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FL Governor Ron DeSantis is celebrating a new law mandating teaching of the History of Communism in Florida K-12 public schools. It’s not clear why he has decided to center an obsolete/fringe political movement in Florida’s education*, but it is a...
by AChris
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on Sat Apr 20, 2024 at 04:33 AM PDT
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A cartoon by Clay Jones.
by Clay Jones
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on Thu Apr 04, 2024 at 02:53 PM PDT
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When your 'Allies' Sell Ammunition to Czechia for use by Ukraine Against your own Army -- Priceless! Ever wonder just who Czechia has been hitting up to buy artillery ammunition from for Ukraine? This report from RBC Ukraine and the WSJ has some potentially surprising answers: Czechia is using its Cold War contacts to obtain much-needed ammunition for...
by Irontortoise
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on Mon Mar 18, 2024 at 04:21 PM PDT
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Nobody should be surprised that the U.S. is tacitly supporting the genocidal Israeli massacres of as many Palestinians that they can manage. There are many reasons for this support, and one of them is gratitude for having reliably supported the...
by thirdworldman
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on Fri Mar 01, 2024 at 06:58 PM PST
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Republican Rep. Nicole Malliotakis of New York went on CNN Monday evening to defend Donald Trump’s recent fascist rhetoric. Specifically, Trump’s transparent use of Nazi references to racial impurity, saying things like immigration is “poisoning the...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Tue Dec 19, 2023 at 10:23 AM PST
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Giordano Bruno was born in January or February 1548. (I can't recall where I originally got the January first date, but it's as good as any alternative, so I'll stick with it.) At some point early ...
by enhydra lutris
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on Mon Jan 01, 2024 at 06:06 AM PST
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Ukraine launched a large drone attack against targets in eastern Crimea. Naturally Russia claims to have shot them all down. An interesting thread on what it will take to knock out the Kerch Bridge. The gist is that to destroy the bridge, you have to...
by quaoar
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on Tue Dec 05, 2023 at 02:08 PM PST
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A � former American diplomat � who served as U.S. ambassador to Bolivia has been charged with serving as a secret agent for Cuba's intelligence services dating back decades, the Justice Department ...
by Associated Press
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on Mon Dec 04, 2023 at 03:08 PM PST
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From the AP: MIAMI -- A former American diplomat who served as U.S. ambassador to Bolivia has been arrested in a long-running FBI counterintelligence investigation, accused of secretly serving as an agent of Cuba’s government, The Associated Press has...
by MNPundit
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on Sun Dec 03, 2023 at 09:43 PM PST
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Amnesty International Iranian women and girls face further violations of their rights under compulsory veiling bill Armita Garawand, a 16-year-old schoolgirl, remains in a coma [following 1 October 2023 reports at a Tehran metro of] a confrontation...
by mettle fatigue
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on Sat Nov 04, 2023 at 05:00 PM PDT
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“You value the burnt amber of falling leaves And you long to delay As you feel their breath as they whisper "It won`t hurt you now to betray If you just bow down"” -Elvis Costello, “You Bowed Down” I reside in Staten Island, just up the block from St....
by Frank Cocozzelli
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on Sun Oct 29, 2023 at 11:48 AM PDT
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The FBI has used informants and undercover operatives since its earliest days. As David H. Price writes in his book The American Surveillance State: How the U.S. Spies on Dissent (Pluto Press, 2022): “[J. Edgar] Hoover fed on secrecy. He fetishized...
by Bill Berkowitz
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on Thu Sep 21, 2023 at 06:51 AM PDT
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Chechen war criminal Ramzan Kadyrov is dead. Or maybe he’s still in a coma. Who knows for sure? A video was posted yesterday showing Kadyrov walking in the rain in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, and talking about how invigorating it is. But there is...
by quaoar
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on Sun Sep 17, 2023 at 01:03 PM PDT
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Russia bombed a market in Kostyantynivka, which is west of Bakhmut, killing at least 16, including a child. This is an act of terrorism. The destruction of a Russian warehouse housing missiles for helicopters with cluster munitions. Drone munitions...
by quaoar
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on Wed Sep 06, 2023 at 02:58 PM PDT
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and �...
by Chitown Kev
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on Tue Sep 05, 2023 at 08:59 PM PDT
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The American Government prefers working with US-friendly dictators. Americans must stop falling for the Cuba/Venezuela trope to stunt our progress. The wealthiest 10% create 40% of greenhouse gases. Politics Done Right Live weekdays @ 3:00 PM Central...
by Egberto Willies
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on Fri Aug 18, 2023 at 01:02 PM PDT
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There was this little Cuban place — mostly for takeout — on 9th Ave. in Manhattan, and their cubanos were wonderful: pork, ham, swiss, slivers of pickle, mustard, all hot off the sandwich press. ...
by Youffraita
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on Wed Aug 23, 2023 at 03:30 AM PDT
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Per WSJ via nordot.com, certain to drive the Reich Wingers even crazier and certain to be blamed on “China Joe” for somehow allowing and approving this nordot.app/… In a move underscoring its geopolitical ambitions in the Western Hemisphere, China is...
by Yuck Human Kisses
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on Thu Jun 08, 2023 at 06:12 PM PDT
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The following exchange between Senator Bob Menendez, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman, and Secretary of State Antony Blinken exemplifies Menendez’s uncompromising commitment to human rights and the rule of law: Senator Menendez to Antony...
by tony a
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on Sat Apr 01, 2023 at 08:05 AM PDT
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It’s 1962 all over again. Instead of the USSR it’s just Russia. Instead of Cuba, it’s Ukraine. But the basic elements of the story are same: And Joe Biden is exercising what history has taught us. If you don’t stop a mad man now, you’ll have to stop...
by Keith Newman
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on Fri Feb 24, 2023 at 03:34 AM PST
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