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I start my day by reading the newspaper. But here’s the thing, in the four years since Hope Springs from Field PAC was launched, with now four years of Issues Surveys to compile, it feels like what i read in the newspaper is old news. At least to me....
by snowbored
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While grappling with the question of whose presidential campaign will be hurt most by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s campaign, it is important to follow the money and take a look at some of RFK’s most significant funders. While small donations may be coming...
by Bill Berkowitz
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Down went the lids. (Thud.) At first glance, he looked to be praying for stronger Bible sales. But then he wobbled. Began to swoon. And caught himself just before his chins hit the table. Courthouse News Services reporter Erik Uebelacker resolves “His...
by Inspector Clueso
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By David Glenn Cox Trump doses while the prosecutor proposes. Sleepy Don and the nap heard round the world. The old man and the see! Enter Sandman. The day of reckoning finally comes with the first ever criminal trial of a President. (trivia question)...
by This Carbon Based Life
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Jennifer Rubin is my favorite Washington Post OpEd writer, and her column from yesterday, “The N.Y. case concerns Trump’s only successful voter deception scheme,” is a prime example of why I say that. In it, she lays out with explicit clarity what...
by nailbender
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It is hard to rationalize Idaho’s or any state’s compelling interest in criminalizing Transgender Treatment for Minors, legislation directed solely at a tiny minority group seeking medical intervention for identified and diagnosed conditions. Idaho’s...
by Grandpa Fred
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In 1824, Canada was a British colony and most of the western portion of the country was controlled by the London-based Hudson’s Bay Company. The primary non-Indian settlements west of the Great ...
by Ojibwa
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I received an early morning call from the Daily Brooklyn Bugler to jump on the first plane to New York so that I could rush in to sketch Donald Trump’s Stormy Daniels Hush Money trial. I arrived just in the nick of time right after lunch on Monday to...
by EdFlynn
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In the perspective of each major political party, neither lives in the universe of the other. Democrats point to a stabilizing economy, lower unemployment, good prospects for business, and many other positive indicators. The other party sees only...
by T C Gibian
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It pains me to write this, but us Democrats appear to have been fooled again. From Jezebel: Since October, Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) has been working overtime to burn through the enormous goodwill he garnered among the progressive coalitions that got...
by satanicpanic
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Sometimes it seems as if it just never sinks in. I mean, it shouldn’t be that complicated anymore. It’s hardly news that 2023 was...
by TomDispatch
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Yesterday, a consortium of networks publicly invited President Biden and that burnt umber guy to participate in debates carried on their platforms. In response, David Frum (yeah, I know) published a piece in The Atlantic urging Biden to refuse to...
by accumbens
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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy � is � Now Open! � 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our � especially special Daily Special; � Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays!
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by justiceputnam
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A new documentary about the 2021 attack on Congress is is being produced for release on Prime Video (trailer below). “The Sixth” recounts the experiences of six people who were at the Capitol that day. Based on the trailer, it seems to focus on two or...
by AChris
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Good morning, Newdists!� Grab a cuppa and a nosh and join us for some fun and chat.
by The Marti
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Yes, the first (but not the last) criminal trial for ex-president Donald Trump began yesterday.� The first criminal trial for a major party candidate while actively running for president.� The first ...
by Bring the Lions
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When I saw how close to me the path of totality would be for the April 8th eclipse, and that it ran through my favorite birding area, I just knew I had to brave the traffic and go.� With the draw of ...
by Clickadee
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As we delve into the findings of the UNICEF 2023 Child Marriage report, we are faced with both encouraging progress and sobering realities regarding child marriage worldwide. Today, I want to share my thoughts on the report’s insights and the urgent...
by populationmediacenter
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And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen — Isaiah 65:15 An amusing story from the Guardian: Wrong number? How a US professor is plagued by calls for the MyPillow CEO A Seattle emergency preparedness expert has become the go-to guy for...
by Crashing Vor
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Just like he’s a follower of Pinochet. Demonstrators shut down the iconic bridge Monday to protest Israel's ongoing military operations in Gaza, and Cotton suggested that his fellow Arkansans would have tossed them into the water and glue their hands...
by Frank Vyan Walton
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