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• Details from Restore Fairness of How Immigration Enforcement Has Interfered with Workers' Rights.
• Joe Trippi hears what voters are really saying in Rove's Misread of Tuesday's Elections.
• Facts are too often replaced with indignation writes Forgiven in Birds of a Feather.
• Obama Signs the Hate Crime Bill into Law! What's next? (Paul LeGendre)
• Don't back down, Harry, pleads Tom Rinaldo in Reid was right to reject "the trigger". This is war.
• The Birthers and Beckers Triumph Over the GOP. (chrisblask)
• Barrett Brown: Never one to miss an opportunity to be wrong, Krauthammer Blasts Obama, Forgets His Place.
• The Media Consortium's Weekly Pulse: Joe Lieberman and the Opt-Out Revolution.

And the week's most recommended comment thread is taking place right now in bruh3's Quality of Life versus GDP in America.

It's 23 degrees and snowing where I'm at.  Just wanted to complain about that.  These diaries made up for it though.  Enjoy...

• Washington: It's Crunch Time to Protect Domestic Partnerships! (atdleft)
• Kansas Democrats get ahead of the anticipated petulance of wingnuts in Opt-out? Not so fast my friend -- KansasDeservesReform.com. (Mike Nellis)
• John Russonello reads the tea leaves: In Jersey, Christie's burden may be heavy for candidates in 2010.
• Trey Rentz puts the senate health care debate in blood boiling perspective in The Filibuster, Democracy, and the Public Option.
• Bruh3 gleans the lesson from banking industry bailouts in The Great Risk Shift: Understanding American Capitalism.
• Intelligent design proponents and closet racists in Barrett Brown's In Which I Encounter the Craziest People Ever.
• Oil company astro-turf hits the printed pages again in jamesboyce's Is Washington Post Liable For False Advertising?
• The Media Consortium's Weekly Audit: Dismantling the Wall Street Casino.

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• Voices of the Next Generation: Connecting Young People and the Labor Movement. (The Electrical Worker)
• In 49% in U.S. Say Fewer or No Troops in Afghanistan; 8% Say No Change, fairleft2 wonders what happened to the anti-war movement.
• Robert Naiman might have the answer in NoEscalation.org: Can the Peace Movement Reach Obama?
• Immigrants afraid to call the police - Rep. Jared Polis, ACLU stand up to Arpaio style enforcement.  (Restore Fairness)
• Tom Rinaldo delves into The Problem with Profits; Katie Meacham's story.
• Putting some pressure on the "don't knows" with Shaun Appleby and Public Option Close to Vote in House.
• What 'Liberal' Media? Study Shows Manipulation of Press to Serve Right-Wing Agenda. (Project Vote)

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• Largest Peace Group: Netroots Campaign to Stop Escalation Underway. (ralphlopez)
• 21st Century Democrats and the Youth Leadership Speaker Series in Calling All Interns! (Find out what they're about here)
• RDemocrat on primary challenges in Concession is NOT a Strategy.
• Exposing Robert Stacy McCain's Neo-Nazi Connections. (Barrett Brown)
• The Opportunity Agenda pieces together the good news, and the bad, in Coming Clean on the Stimulus.
• Devilrays wants Blue Dogs to come clean on their motivations in CBO: Robust Public Option lowers deficit the most.
• ElwoodBlz wonders why more Democrats aren't asking the right questions in Ike Skelton Pushes For More War in Afghan.
• Growing support for a progressive in CA-10: President Obama: "Everybody has got to go out there and work for John." (JohnGaramendi)

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• Superfusion: How China and America Became One Economy. (Zachary Karabell)
• Restore Fairness examines 287(g) and Expanding immigration enforcement programs - more harm than good?
• Nobel Committee Head Asks "Who Did More"?  And Sandy backs their conclusion up.
• Little things that make big differences in btchakir's Got a buck on ya?
• The Peace Movement Grows Up, Codepink vs. "Anti-imperialist" Flap. (ralphlopez)
• Richard Flatts has a Simple Executive Salary Fix.
• Gov. Schwarzenegger Approves Engaging Young California Voters Early. (Project Vote)
• The Opportunity Agenda argues for reinvesting one of the strongest influences of American culture in Broadcasting Opportunity.

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• Robert Naiman shreds McChrystal's 40,000 Troop Hoax.
• Seth D Michaels puts it bluntly: Young America Wants Health Care Reform.
• Tim Cole Panel Begins Study Texas Wrongful Convictions. (John Terzano, The Justice Project)
• Inoljt and The Latino Vote.
• John Russonello suggests we Limit "abstinence only" programs to the U.S. Senate.
• Atdleft has an update from Maine: No on 1 Has Small Lead, But the Race is STILL CLOSE!
• Agree or disagree, JDF sparks in interesting discussion wondering if progressives are Being Uncomfortable with Power.
• The Media Consortium's Weekly Pulse: Finance Committee Passes Health Bill.

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• Score the War, says Bruce Webb, it's not a lot to ask.
• The importance of recognizing possibility in Luigi Montanez's How Quickly We Forget: Obama's Role in Fostering World Peace.
• Moving forward, not backward, in atdleft's Washington This Year... And Nevada Next Year?
• Making unsexy topics sexy in jamesboyce's Acid Test the Movie: Burning It Up.
• Gender gaps and mixed perceptions on inequality in The Opportunity Agenda's Public Opinion Roundup: Abortion and Social Rifts.
• Renewable energy is local writes The Electrical Worker in IBEW Members Rally Against "Jobless Recovery."
• How to Make Voter Registration Accessible to All Citizens. (Project Vote)

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• Lefty Coaster is Following the Money in Maine.
• Mike Nellis details an incredible opportunity for Kansas Democrats in Brownback's approval rating tanks (again!) in September.
• A high profile resignation from the US Chamber of Commerce over contentious policy decisions in jamesboyce's iQuit.
• Point and snicker all you want says Chino Blanco in Mormon anti-gay efforts in Maine.
• Inoljt breaks down A Major Achievement in how student loans are handled.
• Jeff Goldstein Edits Own Comment To Avoid Embarrassment, and Barrett Brown makes a great point about those who misunderstand what makes the blogosphere powerful.
• Wondering if we'll see regulation with teeth, bruh3 is Putting Neoliberalism on Trial.
• IL-10: Dan Seals: Economy, Health Care & Energy Top 3 Issues.  With video. (bored now)
• The Media Consortium's Weekly Audit: Protect Consumers, Not Wall Street.