared.
But not these days,
When partisanship holds sway,
And the only ones who participate are the angry and the scared.

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Encyclopedia of Iraqi War Heroes Just Shrank Again

June 13, 2014 Buck Banks

30,000

Number of of Iraqi soldiers — two divisions — Iraqi officials told the Guardian simply turned and ran in the face of the assault by an insurgent force of just 800 fighters.

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Them Clintons are Money-Making Machines

June 13, 2014 Buck Banks

$600,000

Annual salary Chelsea Clinton earned at NBC News before switching to a month-to-month contract earlier this year, according to Politico.

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Cochran In the Dark Over Cantor

June 13, 2014 Buck Banks

I don’t know what you’re talking about. What happened in Virginia?

— Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS), quoted by Fox News, apparently unaware that House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R) lost his seat in a primary.

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Map Shows Progress on Marriage Equality

June 13, 2014June 20, 2014 Jon Ponder

Source: Mother Jones

Marriage equality is now the law in the Pacific Coast states and Hawaii, the Northeast, New Mexico and four states in the Midwest.

To access an interactive version of this map on the Mother Jones website that provides status and updates on laws state-by-state, click here.

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Dishonest to a Fault
Buck Banks | Jul. 22, 2026

From Trump’s “stolen election” lies, we can’t get no relief,
He carps on about stolen votes, but he never names the thief.
Somebody needs to tell this guy
Americans aren’t buying his lies,
And that he’s turned us into the United States of Disbelief.

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Verbatim

    “If you are committing fraud against the American people, all of us in public leadership should be trying to stop it and throw you in prison for enriching yourself off the American taxpayer.”

    — Vice President JD Vance, on Fox News.

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    “Your generation has a great bullshit meter, because you’re fed bullshit online all day. And the Democratic Party brand right now is so bullshit.”

    — Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D), quoted by The Atlantic, speaking to college students.

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    “We are done, Americans are done with endless conflict in the Middle East, spending trillions of dollars, American lives… this is insane and we have to call it for what it is.”

    — Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO), on CNN.

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Numerati

    +175,000

    “The U.S. State Department announced on Monday that it has revoked more than 175,000 visas during President Donald Trump’s administration so far,” Fox News reports.

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    $4,600

    President Donald Trump is asking for $1,500,000 million for the military for next year. That’s close to $600 billion (adjusted for inflation) more than we were spending on the military in fiscal year 2025, before Trump took office, Alternet reports. This increase is huge by any measure. It comes to around $4,600 per household. It is around 8% of the total budget.

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    11

    A new Emerson College survey of likely 2026 voters finds the Democrats with an 11-point advantage over the Republicans on the generic congressional ballot, leading 53% to 42%. President Trump holds a 39% job approval rating, consistent with the past two months, whereas his disapproval increased another point, to 57%.

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    30%

    A new American Research Group poll finds just 30% of Americans say they approve of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president and 67% say they disapprove.

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    61% to 35%

    Wall Street Journal: “Around 40% of voters in the 2024 election said the economy was their top issue, far outstripping any other matter. And those voters favored Donald Trump by 60% to 38%. Many say they were moved by his pledges to tame inflation, rebuild U.S. infrastructure, cut red tape and trim government waste. … About a year and a half later, more voters disapprove of Trump’s handling of the economy than approve, 61% to 35%, an average of polls by the Cook Political Report found this month.”

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