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Just yesterday, I was commenting on Republicans’ eagerness to brand liberals like Clinton and Feinstein as violent. But it turns out it’s not just Clinton finally calling for Democrats to grow a spine. In the last 24 hours, the country suddenly noticed Eric Holder’s comments at a Georgia rally on Sunday. From CNN:

“It is time for us as Democrats to be as tough as they are, to be as dedicated as they are, to be as committed as they are,” Holder said. “Michelle always says, Michelle Obama, I love her. She and my wife are really tight. Which always scares me and Barack. Michelle always says, ‘When they go low, we go high.’ No. No. When they go low, we kick them.”

It’s about damn time the Democrats start fighting back. But the right is eager to distort Holder’s message, and to invoke “angry black man” racial stereotypes in the process.

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A note from the admin: The new hosting setup is great, but anyone who’s read APN before might notice some posts are still missing. I’m having to not just reload post content, but also conform to the new WordPress layout, fix broken links, add categories and tags… it’s a manual process, which takes a while. I would’ve preferred to have all the content ported over here before the old site shut down, but things got accelerated.

I’m assuming people can live with the temporary loss of some older posts. It’s all getting restored, gradually.

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This is pretty disgusting: A senior official in the Trump administration just admitted to usurping the will and authority of the President of the United States. This is a literal coup, operating inside the White House right now, by someone who doesn’t want to exercise the 25th Amendment because it might slow down the fulfillment of his libertarian wet dreams.

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So apparently our home-grown Nazis tried to have themselves a rally in D.C. today, or something? I can’t tell with all the hordes of counter-protesters blocking the view.

This is glorious. The fight isn’t over, but today was a good day.

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Protesters crashed the wedding of a cop who shot Stephon Clark in the back. They yelled “murderer!” They asked, “if you started planning your wedding before you killed Stephon Clark or after?”

Well, this is what happens when you reject and punish peaceful protest. You invite non-peaceful protest. That’s on you. You chose this, America.

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The Nazis from last year’s Charlottesville rally are planning a comeback. But this time, apparently, they won’t be marching in Virginia.

They’ll be marching in front of the White House, thanks to a permit from the National Parks Service.

This should end well.

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So, I think we’ve all known Roseanne Barr is a racist for awhile now. ABC knew it when it rebooted Roseanne, they had to. So I was a little surprised when they actually cancelled the show in response to her blatantly racist attack on Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett.

I was even more surprised when she blamed it on Ambien. Apparently, so were the makers of Ambien:

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In April 2016, to try to educate people about the consequences of a Trump victory, the Boston Globe published a fake newspaper front page from the future. The page, dated April 9, 2017, was supposed to depict what could happen if Trump won, and encourage people to turn out against him to avoid that future.

Well, take a hard look at their predictions. It took longer than they expected to reach this point, but for something written in early 2016, it sure looks pretty prophetic:

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If Twitter is how Trump comments on issues important to him, does that mean he just doesn’t care about Puerto Ricans?

It’s not like he doesn’t tweet about hurricanes. He tweeted amply about hurricanes Harvey and Irma, and the government’s responses in Florida and Texas. Puerto Rico is in crisis right now. So why is the President of the United States paying more attention to the NFL than the crisis in Puerto Rico?

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