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“It really is aimed at being able to cast doubt on the results after the fact. But also, before the election itself, at being able to shape who turns out and how they turn out.” — Joanna Lydgate, chief executive of the nonpartisan States United...
by RickElia
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on Fri Mar 15, 2024 at 06:57 AM PDT
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Other than last Sunday’s revelation that Saudi Arabia and Russia have begun manipulating oil availability to create high gas prices to kneecap Biden this fall, the most under-reported story of the week was also posted to The New York Times the same...
by thomhartmann
114 comments
on Wed Mar 06, 2024 at 09:01 AM PST
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Ronald Reagan once hailed the Republican Party as a "big tent" with lots of room for opposing views, including what were known as “Reagan Democrats” at the time. Reagan's framing persisted for decades despite it becoming an increasingly hollow claim as...
by Kerry Eleveld
280 comments
on Tue Mar 05, 2024 at 03:00 PM PST
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Coming out of the Iowa caucuses, there was a moment when Donald Trump seemed almost gracious . His victory speech largely ignored the campaigns of Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley as Trump concentrated ...
by Mark Sumner
254 comments
on Thu Jan 25, 2024 at 10:30 AM PST
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Pretty simple, really… it is plain that the economic, cultural and human harm done to African Americans by four centuries of enslavement has not been addressed, and must be addressed before we can “get past racism.” It doesn’t seem that there’s the...
by soupbone60
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on Thu Sep 21, 2023 at 10:38 AM PDT
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Donald Trump's Plan for America is called "Agenda47" and it's a helluva thing. Here are the top ten worst agenda items: #1 Agenda47: President Trump Calls for Death Penalty for Human Traffickers President Donald J. Trump pledged to end the scourge of...
by Frank Vyan Walton
195 comments
on Sat Aug 19, 2023 at 08:00 AM PDT
with 500 Recommends
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*Warning, possible trigger for some people* Hello Father- If your spirit can see, read, taste these words wherever it has gone to after your death, then I hope it is as edifying for your spirit in the reading as it seems to be for me in the writing....
by KLWhite
45 comments
on Tue Jul 11, 2023 at 02:08 AM PDT
with 69 Recommends
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UPDATE: Friday, Dec 16, 2022 · 3:47:56 AM +00:00 · Mark Sumner UPDATE: Friday, Dec 16, 2022 · 3:33:44 AM +00:00 · Mark Sumner Musk is now claiming that the journalists involved “posted my exact real-time location, basically assassination coordinates.”...
by Mark Sumner
339 comments
on Thu Dec 15, 2022 at 06:48 PM PST
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Get ready. If you’re a Democratic voter, there’s a chance you’ll show up to vote this November and discover you can’t because you’re no longer registered. Millions will be blindsided this way, and it could turn elections toward Republicans across the...
by thomhartmann
57 comments
on Fri Sep 16, 2022 at 08:25 AM PDT
with 201 Recommends
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The administration of former President/unindicted criminal Donald Trump was the most corrupt in our history. Well, if we give him a second term, you ain’t seen nothing yet. In a blockbuster two-part report, Axios outlined Trump’s plans to cement even...
by RickElia
10 comments
on Sat Jul 30, 2022 at 04:38 AM PDT
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As his legacy and his myth of invincibility go up in smoke like a Russian tank hit by a Ukrainian Javelin, Vladimir Putin is starting to panic. The cornered autocrat is more and more isolated. His snap decision to actually go ahead with an all-out...
by Irenaeus
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on Mon Mar 14, 2022 at 02:49 PM PDT
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Rush Limbaugh resurfaced to do his radio show this week, to stir the pot. Now he is calling the Republican Party to purge all non Trump loyalists. What Are You Gonna Do If Trump Doesn’t Win? RUSH: ..And Trump really has remade the Republican...
by Lefty Coaster
129 comments
on Thu Dec 10, 2020 at 01:55 PM PST
with 103 Recommends
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The only thing holding Donald Trump back from axing the heads of the nation's top two intelligence agencies is the upcoming election, according to Axios. Trump and his "inner circle" totally distrust both FBI Director Chris Wray and CIA Director Gina...
by Kerry Eleveld
125 comments
on Mon Oct 26, 2020 at 08:49 AM PDT
with 179 Recommends
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Mainstream news media keep saying that Donald Trump is crazy...don’t know how to deal with this virus! But...ever since it was known that Blacks and Hispanics are disproportionately dying from Covid-19...this president has being trying to take...
by count6
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on Thu Aug 06, 2020 at 01:46 PM PDT
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but based on personal experience with Republican secretaries of state, disasters and vote suppression. Senate Republicans are apparently never going to reach consensus on the next relief/stimulus package. They’re not even trying. In “a couple of...
by Crashing Vor
191 comments
on Mon Jul 27, 2020 at 11:20 AM PDT
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As first reported by Meridith McGraw and Hahal Toosi at Politico, Donald Trump has purged yet another inspector general, State Department IG Steve Linick. His replacement will be Ambassador Stephen Akard, a former career Foreign Service officer with...
by Meteor Blades
58 comments
on Sat May 16, 2020 at 09:12 AM PDT
with 159 Recommends
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Donald Trump just expressed his deep, deep hurt and confusion by throwing another two-year-old tantrum. Within two days’ time, he fired two top witnesses who testified against him in his impeachment hearing, Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman and Ambassador...
by Huntress77
10 comments
on Sat Feb 08, 2020 at 03:51 AM PST
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When Donald Trump is re-elected, smart folks should rush buy shares in companies that operate private prisons and those that make razor wire, because they are going to want to lock a bunch of us up somewhere and the nation’s prisons are already pretty...
by ARodinFan
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on Thu Feb 20, 2020 at 04:58 AM PST
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Three top Democrats are launching an inquiry into the "unprecedented actions" Donald Trump recently took to purge the top layer of officials from the Department of Homeland Security. In a letter to Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan on...
by Kerry Eleveld
23 comments
on Thu Apr 25, 2019 at 02:21 PM PDT
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The biggest game in Washington right now is speculating on who wrote the stunning New York Times editorial describing efforts within the Trump Administration to protect the nation from the worst effects of a mentally unbalanced President. The editorial...
by KeithDB
7 comments
on Thu Sep 06, 2018 at 08:17 AM PDT
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