It's Official -- Bernie Sanders Has Overtaken Hillary Clinton In the Hearts and Minds of Democrats

It's Official -- Bernie Sanders Has Overtaken Hillary Clinton In the Hearts and Minds of Democrats

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Posted: 06/25/2015 11:14 am EDT Updated: 06/25/2015 11:59 am EDT

According to PBS, Bernie Sanders is "gaining against Clinton in early polls." Salon'sBill Curry believes "Hillary Clinton is going lose," primarily because millions of voters longing for a truly progressive candidate will nominate Sanders. POLITICO explained recently that Early-state polls hint at a Bernie Sanders surge, a headline that was unthinkable only several months earlier. Yahoo's Meredith Shiner calls Sanders a "progressive social media star and pragmatic legislator" and states that "Sanders also has a much more substantial legislative history" than any GOP challenger. In Iowa,1,100 people packed a gym to hear Bernie Sanders speak in May.

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Millions of U.S. Broadband Subscribers Are Experiencing Artificial Internet Brownouts

Millions of U.S. Broadband Subscribers Are Experiencing Artificial Internet Brownouts

Natalie Nicol

Net NeutralityThe FCC and Media Policy

On the day of the FCC’s historic Open Internet vote, Chairman Tom Wheeler announced that in addition to enacting the strongest Net Neutrality rules ever, the agency’s order would contain important provisions pertaining to interconnection.

This was welcome news for consumers and businesses that have endured widespread Internet “brownouts” stemming from the artificial congestion Internet service providers have created at network interconnection points. Far too often, customers have been unable to access the content they’ve requested at the speeds they pay their broadband providers to deliver.

Last year’s highly publicized Netflix disputes with ISPs were not the end of the story. And the FCC’s language about interconnection is not a cure-all for these kinds of anti-consumer practices. In fact, real-world experience shows that the problem remains very real today. The FCC needs to take a close look at the dramatic impact interconnection issues have on broadband end-users’ experience — and it needs to follow through and act as quickly as possible.

Data from Measurement Lab, which Ars Technica highlighted just after the FCC released its Open Internet Order, show that these massive slowdowns are an ongoing problem for customers of the nation’s largest ISPs. Consumers are being held hostage while ISPs try to extract a ransom from other carriers and Internet content providers.

Interconnection Is What Makes the Internet Work ... Until It Doesn’t

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SUPREME COURT SHOWS SURPRISING WILLINGNESS TO COMBAT 'UNCONSCIOUS' DISCRIMINATION

SUPREME COURT SHOWS SURPRISING WILLINGNESS TO COMBAT 'UNCONSCIOUS' DISCRIMINATION
BY JUDD LEGUM POSTED ON JUNE 25, 2015 AT 11:25 AM

Much of the attention on the Supreme Court today has focused on King v. Burwell, which upheld federal subsidies and preserved health care for millions. But a less prominent case relating to the Fair Housing Act of 1968, Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. The Inclusive Community Project, Inc., could be equally significant.

The 5-4 ruling, which surprised many court watchers, found that the housing policies could be deemed discriminatory based on “disparate impact.” This means that plaintiffs could prove discrimination by showing that the impact of a housing policy was discriminatory, even if there was no conscious attempt to discriminate.

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THE SUPREME COURT'S OBAMACARE DECISION IS THE BIGGEST POSSIBLE WIN FOR THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION

THE TRUTH ABOUT THE HECKLER AT THE WHITE HOUSE PRIDE RECEPTION LAST NIGHT		REPUBLICAN LEADERS VOW TO KEEP FIGHTING OBAMACARE DESPITE SUPREME COURT LOSS

THE 5 MOST MELODRAMATIC LINES FROM JUSTICE SCALIA'S OBAMACARE DISSENT

SUPREME COURT SHOWS SURPRISING WILLINGNESS TO COMBAT 'UNCONSCIOUS' DISCRIMINATION

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Memo to David Brooks: Francis Is Not Naïve for Criticizing Capitalism

Memo to David Brooks: Francis Is Not Naïve for Criticizing Capitalism Peter Laarman: What begins in the column as praise for Francis ends as a patronizing lecture on the virtuous dynamism of the market system. READ MORE shared from

THURSDAY, 25 JUNE 2015 Memo to David Brooks: Francis Is Not Naïve for Criticizing Capitalism Peter Laarman: What begins in the column as praise for Francis ends as a patronizing lecture on the virtuous dynamism of the market system READ MORE Friend on Facebook Follow on Twitter Forward to a Friend After He Leaves, What Will They Say About Obama’s Foreign Policy? Murray Polner: Obama was going to be different, or so we hoped. The hundreds of thousands who joyously hailed him in Grant Park and the 1.5 million who turned out for his first inauguration were ecstatic with anticipation. The policies of the past were dead and gone. Or so we innocents thought. READ HERE The Fallout From TPP Michael Hertz: If you've kept up at all on the tortured legislative history of TPP, you understand that what has occurred shows how divided the country and both major parties have become. READ MORE Weeding Roses in Kabul Martha Hennessy: Of the estimated two million child laborers in Afghanistan, 60,000 work in Kabul, competing for meager wages. They sell bread and shine shoes on the streets to support their families so that they may eat. READ MORE Pieces of Cloth Larry Wines: Let's recognize that any time we have divided ourselves — which is usually because somebody, powerful enough to do it, excluded some of us from making our contributions — we have been diminished. READ HERE

