Ani DiFranco covers the great Phil Ochs song for the soundtrack of “Steal This Movie,” the Abbie Hoffman bio:

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Fiona Apple, from the remarkable “Extraordinary Machine“. Let me remind you: I wasn’t a big Fiona fan - until I heard this album.

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Two European NSA whistleblowers are dead:
Is someone murdering people who know too much about NSA wiretapping overseas?
Two whistleblowers — one in Italy, one in Greece — uncovered a secret bugging system installed in cell phones around the world. Both met with untimely ends. The resultant scandals have received little press in the United States, despite [...]

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Okay, as you know, I’m unemployed. Not coincidentally, I’d really, really like it if you’d donate a little something. As you also know, you’ll get to read SG whether you donate or not - that’s what makes it a donation.
I was pretty close to the edge while I was working, and I’m now getting half [...]

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Right the fuck on.

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Now why don’t reporters ask questions like this?

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This is my neighborhood internet radio station, and they play some really cool stuff. Check it out!

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I was just talking to my friend (who’s an insurance broker) about this. Unfortunately, no big surprise here:
State Farm Insurance supervisors systematically demanded that Hurricane Katrina damage reports be buried or replaced or changed so that the company would not have to pay policyholders’ claims in Mississippi, two State Farm insiders tell ABC News.
Kerri and [...]

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The former head of the EPA has been strangely silent on this subject - although, of course, she continues to campaign for the GOP:
A scientist at the Environmental Protection Agency has written a letter to Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and other members of the New York congressional delegation blasting the EPA for hiding dangerous [...]

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Since it’s a cash cow for them, why wouldn’t they pay for it?
The pharmaceutical industry quietly footed the bill for at least part of a recent multimillion-dollar ad campaign praising lawmakers who support the new Medicare prescription drug benefit, according to political officials.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce claims credit for the ads, although a spokesman [...]

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What is it about the GOP?
Montana officials have accused the state finance director for Sen. Conrad Burns’ (R-MT) re-election campaign, Pat Davison, of securities fraud, TPMmuckraker has learned.

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God, wouldn’t you think people would get the message by now?
“People here in the U.S. don’t understand these things about constitutional rights.”
That’s what a Jordan-born man says he was told by airport security personnel when they asked him to remove his T-shirt before boarding a flight to California at John F. Kennedy Airport in New [...]

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Say it isn’t so:
From Mike Kopp: nashvillepost.com’s Ken Whitehouse just broke a story minutes ago about the arrest of Shirley Ward, president of the Tennessee Federation of Republican Women, by the TBI for voter fraud. Ward, according to Whitehouse, turned herself in to authorities who are charging her with voter fraud stemming from allegations that [...]

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You don’t suppose there’s anything to that global warming thing, do you?
NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) - An unusually large number of tropical fish have been spotted this summer in Rhode Island waters by divers, fishermen and environmentalists.
Among the fish seen so far: juvenile orange filefish, snowy grouper and lookdowns. A local lobsterman pulled up a large [...]

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And of course, he doesn’t want to talk about the war:
Halley tells me that she told the President that she’s been opposed since “day one” to both the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“I talked to him about how important this person was to me,” Halley recounted, speaking of her husband. “It’s not just a soldier [...]

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One of my favorite tunes from Ben Folds Five:

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Nice piece in TAPPED attacking the conventional wisdom on incremental change. Go read it.

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Nice piece in TAPPED attacking the conventional wisdom on incremental change. Go read it.

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Lock up your children, they’re running out of soldiers.

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I like Bob Casey’s new ad.

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We don’t care that you actually violated the agreement, mind you - only that we have to pretend we’re upset so the Arabs don’t hate us as much:
WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 — The State Department is investigating whether Israel’s use of American-made cluster bombs in southern Lebanon violated secret agreements with the United States that restrict [...]

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So really, why should the press be allowed to use it?
Journalism took another hit yesterday when a federal judge ruled the government could legitimately tap the phones of anyone handling “material that is not generally available to the public.”
As one observer noted, that’s just what a free press traffics. “If the press could only report [...]

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Why, look how well it already worked for the California energy industry!

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The Times has an article about the cutthroat NYC housing market this morning, and I noticed this interesting bit:
CRAIG NEWMARK, the founder of Craigslist (and a San Francisco resident), said last week that monitoring the site’s New York City housing section is “my biggest single project, actually. When you are in a situation where you [...]

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I don’t care if it is Alabama. Why do Democrats insist on running away from our constituencies? Americans are a funny bunch. Challenge their kneejerk bigotry, insist they’re not being fair, and often as not, they’ll fold.
When are Dems going to call their own on this crap?

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Approved.

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Bubble Boy must be so pleased:
Israel is carefully watching the world’s reaction to Iran’s continued refusal to suspend uranium enrichment, with some high-level officials arguing it is now clear that when it comes to stopping Iran, Israel “may have to go it alone,” The Jerusalem Post has learned.
One senior source said on Tuesday that [...]

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Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi is my hero - not just for this, but for consistently fine work (I mean, if you don’t count the hatchet job he did on Howard Dean in The Nation):
What’s amazing about the “firing squad in a circle” line is that it is inevitably used less than five seconds after the [...]

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From twisty little St. John McCain’s PAC.

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David Sandborn, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Maria McKee and Van Dyke Parks jamming on the old Little Feat tune:

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