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“Mr. Pastor buys a Powerball lottery ticket every weekend and says he does not consider himself rich. Indeed, within the halls of Congress, where the median net worth is $913,000 and climbing, he is not. He is a rank-and-file millionaire. But compared with the country at large, where the median net worth is $100,000 and has dropped significantly since 2004, he and most of his fellow lawmakers are true aristocrats.” —

With so many millionaires in Congress, can lawmakers understand the economic worries of their constituents? asks Emmarie Huetteman, a Medill classmate who contributed to this excellent piece from the New York Times.

Also interesting: With the cost of successful campaigns rising, incoming members of Congress are richer than they have been in the past, including the Tea Party-backed candidates who swept in in 2010.

(via curiousontheroad)

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“Imagine, if you will, a man who, as Speaker of the House, orchestrates the impeachment of a President for an adulterous affair with a White House aide twenty-six years his junior while he himself is conducting an adulterous affair with a congressional aide twenty-two years his junior, having earlier left the first of his three wives while she was hospitalized with cancer. Imagine a man who attributes these behaviors to “how passionately I felt about this country.” Imagine a man who, told he can’t sit in a front section of Air Force One, shuts down the government. Imagine a man who becomes the only House Speaker ever to be disciplined for ethics violations. Imagine a man who, in a country just staggering out of the worst recession of the past fifty years and facing the threat of worldwide economic collapse, proposes to hire small children to work as janitors, mopping floors and cleaning toilets in their schools (or their orphanages, perhaps). Imagine that man as Commander-in-Chief.” —Hendrik Hertzberg, The New Yorker. (via langer)

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The city of St. Petersburg in Russia passed the fervently debated law banning “gay propaganda,” namely any gay action or speech in public.

Though people in St. Petersburg protested the law, it was rushed through the Legislative Assembly. The law prohibits “propaganda” of “sodomy, lesbianism, bisexualism and transgenderism, and pedophilia to minors,” essentially outlawing everything from pride parades to same-sex couples kissing in public.

St. Petersburg is the second city in Russia with such a law, and similar legislation is being considered in Moscow and at the federal level. Though protests have started up across the world, no Western governments have formally stood up to condemn the law.

Find plenty more details, including an allout.org petition, at the story above. What are we waiting for? Why haven’t we officially spoken up against this?

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Twirling Towards Freedom

December 2011

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