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Sen. Ted “ Cancun ” Cruz is closer to enacting an airport security amendment that would allow top federal officials like him to apply for a dedicated security ...
by Walter Einenkel
on Thu Mar 28, 2024 at 06:30 AM PDT
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Republicans have declared war on teachers. Part of it is a desire to destroy public education, so all of those tax dollars can be diverted to for-profit ‘education’ companies. Part of it is because they’re turning ‘parental rights’ into a culture war...
by xaxnar
on Sat Jun 10, 2023 at 08:02 AM PDT
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by Nick Anderson
on Wed Aug 03, 2022 at 05:00 AM PDT
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Good morning! Welcome to the Dkos Sangha weekly open thread. This is an open thread for members of the Dkos Sangha and interested visitors who happen by. Each of us has our own path; we come here by way of many different traditions, and of...
by LamontCranston
on Sun Jan 10, 2021 at 07:02 AM PST
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Lades and gentlemen, members of the bar, the People of this American republic require your most sound and sagacious advice. Toward that end I pose a most pressing and urgent, yet entirely hypothetical question: If a man, infected with HIV, that virus...
by ZenDog99
on Wed Dec 02, 2020 at 08:14 AM PST
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Some of you may have seen me promoting a gofundme to raise advertising revenue — a few of you may have even contributed, I’m not sure. As of sometime this morning the gofundme campaign was suspended by gofundme. I have that on appeal, which they...
by ZenDog99
on Tue Dec 01, 2020 at 12:25 PM PST
with 4 Recommends
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There is but one single purpose here - and that is: TO HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE Conservative leaders, both in the U.S. Senate and elsewhere, have a responsibility. That is to lead, to govern, and to be honest in doing so. That is what we should...
by ZenDog99
on Mon Nov 30, 2020 at 11:51 AM PST
with 10 Recommends
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I have done diaries in the past on TED Talks, and on locally organized TEDx experiences. We had another of those last Saturday at a local university, just wonderful! I recommend attending any ...
by BeninSC
on Sat Feb 23, 2019 at 07:01 PM PST
with 30 Recommends
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So this bunch of… Fuckers, I guess would be the right word, have taken Ted’s attack ad and made it into an even better ad for Beto.
There’s a Facebook page up called “The World Against Ted Cruz,” and I have the strongest suspicion they did this....
by Dismayed
on Wed Sep 05, 2018 at 01:32 AM PDT
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One of the quirkier elements of the old TV series, The West Wing, was Chief of Staff Leo McGarry's practice of scheduling top White House officials with ... individuals or groups that held ...
by BeninSC
on Mon Feb 19, 2018 at 07:00 PM PST
with 33 Recommends
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It’s just so difficult to keep up with all matters Trump that here’s what won’t be covered in depth this week:
Trump’s popularity is slipping among rural voters , his base.
by bmethven
on Sun Oct 15, 2017 at 08:01 AM PDT
with 1 Recommend
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by Mark Fiore
on Fri Sep 08, 2017 at 06:51 AM PDT
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For months (I know, it seems like years) the Trump administration and its supporters have yelled that there is no evidence of collusion between Russia and the Trump election campaign, that it is all “fake news”. That will be an impossible to claim...
by bmethven
on Sat Jul 15, 2017 at 12:28 PM PDT
with 6 Recommends
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I am finally getting to a diary I have wanted to write for a little while. It begins with a Top Comments diary I wrote in January of 2013, about an old M*A*S*H episode. It dealt with a romance ...
by BeninSC
on Mon Mar 20, 2017 at 07:01 PM PDT
with 41 Recommends
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Gapminder founder, Professor of Medicine in Public Health at the Karolinska Institute, and TED Talks favorite Hans Rosling died of pancreatic cancer yesterday. He had been ill for about a year.
Guardian Obituary
The following is my life time...
by paul2port
on Wed Feb 08, 2017 at 06:56 PM PST
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Remember when Republicans started their little word war by refusing to use “Democratic party”? It was a simple thing but it was effective in giving like minded people a verbal signal of what they stood for. And it bugged the hell out of a lot of...
by ksuwildkat
on Wed Feb 08, 2017 at 05:44 AM PST
with 1 Recommend
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We talk all the time about not learning from history. In the interest of doing just that, I recommend viewing the following TED video about how Hitler came to power. It’s a broad strokes overview, but still instructive.
ed.ted.com/…
There are...
by karelles
on Sat Dec 10, 2016 at 12:22 PM PST
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Kathy, my sister and I attended an astonishing TEDx event yesterday. It was thrilling, disturbing, inspiring … It stimulated and provoked, it opened doors and windows that had never before seen light. But it has some incredible over-riding themes.
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by BeninSC
on Sat Apr 09, 2016 at 07:00 PM PDT
with 26 Recommends
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by his panic
on Mon Mar 28, 2016 at 09:29 AM PDT
with 9 Recommends
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If you thought this election was classy before, well this week took things to another level! Cruz threw the first punch with an ad showing a nude Melania Trump (our future first lady?!). Trump then threatened to reveal the real Heidi Cruz behind the plast
by SusieSampson
on Sat Mar 26, 2016 at 10:25 AM PDT
with 2 Recommends
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