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The justices seem to think that the power they apparently just handed Donald Trump can’t be used against them someday. Right. (My emphasis bolded) This week, the Supreme Court managed to fail to meet the already extremely low expectations most sane...
by stlgeek
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on Sat Apr 27, 2024 at 01:32 PM PDT
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One day after Donald Trump's lawyers argued in federal court that absent a congressional conviction, a president would be criminally immune from ordering Seal Team Six to assassinate a political ...
by Kerry Eleveld
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on Fri Jan 12, 2024 at 07:30 AM PST
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Of all the insane things Trump has said, this is the most insane. Of all the dangerous things Trump has said, this is the most dangerous, even more so than his words that fomented an insurrection. Today a reporter asked Trump if he agreed that if (as...
by KeithDB
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on Thu Jan 11, 2024 at 03:32 PM PST
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edition.cnn.com/… Seoul, South KoreaCNN — South Korea’s main opposition party leader Lee Jae-myung was stabbed in the neck during a visit to the southern city of Busan on Tuesday in an assault that left him bloodied but conscious, party officials said....
by ca cokz
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on Tue Jan 02, 2024 at 01:50 AM PST
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Admin note: this story, originally titled “US Soleimani Assassination Repercussions,” has been retracted due to misinformation. The author’s claim that “one of the reasons for the Oct. 7 attack against Israel is due to our assassination of Seloemani”...
by IntegrityMatters
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on Wed Dec 27, 2023 at 11:53 AM PST
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Link to Earlier Diary — "We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal." I posted a diary earlier this morning about JFK’s accomplishments. It highlights three of his memorable speeches and other policy...
by JekyllnHyde
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on Wed Nov 22, 2023 at 05:04 PM PST
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I was sitting in a class of third-graders at St. Michael's Elementary School in Memphis (I being one of those third-graders). My memory is of a settled classroom; a classmate was probably reading a passage from one of our story books—middle-class white...
by HJCV
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on Wed Nov 22, 2023 at 11:10 AM PST
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Since this morning, a number of additional editorial cartoons have been posted online; hence, I posted a second diary. Link to My Second Diary — JFK on Trump, The Week in Editorial Cartoons — and Happy Thanksgiving One Brief Shining Moment” In the...
by JekyllnHyde
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on Wed Nov 22, 2023 at 08:40 AM PST
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By John Liccione, Candidate for US Congress in Florida’s 13th District and CEO of RussiLeaks American nuclear/radiological materials shipping company CEO Jack Edlow is one or two heartbeats away from Vladimir Putin through Putin’s closest Kremlin...
by jliccione
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on Fri Sep 22, 2023 at 07:07 AM PDT
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Apparently the Canadian government has credible evidence of the following, On Monday, Trudeau made an unprecedented declaration in the House of Commons, accusing agents of the Indian government of helping to kill Canadian citizen Hardeep Singh Nijjar,...
by GoinFawr
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on Tue Sep 19, 2023 at 03:26 PM PDT
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Who is the worst leader of a major power today? With the weekend’s series of surprises now behind us, the results are in. The “winner,” by unanimous consent, is . . . Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. Over his twenty-three years in power, Putin has proved...
by dratler
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on Mon Jun 26, 2023 at 03:21 PM PDT
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No villian supporting Russia's genocidal war is safe even in St. Petersberg, Russia's second largest city! It sounds like a page out the 1960's spy spoof TV series, Get Smart. The pro-genocidal, blogger bad guy, Vladlen Tartarsky, was blown to...
by ThinkOutsideTheBox
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on Sun Apr 02, 2023 at 11:31 AM PDT
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“But it’s never been as bad as right now — where it’s not just political, it’s cultural. People had a different view of how to do education, but there was not this attack on people’s basic humanity. This is really new. Randi Weingarten Another MAGA...
by Pakalolo
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on Tue Nov 22, 2022 at 04:22 AM PST
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Two months after a West Virginia man pleaded guilty to violating federal laws against threatening the life of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has called on carrying on the seditious plot. At a...
by textus
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on Thu Aug 25, 2022 at 05:50 AM PDT
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These are the Women, of the YPJ, the ones who kicked ISIS’ butt so that our troops did not have to. These are the women written about in Gayle Tzemach Lemmon’s NY Times best-seller, The Daughter’s of Kobani: a story of Rebellion, Courage and Justice,...
by David B
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on Sat Jul 23, 2022 at 10:10 AM PDT
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Japan has been brought to a standstill by the news that former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe died being shot on the campaign trail for Sunday’s upper house elections. A lone gunman attacked Abe, who was pronounced dead at a hospital in Nara from wounds in...
by ca cokz
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on Fri Jul 08, 2022 at 02:59 AM PDT
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[Newsweek] Exclusive: Putin Treated for Cancer in April, U.S. Intelligence Report Says Despite repeated denials that he had any health problems at all (strong like Bear!), there has been considerable speculation about Putin’s health. Between visible...
by polecat
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on Thu Jun 02, 2022 at 04:28 PM PDT
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Governor Newsom of CA wrote a Los Angeles Times Op-Ed piece on why he is denying the recommendation of a parole board to release Bobby Kennedy’s assassin Sirhan Sirhan.� I agree with Newsom’s ...
by Merlin196357
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on Fri Jan 14, 2022 at 10:30 AM PST
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The Biden administration recently agreed to release roughly 1,500 files from the National Archives pertaining to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and though some 58 years have passed since that grim November day, many of the records still...
by Brandi Buchman
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on Fri Dec 24, 2021 at 12:00 PM PST
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On January 6th Mark Mazza, hailing from Shelbyville Indiana, forcibly entered the United States Capitol. Shortly after entering he was confronted by a Capitol Police Officer who Mazza assaulted. In the ensuing scuffle, where the officer used baton...
by KeithDB
80 comments
on Tue Nov 23, 2021 at 10:51 AM PST
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