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Watch the ENDA Markup Live
The non-trans-inclusive ENDA (Employment Non-Discrimination Act) has gone to markup.
You can watch the proceedings live right now.
Update below.
The much-maligned youth vote
As we inch closer to November '08, everyone and their mother has a theory about what to expect from youth voting. The most common theory is, well, not to expect youth voting.
Mike Connery over at Future Majority is doing his best to blow that argument out of the water.
Links and more below.
On Larry Craig and undercover cops
The scandal over Sen. Larry Craig’s arrest has ruled the airwaves, the blogs and the papers this week. Covert solicitation of sexual favors... heated denial... a Republican up for reelection... what more could you want?
Catchy though the Craig setup is, here’s a quick roundup of reasons why the coverage is just a wee bit problematic:
Connecting the Progressive Youth Movement and the Progressive Blogosphere
Adam Conner, a 2006 YP4 Fellow who appeared on the Building a Progressive Youth Movement panel at YearlyKos, posted today about the Kossacks Under 35 series and Mike Connery’s question:
How can the progressive youth movement form stronger ties with the progressive blogosphere?
AT&T Censors Pearl Jam, the Flaming Lips, and more...?
According to this article in the Los Angeles Times, AT&T's Lollapalooza webcast went silent when Pearl Jam’s lead singer started to criticize George W. Bush. The company claimed it was an accident, but a crew member has since come forward to say that “at a previous event...the instructions were to shut it down if...anybody starts getting political.”
The great gay debate. (Okay, "presidential forum.")
Last night, two friends and I hunkered down around a laptop to watch the two-hour live online stream of Visible Vote '08, presented by LOGO and the Human Rights Campaign.
The broadcast was the first-ever LGBT-specific presidential forum. What’s more, it was hosted by an LGBT (that’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and/or transgender) rights group on a gay-oriented television channel.
So what did I think?