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A new AP investigation describes how political fights quickly trampled scientific efforts to identify the origins of COVID-19. The investigation drew on thousands of pages of undisclosed emails and documents and dozens of interviews that showed the...
by AChris
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on Wed Apr 24, 2024 at 07:24 PM PDT
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The Great Plains is the huge area in the central portion of the North American continent which stretches from the Canadian provinces in the north, almost to the Gulf of Mexico in the south, from the ...
by Ojibwa
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on Thu Apr 25, 2024 at 07:21 AM PDT
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Things got spicy at a Republican county campaign event in Perryville, Missouri, last Friday, in an expletive-filled confrontation that was caught on video. State Sen. Denny Hoskins cursed out Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft, calling him...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Tue Apr 23, 2024 at 02:15 PM PDT
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene spoke with alleged conman and former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon on his “War Room” show Monday. The interview was what anthropologists might call … bananas .�
by Walter Einenkel
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on Tue Apr 23, 2024 at 11:45 AM PDT
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South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem did her best to avoid discussing abortion rights during an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash on Sunday. When asked about her state’s near-total abortion ban —which ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Mon Apr 22, 2024 at 12:15 PM PDT
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“Propaganda helped us to power. Propaganda kept us in power. Propaganda will help us conquer the world.” -- Joseph Goebbels, German Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda “Our strategy is to destroy the enemy from within, to conquer him...
by RickElia
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on Sun Apr 21, 2024 at 05:06 AM PDT
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On Friday, President Joe Biden gave a nearly 20-minute speech to the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Construction and Maintenance at its conference in Washington, D.C., touching on ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Fri Apr 19, 2024 at 04:00 PM PDT
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By 1724 the English colonies were firmly established along the Atlantic coast and the interactions between the English and the many tribes of the region had significantly modified the Indian cultures.
by Ojibwa
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on Tue Apr 23, 2024 at 07:09 AM PDT
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The jury selection phase of Donald Trump’s historic criminal trial is moving toward a conclusion , after many ups and downs.
by Walter Einenkel
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on Fri Apr 19, 2024 at 08:00 AM PDT
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Donald Trump attacked late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel in an early morning all-over-the-map social media post Wednesday. That night, Kimmel told his audience that he learned about Trump’s latest attack on him from all the text messages waiting...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Thu Apr 18, 2024 at 03:45 PM PDT
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The Republican Party’s attempted impeachment fiasco and beleaguered House Speaker Mike Johnson were the subjects of late-night talk show host Stephen Colbert’s opening monologue Wednesday night. Colbert observed that while the House Republicans...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Thu Apr 18, 2024 at 12:14 PM PDT
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The Oasis Bordello Museum in Wallace, Idaho is in a building which housed an active bordello until 1988 at which time the occupants quickly left town upon hearing about a possible federal raid. They ...
by Ojibwa
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on Mon Apr 22, 2024 at 11:15 AM PDT
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The Pioneer Village, which is a part of the Cashmere Museum in Cashmere, Washington, consists of twenty cabins whose furnishing illustrate pioneer life. One of these cabins is the blacksmith shop. ...
by Ojibwa
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on Mon Apr 22, 2024 at 07:04 AM PDT
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FL Governor Ron DeSantis is celebrating a new law mandating teaching of the History of Communism in Florida K-12 public schools. It’s not clear why he has decided to center an obsolete/fringe political movement in Florida’s education*, but it is a...
by AChris
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on Sat Apr 20, 2024 at 04:33 AM PDT
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A House Oversight Committee hearing �into China’s “political warfare” against the United States went off the rails Wednesday when Republican Rep. James Comer interrupted Democratic Rep. Jamie ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Thu Apr 18, 2024 at 06:30 AM PDT
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Late-night talk show hosts Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert tackled Donald Trump’s historic criminal trial, which kicked off on Monday . Kimmel joked that the “trial is expected to last six ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Tue Apr 16, 2024 at 02:30 PM PDT
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This is one of my personal favorite cartoons I've ever created. The little mini-panel at the end still makes me giggle.
by Barry Deutsch
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on Tue Apr 16, 2024 at 11:13 AM PDT
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Lockheed’s PV-2 Harpoon is an outgrowth of the U.S. Navy’s patrol bomber program. The PV-2 first flew in 1943 and by March 1944 500 were delivered and saw action in the Pacific Theater. In 1948 ...
by Ojibwa
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on Fri Apr 19, 2024 at 07:45 AM PDT
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Donald Trump's historic criminal trial started Monday. In the 24 hours leading up to his appearance in New York Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan’s courtroom, Trump has been thumbing away at his ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Mon Apr 15, 2024 at 11:15 AM PDT
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America has a long history of creating second-class citizens. In 1807, New Jersey removed the vote for women and free people of color. In the 1820s and 1830s, the Court decided that Native Americans no longer owned their land, once it had been...
by CorpFlunky
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on Mon Apr 15, 2024 at 10:01 AM PDT
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- I just found out that some of our oldest (longest term) and dearest Kossacks have recently been laid off or resigned. Apparently It came up in the comments in the diary about the Second DK Site Maintenance with the recent update. I had no idea. I...822 comments 1355 Recs
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