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If we survive the Trump years it seems as if it’s going to be the women who stood up to save democracy. Fani Willis, Letitia James, Nancy Pelosi, Liz Cheney, and Cassidy Hutchinson and others. The full episode of Lawrence O’Donnell’s hour long...
by iowagirl
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on Mon Oct 02, 2023 at 03:48 PM PDT
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With Monday’s Maddow interview of Cassidy Hutchinson, we know that Previous Guy, “...chanted along with insurrectionists demanding to "hang Mike Pence" as he watched on live TV during the January 6 attacks. I have been curious how an “A.I.” LLM would...
by annieli
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on Tue Sep 26, 2023 at 01:41 AM PDT
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Can you imagine young people pulling off a 1969 Woodstock do over event in Fl.? Desantis would melt. Let’s have a little fun. First of all I can’t even imagine him allowing a get together with more artists than Taylor Swift and maybe the Gatlin Brothers with an audience of maybe 200 people. Can you see him losing his mind completely over 500,000...
by Vetwife
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on Mon May 01, 2023 at 10:09 AM PDT
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Very Powerful, Sobering Urban Art Display on the Uniquely American Crisis of Deadly School Shootings This is a very brief diary to share the powerful, sobering video below that is going viral on Twitter this morning. It is a short, worthwhile watch and has a brilliant reveal in it as what is stopping people in their tracks. Whoever created this...
by Liberal in a Red State
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on Tue Jul 26, 2022 at 08:47 AM PDT
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The United States is going through a horrid gun policy crisis. From supermarkets to elementary schools, all across our country, the grief from lives we have lost to gun violence is immense. It’s also preventable. I am a progressive Democrat running to...
by victoria4va
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on Mon Jun 20, 2022 at 03:43 AM PDT
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George Orwell described things in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four with some frightful insights into the world that would exist 37 years after his imaginings. 1984 was written by English novelist George...
by rflctammt
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on Thu Jan 28, 2021 at 02:00 PM PST
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— — Are we still as nation of laws — or a nation of the lawless? Federal Prosecutors Investigating Trump’s Role In Inciting Capitol Attack by Andrew Solender, Forbes Staff — 1/7/2021 U.S. Attorney for the District...
by jamess
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on Thu Jan 07, 2021 at 06:14 PM PST
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— Donald Trump has just stooped to this, today from the White House: “Biden is a stupid person, you know that,” Trump told assembled reporters. — www.msn.com — Sept 07, 2020 The washed-up celebrity has-been had better watch, of which he...
by jamess
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on Mon Sep 07, 2020 at 02:31 PM PDT
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From the local Fire and Rescue Authority website: "Non-permissible (illegal) fireworks are those which explode and/or leave the ground, such as firecrackers, bottle rockets, Roman Candles, aerials, missiles, and other similar items." [Emphasis mine] I...
by aDevilsAdvocate
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on Mon Jul 06, 2020 at 08:55 PM PDT
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by: RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press Posted: Feb 27, 2020 / 07:06 PM EST / Updated: Feb 27, 2020 / 08:15 PM EST WASHINGTON (AP) — A government whistleblower has filed a complaint alleging that some federal workers did not have the necessary...
by RaoulDuke2
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on Thu Feb 27, 2020 at 07:40 PM PST
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I read the news daily. I read Daily Kos daily. I listen to people daily. I'm fucking sick of feeling outraged and embarrassed.
We all see the nonsense that comes out of the White House on a daily basis. Whether it's Sarah Hucka-fuckhername or...
by Sarkazein
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on Sun Feb 03, 2019 at 08:14 PM PST
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If you haven’t heard about what Colorado Senator Michael Bennet did on the senate floor yesterday, stay tuned. But let me just say, he knocked it so far out of the park the other team is still speechless.
Here it is in it’s entirety:
The...
by rflctammt
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on Fri Jan 25, 2019 at 06:56 AM PST
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Congratulations are in order for two high school students turned shooting survivors turned activists who recently announced some pretty great accomplishments, falling far outside of their tireless battles to engage the youth vote and eliminate gun...
by Jessica Sutherland
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on Sat Dec 22, 2018 at 05:13 PM PST
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The families of Sandy Hook Promise have teamed up to unleash one hell of a short film on the world on the sixth anniversary of the day that changed their lives forever. December 14, 2012 saw 20 children and six teachers murdered in the school...
by Jessica Sutherland
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on Sat Dec 15, 2018 at 04:22 PM PST
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The parents of 17-year-old Sabika Aziz Sheikh have become the seventh plaintiff set in a lawsuit against the parents of Dimitrious Pagourtzis, also 17, the alleged gunman in a mass shooting at Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas on May 18 of this...
by Jessica Sutherland
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on Thu Nov 29, 2018 at 02:44 PM PST
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Students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, have been awarded the 2018 International Children's Peace Prize for their tireless anti-gun activism in the aftermath of the Valentine’s Day mass shooting that changed their...
by Jessica Sutherland
52 comments
on Wed Nov 21, 2018 at 02:06 PM PST
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Since the vast majority of Internet population is tl;dr, I am obliged to add this foreword and disclaimer.
I am a staunch supporter of nonviolence, and this diary does not endorse violence in any shape or form. However, when the entire world is...
by Assaf
64 comments
on Thu Nov 15, 2018 at 06:03 AM PST
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Eleven thousand voters turn 18 every day, according to the Future Coalition, a national network of youth-led organizations and initiatives. It’s those newly eligible voters, and others comprising the notoriously unlikely-to-vote 18-24 age group, that...
by Jessica Sutherland
52 comments
on Sat Nov 03, 2018 at 07:00 PM PDT
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Everytown for Gun Safety is a movement to end the unacceptable gun violence that affects millions of children every year in the United States. A new video campaign by the organization, using pop music star Sia’s “I’m Still Here,” was released last...
by Walter Einenkel
70 comments
on Fri Nov 02, 2018 at 11:05 AM PDT
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I’ve been struggling to find the right words after Saturday's events. But words are failing me. I’m angry. I’m sad. I’m frightened.
I’m angry that an anti-Semitic madman, armed with an AR-15, burst into a synagogue while a community gathered to...
by lisamandelblatt
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on Sun Oct 28, 2018 at 07:01 PM PDT
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