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I know there is a drive to legitimize the word “abortion.’ We need to destigmatize the term for sure, Women who have had one need to be accepted, embraced, and in some circumstances applauded. I don’t disagree with this effort. But the term calls to...
by Lindatas
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on Tue Jan 02, 2024 at 01:16 PM PST
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Mass-market messaging is all about repetition and consistency—telling the same story over and over till it finally sinks in with a media-deluged public. It’s the principle behind the famous “Rule of 7” in advertising (your audience has to hear your...
by MatthewSmith
180 comments
on Mon Oct 02, 2023 at 06:52 PM PDT
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Back when I lived in Darkest Iowa, I worked for a time doing paste-up for a small weekly lifestyle paper in Des Moines called The Skywalker. The paper took its name from the city's skywalk system which linked the downtown district into an...
by quarkstomper
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on Tue Jul 25, 2023 at 10:18 AM PDT
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Most viewers probably missed it, but when the film “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” premiered 37 years ago, it had something that was nearly unique at the time: a post-credit scene. In it, the main character makes a return appearance, looks out at the...
by Mark Sumner
608 comments
on Mon Jul 24, 2023 at 07:21 AM PDT
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Junk food always will exist, regardless of our attempts to educate and perhaps even regulate taste/consumption: “critical theory lets you think and act at the same time… while knowing the limits of your action” “The bourgeois mode of production is the...
by annieli
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on Sun Jul 30, 2023 at 03:00 PM PDT
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Jenna Ryan, the insurrectionist who flew in on a charted private jet in order to participate in an act of treason at our nation’s Capitol building on Jan. 6, is going to jail soon. You may remember Ryan as the Texas MAGA real estate broker who said...
by Walter Einenkel
380 comments
on Mon Dec 06, 2021 at 11:30 AM PST
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There was a time when Democrats called their party “the Party of Freedom.” Largely because of the horrors of the Republican Great Depression, Americans realized that, as President Franklin D. Roosevelt said in his 1944 State of the Union address,...
by thomhartmann
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on Wed Dec 08, 2021 at 08:03 AM PST
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The Democratic election loss in Virginia recently was emotionally wrenching for many of us, and despite all the brave-face rationalizing that it was just the continuance of a long historical trend, it’s hard to fathom how we can still be losing...
by MatthewSmith
440 comments
on Tue Nov 16, 2021 at 07:02 PM PST
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I can’t seem to shake off James Carville’s wokeness comments. The only thing that spoke to me is the truth that Democrats do have a messaging problem, but it’s not wokeness. Framing the message has always been a component the problem, but wokeness...
by JDWolverton
31 comments
on Sun May 02, 2021 at 09:59 AM PDT
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The transparent moral and religious hypocrisy of the evangelical movement in our country has never been better exemplified than in the ongoing salacious allegations, images, lawsuits, and claims going on between Liberty University and its former...
by Walter Einenkel
146 comments
on Fri Apr 16, 2021 at 02:33 PM PDT
with 218 Recommends
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There is an eye-opening story at Mother Jones: How Black Rifle Coffee Company Made Itself One of the Right’s Biggest Brands From Kenosha to Capitol Hill, armed extremists savor its militaristic marketing. Ali Breland and Mark Helenowski look at the...
by xaxnar
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on Mon Feb 08, 2021 at 01:01 PM PST
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Democrats Can’t Win for Losing. Lets be honest if it wasn’t for Republican defectors Trump would of been reelected. IMHO it was the Republican Dog Whistles that cost us House seats and just may have them keep control of the Senate. So what...
by middleoftheroadDem
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on Wed Dec 09, 2020 at 11:54 AM PST
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Republicans are the problem, not progressive or moderate Dems Yay, Biden won but Democrats lost seats in the House, failed to clearly win the Senate, and failed to win control of any new state legislatures and lost one, in New Hampshire. This means...
by Martin Smyth
44 comments
on Sun Nov 15, 2020 at 05:00 AM PST
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Why is Trump’s lying considered news? Why do people actually respond to his pronouncements, which are always either ludicrous, illegal, or sheer fabrications? He has long since reduced the office of the president to irrelevancy. He has no leadership to...
by Krylos17
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on Mon Mar 30, 2020 at 10:06 AM PDT
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Don’t know how many of you have seen the new look from Land O’Lakes but it is causing a bit of a kerfuffle. The new CEO of Land O’Lakes has shifted to what they call a “farmer centered” brand — if you notice it even says “farmer-owned” right on top....
by tjlord
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on Mon Feb 10, 2020 at 04:50 PM PST
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I’ll have no hesitation voting for Bernie if he becomes the nominee, but if he does, I’ll want him to win — the country will need him to win. But he faces a huge, obvious obstacle, and instead of dealing with it, he and his supporters are dismissing...
by Spencer Critchley
187 comments
on Thu Jan 30, 2020 at 01:52 PM PST
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Though you wouldn’t know it from talking to most industry experts, there is an EV revolution unfolding at this very moment, right under their noses. Counterintuitively, “the experts won’t ...
by B12love
48 comments
on Mon Feb 24, 2020 at 06:15 AM PST
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In May of 2011, novelist Barry Eisler published a short read primer on how those on the political left suck at communication skills. It’s only 42 pages and we could all use the advice about now. On this site, we often succumb to making ourselves feel...
by BayAreaKen
56 comments
on Fri Oct 04, 2019 at 01:10 PM PDT
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I am going to push back every time I hear the “Rachel repeats herself” meme as if that were something bad.
She repeats herself because that is the way average people learn and retain information.
Apparently too many of us have had the frustrating...
by TrueBlueMajority
265 comments
on Thu Jun 13, 2019 at 12:45 PM PDT
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The Trump administration’s foreign policy has been mostly about making Donald Trump’s personal interests money, while making the fossil fuel industry a few more bucks as we all slowly boil in our environmental hotbox. On Tuesday, the Department of...
by Walter Einenkel
95 comments
on Wed May 29, 2019 at 03:00 PM PDT
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