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Previous Guy: give me a glass of water, let me drop it on the magnets, that’s the end of the magnets All I know about magnets is this, give me a glass of water, let me drop it on the magnets, that’s the end of the magnets MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell called Trump’s comment “relentlessly stupid.” Donald Trump’s weird campaign rally tangent about magnets...
by annieli
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on Mon Jan 08, 2024 at 07:41 AM PST
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More reckless is espionage by Braggadocio. There should be a 2nd indictment filed against Trump for the Espionage Act case. Jack Smith could seek another superseding indictment against former President Donald Trump in the documents case based on...
by annieli
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on Sun Oct 08, 2023 at 01:19 PM PDT
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I respect the Washington Post’s choice to keep a variety of political columnists on staff, though I often question the particular ones they’ve chosen. And I never read them. Today, though, I made an exception: Enough, Sen. Tuberville. It isn’t...
by Dan K
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on Wed Jul 19, 2023 at 11:50 AM PDT
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On Monday (July 17) National Security Council communicator John Kirby was in a press conference and he got asked, why is the military policy on abortion critical to military readiness? The question came after some statements about Sen. Tuberville’s...
by T Maysle
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on Tue Jul 18, 2023 at 04:24 PM PDT
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Americans need to seriously consider, right now, what life and government in America would look like if a MAGA Republican became president. The lead story across much of the media last night was that Donald Trump might bring Jeffrey Clark — the...
by thomhartmann
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on Wed Jul 12, 2023 at 08:06 AM PDT
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Both DeSantis and Trump are running for president on a promise of illegal use of the military. DeSantis, as fits his constituency of reactionary columnists, is going for a blockade against a friendly nation to coerce it. Trump instead offers pardons...
by annieli
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on Mon Jun 26, 2023 at 06:05 PM PDT
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How to balance US budget and save Social Security and every social program. It ain't rocket surgery. The Pentagon has never completed a successful independent audit. US Senators from both parties have introduced another attempt to pass a bill requiring a completed successful audit. The Audit the Pentagon Act 2023. The Pentagon can’t even tell us where...
by BrianParker14
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on Sun Jun 25, 2023 at 03:59 PM PDT
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Trump made a recent grifting message with a certain history painting as a backdrop at his Bedminster golf club. We know he’s all about the props for his media pitches. Assuming that he actually understood iconology, he perhaps was suggesting that one...
by annieli
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on Fri Jun 09, 2023 at 10:24 PM PDT
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All the talk by Republicans about Socialism and the Democratic party is just the right misrepresenting the myths and beliefs in American society. Look, I am older than dirt and have been an IT professional since 1981 although “IT” wasn't a defined...
by lamina566
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on Mon Jun 05, 2023 at 03:33 PM PDT
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While many political pundits have stated that Ron DeSantis is a more intelligent version of Trump (Trump 2.0), out of the gate, DeSantis has proven that is not true. In fact, the ignorance he displayed on the Fox News interview with Trey Gowdy on the...
by JohnBAlexander
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on Fri May 26, 2023 at 05:45 PM PDT
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A Massachusetts Air National Guardsman accused in the leak of � highly classified military documents � appeared in court Friday as prosecutors unsealed charges and revealed how billing records and ...
by Associated Press
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on Fri Apr 14, 2023 at 02:09 PM PDT
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Jon Stewart has been on a roll of late, taking on gun fetishists and modern capitalist apologists like Larry Summers alike. He has deftly dissected their canned answers and exposed the morally barren philosophies they believe support untenable...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Tue Apr 11, 2023 at 02:35 PM PDT
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First Black secretary of Defense orders nine military bases honoring Confederate officers be renamed In a remarkably forward-looking move from the Department of Defense, by 2024, nine army bases that pay homage to the Confederacy and its pro-slavery mentality will be renamed to honor more honorable Americans. Sparked by public outcry and national and...
by Rebekah Sager
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on Fri Oct 07, 2022 at 07:42 AM PDT
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One of the things that marks the Trump administration is the cast of sycophants, con-artists, fanatics, crooks, and just plain crazy people that flock to Trump. Many supposedly wise people comforted themselves with the expectation that a man who had...
by xaxnar
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on Sat Aug 20, 2022 at 08:44 AM PDT
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There seems to be a certain amount of surprise in some quarters that Secret Service texts, Homeland Security texts, and now DOD messages have all gone missing, all of them from around January 6. Really? Surprise? It’s almost as though anything that...
by xaxnar
153 comments
on Wed Aug 03, 2022 at 07:17 AM PDT
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Written by Linsay Rousseau, Media Affairs Director for Continue To Serve
I am a disable Army Iraq War combat veteran. I am a survivor of military sexual trauma (rape, to put it more clearly) and ...
by ContinueToServe
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on Wed Jun 29, 2022 at 12:00 PM PDT
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Meaningful steps could soon be taken to address the Department of Defense’s “forever chemicals” problem, so long as lawmakers pass the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 (NDAA). Introduced by Rep. Adam Smith of Washington state,...
by April Siese
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on Thu Jun 23, 2022 at 01:07 PM PDT
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Now it’s out in the open that the SCOTUS Gang of Six is planning to take away reproductive rights, and is obviously drooling at the prospect of completely dismembering every other aspect of the United States that doesn’t directly service the finances...
by rflowers
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on Sat Jun 11, 2022 at 07:34 PM PDT
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We’re excited to have you all join us Saturday, June 4th, from 1:00-4:00pm on the steps of the Supreme Court as we rally for Women’s Rights. You can register for the event here. We have some amazing speakers lined up for the event. Check them out...
by ContinueToServe
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on Thu Jun 02, 2022 at 02:36 PM PDT
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Written by Linsay Rousseau, Media Affairs Director for Continue To Serve Linsay Rousseau in the Kirkuk Province, Iraq 2005-2006 As a woman who served in the military, I am a statistic. I was ...
by ContinueToServe
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on Tue May 31, 2022 at 12:00 AM PDT
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