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So. Late this morning I started to watch what wanted to masquerade as a major debate, but was really just a bunch of sore losers. And oh my God, the hubris and the amazing falsity in their verbosity, but then again, one could say it is...
by StellaRay
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on Wed Jan 06, 2021 at 09:21 PM PST
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LB @LauraBray__ So it turns out the monoclonal antibodies that Trump is on are from fetal stem cells. So Trump is being treated/saved with dead babies. Republicans? Amy Barrett? Pro-lifers? Anybody? 9:26 PM · Oct 5, 2020 from Manhattan, NY·Twitter for...
by Save the ACA
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on Tue Oct 06, 2020 at 04:00 AM PDT
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Chutzpah… someone making their candidacy about buying an election against a candidate whose actual campaign slogan is Not me. Us. No one candidate is capable of taking on Donald Trump and the billionaire class alone. There is only one way we win — and...
by wade norris
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on Tue Feb 18, 2020 at 11:41 AM PST
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In the wake of Trump’s decision to withdraw from Syria and Afghanistan, there has been a chorus of cries from Democrats and a few Republicans that this will mean a resurgence of ISIS, the destruction of the Kurds, and the triumph of the Taliban, Syria,...
by mmankoff
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on Tue Dec 25, 2018 at 07:56 AM PST
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Yesterday, democracy gave birth to a new generation of voters who have learned the importance of voting and that we are not the country we want to be. Personally I can’t understand how a single vote could be cast for any Republican anywhere in the...
by pollwatcher
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on Wed Nov 07, 2018 at 06:33 AM PST
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The Trump Administration is parading the young latino boys, and hiding the girls and toddlers, to play into his base’s fear of minority males.
This is America.
This is our best case scenario.
All Photos...
by Patience John
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on Tue Jun 19, 2018 at 07:37 AM PDT
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Say what you will about this Administration — it is the Michelangelo of absurdity and the devastation it has done to Political Satire won’t be calculable for centuries to come. If you know Andy Borowitz and haven’t heard from him since this photo was...
by Louverture
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on Tue Jun 06, 2017 at 09:38 AM PDT
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I know I have published this before. In my opinion, it will never lose its importance or become outdated. Each time, I try to bring it up to date. We should forever keep the memories of our lost soldiers alive in our hearts and minds...
There isn't...
by Marinade Dave
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on Sun May 28, 2017 at 12:12 PM PDT
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This is an Open Thread / Coffee Hour and all topics of conversation are welcome. Today's Coffee Hour is brought to you by E-Prime.
As much as I wanted to avoid listening to “Donald Trump” speak I found myself listening anyway. My initial...
by linkage
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on Mon Jan 23, 2017 at 01:07 PM PST
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Evening Live Blog — A Place for All to Come Together and Discuss the Day’s Events!
We still support Hillary Clinton — That will not change. Yes, Hillary did not win — we know that. Losing ...
by SJohnson
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on Tue Jan 03, 2017 at 04:00 PM PST
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Trump is only the symptom (a symptom that we may never recover from), but the real disease is the millions of people that are either dumb enough to believe him, when he says "believe me" or hateful enough not to care.
We need to stop trying to be...
by LiberalDude
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on Fri Nov 11, 2016 at 01:55 PM PST
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Shocking? Well here is a plot of unemployment from MI (1975-2015). For each year, the unemployment figures from each month of that year are plotted with the same x-axis position.
Can anybody guess why I’ve decided to add this graph?
by smoothmanyfold
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on Fri Mar 04, 2016 at 12:40 AM PST
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I am voting for Sanders because for once I would like to see a president elected who has made it his priority, by far, to give everyday, hard-working, middle-economic-class and lower-economic-class ci
by Seemabes
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on Thu Mar 03, 2016 at 12:47 PM PST
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by smoothmanyfold
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on Tue Mar 01, 2016 at 11:38 PM PST
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on Sun Feb 28, 2016 at 12:33 AM PST
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This is not a diary, but I wanted to send this link from an article that is just being published in the London Review of Books. It essentially buttresses Sanders’ views on Syrian policy and one, perha
by mmankoff
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on Tue Dec 22, 2015 at 09:20 AM PST
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Are these the times when even the Times promotes war?
Yesterday, 12/7/15, in ‘Obama Says of Terrorist Threat: 'We Will Overcome It,’ the NYT reported on Obama’s oval office speech.
You’d thi
by douglassmyth
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on Tue Dec 08, 2015 at 04:01 PM PST
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A few days ago, I read a couple news stories, where the powers that be, were misinforming the local Syrian and Iraqi citizens that the United States was not fighting IS, but were instead supplying the
by john972
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on Mon Dec 07, 2015 at 08:13 PM PST
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Terrorism doesn’t come in neat, clean boxes and we need to stop trying to put them there. The latest debate of whether or not the shooters in San Bernadino were self-radicalized or part of broader net
by akmk
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on Fri Dec 04, 2015 at 03:41 PM PST
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I am not a judge and jury. So I am free to speculate why this guy did what he did. Here is a big hint at what i think is a big factor in this attack — radical islam exacerbated what is already a trou
by pravin
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on Fri Dec 04, 2015 at 05:53 AM PST
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