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Monday, May 6 Harvard Pro-Palestine Encampment At the Harvard Square T station, around 200 excited kids carrying signs, wearing kaffiyehs, or bearing small Palestinian flags are heading for a high school demonstration on Boston Commons. A girl with a...
by AliceT4
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Journalists have always faced risks of violence when carrying out their work. For war correspondents, the perils are obvious, with many of those who are killed covering a conflict as a result of being collateral damage. Embedded in regular armies or...
by Meteor Blades
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Reposted from Dark Skies on the Horizon This weekend Tom Cotton appeared on ABC’s This Week and claimed that some of the J6 Rioters were “just wandering around” the Capitol. "It's past time for the president to accept the results of the election, quit...
by Frank Vyan Walton
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Back around 2007 the private health insurance industry worked to get state insurance regulation boards to allow the insurance industry to pre-approve treatment they would pay for. California was the main state, and the only one I can find published...
by pecanjim
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Hello, Peeps. Lets take a look at some embarrassing times in petâs lives, shall we? I donât know if any of you have pet doors but if you do you may have had a critter try to go through it who ...
by Ice Blue
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One of the ways news coverage gets slanted is the weekend effect. Politicians are well aware of it. If there’s a story or press release that could be problematic, one way to minimize its impact is to time it so it appears late Friday or over the...
by xaxnar
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By David Glenn Cox Through the closed door and the courtroom artist, it is hard to grasp the tenor of the case against Donald Trump. All the ingredients are there, a strict Judge, a persistent prosecutor and a sullen defendant. Sketches and quotes. It...
by This Carbon Based Life
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This cartoon I drew years ago was inspired by some of Matt Groening’s old Life in Hell comics. It’s a fun format to create — I’ve done a few cartoons like this — but it takes forever! Worth it, though. Over the years, at least a half-dozen...
by Barry Deutsch
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I lived in Maryland for most of my life. Occasionally I wrote to my congressional representatives, and I always voted even though I knew it didn’t make much difference in safely blue Maryland. For the 2008 election I wrote postcards for Virginia and...
by JamieG from Md
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When you think about elections, Wisconsin is a state that remains one of the most contested. And it has been this way for awhile. Wisconsin has had numerous statewide elections decided by tiny margins in recent years. But it was the presidential...
by snowbored
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For more details check out this link quickschnell.com/…
by Bob Quick
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New antibody drug reverses Type 1 diabetes in groundbreaking experiment
An experimental drug is bringing science one step closer to curing Type 1 diabetes. Scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine are ...
by Mokurai
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Republished from The Daily Yonder Analysis: The Myth of Rural Voters’ Power in the House of Representatives by Sarah Melotte, The Daily Yonder May 7, 2024 A Daily Yonder analysis of Census data shows that rural Americans don’t have outsized voting...
by NightMist
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The most powerful elected Republican in America declared war on the rule of law yesterday. House Speaker Mike Johnson announced that Congress, on behalf of wannabee “day one” dictator Donald Trump, is going to use every power available to him and his...
by thomhartmann
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Yes, he should be in prison for treason, for stealing an election, and a million other much more important things. But the spanking story is the kind of thing that people notice, and that sticks. Plus, it shows Trump in a supine, powerless position,...
by Hlinko
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The Guardian reached out to “every contactable lead author or review editor” of reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change since 2018. Of 843 contacted, 380 replied: Almost 80% of the respondents, all from the authoritative...
by Meteor Blades
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A Gaza protest was held at California State University Fresno on Wednesday, May 1, when more than 250 students and other supporters sat peacefully in the university’s Free Speech Area. Organized by Students for Palestinian Liberation, the protest made...
by ybruti
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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, Judge Cannon’s luxury gift scandal grows. Then, on the rest of the menu,...
by justiceputnam
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Good morning, Newdists!� There is Whimsy to be had, so grab a cuppa and a nosh and join us, please….
by The Marti
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The Missoula Art Museum (MAM) in Missoula, Montana had a special exhibition, Just Between Us , featuring the art of Mimi Jung.
by Ojibwa
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