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A KillerMovies.com message board post from 2004 may have unearthed Scott Adams’s penchant for unadulterated racism; Adams regularly places his AOL email address (scottadams@aol.com)�on his own ...
by OK Dodo
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on Thu Mar 02, 2023 at 09:00 AM PST
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Hurricane Agatha Makes Landfall in Southern Mexico The storm was the first Category 2 to ever make landfall in the eastern Pacific, and threatened to bring floods and mudslides to the state of Oaxaca. That’s the header at The NY Times; hurricane season...
by xaxnar
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on Mon May 30, 2022 at 04:03 PM PDT
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Twitter = AOL, LOL. I am not a twitter user, however this seems an apt tweet if DKos readers would like to amplify it on your twitter accounts. As many know, AOL “bought” Time Warner back a tad before Daily Kos was born... On January 10, 2000, in one...
by Racoonteur
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on Fri May 20, 2022 at 07:07 AM PDT
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Another day, another shooting. Details are still coming in. Via USA Today: At least 1 person is dead and 4 others are critically wounded following a shooting at a Southern California church, authorities said Sunday. According to the Orange County...
by xaxnar
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on Sun May 15, 2022 at 04:48 PM PDT
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Under the category of “News Analysis” Jonathan Weisman at The New York Times comes out with this: For Trump’s G.O.P., Crossing Lines Has Few Consequences A dizzying week featured Kevin McCarthy, the House Republican leader, caught lying and another...
by xaxnar
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on Sun Apr 24, 2022 at 10:24 AM PDT
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Noah Lanard at Mother Jones reports Texas could become the 14th state to eliminate permits for handguns. During a trip through Texas last month, I found myself waiting in the security line at the state capitol. In order to enter, I had to pass through...
by xaxnar
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on Sun Apr 18, 2021 at 11:51 AM PDT
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This is the second of a small series of articles “Anti/Social” discussing why I have not ever, and won’t use popular social media platforms, and why you probably shouldn’t either, if you want to remain a happy, centered, adult. This is about Trolls. My...
by sufeitzy
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on Tue Feb 09, 2021 at 04:50 PM PST
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I was mildly shocked recently to read a statistic that 75% of Americans used Facebook, and I paused for a moment to think that I’ve never used Facebook, Twitter, or in fact any modern social media system. I thought it would be interesting to reflect a...
by sufeitzy
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on Mon Feb 01, 2021 at 07:56 AM PST
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I still have an email account at AOL. It’s not worth the trouble of changing it for all the people who use it to contact me, not yet anyway. Make of that what you will. What makes it interesting is that signing in takes me past the current big news...
by xaxnar
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on Fri May 15, 2020 at 10:15 AM PDT
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Earlier today, ProPublica reported on a secret Facebook group with a membership of around 9,500 Border Patrol members. The story highlighted racist, callous, and intensely misogynistic responses to news stories and officials speaking out about our...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Mon Jul 01, 2019 at 12:17 PM PDT
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It is being reported that Pittsburgh, PA is gearing up for major protests, in anticipation of Trump firing Robert Mueller in the next few days.
Pittsburgh police detectives will report for duty with riot gear Thursday, in anticipation of a...
by xaxnar
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on Wed Apr 18, 2018 at 03:50 PM PDT
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From our community:
Say hello to the Interstitium. It’s a previously unrecognized network of spaces and tubules that extend throughout body tissues at the microscopic level. Traditional methods of tissue study that involve fixing and slicing tissue...
by xaxnar
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on Wed Mar 28, 2018 at 09:35 AM PDT
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Okay, if you have been paying attention to the news, you may have heard stuff about Russia.
Russia hacked the election for Trump. Russia used social media to throw the election and divide America. Russia is where Trump has been going for the money...
by xaxnar
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on Tue Oct 24, 2017 at 07:46 PM PDT
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The end of an era. AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) is shutting down on December 15.
In a statement from Oath, the new entity formed under Verizon combining AOL with the recently-acquired Yahoo, the ...
by Puddytat
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on Sat Oct 07, 2017 at 07:00 PM PDT
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It seems AOL has decided not to let any anti-trump people comment on any of their stories on their main website. Or is it me? I checked 10 different stories and all comment areas were “washed out”, for lack of a better word(s) to use. Perhaps the trump...
by quincy maxwell
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on Tue Nov 29, 2016 at 08:02 PM PST
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If you are an AOL subscriber (mea culpa - yeah, I know), this is the top story when you log in today.
Clinton's lead over Trump shrinks by 7 points in 3 days
NEW YORK, Aug 26 (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton...
by liberaldad2
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on Fri Aug 26, 2016 at 06:02 PM PDT
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Credit for this one goes to ProPublica 's Julia Angwin and Jeff Larson :
Verizon is giving a new mission to its controversial hidden identifier that tracks users of mobile devices. ...
by Laurence Lewis
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on Wed Oct 07, 2015 at 06:30 AM PDT
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The Los Angeles Times reports the surprise that 83-year-old California resident Ron Doriff had when he started receiving strangely priced bills from his internet provider.
Dorff told me he was ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Tue Apr 28, 2015 at 12:06 PM PDT
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Wal-Mart and Facebook are synonymous in many things - meth labs in the toilets are like liking the selfies from people's illicit parties and getting killed by police in the aisles for wielding ...
by annieli
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on Fri Mar 27, 2015 at 02:38 PM PDT
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Betty Olson, a GOP state senator and friend of Senate candidate Mike Rounds, Senator John Thune and Representative Kristi Noem had this to say about the ISIS threat in the Rapid City Journal.
by sddem
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on Mon Oct 06, 2014 at 04:16 PM PDT
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