MoJo Mix: 23 July 2009

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Right now is no time to come up short. It's time to fight like hell for a democracy where minority rule cannot impose an extreme and cruel agenda, where facts matter, and where accountability at the polls and in the press has a fighting chance. We have our work cut out for us, and we still need to raise upwards of 400,000 by June 30 to give it everything we can. Please help:

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Hey, Laura again. Kevin’s usually optimistic about health care reform on odd-numbered days, but the news out of Congress is none too cheery at the moment, as you know. So, consider these 4 story recommendations your reform news chasers for the week:

1) Apocalypse Ciao: When the economic Rapture comes, will collapsitarians be the chosen ones?

2) Hippie, put your clothes on. California doesn’t want to see your naughty bits at the beach anymore.

3) A zombie meme returns: Vaccines still don’t cause autism. But you wouldn’t know it from the comments on this article.

4) The Going Galt movement protests Obama with a collective shrug.

And what the heck, 5) A video of Amy Poehler hearting on Mother Jones with Sarah Silverman and a few other very funny ladies.

Laura McClure hosts podcasts, writes the MoJo Mix, and is the new media editor at Mother Jones. Read her investigative feature on lifehacking gurus in the latest issue of Mother Jones.