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Computer and mobile phone users worldwide remain at risk of financial fraud, romance scams, identity theft, and other harms perpetrated by malicious hackers, IT security experts warned earlier this month. Flaw-riddled software sold by famous vendors...
by Wilson Dizard III
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on Sat Apr 20, 2024 at 08:17 PM PDT
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Please go read thecriticalmind story on MTG and space lasers she wants to place on the southern border. As I live less than 30 miles from the southern border I thought I would put my insights on the border and how Customs and Border Protection and the...
by triumph110
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on Thu Apr 18, 2024 at 06:01 PM PDT
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Mere months after taking office in 2015, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton surrendered to authorities on three felony counts related to securities fraud. But after getting his mugshot taken and ...
by Mark Sumner
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on Tue Mar 26, 2024 at 11:50 AM PDT
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While the mainstream media is still largely tiptoeing around exactly what we can expect from a second Trump term, Robert Reich at Inequality Media has been turning out videos that talk about it in plain language and pull no punches. There seems to be...
by xaxnar
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on Thu Mar 21, 2024 at 06:59 AM PDT
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By Uriel J. García and Alejandro Serrano, The Texas Tribune Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. The U.S. Supreme Court in a 6-3 decision on Tuesday ruled that a...
by Texas Tribune
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on Tue Mar 19, 2024 at 02:03 PM PDT
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The Republican senator who gave the party’s response to President Joe Biden's State of the Union address used a harrowing account of a young woman's sexual abuse to attack his border policies, but ...
by Associated Press
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on Mon Mar 11, 2024 at 06:45 AM PDT
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Just a follow up on the recent top quality diaries by ericlewis0 and Kerry Eleveld on President Biden’s fundraising surge since the State of the Union address, and the strongly positive reception he and his policies have gotten. (Even more amazing...
by Tweedledee5
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on Sat Mar 09, 2024 at 11:28 AM PST
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President Joe Biden owned the State of the Union address, and the GOP couldn’t handle it. When Biden began speaking about the border security bill that Republicans sank to appease their master, Donald Trump, one of the chuckleheads in the red seats...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Thu Mar 07, 2024 at 07:40 PM PST
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The irony that I found positive immigration news at the Cato blog is not lost on me. www.cato.org/... “Border Patrol Chief Jason Owens confirmed last week that the number of known successful evasions of Border Patrol (“gotaways”) have fallen to just...
by essar1
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on Tue Mar 05, 2024 at 09:33 AM PST
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Donald Trump ramped up the fearmongering, dehumanizing rhetoric around immigrants during a Monday interview with Right Side Broadcasting Network host Brian Glenn. The conservative Glenn took time ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Tue Mar 05, 2024 at 01:00 PM PST
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It’s been weeks since private citizen Donald Trump �killed Congress’ tough bipartisan border deal because he needed something to run on besides� raining pestilence and woe upon his enemies ,
by Aldous J Pennyfarthing
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on Wed Mar 06, 2024 at 03:00 PM PST
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Serious observers of American politics have many doubts and questions, but most are sure of one thing. Congress is broken. Congress can’t pass a bill for aid to Ukraine in its wartime agony. That is so even though the bill would enrich and strengthen...
by dratler
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on Sun Mar 03, 2024 at 11:36 AM PST
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Often, writers at Daily Kos are left fuming about instances in which large media outlets seemingly skew the facts to preserve their sacred devotion to holding Democrats to an infinitely higher ...
by Mark Sumner
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on Fri Mar 01, 2024 at 11:33 AM PST
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As we saw yesterday someone who has no say in actual funding made it to the border. Abbott holding close to TFG so he could catch a whiff of TFG’s new cologne or whatever bodily odors he could. Not only giving TFG an almost presidential presentation...
by Dune
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on Fri Mar 01, 2024 at 06:51 AM PST
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On Tuesday night, Sean Hannity used his Fox News platform to spew the normal MAGA election talking points: The world is coming to an end and only a rich, fraudster scumbag can save it. When Donald Trump demanded the Republican Party blow up the...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Wed Feb 28, 2024 at 02:30 PM PST
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In order to have any type of conversation we have to agree on a fundamental plane. The United States is a sovereign nation, with borders. The citizens of the country through their elected representatives get to choose who gets to stay in that country,...
by ViewFromTheMiddle
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on Fri Feb 23, 2024 at 04:20 PM PST
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With a government shutdown looming, 13 Republican senators, led by Utah Sen. Mike Lee and Texas’ pretend cowboy Sen. Ted Cruz, released a letter they said they sent to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell demanding he make a big stink about holding...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Tue Feb 20, 2024 at 02:12 PM PST
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Here’s some background. According to the Daily Montanan: Gov. Greg Gianforte said Montana would continue to send resources — referring to National Guard troops — to the southern border at an event in Texas alongside 14 other Republican governors....
by JohnnyPiano
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on Sun Feb 18, 2024 at 12:40 PM PST
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A cartoon by Clay Jones.
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by Clay Jones
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on Thu Feb 15, 2024 at 04:57 PM PST
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Well that didn’t take long. Biden promised to let voters know “everyday from now to November” that Trump is responsible for keeping the Southern border insecure. I’ve looked for further statements and don’t see any. There are still media reporting on...
by accumbens
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on Sat Feb 10, 2024 at 10:01 AM PST
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