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A new article in Politico touts a megadonor "get" by No Labels, the would-be political party that believes the answer to all of America's problems is for Democrats and Republicans to meet each other ...
by Hunter
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on Sat Sep 02, 2023 at 07:30 AM PDT
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When events are deemed entertainment worthy for news ratings, we are inundated with reminders of past similarities - presumably for context… * Trump first indicted former POTUS, avoiding distractions like, President Ulysses S. Grant was arrested for...
by The Reasonable Voice
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on Mon Jun 12, 2023 at 11:53 AM PDT
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According to a report by Candace Bernd of Truthout, people in the communities of East Palestine and the surrounding area are attempting to organize to better deal with Norfolk Southern over clean up, damages, and monitoring. But, there’s an alarming...
by xaxnar
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on Wed Mar 08, 2023 at 08:21 AM PST
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DeSantis threatens to use Florida's pension funds to undermine #ESG investing. Because Floridians seem to love financial chaos, like Rick Scott’s attempt to raise everyone’s taxes. When you try to marginalize “ESG” you are in favor of autocracy in the...
by annieli
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on Thu Aug 18, 2022 at 01:36 PM PDT
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So big biz has decided to move to “subscription based “ software, a system where people don't buy or own software, they pay a monthly fee for it, forever. Yeah, no. I'm not going to “move to' (be forced to accept) this type of “service” (similar to the...
by DBowman
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on Fri Jul 22, 2022 at 06:53 PM PDT
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This piece, which is a follow-up to a previous piece (“How Did America Come to This?”), is appearing as an op/ed in newspapers in my very red congressional district (VA-06). In that first piece, I argued that the two other times I’ve studied, in which...
by AndySchmookler
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on Tue Feb 01, 2022 at 07:33 AM PST
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If we believe timing of Facebook’s recent global disappearance wasn’t whistle blowing Ads and fans in the wind reaction – we might be following the Followers of gods taking America’s down escalator to infraction. If we don’t get The Washington Spirit...
by The Reasonable Voice
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on Sun Oct 10, 2021 at 07:56 AM PDT
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You can tell Kentucky has no provisions to recall elected officials. Otherwise, his communications office would never have let Moscow Bitch Mitch McConnell make a statement just begging some Trumpier-than-thou recall campaigner to quote out of context...
by DeposuitPotentes
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on Mon Apr 05, 2021 at 05:30 PM PDT
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“Hopefully, Donald Trump will be our one and only psychopath as president. We must not put ourselves through this national anguish and darkness again.” ...
by Gregg Matson
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on Tue Mar 09, 2021 at 01:12 PM PST
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Your start-off-the-weekend reading assignment courtesy of TNR (h/t to Charles Pierce over at Esquire): Grappling with what to do about the bears, the Graftonites also wrestled with the arguments of certain libertarians who questioned whether they...
by grape crush
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on Fri Oct 16, 2020 at 02:08 PM PDT
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Despite America’s... Record breaking West Coast Wild Fires Ascension into the sacred assumption of NAPO’s Together we are Better, Qualified Immunity To Protect and Serve Roman Catholic Seminary semen projectiles onto children Notwithstanding, Vengeance...
by The Reasonable Voice
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on Tue Sep 29, 2020 at 06:56 AM PDT
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COVID-19 under the averted eyes of our, wartime president has aided and abetted his negligence, in 1000 deaths each day for the last five days in several states. Texas in Triage mode choosing who gets hospitalized to Gurneys in hallways hoping there’ll...
by The Reasonable Voice
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on Mon Jul 27, 2020 at 07:37 AM PDT
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Our response to George Floyd’s death and Trump’s Insurrection Act threats can’t be predicated by where our grandparents sat on the bus. In 2020, all of us are charged by Franklin’s gauntlet: a Republic if you can keep it. Seeing our Land of the Free...
by The Reasonable Voice
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on Tue Jun 02, 2020 at 12:02 PM PDT
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Whether or not White House Valet serving meals to our Commander-in-Chief, while testing COVID-19 positive, infected Donald Trump, two things are true: because of Trump’s lying to himself as much as he does to us, most of We the People don’t have the...
