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Thom's blog
Was Right-to-Work-Less Just a Distraction?
We all now know about Right-to-Work-for-less laws in Michigan, thanks to Republican Governor Rick Snyder and the corporate oligarchs. But, believe it or not, Right-to-Work-for-less may not even be the most radical, anti-democratic law that passed in Michigan this week. Late Wednesday, Republicans in the State House passed a new emergency financial managers law, which allows Rick Snyder to take over an entire city, appoint mini-dictators who can fire all the local elected officials, and take the reins of looting that city.
The new law will allow Governor Snyder to break union contracts, slash budgets, and sell off parts of the commons to for-profit corporations. This is a radically anti-democratic law and it’s already been put in place in mostly-minority, cash-strapped cities like Benton Harbor, Ecorse, Pontiac, and Flint. But what’s even more radical, is that just last month on Election Day, voters repealed Snyder’s emergency financial managers law. Voters said, “no way!” and the law was kaput. So in response, and in a huge slap in the face to voters, Republicans just passed the law again.
Governor Snyder claims the law is new-and-improved to address voter concerns. But the incoming Democratic House Minority Leader called the legislation a “mirror image” of the law that was repealed in November. Snyder thinks that by just changing the name of the law, he can send his mini-dictators back into the field, to take over more of Michigan’s cities against the will of the voters. The Republican overreach in Michigan is unprecedented. A movement of organized working men and women must respond and make sure Republicans are never given power again in the Wolverine State.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 9pm... Dr. Neal Barnard, author, clinical researcher, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Conversations with Great Minds - Dr. Neal Barnard, physician, author, clinical researcher, and founding president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) / author of more than 50 published research papers on nutrition and its impact on human health, and several books, including The 21-Day Weight Loss Kickstart (2011), Dr. Neal Barnard’s Program for Reversing Diabetes (2007), and Breaking the Food Seduction (2003) 
Daily Take: Medicare...could this be a Todd Aiken moment for Obama?
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Thursday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: Even the GOP hates the GOP
The Big Picture- Sam Sacks, The Big Picture producer, progressive commentator
Geeky Science Rocks - How do we warn future earthlings?
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Exposing GOP's REAL motives for cutting social security- Peter Ferrara, Policy Director-Carleson Center for Public Policy / Attorney & Author "America's Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb".
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The Republican Party - Crazy, stupid and proud of it!
Should HSBC bosses be sent to GITMO?
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