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Jerome Powell, chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, was nominated by Donald Trump in 2018 and confirmed by the US Senate. President Joe Biden renominated him when he entered office in January of 2021. The job of the Fed...
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Brett Murphy of ProPublica reports that “SOS Blinken has not acted upon the recommendations of a Special State Department Panel that found that several Israeli military and police units do not qualify for US arms transfers under the Leahy law due to...
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I hadn't thought about him for months. But during the Spring and Summer the windows tended to be open we'd hear him every night just at dusk. One minute of thumpity like music. Always the same melody, always the same duration of time. Then the Fall and...
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"Gettysburg, what an unbelievable battle that was. The Battle of Gettysburg, what an unbelievable, I mean it was so much, and so interesting, and so vicious and horrible, and so beautiful in so many different ways. It represented such a big portion of...
by KeithDB
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Somehow, I stumbled upon the video shown below, and oh what delicious news it delivers! Apparently, the bond issuer chosen by Donnie DumbQuips (Knight Specialty Insurance Company) originally considered underwriting the entire $450M+ obligation...
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I know it’s public information when the jurors are questioned and things about their background are discussed. But how many of them maybe hunted down with the information published? The defense can’t say names and the judge has instructed only the...
by Dune
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Florida Democrat Bob Graham, who served as governor from 1979 to 1987 and as a U.S. senator from 1987 until his 2005 retirement, died Tuesday at the age of 87 . Graham, who won all five of his ...
by Jeff Singer
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— — Here’s my take-away “summary” of the Michael Popok’s “hot take” video below. But please read this as an encouragement to watch the video yourself, as my summary is NOT a transcript: If it were just a “records falsification” case, under New York...
by jamess
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In Xaxnar’s excellent post The truth about Amtrak, I began a comment that started to turn into its own essay, and I decided not to hijack the discussion and to write a standalone piece instead. Xaxnar begins: President Joe Biden has made it a priority...
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Because Roman Imperialism ain’t so different these days. Some people throw their votes away in a different direction. Former Trump national security adviser and longtime warmonger, John Bolton, will write-in Dick Cheney in 2024, he said on CNN. Why...
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“A fanatic is someone who can't change his mind and won't change the subject” — Winston Churchill (Note: he may not have said it. But it is an admirable definition nonetheless.) Setting the scene. James Comer (R-KY) is Chairman of the House Oversight...
by TheCriticalMind
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It continues to blow my mind that Donald Trump — the ultimate nepo baby — is embraced as a “populist” by tens of millions of Americans. “By age 3, [Trump] was earning $200,000 a year in today’s dollars from his father’s empire,” the New York Times...
by Christopher Nerney
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I posted a meme showcasing the acknowledged two-tiered justice system, most of it divided by class and race, that has always existed in America. A follower on one of my social media threads gave me considerable pushback from the meme. It seems some...
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The 2024 presidential election season is not going especially well for Republican candidate, and MAGA cult messiah, Donald Trump. Due to his recidivist criminal activities, Trump is wasting precious hours and days scowling in a courtroom and whining to...
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Underfunded Pennsylvania school district shines as a clean energy leader through solar power Near the state capital of Harrisburg lies the town of Steelton, Pennsylvania, the home of America’s first steel company and the birthplace of an industry that...
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Arizona Republicans pulled a lot of procedural bullshit in the Legislature today to keep a Democratic bill repealing the 1864 abortion law from being enacted, but the bottom line is this: Republicans had the chance to return the state to something...
by Mother Mags
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Wow, you just can’t make stuff like this up … Trump’s campaign managers, Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita, said in a letter dated April 15, “Beginning tomorrow, we ask that all candidates and committees who choose to use President Trump’s name, image,...
by Lenny Flank
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I am not an antisemite. I believe in the right of Israel to exist as an independent country in the Middle East. I recognize that many of the original Jewish settlers in Palestine after World War II were survivors of the European Holocaust desperate for...
by Alan Singer
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On Friday, April 19, starting at approximately 11 PM ET, Daily Kos will start a back-end system migration that may have user-facing site impacts. Users should expect up to four hours of downtime. This post will be updated when maintenance is finished....
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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump got some very bad news about his Mar a Lago case. Then, on the rest...
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