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The Biden campaign is leaning into abortion as an issue that can cut against Donald Trump with a critical constituency: Latino voters. On Friday, the campaign announced a new battleground state ad ...
by Kerry Eleveld
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on Fri May 03, 2024 at 03:00 PM PDT
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Here is the link to Part 2 of this weekly diary — Waging War on Woke — The Week in Editorial Cartoons, Part 2 I expect to post Part 2 of this diary at some point tomorrow. It’ll be about the Trump Trial. I will post more editorial cartoons in the...
by JekyllnHyde
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on Sun Apr 21, 2024 at 07:03 PM PDT
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A sermon from ‘self appointed rabbi’ Arnstein on why you can’t vote for the GOP. I think their whole concept and crusades against trans gender and the people streaming to our borders for the problems we've created and the 'American way of life' we've...
by iarnstein
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on Fri Apr 12, 2024 at 02:13 PM PDT
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Short diary entry — Trump supporter’s real goal : Make Russia Great Again. MRGA We should use it freely. What do you think?
by dlsamson
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on Fri Apr 12, 2024 at 09:10 AM PDT
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Last week I had one of the most rewarding and yet most difficult experiences of my storytelling journey. I was asked to have a conversation/presentation with a group of male asylum seekers in their teens. They had crossed the border unaccompanied and...
by The Boss Gomez
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on Sat Mar 30, 2024 at 10:21 AM PDT
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Disclaimer For the record, I didn’t want to be the first person to travel to all 10 American Concentration Camps by electric vehicle. Some here call me an arrogant, self-aggrandizing elitist (although they have to use smaller words). I really don’t...
by CorpFlunky
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on Thu Mar 28, 2024 at 08:12 AM PDT
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I did not comment on Black History month this year. I celebrated instead by reading “The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story” created by Nikole Hannah-Jones. Practically none of what I read was taught in several high schools and the few colleges I...
by 40ford
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on Sat Mar 23, 2024 at 03:34 PM PDT
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The battle between democratic freedoms and despotic oppression worldwide is intensifying. As we saw here last month, more people will vote for national governments in 2024 than in any year ever. Bizarrely, many American voters seem happy to vote for...
by Alan Austin
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on Mon Mar 18, 2024 at 04:44 AM PDT
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Although the Donald is known for hugging and humping our country’s flag, he is against everything the United States of America is really about. And if he somehow gets a second term, he’ll have a cabinet that would enable him to wield a lot more power...
by Perlinator
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on Tue Mar 12, 2024 at 07:00 PM PDT
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*The Republican party really does stand for freedom! Just be aware that they define freedom very differently than you and I do. When the ruling class gets more freedom, the rest of us get less freedom. And if we lose so much freedom that the USA...
by Perlinator
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on Sun Mar 10, 2024 at 08:44 PM PDT
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If President Joe Biden's feisty performance at the State of the Union on Thursday was representative of a man in decline, some viewers walked away thinking old age might not be so bad after all. "I hope I get this kind of dementia," comedic writer Alex...
by Kerry Eleveld
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on Fri Mar 08, 2024 at 06:30 AM PST
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Abortion is in the Constitution It seems that the French are, again, pointing the way for democracies by inserting the right to abortion care into their Constitution. This, by the way, in a country that is predominantly Catholic. Perhaps it is the...
by daddybunny
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on Mon Mar 04, 2024 at 12:05 PM PST
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1) To those of you that want to have a 401k or a bank account after a dictator takes over, you’ll find out that Dictators love money. It is power. After the last election the dictator will gather all the money. There will be no 401 k’s, no bank...
by myoungatheart5
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on Mon Feb 26, 2024 at 05:04 PM PST
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Don’t look now, but for over a decade, Donald Trump has sought to become the “best friend” (quoting a 2013 letter) of Russia’s murderous, Ukraine-blitzing, Alexei Navalny-snuffing ruler. While straining to liken himself to Navalny (go figure), Trump...
by Inspector Clueso
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on Mon Feb 26, 2024 at 01:15 PM PST
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For Alexei Navalny 🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺☮️🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺 How To Vote. Democrat, Of Course! The Hero’s Journey-Journey Stages Joseph Campbell explains his theory of the journey of the...
by rebel ga
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on Fri Feb 23, 2024 at 04:00 PM PST
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Democrats should be riding high after two impressive special election victories this week with promising implications for November. Veteran Democratic lawmaker Tom Suozzi won back his old job representing New York's 3rd Congressional District, flipping...
by Kerry Eleveld
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on Fri Feb 16, 2024 at 01:35 PM PST
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We operate on trust on this site. That is what this community is founded upon. It’s why we have community moderation. We are this site’s protectors. It’s also why we have one another’s backs. We take care of our own. In a very real way, we are family....
by Onomastic
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on Fri Feb 16, 2024 at 12:00 PM PST
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I’m young and I love to be young I’m free and I love to be free To live my life the way I want To say and do whatever I please — John Madara and Dave White, “You Don’t Own Me” (1963) “You Don’t Own Me” addressed what has been the central issue in human...
by Robert S McElvaine
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on Tue Feb 13, 2024 at 01:04 PM PST
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Arizona state Sen. Jake Hoffman, a member of the Freedom Caucus, successfully pushed SB 1279 , which prohibits “Satanic memorials, statues, altars or displays or any other method of representing ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Fri Feb 09, 2024 at 11:30 AM PST
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There’s an ironic bit about the Republicans wanting to pass unpopular abortion bans. They present themselves as the party of individual freedom. They’ve made that their brand ever since they stole the icon of the Marlboro Man. They dis Democrats and...
by DonaldWindrip
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on Tue Jan 30, 2024 at 12:44 PM PST
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