Events

Events Committee
Meeting at Headquarters 118N Columbus St, Lancaster, to continue planning events calendar for 2019.
Event Details  ·  Mar 28, 2019

Candidate Recruitment Committee
Candidate Recruitment Committee meeting at 10AM, Headquarters
Event Details  ·  Mar 30, 2019

Communication Committee
Communication Committee meeting at HQ, 10AM.
Event Details  ·  Apr 6, 2019

Fundraising Committee
Fundraising Committee meeting at 11AM, HQ
Event Details  ·  Apr 6, 2019

2nd Wednesday Happy Hour
April Happy/Social hour at Baltimore Pint House
Event Details  ·  Apr 10, 2019

News Articles

The sins we bury are at the core of Jordan Peele's 'Us'
Not too long ago, I went out with a friend I hadn’t seen in a while to meet some people she knew at a club. It was a cold night, like see-your-own-breath freezing cold, and as we left to pile into a car, a homeless man with a shopping cart approached the group. I pulled out the little bit...
News Item  ·  5 DailyKos Headlines  ·  Mar 26, 2019  

Daily Kos Science: Theory suggests that sound waves generate 'negative gravity'
In 2018, a trio of researchers at Columbia University proposed that sound waves—just ordinary sound waves—might generate negative gravity. That theory, covered at the website phys.org, has to do with something called a “phonon.” The phonon (not photon) is a concept from quantum...
News Item  ·  5 DailyKos Headlines  ·  Mar 26, 2019  

From Parkland to Sandy Hook, Trauma of School Shootings Haunts Survivors for Decades
Carlos Garcia Rawlins/ReutersThe suicides of three people connected to school shootings in the last week is bringing renewed attention to the long-term effects of such trauma—from survivor’s guilt to post-traumatic stress disorder.There is scant research on whether living through or losing...
News Item  ·  Daily Beast  ·  Mar 26, 2019  

Rudy Giuliani Claims CNN ‘Tortured’ Trump ‘With Collusion For Two Years,’ Demands Apology
ScreengrabThe day after Attorney General William Barr released a summary of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report finding members of the Trump campaign did not collude with Russia in its 2016 election interference, Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani demanded an apology from CNN anchor Chris Cuomo...
News Item  ·  Daily Beast  ·  Mar 26, 2019  

The Supreme Court Could Green-Light Extreme Partisan Gerrymandering
In 2016, after the Republican-controlled North Carolina legislature drew maps that segregated black voters into heavily majority-minority districts, a federal court ruled that two of the states’s congressional districts were illegally racially gerrymandered. When Republicans redrew the...
News Item  ·  Mother Jones Politics  ·  Mar 25, 2019  

Michael Avenatti Indicted for Attempting to Extort Nike for More Than $20 Million
Federal prosecutors in New York have charged Michael Avenatti with attempting to extort more than $20 million from Nike by threatening to release damaging information about the company. “On or about March 20, 2019, Avenatti and CC-1 spoke by telephone with attorneys for Nike, during which...
News Item  ·  Mother Jones Politics  ·  Mar 25, 2019  

Note to Donald Trump and Company: Lower Your Voices. Stop Playing With Matches.
If there is something we won’t soon forget in our turbulent era, it is the image of massive California brushfires enveloping hundreds of square miles of land in the Golden State and everything situated on that bone-dry landscape. The smoke was so severe that people with respiratory problems...
News Item  ·  Plunderbund  ·  Mar 21, 2019  

Is the First-Class Cabin Disappearing?
Slate Money’s new travel podcast talks to Charles Read about the shrinking of first class.
News Item  ·  Slate  ·  Mar 26, 2019  

48-Year-Old UC-Irvine Coach Taunted 19-Year-Old Oregon Player by Calling Him “Queen” During NCAA Game
It’s impossible to know exactly what Turner was going for in his choice of jeer: sexism, homophobia or perhaps both.
News Item  ·  Slate  ·  Mar 26, 2019  

The President Has Not Been Exonerated
John Nichols In addition to demanding the release of the Mueller report, Congress must examine actions by William Barr that call into question the AG's objectivity. The post The President Has Not Been Exonerated appeared first on The Nation.
News Item  ·  The Nation  ·  Mar 26, 2019  

Guarding the Southern Border Has Become an Exercise in Cruelty
William deBuys Twelve ways in which Trump’s wall will only add to our border crisis. The post Guarding the Southern Border Has Become an Exercise in Cruelty appeared first on The Nation.
News Item  ·  The Nation  ·  Mar 25, 2019  

Elizabeth Warren after TMZ catches her sprinting to catch train: 'Try and keep up'
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Monday joked that TMZ should "try and keep up" after the news outlet caught her sprinting through New York City's Penn Station.Video of the encounter ...
News Item  ·  The Hill  ·  Mar 26, 2019  

GOP governor criticizes Trump's 'dangerous rhetoric' about the media
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) on Monday criticized what he described as President Trump's "dangerous rhetoric" about the news media, telling a crowd of reporters that they are "not the enemy of the people."...
News Item  ·  The Hill  ·  Mar 26, 2019