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So Trump wants absolute immunity because he used to be President. That would give the same power immediately to Biden. Donny should find himself trying to campaign from Guantanamo and having all his hearing on live video feed in a jumpsuit from Cuba....
by manoffire
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on Tue Jan 23, 2024 at 10:38 AM PST
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As the number of counts of felonies associated with the former president increase, the likelihood that he will be convicted on one or more of those charges increases. This has caused media talking heads to ponder the complications of jailing a former...
by jjhaydeniii
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on Fri Aug 25, 2023 at 01:34 PM PDT
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August 24, 2023 To: Miguel Cardona, Secretary US Department of Education Greetings, Secretary Cardona, You have the honor of holding an esteemed position. Congratulations. Sir, I actually learned to think when I was in school! That's what excellent...
by paul thomas richards
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on Thu Aug 24, 2023 at 04:14 AM PDT
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www.rawstory.com/… Showtime was all set to air "The Guantanamo Candidate," a Vice-created documentary alleging to examine Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' time as a military lawyer at the controversial enemy combatant detention facility in Guantanamo Bay,...
by ca cokz
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on Thu Jul 20, 2023 at 06:18 AM PDT
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Condoleezza Rice has a long and distinguished resume. She has a doctorate in International Studies from the University of Denver and was provost at Stanford University during the 1990s. During the Bush administration (2001-2009), Rice was National...
by Alan Singer
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on Wed May 03, 2023 at 04:12 PM PDT
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The March issue of Harper’s prints the transcript of a podcast containing a dialogue between Mike Prysner, an Iraqi war veteran, and Mansur Ahmad Saad al-Dayfi, a former detainee at Guantanamo, “probably a low-level fighter,” first detained in 2002,...
by kay dub
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on Thu Feb 23, 2023 at 12:31 PM PST
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When checking our budget or doing our taxes (two activities that never, ever relax us) We consider where we are spending our money and some things on that list are not very funny. It may be just pennies and to be ignored or an item that’s meaningful...
by Joyce Siegel
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on Fri Feb 17, 2023 at 03:05 PM PST
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I wrote previously about how the so-called “liberal” Tampa Bay Times and other Florida “journalists” refuse to relentlessly investigate and expose the fascist corruption and agenda of Governor Ron DeSantis. Worse yet, they refuse to use his actual...
by CarolEllison
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on Sun Jan 29, 2023 at 06:33 AM PST
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One of the most persistent right-wing memes is that “the media” is left-wing, or at least liberal. Donald Trump’s constant slagging of the media as “fake news” and “enemies of America” with a “liberal agenda” is reinforced by far-right politicians and...
by CarolEllison
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on Thu Jan 05, 2023 at 09:01 AM PST
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10/28/1894 my great grandfather Takaichi Saiki, age seven, arrived in Honolulu from Hiroshima with his parents on aboard the SS Nanching. He married, had seven kids, and by 1941 was vice-president of the Bank of Hilo. 6/14/1941: Six months before Pearl...
by Tom Lum Forest
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on Wed Dec 07, 2022 at 11:46 PM PST
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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 side pocket
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on Sun Oct 30, 2022 at 08:59 PM PDT
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It’s after midnight in America. Well, in my part of it anyway. Woke up for the necessaries and then didn’t drift back to sleep. Sometimes chasing the mental rabbits down their holes leads to the same underground thought-tunnels, though. The...
by Basenji
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on Thu Jun 23, 2022 at 01:09 AM PDT
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As the 20th anniversary of September 11, 2001 nears, there will be many valuable reflections about that horrific day and about the subsequent “global war on terror” that devastated countless lives around the world. My own focus here is narrower: to...
by Roy Eidelson
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on Wed Sep 08, 2021 at 07:54 AM PDT
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Today’s New York Post ran a front-page story with the headline: “Taliban leader was freed from Guantanamo Bay in 2014 swap by Obama.” The main focus of the story is on one of the released Taliban commanders, Khairullah Khairkhwa. It’s certain that this...
by Charles Jay
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on Tue Aug 17, 2021 at 12:24 PM PDT
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By now anyone who hasn’t gleaned the uniquely horrific depravity and sociopathic character of the man who 62 million Americans voted into office in 2016 (and who an even greater number of Americans voted to reelect in 2020) in all likelihood never...
by Dartagnan
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on Mon Jun 21, 2021 at 01:51 PM PDT
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Last week, Mansoor Adayfi, Moazzam Begg, Lakhdar Boumediane, Sami Al Hajj, Ahmed Errachidi, Mohammed Ould Slahi, and Moussa Zemmouri published an open letter in the New York Review of Books. Noting that many Guantanamo detainees had been abducted...
by Roy Eidelson
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on Wed Feb 03, 2021 at 06:28 AM PST
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The U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay has been used since the 9/11 attacks to hold those who would harm the U.S. While many of those who have been held at Guantanamo Bay detention center (Gitmo) have been released, there are still some detained...
by DaveInDayton
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on Tue Dec 15, 2020 at 06:03 PM PST
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"What I am is a great builder. I build great things and become successful, and everybody talks about them." - Donald Trump In 1985, tRUMP built his tRUMP Tower in New York on the backs of cheap labour and deals with the mafia. It was his entrance...
by List maker NOT List taker
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on Fri Sep 11, 2020 at 04:53 PM PDT
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by Dr. Maha Hilal Content note: This article contains descriptions of suicidal thoughts and attempts “Hardship is the only language that is used here. Anybody who is able to die will be able to achieve happiness for himself, he has no other hope...
by Prism Guest Writer
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on Fri May 29, 2020 at 08:30 AM PDT
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False claims, character assassination, and bullying threats. It probably sounds familiar, but I’m not referring to the president’s latest tweets. Rather, I’m describing the piece by Sally Harvey—titled “Hoffman Report’s flaws should be acknowledged”—in...
by Roy Eidelson
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on Thu Feb 13, 2020 at 06:18 AM PST
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