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How can the law permit Judge Aileen Cannon to preside over the trial of the man who named her to a $243,300 per annum job? A position with excellent benefits and a pension, which she will keep as long as she wants to, and has no mandatory retirement...
by TheCriticalMind
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Sadly, you read that right. I saw it first in The European Conservative, which I don’t take very seriously, and then in Politico, who reported back on March 7, that the Italian courts had determined that the state-sponsored eviction of the Trisulti...
by citixen
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Today there was a deep dive into the current Hungarian political situation in World Politics Review that is well worth reading (it only requires an email address to access the whole article by Alexander Clarkson, a lecturer in European studies at...
by Irontortoise
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Happy International Workers’ Day! Around the world, working stiffs are celebrated today. Naturally, we here in America have to be different and do it on the first Monday in September. Personally, ...
by jck
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Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays, is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, at this point, everybody expects Trump to appeal...
by justiceputnam
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Nick Kristof is a good guy. He writes for the New York Times, but he is unlike some of their other writers (cough cough Judy Miller). He has helpfully provided a gift link to his latest OpEd, which is his advice to the protesting students. I agree with...
by SevenStrings
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WELCOME TO THE SHADE YOU WILL FIND in the DIARIES a LOT of POLITICS AND EVEN MORE CRITTERS THE PERSON who MAKES the FIRST COMMENT WILL GET TWO CRITTERS EVERY PERSON WHO COMMENTS WILL GET A CRITTER RULES IN THE DIARY WHEN YOU FIND SOMETHING in the DIARY...
by Nanny Ogg
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☆The word Occult comes from the Latin occultus (clandestine, hidden, secret), referring to "knowledge of the hidden" 🌑 🏵 🏵 *This group's aim is polite philosophical debate* 🌑 🌑 Beltane, or May Day, is celebrated...
by Angmar
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I get a distinct feeling of deja vu when I watch the news lately. If you live long enough, you get to see it all again. I graduated from high school in 1969 and started the next fall at Indiana University. Later in my freshman year, four students were...
by elsaf
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Following the Time article where Trump lays out his authoritarian ambitions in case they weren’t plain to see already, shouldn’t we just refer to him as Adolph Trump from here on out? He’s earned the new moniker and then some. And it’s a nice, simple...
by Green Asteroid
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There is one very good reason why Uncle Sam is taking baby steps when it comes to legalizing cannabis. It is a reason, that once you think about it, seems obvious. It has, as a result, a lot to do about money. But why, you might ask, does the federal...
by Crane Brane
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CK OMG # 2 Element removed NOODLE CAT MAY 01, 2024 WHY DOESN'T HE JUST STOP TALKING? We were hoping that we wouldn't even have to address this issue. We were hoping he would just fade away like all the other unimportant and momentarily nonsensical...
by phcarb
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Everything has a cost, even the most revolutionary, positively transformational costs. Socrates worried that the invention of writing would ruin people’s ability to memorize things, because writing would create “external” memories that would reduce the...
by javiinitiate
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Campus protests over the war in Gaza continue to expand and escalate, causing both hope and fear. The past day has seen some big developments: The good: Brown university reaches a deal with protesters. “The university agreed to schedule a vote on...
by AChris
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For the past couple of weeks American college campuses have been roiled by student protests over the conflict in Gaza and the overly harsh measures taken by Israel against the Palestinian residents. Most Americans support Israel's right to defend...
by News Corpse
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That’s not the story, in the headline, just the sourcing, which is typical Internet friend of a friend of a friend told me. Here are the links www.wonkette.com/… arstechnica.com/… this one is paywalled www.theinformation.com/… and here’s another...
by Gaelsdottir
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Every day it seems to get worse. Every day, there is a new outrage, a new assault, a new torrent of lies. Every day our beloved country seems to fall deeper down a rathole from which there will be no escape. The MAGA movement, created (in part) and...
by Yosef 52
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Fee Cost Tuition $65,340 Mandatory Fees $3,060 Average Room and Board Cost $16,800 Books and Personal Expenses $3,742 Total $88,942
by Alan Singer
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After weeks of debate following the Arizona Supreme Court’s approval of a near-total 1864 abortion ban, the Senate repealed the law this afternoon with hardly a vote to spare. Two Republican Senators voted with Dems, which made the tally 16-14. The...
by Mother Mags
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Three Ukrainian missiles — presumably ATACMS with cluster warheads — hit a large concentration of Russian troops at a military training site in Kuban in occupied Luhansk, northeast of Svatove and about 100 km from the front. There are reports that more...
by quaoar
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