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Voyager 1 calls home!
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CRYBABY TRUMP is Miffed that His MAGA Cult Isn't Storming the Courts to Protest His 'Persecution'
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Will it finally end here? Supreme Court tells Kari Lake and Mark Finchem to pound sand
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Trump’s Steep Mental Decline Should Be a Top Campaign Issue
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by kindler 314 comments 685 Recs
Quick Note about a pet grammar peeve of mine.
Grammar pet peeves: Affect vs Effect. This pair can be confusing because each word can be used as a verb or as a noun. Perhaps these definitons can help clarify. Affect - verb: Causing a change in something. e.g. "Trump passing gas affects the comfort...
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A day of whine and posers, as Donald violates gag order again, passing gaslight, 'lighting a match'
The criminal trial underway in New York centers on an effort to bury a story about an alleged affair — the uncharged crime undergirding Trump’s charges. And it’s still about falsifying business records. Jesse Watters claims Trump’s treatment is worse...
by annieli 37 comments 123 Recs
Destruction of Russian-made Air Defense System Could Have Implications for Two Wars
The destruction of a Russian-made air defense system in Iran could have implications for both the Israel-Iran conflict and Russia-Ukraine war. S-300 missile defense systems have been important in former Soviet countries and other nations for decades....
by EricAZ 76 comments 464 Recs
My Summation of Day 1 of Trump's Criminal Trial
Day 1 of the Trump trial phase has ended early (at 12:40) to accommodate a juror who had an appointment. It will start late tomorrow (11:30) because the court will have a hearing in the morning on whether Trump should be held in contempt for posts and...
by KeithDB 105 comments 288 Recs
DeSantis's Martha's Vineyard Stunt Allows Undocumented Immigrants to Legally Stay in US
Back September 2022, Ron DeSantis (aka Ron DeSatan) decided to pwn™ the libs by dumping a bunch of undocumented immigrants on the “librul enclave” of Martha’s Vineyard, figuring he would show them up as hypocrites and, not at all incidentally, burnish...
by Dan K 74 comments 430 Recs
Benny Thompson goes for the throat
I didn’t see this in a quick search, from 3 days ago: April 19, 2024 RANKING MEMBER THOMPSON INTRODUCES LEGISLATION TO ENSURE NO SECRET SERVICE PROTECTION FOR CONVICTED FELONS SENTENCED TO PRISON (WASHINGTON) – Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS),...
by Patriot4peace 123 comments 448 Recs
Russian stuff blowing up: Russia's old Czarist ship may have survived
I can understand not wanting to part with a Patriot system, but the chances that Russia will attack Spain or Greece anytime in the foreseeable future are remote. That’s a hell of a smoke screen. The “Kommuna” salvage and recovery ship may have...
by quaoar 54 comments 269 Recs
Hillary Clinton says something true and the GOP freaks out
Reposted from my Substack If you haven’t noticed, Hillary Clinton still exists. �She still has thoughts. She even has opinions. She even speaks. �Apparently, that really freaks the right wing out.
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WHAT THE MEDIA ISN'T TALKING ABOUT
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	War is impoverishing our nation and making foreigners hate Americans.
0%	0 votes
	Health care for all, free as a public utility, would improve everyone's life.
3%	1 votes
	The Republicans are the party who ran up the national debt, not the Democrats.
16%	5 votes
	Illegal aliens could be managed and easily dealt with as desired if we had un-forgeable, electronic, national ID cards.
0%	0 votes
	We could have fair, democratic elections if vote counting were not ever subcontracted to private firms with secret vote "counting" software.
3%	1 votes
	Lowering rich people's taxes does not create jobs. (Trickle-down economics is crap.)
20%	6 votes
	Raising taxes on high-income people does not kill jobs. (A CEO having to drive that Mercedes for a fourth year does not affect you.)
3%	1 votes
	Raising taxes on high-income people does not raise taxes on low-income wage slaves.
3%	1 votes
	We have plenty of money for health care and other social programs. We don't have enough because most of it is siphoned off by greedy private sector entities.
13%	4 votes
	Giving tax credits to any company that exports jobs abroad kills jobs.
0%	0 votes
	Allowing foreign-based corporations to do business here as domestic firms, but not pay taxes as one, is a drain on revenue. (Halliburton, et al., should be stripped of all government contracts)
3%	1 votes
	Not putting tariffs on foreign goods to equalize labor costs kills jobs and domestic industry.
3%	1 votes
	You have to cut defense spending drastically to balance the budget.
6%	2 votes
	If we cut Social Security, Medicare, education, national healh care, education and other social programs, we're destroying the country.
6%	2 votes
	Sarah Palin is a mentally deficient, lazy, irresponsible sociopath who panders to murderous traitors. She has no place in public life.
16%	5 votes

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