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THE FIGHT AGAINST TPP IS FAR FROM OVER

Dear FRIEND, We fought hard, but Congress passed fast track. Take the next step: Demand fair trade, not toxic trade! We put in an incredible fight, but big polluters got their way on fast track. Fortunately, the larger fight against the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and for fair and responsible trade is far from over. A bill to fast-track toxic trade deals that could threaten climate progress just passed through Congress. We're disappointed with this outcome, but thanks to the work of people like you, our movement is stronger and more powerful than ever before. We made this a tough vote by demonstrating that the public rejects bad trade deals that devastate communities and the environment. What's next? We're not going away! We'll now work directly to defeat the toxic Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) once and for all, and we'll keep fighting to make sure the trade deal with Europe, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), doesn't turn into another toxic polluter giveaway. The passage of fast track makes both of these fights harder, but it only makes us more determined. Add your name to our petition to demand fair trade, not toxic trade! Let us know you're still with us in this fight. We've made incredible progress over the last few months.Sierra Club supporters sent more than 350,000 messages to Congress, made more than 10,000 phone calls, and organized and attended events across the country opposing fast track. More people than ever before are aware of the dangers posed by free trade pacts like the TPP to our environment and climate. An incredible movement is mobilizing against toxic trade and for responsible trade. Climate activists stood side by side with labor, food safety, human rights, and internet freedom activists, speaking out against this toxic fast track bill. With the support of people like you, we will continue to stand with our friends to fight toxic trade deals and we will win. In the coming months the TPP may come to Congress for a vote and the negotiations for TTIP are at a critical point. We came so close to defeating fast track. If we keep up the momentum and turn this movement we've created into a crescendo of voices calling for responsible trade and against toxic trade, we will ultimately prevail. Fight back against big polluters. Add your name now to demand fair trade, not toxic trade! Thank you for your continued efforts to protect our environment and build a new model of trade. Sincerely, Michael Brune, Executive Director Sierra Club P.S. After you take action, be sure to forward this alert to your friends and colleagues! Share this action on Facebook Share this action on Twitter

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Create a basic income guarantee for everyone.

Create a basic income guarantee for everyone.  Share this action on Facebook  Share this action on Twitter The Charleston massacre has elevated the issue of venomous racism, and will hopefully bring down flags and other symbols of white racism. Meanwhile, just as there is no excuse for racism, there is no excuse for poverty in a country as wealthy as ours. Poverty is a huge problem among Americans of all races -- but it is very disproportionately a problem for African-Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans. Let's do something about it: Click here. In the year 2000, the typical white family held a net worth six times greater than the typical black family. That gap has now more than doubled. As wealth disparity increases across the board, so does racial wealth disparity (with the 400 wealthiest Americans possessing more wealth than half the country). The median white household now has 13 times the wealth of the median black household and 10 times that of the median Latino household.[1] With 10% of whites in the U.S. officially in poverty, for blacks it's 27% and for Latinos 24%. Click here to sign a petition to begin to change this. One way to address the legacy of slavery and racism that creates the racial wealth disparity would be to acknowledge the worth of every human being by creating a basic income guarantee. A basic income guarantee is an idea whose time has come in our country. Alaska has a form of it with oil money going to all citizens. Proposed by Thomas Paine, Martin Luther King Jr., President Richard Nixon and many others throughout history, a basic income guarantee could eliminate poverty, reduce bureaucracy, reduce inequality, and reduce crime and desperation. While other countries have been creating basic income guarantees, the United States is lagging behind. It's time to put such guarantees on the national agenda. Click here. After signing the petition, please forward this message to your friends. You can also share it from the webpage after taking the action yourself. -- The RootsAction.org Team P.S. RootsAction is an independent online force endorsed by Jim Hightower, Barbara Ehrenreich, Cornel West, Daniel Ellsberg, Glenn Greenwald, Naomi Klein, Bill Fletcher Jr., Laura Flanders, former U.S. Senator James Abourezk, Coleen Rowley, Frances Fox Piven, Lila Garrett, Phil Donahue, Sonali Kolhatkar, and many others. P.P.S. This work is only possible with your financial support. Please donate. Footnote: 1. Pew Research Center: Wealth inequality has widened along racial, ethnic lines since end of Great Recession Background: Remapping Debate: Guaranteed Income's Moment in the Sun www.RootsAction.org

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