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Her former campaign manager and fellow mansion-dweller Bill de Blasio delivered some of those lacerating realities (if "reality" itself is "lacerating" perhaps we should rethink—oh, nevermind) on Meet the Press this morning, when he was asked, before she even announced her candidacy, if he wanted to go ahead and endorse her. "I think like a lot of people in this country, I want to see a vision," the mayor said. "It's time to see a clear, bold vision for progressive economic themes." "I think she's a tremendous public servant, I think she is one of the most qualified...

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At a march in mid-December organized by Al Sharpton's National Action Network in Washington D.C., organizers rushed the stage and claimed that the old guard was attempting to hijack the nascent Black Lives Matter movement away from its founders. "This movement was started by the young people," Johnetta Elzie, a key organizer from St. Louis, said to the raucous crowd. "There should be young people all over this stage." It was one of the most visible examples of the clash between the old, signified by Sharpton, and the new, represented by grassroots groups who emerged from Ferguson and...

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THE LATEST FROM THE NATIONAL DESK « Previous Post | Nation Now Home | Next Post » AUGUST 24, 2011 | 11:03 AM An Alaska woman faces up to a year in jail for pouring hot sauce down the throat of her young son and forcing him into a cold shower in an attempt to land a place on the "Dr. Phil" television show. A jury in Anchorage convicted Jessica Beagley, 36, on a misdemeanor child abuse charge after viewing a videotape that Beagley had made. In the video, the boy -- one of two 5-year-old twins she...

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