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  1. Watch this hilarious parody of a rightwing fear-baiting ad before YouTube takes it down http://youtu.be/OkRLxD-aZi0 about 5 hours ago via TweetDeck
  2. Will Employers Just Dump Their Workers Into The Exchanges?: http://bit.ly/ckjQ65 #hcr about 6 hours ago via TweetDeck
  3. Rep. Hensarling uses #Google tax dodging to call for cutting corporate tax rates http://wonk.ro/99RmaX #economy #nothingtaxcutscantfix about 8 hours ago via TweetDeck
  4. RT @stevebenen: New rule: those who refuse to consider Pentagon budget cuts can't call themselves deficit hawks http://bit.ly/d7yzXB about 9 hours ago via TweetDeck
  5. RT @NiemanLab: Meet the U.S. Chamber's journalism arm http://nie.mn/9y6PCD about 9 hours ago via TweetDeck
  6. RT @mettlinger: Tory budget-saver of having navigators on only some naval ships questioned. http://bit.ly/9gRCou about 9 hours ago via TweetDeck
  7. RT @ltdanchoi: I am now in the same recruiting category as those applicants who did not graduate high school. Unqualified status. #DADT about 10 hours ago via TweetDeck
  8. Woah! RT @ltdanchoi: Army recruiters are shredding my enlistment papers, despite no official recruiting policy change. #DADT about 10 hours ago via TweetDeck
  9. RT @FLIndependent: Crist's decision to ditch GOP could lead to 'sore loser' statute http://bit.ly/9ZDf3f about 11 hours ago via TweetDeck
  10. #FF @MichaelSLinden, CAP's superstar tax and budget director about 11 hours ago via TweetDeck
  11. RT @NewDeal20: It's almost Halloween! So check out the 5 zombie economic ideas that refuse to die: http://bit.ly/cMYOPx about 12 hours ago via TweetDeck
  12. Right after calling for Social Security privatization, GOP senate candidate says he opposes privatization http://wonk.ro/dCXIC3 #ORSEN about 12 hours ago via TweetDeck
  13. Pentagon’s #DADT Study Expected To Show Mixed Support For Ending Ban: http://bit.ly/dg6srC about 13 hours ago via TweetDeck
  14. RT @thinkprogress: Pelosi: “They give new meaning to the term ‘Buy American’…they want to buy these elections.” http://thkpr.gs/bEIjFB about 14 hours ago via TweetDeck
  15. It Gets Better: President Barack Obama: http://bit.ly/cGganm about 15 hours ago via TweetDeck
  16. Sen. Burr: ‘Founders’ Wrote 14th Amendment, Repealing #DADT Could Require Changes In ‘Accommodations’: http://bit.ly/cuaP8S #ncsen 6:28 PM Oct 21st via TweetDeck
  17. RT @climatebrad: @KenCuccinelli confronted by UVA students and professors for his #climate witch hunt http://bit.ly/994Gdj 4:41 PM Oct 21st via TweetDeck
  18. Don't the new #DADT discharge rules mean that only 4 people in entire Dep of Defense can discharge a gay soldier? http://bit.ly/9enbOp 3:20 PM Oct 21st via TweetDeck
  19. RT @climatebrad: Tea Party Defends Climate Pollution As Lord’s Will http://bit.ly/cwW9LU #p2 #tcot 3:19 PM Oct 21st via TweetDeck
  20. Read the Pentagon's new memorandum about enforcing #DADT (PDF): http://bit.ly/9vPix8 3:11 PM Oct 21st via TweetDeck