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It’s only March, and I’m already feeling like this year is going to be one hell of a roller coaster ride over how I feel about the future of our democracy. (Actually, I’ve been feeling like this for years now, but this year it’s coming to a head.)...
by Dan K
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on Tue Mar 05, 2024 at 01:20 PM PST
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by Barbara Powell / Rupert Murdoch has admitted that Fox News’ 2020 election “fraud” claims were indeed a fraud. Rupert and his loyal Fox frauds were happy to perpetuate those lies. Now Murdoch says, gee, maybe we shouldn’t have, but we did. Serial...
by beepy
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on Wed Mar 01, 2023 at 09:44 AM PST
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Republicans have gone full Fascist since W, and his sidekick Dick, took the US into Iraq based on bogus fabricated BS. Since T***p & Putin orchestrated their hostile takeover of our government, the ...
by WarrenPease
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on Mon Feb 20, 2023 at 04:00 AM PST
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If we search for light in darkness, we can see a tiny spark in the official response to the brutal police murder of Tyre Nichols. By historical standards, it was instantaneous. Not three weeks after his death, the five officers who had killed him had...
by dratler
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on Fri Feb 03, 2023 at 08:11 AM PST
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Investigations into the fake profile of recently-elected congressman for New York George Santos are being reported worldwide. Articles have appeared already in major journals in Spain, France, Finland, Brazil, Uruguay, China, Japan, Italy, Russia,...
by Alan Austin
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on Thu Dec 29, 2022 at 05:56 AM PST
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The Christmas story, whether fable or fact, has warmed many, many hearts in the past two millennia. Many a sermon has been preached to illustrate one or more of the angles behind the basic story that the pastor wanted their flock to remember. Today’s...
by rmartin1241
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on Sat Dec 24, 2022 at 02:21 PM PST
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I write this as some Americans have already headed off to their polling places to vote, and quite honestly, the one thing I know I’m going to do this evening at bedtime is take a sleeping pill. I don’t want to wake up in the middle of the night and...
by mofembot
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on Tue Nov 08, 2022 at 05:05 AM PST
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Recently while driving home with my wife we were approaching a bridge overpass on the freeway and I could see a sign attached to the fencing. I had a feeling it was a political sign so I eagerly ...
by livingontop
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on Thu Sep 29, 2022 at 07:00 AM PDT
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The GOP has offered their contract for America. It isn’t a contract that celebrates America—it is a contract for cruelty, period. It instills the far right agenda, the stripping of basic rights from the people, and instilling the overwhelming weight of...
by Christopher Reeves
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on Fri Sep 23, 2022 at 11:20 AM PDT
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Let this sink in for a moment: Associate Justice Samuel Alito, who authored the majority opinion in Dobbs, called Roe "settled law" and "important precedent" during his 2006 confirmation hearings, but did not rule out re-examining it. The three most...
by ThinkOutsideTheBox
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on Tue Sep 06, 2022 at 08:39 AM PDT
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Last week, Gov. Tate Reeves (R-MS) appeared on Meet the Press on MSNBC to lie to the nation. (See Gov. Reeves Lies to the Nation from last week.) But, of course this is part of a campaign to ...
by Liberal Thinking
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on Sun Dec 05, 2021 at 04:00 PM PST
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In 1994, Henry Rollins and the Rollins band released a single with these memorable lines, And then you meet me And your whole world changes Because everything I say is everything you've ever wanted to hear So you drop all your defenses and you drop all...
by TheCriticalMind
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on Thu Jul 15, 2021 at 05:47 PM PDT
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As reported in the Washington Post apple.news/… the Cleveland Plain Dealer has decided to “ignore inaccurate statements” made by Josh Moore. He has adopted the standard M.O. of trolls by making incendiary statements which used to...
by sufeitzy
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on Mon Mar 15, 2021 at 06:56 PM PDT
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Look, Trump has his go to doc interviewing on Russian Television, an idiot resident claiming he will not count votes and will declare victory if in his stupid brain sees a win and this is the same person who told people to drink bleach and stick a UV...
by Vetwife
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on Sun Nov 01, 2020 at 05:02 PM PST
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*that is the only logical conclusion of what’s happening right now. There is no way Trump self quarantines while waiting for test results. That is not his MO. He doesn’t care about others. Previously, when he had close contact with people that...
by Democracy Rising
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on Thu Oct 01, 2020 at 09:27 PM PDT
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I expect that many readers here, like me, have somehow gotten on right-wing email lists they can’t get off of. In my case, I receive two or three emails every day from Martha McSally’s campaign. They run the gamut of various scare tactics,...
by Mage11an
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on Thu Oct 01, 2020 at 05:49 PM PDT
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When asked about paying $750 in taxes, he denied it and then said he is SOOOO clever for avoiding taxes. It was like, “Officer, I didn’t kill the man, but doesn’t the fact that you can’t find the body or the gun prove that I am clever?”. I think that...
by bluesherm
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on Wed Sep 30, 2020 at 08:41 AM PDT
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[Cross-posted at The Left Coaster.] I generally don’t like Presidential debates, I don’t think a confrontational personal format is exactly a good representation of politics, and the following political media yap is excruciating, every hack available...
by paradox
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on Wed Sep 30, 2020 at 05:53 AM PDT
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I keep expecting the leak of a Republican, talking-points memo that says, “Pick three things that Trump did last week and accuse the Democrats of plotting to do them.” The memo must be out there; the entire Republican Party has become a walking...
by JoeCarl
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on Tue Aug 25, 2020 at 03:08 PM PDT
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