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I was sexually abused by an older boy when I was 15 years old. I want to get that out there as my bona fides on commenting on the disgusting and reprehensible person from SC called Congressperon Nancy Mace. I don’t watch the Sunday TV “news” shows...
by Merlin196360
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on Sun Mar 10, 2024 at 02:01 PM PDT
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When President Biden gives his State of the Union Address Thursday night, you can bet the press will be hanging on every word, looking for anything that will bolster the narrative that he is losing it, that age is catching up with him, the there is...
by xaxnar
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on Thu Mar 07, 2024 at 08:25 AM PST
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I’ve been subscribing to Talking Points Memo for some time now, but lately I’ve really begun to appreciate the work Josh Marshall and his crew are doing. It’s even more valuable as the mainstream media increasingly fails to do its job and pushes faulty...
by xaxnar
62 comments
on Tue Feb 27, 2024 at 12:40 PM PST
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After Donald Trump echoed both Hitler and Mussolini in a Veterans Day speech, saying, “We pledge to you that we will root out the communists, Marxists, fascists, and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country, that...
by Laura Clawson
146 comments
on Tue Nov 28, 2023 at 01:00 PM PST
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As conflicts ramp up in the the Middle East and Ukraine, spillover effects of electronic warfare are making air travel in those regions riskier — and the threat is not limited to just there. Via the New York Times (full access): Electronic Warfare...
by xaxnar
24 comments
on Tue Nov 21, 2023 at 10:10 AM PST
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Hillary Clinton on ABC's The View: Trump win in 2024 "would be the end of our country as we know it" Appearing on ABC’s The View today, former Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic nominee for President Hillary Clinton gave a pretty spot-on response if likely Republican nominee Donald Trump wins the 2024 Presidential election over incumbent President...
by JGibson
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on Wed Nov 08, 2023 at 07:27 PM PST
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Opposition to Ukraine Aid Becomes a Litmus Test for the Right The drama that has played out among House Republicans over the past week has highlighted a sharp decline in the party’s willingness to back continued aid for Kyiv’s fight against Russia....
by xaxnar
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on Fri Oct 06, 2023 at 06:31 AM PDT
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I have been looking forward to signing up for the ABC Class at the YMCA for quite a while now. For the longest time the class was only available at a Y that was 40 minutes away from my house. Now it’s starting up at a Y right near me, so I’m in. Maybe...
by ZenTrainer
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on Mon Aug 14, 2023 at 05:30 PM PDT
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Almost a year ago, I wrote a story on this site title: Something MAGICAL happened to me this past weekend ! (it was about trying to tell a story to a kindergarten class and failing miserably at it) I wrote a story and told it a Moth slam in Chicago and...
by The Boss Gomez
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on Sun Aug 13, 2023 at 10:58 AM PDT
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CBS Mornings had former House Speaker Paul Ryan on this morning for 10 minutes of back and forth “to discuss the indictment of former President Donald Trump on federal charges related to his handling of classified documents after he left the White...
by xaxnar
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on Tue Jun 13, 2023 at 12:28 PM PDT
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The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin, Russian President and de facto Leader of America’s Republican Party. The court alleges he is responsible for war crimes, and has focused its claims on the unlawful...
by The BigotBasher
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on Fri Mar 17, 2023 at 05:21 PM PDT
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Kimmel responds to Trump's attempt to gag him, and thanks to the First Amendment, we're all laughing As everyone knows, Donald Trump abhors any and all forms of censorship … that are directed at him. He should be allowed to goad as many zip tie-toting troglodytes into attacking the foundations of U.S. democracy as he likes, and social media companies...
by Aldous J Pennyfarthing
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on Tue Feb 28, 2023 at 11:00 AM PST
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Officials of former President Donald Trump say the petty tyrant was so outraged by Jimmy Kimmel’s searing monologues at his expense that they were forced to try to muzzle the late-night host. According to several ex-White House officials who spoke with...
by Rebekah Sager
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on Mon Feb 27, 2023 at 12:32 PM PST
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With all of the mass shootings that seem to happen on almost a daily basis in the U.S. it’s hard to keep track. This one is a little different, however, as it happened in Australia back on December 12, 2022. Australia is often cited for its gun laws...
by xaxnar
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on Sat Feb 18, 2023 at 07:08 AM PST
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My first ever little political rant morphed into something that almost comes across like a political documentary at times. I did not do this to make any friends or enemies. I just began getting increasingly annoyed at how the mainstream news outlets...
by Green Satori Innkeeper
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on Mon Nov 07, 2022 at 01:05 PM PST
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When the reporters interview swing state voters the most common election concerns voters reported as an answer are inflation (which is worldwide and not under the immediate control of any of the U.S. candidates regardless of party) and increases in...
by stelleen
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on Tue Nov 01, 2022 at 02:55 PM PDT
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The African American Dilemma: Freedom Without Resources is Meaningless! (The Need for a Marshall Plan for United States Inner Cities!) The epic struggles of the civil rights movements in the 1950’s and 1960’s culminated with the enactment of the Civil...
by dannysites
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on Fri Jul 08, 2022 at 04:32 PM PDT
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The attack reportedly happened Wednesday evening, but appears to be only making the news now. This is described by the BBC as a breaking news story, so expect details to change as more information comes in. Via the BBC: Armed female bystander kills man...
by xaxnar
241 comments
on Sat May 28, 2022 at 06:04 AM PDT
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Media Matters for America recently released its annual report on how major broadcast networks, including ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox, handled climate change coverage. There are some encouraging figures in the report, including the fact that climate coverage...
by April Siese
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on Fri Apr 01, 2022 at 02:37 PM PDT
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Whoopi Goldberg was suspended as a host of the ABC daytime talk show The View for two weeks for supposedly “hurtful comments” about the European Holocaust when Nazi Germany murdered six million Eastern European Jew in a systematic act of genocide....
by Alan Singer
119 comments
on Wed Feb 02, 2022 at 04:13 PM PST
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