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Daily Archives: November 9th, 2016

Trump fans, welcome to the backlash against your backlash. It’s only just getting started.

Excerpt: Peo­ple all across the Dis­unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca, dis­gust­ed with Don­ald Trump’s vic­to­ry in the 2016 pres­i­den­tial elec­tion, have tak­en to the streets to protest the foul-mouthed neo­fas­cist, with many declar­ing “He’s Not My President.” In city after city, from Den­ver to Chica­go to Los Ange­les to San Fran­cis­co and Oak­land to New York to […]
Published at:11:17 PM on Wednesday, November 9th, 2016
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Civil Liberties, Elections, Open Government, Policy Topics
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A horrible week just got worse: Mass shooting reported in downtown Seattle

Excerpt: Author­i­ties in Seat­tle have cor­doned off an area near 3rd & Pine fol­low­ing a mass shoot­ing in the heart of the city. We don’t know very much at this time, except that five peo­ple are said to be wound­ed and two have life-threat­en­ing injuries. The perpetrator(s) are unknown at this time and the inves­ti­ga­tion is […]
Published at:9:21 PM on Wednesday, November 9th, 2016
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Policy Topics, Public Planning
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California’s Democratic leaders offer a fitting, appropriate response to Trump’s “triumph”

Excerpt: Hillary Clin­ton, Barack Oba­ma, and oth­er nation­al Demo­c­ra­t­ic fig­ures are show­ing a lot of def­er­ence to Don­ald Trump in the hours fol­low­ing the pro­jec­tion of his like­ly vic­to­ry in the Elec­toral Col­lege — per­haps owing to their belief that def­er­ence is required to ensure a peace­ful tran­si­tion of power. Said Clin­ton: Don­ald Trump is going to […]
Published at:1:57 PM on Wednesday, November 9th, 2016
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Elections
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As darkness envelops American democracy, Washington State charts a progressive path

Excerpt: Cat­a­stro­phe. Dev­as­tat­ing. Tragedy. Those are some of the words I’m see­ing being used in an attempt to describe the out­come of the 2016 pres­i­den­tial elec­tion, which end­ed last night in a series of dark, dis­turb­ing defeats for Hillary Clin­ton and the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Party. And yet, while vot­ers in Michi­gan, Wis­con­sin, and Penn­syl­va­nia were hand­ing the nation’s […]
Published at:4:36 AM on Wednesday, November 9th, 2016
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Elections
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