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McCarthy's Revenge Tour: A Primary Race to the Far-Right Vs. Presumptive Nominee Jonathan Nez In Arizona, disgraced and ineffective short-term speaker Kevin McCarthy set his eyes on two of the ...
by StraightOuttaGosarsHellHole
on Wed Apr 17, 2024 at 05:15 AM PDT
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Roadrunner here and I’m a bit hangry this weekend because it's too cold for lizards to bask, which means I didn’t get a good lunch today or yesterday. So rather than mope about the lack of fence lizards on my fence, I thought I’d instead highlight the...
by Roadrunner65
on Sun Dec 03, 2023 at 08:51 PM PST
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Arizona Representative Paul Gosar added to the Interior Appropriations Bill an Amendment that would prohibit using Interior Department funds to implement, administer, or enforce the Presidential Proclamation that established the Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah...
by Roadrunner65
on Sun Nov 12, 2023 at 11:06 AM PST
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Each episode of Naked City, a late 1950s/early 1960s police procedural television series, ended with a voice over saying: "There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them." Last month’s debut of Christopher Nolan’s...
by Bill Berkowitz
on Mon Sep 11, 2023 at 07:18 AM PDT
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Finally, after four years of nothing but lying, race-baiting, and removing much-needed federal protection of land and wildlife, we have a president who cares about the Indigenous land we stand on and the people who were slaughtered on it by the...
by Rebekah Sager
on Tue Nov 16, 2021 at 07:41 AM PST
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Members of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe along with the Navajo Nation are sick and tired of having to live on contaminated land. Saturday, the two nations joined together to protest against the uranium mill they say has poisoned their air and water for...
by Rebekah Sager
on Mon Oct 18, 2021 at 09:45 AM PDT
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The Civil War changed everything about America, and not just in the states that saw the most fighting. Wartime government contracts helped make a few men—J. Pierpont Morgan, Jay Cooke and Jay Gould are among the most famous—extraordinarily rich. But...
by DrMarmot
on Tue Nov 24, 2020 at 07:30 PM PST
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TÓ NANEESDIZÍ, DINÉTAH, (TUBA CITY, NAVAJO NATION) — As COVID-19 cases on the Navajo Nation reach 1,042 with 41 deaths, the Navajo & Hopi Families COVID-19 Relief Fund is building momentum to address a food and water crisis in the area with support...
by Dan Bacher
on Sat Apr 18, 2020 at 05:05 PM PDT
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Nearly a century and a half ago, as part of Washington’s effort to encourage settlement in the West, President Ulysses S. Grant signed the General Mining Act of 1872. This granted individuals (and corporations) the right to stake exclusive claims to...
by Meteor Blades
on Thu Mar 12, 2020 at 11:51 AM PDT
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Al-Monitor Weekly Middle-East Lobby Update: Westinghouse is among five firms in talks to build Saudi Arabia’s first nuclear power plant, with two reactors. The others are France's EDF, Russia's Rosatom, South Korea's KEPCO and China National Nuclear...
by mettle fatigue
on Fri Nov 01, 2019 at 03:41 PM PDT
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This week Trump announced the U.S. was withdrawing from the agreement where Iran agreed to stop developing nuclear weapons in return for the U.S. lifting economic sanctions. As part of the withdrawal, Trump re-imposed the sanctions on Iran.
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by bmethven
on Sun May 13, 2018 at 11:45 AM PDT
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An embarrassingly humorous video compilation is making the social media rounds again. Although it’s timeless, it also seems perfect for this past week’s news regarding Trump boasting about lying and pulling one over a world leader. The video that runs...
by Leslie Salzillo
on Fri Mar 16, 2018 at 06:25 AM PDT
with 65 Recommends
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Remember the stories about Mike Flynn trying to set up a deal for building nuclear reactors in the Mideast using Russian uranium and having security provided by the US military. A deal worth lots and lots of money?
Well maybe...
by HiVoter
on Sat Jan 13, 2018 at 12:31 AM PST
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Donald Trump didn’t just have a bad day in Alabama last Tuesday. After going all-in for a despicable U.S. Senate candidate in a state that would normally be a shoo-in for a Republican, Trump suffered the most humiliating defeat of his presidency (so...
by Michael Brune
on Fri Dec 15, 2017 at 02:23 PM PST
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Nothing gets republicans as excited as mentioning the Hillary uranium scandal. That is probably why Donald Trump brings it up whenever storm clouds begin to rage around his orange head. Educated people however, will not be distracted when Trump waves...
by politicalhaze
on Sun Nov 19, 2017 at 10:16 AM PST
with 19 Recommends
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For 20 years, mining for uranium inside of the Grand Canyon has been banned. For that same amount of time, the Koch brothers have worked tirelessly to get the ban lifted.
Billionaire businessmen Charles and David Koch are channeling money into an...
by Walter Einenkel
on Thu Nov 02, 2017 at 12:01 PM PDT
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It was potpourri week, as the Trump administration found ways to screw up many things.
Whitefish Energy, a two-year-old company based in Montana with two full-time employees when Hurricane Maria struck, was awarded a $300 million contract to repair...
by bmethven
on Sat Oct 28, 2017 at 05:20 PM PDT
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How much does the Mueller news frighten the conservative bubble inmates? They’re actually admitting that there may be something to the Russia collusion story.
Yes, they’re trying to spin it as Hillary having colluded with Russia to help Trump win,...
by rabyrose
on Sat Oct 28, 2017 at 01:03 PM PDT
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Okay, if you have been paying attention to the news, you may have heard stuff about Russia.
Russia hacked the election for Trump. Russia used social media to throw the election and divide America. Russia is where Trump has been going for the money...
by xaxnar
on Tue Oct 24, 2017 at 07:46 PM PDT
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I knew it. Benghazi! Yes! It is time to go after Hillary again.
Remember the “uranium deal” that gets Trump so exercised? Well our boys on the Hill, ever vigilant and eager to protect us from Russia and terrorism, unless of course it’s white...
by Colorado Blue
on Tue Oct 24, 2017 at 10:05 AM PDT
with 4 Recommends
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