by The Reasonable Voice
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on Fri May 08, 2020 at 12:25 PM PDT
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Of course, no one can pinpoint the exact moment that lightning will strike. But a global pandemic? Experts have predicted it, warned about the preparedness gaps and urged action. Again and again ...
by Colorado Blue
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on Wed Apr 22, 2020 at 10:07 AM PDT
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www.cnn.com/… Chris Cuomo recently called out the GOP for normalizing corruption, calling out Graham, Nunes, and others for changing their tunes on corruption. He is wrong about that. He correctly pointed out that Trump doesn’t actually believe...
by Netdahe
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on Fri Feb 21, 2020 at 10:45 AM PST
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We remain a nation dedicated to following old angry men into fighting the last war with the next generation, instead of filling Congress, Judgeships and State and Federal Executive positions with them. We are a people still defending freedom by...
by The Reasonable Voice
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on Mon Jan 13, 2020 at 11:27 AM PST
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First, let me note that while many here were spending their precious youth studying the great economic and political philosophers, I was learning to use a slide rule. Thus, the arguments (and insults) between various political and economic factions do...
by siab
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on Fri Dec 13, 2019 at 09:28 AM PST
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Like 9/11, what we thought could never happen in America is happening again, but in 2019, administered by a pretend president and his Acting government, conniving with the foreign power determined to destroy our ability to weather Franklin’s...
by The Reasonable Voice
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on Sat Sep 14, 2019 at 09:44 AM PDT
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On America’s 243rd birthday, can all Americans prove, in unity, if not civility, that our individual character defines us, obeying our Constitution’s laws makes us exceptional and Justice for All equals National Security.
Our military, nation’s...
by The Reasonable Voice
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on Fri Jul 05, 2019 at 01:48 PM PDT
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- So we won’t pay attention to his courtroom antics, Trump brings lots of printouts for his mini-presser after Thursday’s trial session.89 comments 123 Recs
- Today, the state of Louisiana managed to do something I didn’t think possible — they found a new low. Once Jeff Landry, a far-right acolyte, was elected governor I knew the place was going to be in rough shape. The state legislature is hopeless, with...110 comments 403 Recs
- Welcome 🌻 to Friday’s Roundup of Good News! There’s lots of good news out there! Polling looks better for President Biden! tRump is sleeping in the courtroom! And he is IN a courtroom. And there are bad things that did not happen! Gee, last...87 comments 92 Recs
- The cruelty is the point. Ron DeSantis recently secretly signed a Republican bill that voids outdoor worker protections from local governments. Interestingly, the cruel and vicious bill did not originally come from Desantis; instead, it was from the...12 comments 36 Recs
- CIA Director Bill Burns warned that unless US sends more military support, Ukraine could “lose” the war against Russia by the end of the year. There is a very real risk that the Ukrainians could lose on the battlefield by the end of 2024, or at least...12 comments 98 Recs
- Dickie Betts has passed, now jamming with Duane. The Allman Bros were a major part of my life’s soundtrack. Not because I was into them but my little brother was. Donnie had them cranked all the time, Southern Rock was his genre. Donnie also recently...144 comments 384 Recs
- Trump and Jesse Watters, as well as conservative influencer media, just bullied a juror into leaving Trump’s Manhattan Criminal trial. I have read Democrats raging against the poor woman, calling her a coward, but really, can anyone blame her? Juror...68 comments 113 Recs
- Biden is empathic —�a wonderful trait in a leader. The seeds were in him from a young age. But something made those seeds grow. Biden has had a great amount of suffering in his life � — losing ...17 comments 50 Recs
- This is the best news of the day. As Dark Brandon might say, trashing an over-the-horizon radar is a big fucking deal. Is that the silhouette of Ammo Dump Jesus in the ball of flame blessing the bavovna? Run away! Run away! Russians try an assault with...103 comments 339 Recs
- A new study of 1,600 world regions says that by mid-century, the climate crisis will be costing the world economy a stunning $38 trillion EACH YEAR. The tally was calculated in 2005 dollars. Inflation has risen 60% since then. This is far more than...6 comments 22 Recs
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