feministjudge:

Gwen Moore, ladies and gentlemen

Watch Gwen Moore’s interview on The Colbert Report here.

(Source: sandandglass)

Republican lawmakers have become reflexive in rejecting every extended hand from the administration, even if the ideas were ones that they themselves once welcomed. Under the circumstances, Mr. Obama would be best advised to stop making peace offerings. Only when the Republican Party feels public pressure to become a serious partner can the real work of governing begin.

Take that … and that!

Wisconsin State Legislature to Milwaukee (via milwaukeestat)

Thanks a fucking lot, Wisconsin.

reallyfoxnews:

Jon Stewart destroys Fox News on their Benghazi coverage. Amazing.

motherjones:

Chart of the day. Full data here.

msnbc:

The new Democratic senator from Massachusetts introduced her first bill Wednesday, the Bank on Students Loan Fairness Act, offering students temporary relief from the burden of high interest rates on loans.

(Source: inothernews)

A blistering audit released Wednesday said Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s premier job creation agency repeatedly broke state law in its first year of operation, failed to adequately track money it awarded for economic development projects and sometimes gave money to ineligible recipients.

cheatsheet:

Here’s what happens to your polling numbers when you vote against background checks for guns. 

The Affordable Care Act application just got a whole lot easier.

brooklynmutt:

President Obama at the White House Correspondents Dinner

sandandglass:

Obama’s one-liners during his speech at the White House Correspondents Dinner.

No matter how great the challenge, no matter how fierce the opposition, there’s one thing the past few years have shown: Planned Parenthood is not going anywhere.  As long as we’ve got to fight to make sure that women have access to quality affordable health care, and as long as we’ve got to fight to protect a woman’s right to make her own choices about her own health, I want you to know that you’ve also got a President who’s going to be right there with you, fighting every step of the way.

-President Obama

(Source: drunkonstephen)