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- Although there have been earlier published rumors, the NYT just published this above the fold: Biden Puts Arms Shipment to Israel on Hold Amid Dispute Over Rafah Attack The United States withheld 3,500 bombs last week out of concern that they might be...199 comments 340 Recs
- "The dead hand of the past clutches us by way of living people who are too frightened to accept change." Kim Stanley Robinson, Ministry for the Future Ben Noll is a meteorologist at the Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research in New Zealand. He is...53 comments 181 Recs
- I’m not surprised that MAGA “Judge” Eileen Cannon has indefinitely delayed the trial involving Trump’s THEFT of our nation’s most closely guarded secrets. I’m not surprised that Speaker Mike “Trump is My Daddy” Johnson has demanded that ALL of the...54 comments 269 Recs
- The most powerful elected Republican in America declared war on the rule of law yesterday. House Speaker Mike Johnson announced that Congress, on behalf of wannabee “day one” dictator Donald Trump, is going to use every power available to him and his...17 comments 80 Recs
- This cartoon I drew years ago was inspired by some of Matt Groening’s old Life in Hell comics. It’s a fun format to create — I’ve done a few cartoons like this — but it takes forever! Worth it, though. Over the years, at least a half-dozen...8 comments 65 Recs
- From the @BidensWins Twitter/X feed:129 comments 267 Recs
- The Guardian reached out to “every contactable lead author or review editor” of reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change since 2018. Of 843 contacted, 380 replied: Almost 80% of the respondents, all from the authoritative...59 comments 99 Recs
- I promised myself I’d stay away from politics and all things Trump, but I did manage to get a glimpse or two of a headline here and there: Checking the world writ large and find—yup. Trump is still being a Dictator-Wanna-Be El Douche! Yup—Donnie’s...187 comments 295 Recs
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- The recent administrative hold on a shipment of munitions meant for Israel has gotten AIPAC and congressional republicans hopping mad. The influential pro-Israel US lobby group described the move, confirmed by defence chief Lloyd Austin earlier, as a...1 comments 0 Recs
- ...It’s that Donald Trump is losing 20+% of the Republican vote to a woman who isn’t white. To Democrats, voting for a woman might not be a huge deal. Voting for a brown person may not be a huge deal. Voting for a woman who is brown or a brown person...1 comments 6 Recs
- I am currently the Camp Host at Steinaker State Park in Utah, 8 miles north of Vernal, UT. As such, when I am at the park, I am on duty, even though today is one of my days off. At 6:00 am, a camper knocked on my door and said there was an owl hanging...1 comments 2 Recs
- The Guardian reports that continued exchange of fire between the IDF and Hamas near the Rafah crossing with Egypt has led to the hasty evacuation of extremely ill and injured patients and staff from al-Najjar Hospital, one of the few health facilities...2 comments 2 Recs
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- Monday, May 6 Harvard Pro-Palestine Encampment At the Harvard Square T station, around 200 excited kids carrying signs, wearing kaffiyehs, or bearing small Palestinian flags are heading for a high school demonstration on Boston Commons. A girl with a...1 comments 1 Recs
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- Reposted from Dark Skies on the Horizon This weekend Tom Cotton appeared on ABC’s This Week and claimed that some of the J6 Rioters were “just wandering around” the Capitol. "It's past time for the president to accept the results of the election, quit...1 comments 10 Recs
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- Hello, Peeps. Lets take a look at some embarrassing times in petâs lives, shall we? I donât know if any of you have pet doors but if you do you may have had a critter try to go through it who ...33 comments 17 Recs
- One of the ways news coverage gets slanted is the weekend effect. Politicians are well aware of it. If there’s a story or press release that could be problematic, one way to minimize its impact is to time it so it appears late Friday or over the...3 comments 11 Recs
- By David Glenn Cox Through the closed door and the courtroom artist, it is hard to grasp the tenor of the case against Donald Trump. All the ingredients are there, a strict Judge, a persistent prosecutor and a sullen defendant. Sketches and quotes. It...11 comments 17 Recs
- This cartoon I drew years ago was inspired by some of Matt Groening’s old Life in Hell comics. It’s a fun format to create — I’ve done a few cartoons like this — but it takes forever! Worth it, though. Over the years, at least a half-dozen...8 comments 65 Recs
- I lived in Maryland for most of my life. Occasionally I wrote to my congressional representatives, and I always voted even though I knew it didn’t make much difference in safely blue Maryland. For the 2008 election I wrote postcards for Virginia and...18 comments 20 Recs
- When you think about elections, Wisconsin is a state that remains one of the most contested. And it has been this way for awhile. Wisconsin has had numerous statewide elections decided by tiny margins in recent years. But it was the presidential...6 comments 21 Recs
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- Republished from The Daily Yonder Analysis: The Myth of Rural Voters’ Power in the House of Representatives by Sarah Melotte, The Daily Yonder May 7, 2024 A Daily Yonder analysis of Census data shows that rural Americans don’t have outsized voting...10 comments 10 Recs
- The most powerful elected Republican in America declared war on the rule of law yesterday. House Speaker Mike Johnson announced that Congress, on behalf of wannabee “day one” dictator Donald Trump, is going to use every power available to him and his...17 comments 80 Recs