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No doubt about it, the numbers are not only not good, they are brutal. More than twice as many Americans said that the economy was getting worse than said it was getting better. The Middle East remains a point of controversy. So, that's not helping him...
by Dem
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on Thu Dec 28, 2023 at 12:15 PM PST
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Has anybody on the Left; self identified progressives called on Hamas to engage in a ceasefire or ‘humanitarian pause?’ No — just Israel. There seems to either be a significant disconnect to or, either, a distinct purpose for those who scream only for...
by DrLou
184 comments
on Sat Nov 04, 2023 at 07:45 AM PDT
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Briahna Joy Gray: “Biden can be ten times better than Trump… I’m not voting for him.” — 2023 Briahna Joy Gray, 38, is an American political commentator on Rising from The Hill, a former corporate lawyer, and political consultant who served as the...
by frankfaiola
212 comments
on Sun Oct 22, 2023 at 07:48 PM PDT
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Thomas B. Edsall, an American journalist and academic, wrote an outlandish opinion piece in the New York Times that claims small-dollar donations to political candidates are the real problem, not big money in politics. His piece was titled “Small...
by frankfaiola
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on Sun Oct 22, 2023 at 03:28 PM PDT
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In the aftermath of Hamas’ terrorist attack on Israel, some fringe-left factions are forming alliances with anti-Zionist entities. These groups demonstrate solidarity with Hamas’ acts of violence, justifying them as “resistance” and “liberation." The...
by frankfaiola
47 comments
on Fri Oct 20, 2023 at 11:10 PM PDT
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This arrived in my email inbox, but this appears to be the link to it. . "The Moral Depravity of the Pro Hamas Left Spare me the whataboutisms..." But the pro-Hamas left reacted very differently. Spare me the whataboutism, the lectures about...
by Dem
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on Wed Oct 11, 2023 at 02:51 PM PDT
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I'm Woke Click for song of adoption of derogatory terms as a source of pride
by waldeniii
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on Thu Aug 17, 2023 at 12:04 PM PDT
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In recent decades, a segment of the global Left has looked upon the U.S. government as the Great Satan in international affairs, responsible for the world’s major ills. Thus, on those occasions when countries at odds with the United States behaved like...
by Lawrence S Wittner
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on Sat Aug 05, 2023 at 10:13 AM PDT
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Imma keep this short because it’s really not a difficult concept, and I want to make it clear that my headline is a general statement responding to the spate of diaries on this subject, not a calling out of anyone in particular criticizing anyone’s...
by EphemeralNotion
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on Tue Jul 11, 2023 at 11:42 AM PDT
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I just read a diary that pissed me the hell off! Every now and then you’ll see some moralizing diary on the trend list lecturing progressives about words and imploring us to sanitize our speech very carefully so as not to offend the feelings of some of...
by Democratic Strategist
730 comments
on Tue Jul 11, 2023 at 08:13 AM PDT
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I still consider myself a Democrat, but I also agree with all of these statements: *Modern anti-racism (as promoted by Ibram Kendi) is a deeply flawed ideology; *Mandating equitable outcomes is impossible, misguided, and possibly unconstitutional;...
by shivashankar
90 comments
on Wed Oct 12, 2022 at 08:39 PM PDT
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First and foremost, it is important to resist reductive interpretations of the world. That’s why I wrote, some time ago, that the 74 million people who voted for trump are (mostly) complex individuals who cannot be summarily dismissed as irredeemable...
by shivashankar
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on Sat Sep 24, 2022 at 02:54 PM PDT
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Antifa has always stood for “anti-fascist.” That’s it. When neo-Nazis and “alt-right” ass hats and whatever the ultra-conservative movement decided to call itself that week began showing up en masse to peaceful events like a bunch of bullies, groups of...
by Walter Einenkel
149 comments
on Wed Aug 31, 2022 at 07:05 AM PDT
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This business—this lamentation—of political paralysis while the things that can kill swathes of children in seconds continues to remain unaddressed, is gonna keep happening until we get wise to the consequences of accepting a privatized electoral...
by citixen
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on Wed May 25, 2022 at 09:28 PM PDT
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In a repeat of the 2017 Presidential election, French voters chose Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen as their top two choices in the first round of voting on Sunday. According to Le Monde in English, preliminary exit polls conducted by Ipsos-Sopra...
by Mark Lippman
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on Sun Apr 10, 2022 at 12:56 PM PDT
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“O, yes,/ I say it plain,/ America never was America to me,/ And yet I swear this oath— America will be!” Despite the fact that Langston Hughes, in that famous poem, voices the legitimate grievances of African Americans, American Indians, and...
by shivashankar
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on Sat Apr 09, 2022 at 01:51 PM PDT
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Michael Cogbill is a Union Organizer, Gun Violence Prevention Activist and former Political Action Chair of the Pennsylvania NAACP. He is running for United States Congress in Pennsylvania’s 3rd House District, challenging one of at least 18 incumbent...
by Michael Cogbill for Congress
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on Fri Apr 01, 2022 at 08:12 AM PDT
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In 2020, we showed up for Democrats. In 2022, it’s time for Democrats to show up for us. Our nation is facing the preventable impacts of climate change, an affordability and housing crisis, the pandemic, gun-violence, and racial injustice. But instead...
by Graham Diedrich
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on Sat Jan 29, 2022 at 07:28 AM PST
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I stopped watching Maher awhile back. He was funny when I was younger, but then as the years dragged on it became clear he was another entitled narcissist. I watched a clip of Maher recently and it became clear to me the man should just quit his show...
by sujigu
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on Mon Oct 25, 2021 at 08:06 PM PDT
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I’ve been seeing this argument recently:�the prog caucus should let the bipartisan bill through.� “Something is better than nothing”, “It’s their job to help people as best they can” you��
by Pickly
68 comments
on Wed Sep 22, 2021 at 09:00 AM PDT
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