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Letters from an American: April 28, 2024 Senior GOP are not 'challenging democracy' but are working to forcibly impose an autocratic Christian Theocracy across the US which will be violent and intolerant of opposition. Bill Barr, Trump's criminal...
by DrLou
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on Mon Apr 29, 2024 at 06:38 PM PDT
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sounded off about the current Republican attack on reproductive rights and the resulting Alabama Supreme Court ruling that has jeopardized IVF treatments during a ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Tue Feb 27, 2024 at 04:00 PM PST
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Missouri state Senate Republicans took time away from their filibustering of one another to vote down two Democratic-led amendments to the state’s draconian abortion laws that would have allowed exceptions for rape and incest on Wednesday. In 2022, the...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Thu Feb 08, 2024 at 01:56 PM PST
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This will be an extremely short diary. It will be because this post is not about my own attempts at cogent and incisive thoughts. It is about someone else’s to which anything I add would be superfluous. This very short vid shows who Mike Johnson is,...
by Alien G
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on Wed Feb 07, 2024 at 12:15 PM PST
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On this date in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, as well as 2022, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day posted profiles of Chuck Winder, who in 2012, joined the ranks of Republicans who were talking about rape during a discussion...
by republicinsanity
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on Thu Dec 28, 2023 at 11:21 AM PST
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Welcome to what is the 1259th original profile here at “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day”, where we’ll be profiling Richard Corcoran, a former member of the Florida House of Representatives from District 45 of that body, who rode the Tea Party...
by republicinsanity
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on Thu Nov 30, 2023 at 07:52 AM PST
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One of the key reasons Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana finally lined up the Republican votes to become House speaker after other nominees failed was because everyone in the conference thinks he's "a nice guy," as NPR reporter Eric McDaniel noted several...
by Kerry Eleveld
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on Fri Oct 27, 2023 at 06:35 AM PDT
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Part of Trump’s 2024 campaign includes the “ ReAwaken America Tour ,” an evangelical revival-styled mobile circus. The events are often preceded by meetings for the group Pastors for Trump. ...
by Walter Einenkel
181 comments
on Fri Oct 13, 2023 at 04:10 PM PDT
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Impeached twice. Indicted 4 times, with 91 felony charges. A civil convicted rapist. The most prolific liar on earth. Serial adulterer. Pussy grabber/Molester of women. Incestuous father. Selfish. Greedy. Vile. And the antithesis of everything Jesus...
by Benthovens5th
317 comments
on Sun Sep 24, 2023 at 10:29 PM PDT
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An article from CNN is detailing the rise of queerphobia in Ghana: If someone suspects that you, or someone you’re with, is gay — either from your gait, the way you dress, or who you may be holding hands with —you could be attacked, kidnapped or even...
by m1i9k8t3j
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on Wed Sep 13, 2023 at 02:33 AM PDT
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From yesterday (August 28, 2023), but I only heard about it now: Reuters: First Ugandan Charged with ‘Aggravated Homosexuality’ Punishable by Death According to a charge sheet seen by Reuters, the defendant was charged on Aug. 18 with aggravated...
by m1i9k8t3j
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on Tue Aug 29, 2023 at 09:17 PM PDT
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The Right holds up Mike Pence as a Christian. I guess we’ll find out for sure on Judgement Day, but for now is it a sin to question whether Pence really is a man of God, or if he’s another example of the phony moral superiority the Right likes to crow...
by RickElia
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on Fri Aug 18, 2023 at 07:35 AM PDT
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Imagine being the lone evangelical preacher who saw Donald Trump for what he was: the complete betrayal of everything the church had taught. A moral reprobate who didn’t even pretend to go to ...
by kos
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on Thu Aug 10, 2023 at 01:30 PM PDT
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We must continue having Christian principles guiding the medical experts setting our laws to further conservative views that this country is a Christian based one. In that regard, the state of Texas is rightly ignoring stated positions by the American...
by iarnstein
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on Sat May 13, 2023 at 11:10 PM PDT
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It’s less than a year till the 2024 Iowa Caucuses, and it’s time to get busy. “Huh?” you say. “I thought the Democratic Party moved the first primary to South Carolina.” True, but the Republican Party didn’t. Their opening salvo is scheduled for Monday...
by Liberal Thinking
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on Wed Feb 22, 2023 at 04:00 PM PST
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Less than a week before Election Day, South Dakota state Senate candidate Joel Matthew Koskan was charged with child abuse. Court documents allege the GOP candidate groomed his adopted daughter, controlled her, and ultimately sexually assaulted her...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Mon Nov 21, 2022 at 12:51 PM PST
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Jerry Falwell Jr.’s fall from grace was, like everything else over the last five or so years, predictably trite. The son of Jerry Falwell Sr., Junior stepped into his father’s camel-sized shoes and used his father’s political connections to promote the...
by Walter Einenkel
82 comments
on Fri Oct 14, 2022 at 09:37 AM PDT
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It was the weirdest (scariest) thing. Marjorie Taylor Green, at a Trump rally in Michigan this week claimed that Democrats are murdering Republicans and the killings have already begun. While any sane person would know this is not true, she said it in...
by Benthovens5th
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on Wed Oct 05, 2022 at 12:42 AM PDT
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Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado was speaking at the Truth & Liberty Conference in Woodland Park a few days ago. It’s a conference of Christian nationalists who want their version of Christianity to rule the United States. During her remarks,...
by Walter Einenkel
319 comments
on Wed Sep 14, 2022 at 02:22 PM PDT
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On Monday, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed a lawsuit on behalf of two employees at North Carolina company Aurora Pro Services who say they were fired after refusing to participate in the company’s daily Christian prayer...
by Walter Einenkel
200 comments
on Wed Jun 29, 2022 at 01:52 PM PDT
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