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Can anyone identify the point in time where Markos become anti-worker and anti-union?
by romulusnr
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on Fri Jan 20, 2023 at 11:25 AM PST
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Part 3: The Powell Memo Let Loose
“All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.”
Adam Smith, ...
by Brynne
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on Sun Jan 08, 2023 at 04:00 AM PST
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Prologue
January 6 th has meaning other than the ignominious one we now associate with the attack on the United States Capitol building and on American democracy. �For Christians, it is the day of ...
by Brynne
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on Fri Jan 06, 2023 at 03:00 AM PST
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Since many “news” stories today seem to resemble short stories, I thought I would tell a short story of my own. It’s a a true story and one of the formative experiences of my early life. I have only memories to go on, no records. But it happened when I...
by dratler
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on Thu Nov 03, 2022 at 01:24 PM PDT
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Elitism, Classism, Sexism, Misogyny and Slut calling/shaming all accompanied by immature sniggering. Angela Rayner: ‘I begged Mail on Sunday not to publish Basic Instinct story [link to the Guardian] Labour’s deputy leader said she had been horrified...
by LaFeminista
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on Tue Apr 26, 2022 at 09:37 AM PDT
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UK: Party-Gate: Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall; because he was sozzled? Party-Gate Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the Tory lies by all the Tory ministers Couldn't put Humpty together again That is then In Boris Johnson’s case, the ever-so-humble act certainly doesn’t seem to have lasted...
by LaFeminista
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on Fri Jan 14, 2022 at 02:02 AM PST
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I’m a Yankee fan, so I hate the Red Sox, I’m a Jet fan so I hate the Patriots, and I’m a Knicks fan so I hate the Celtics. I don’t much care about hockey. The point is that I’m a New Yorker and Boston is our “natural enemy.” But I have to give the...
by Alan Singer
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on Sun Aug 15, 2021 at 04:38 PM PDT
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Adam Oakes, 19, died on February 27, 2021. Stone Foltz, 20, died on March 7, 2021. Neither had Covid. Both were white males. Both are in the news this week because their parents are pushing for accountability. What happened to them? Fraternity hazing....
by elenacarlena
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on Sat Mar 27, 2021 at 05:00 PM PDT
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After fifteen years of existence, the feminist blog Feministing, shut down last year for good. In its heyday, it had advanced many notable causes, advocated strongly for reproductive rights, established effective boycotts on offending companies, served...
by cabaretic
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on Wed Mar 24, 2021 at 12:04 PM PDT
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Today’s read from Vanity Fair, written by a former longtime friend of Ivanka Trump. Excerpt: For the past four years I have tried to tune out the conversation that dominated international media, but it is nearly impossible to ignore when the person who...
by grape crush
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on Tue Nov 17, 2020 at 09:25 AM PST
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"We should just let the south secede" "Indiana is the worst state in the midwest, it has no redeeming qualities" (In regards to Flint Michigan when the electoral map was showing the district as red) "Don't come crying to us asking for clean water" All...
by A Bleeding God
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on Mon Nov 09, 2020 at 06:50 AM PST
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Elitism again reared its ugly head when a British journalist attempted to summarize public opinion of Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle in demeaning and classless terms. “I think what has really really upset the British public is that Meghan Markle, who...
by Lauren Sue
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on Mon Mar 09, 2020 at 04:05 PM PDT
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by scrabblehound
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on Fri Apr 05, 2019 at 11:57 AM PDT
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Ross Douthat is both malignant and a fool. I am not going near this article. However, I’m going to try to redeem a sliver of his apparent argument. Buckle up, though, because I’m asking you to entertain a notion that we would each prefer to reject...
by Casey and Miranda
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on Wed Dec 05, 2018 at 01:05 PM PST
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There is no shortage of writing on what people in the heartland are feeling and how that affected their vote in November 2016. We’ve been asked to empathize with them; we’ve been asked to condemn them.
I have nothing to add to this debate. Or...
by tad barks
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on Fri Aug 31, 2018 at 09:49 AM PDT
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The current battle over the legitimacy of the high-stakes test used to determine who is admitted to New York City’s elite public high schools is not something new. Many defenders of the test policy conveniently ignore history. New York City’s...
by Alan Singer
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on Thu Aug 02, 2018 at 03:25 AM PDT
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www.vox.com/…
We Progressives are the Good Guys. We want social justice for everyone.
But I found an interesting article in Vox.com
titled The Smug Style In American Liberalism.
Whether fair or not,
it claims Progressive frustration at ...
by roads324
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on Wed Mar 14, 2018 at 07:14 PM PDT
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It’s the day after Doug Jones, a Democrat, scored a historic upset in Alabama.
Steve Bannon and the party he belongs to better start to realize one thing: people in the heartland of this country don’t like outsiders telling them what to do. ...
by tad barks
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on Wed Dec 13, 2017 at 07:09 AM PST
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In olden days Marie Antoinette,
Danced a courtly minuet
In dresses bedecked with many a jewel.
To lesser folk she sounded cruel
When she heard they had no bread
And suggested they eat cake instead.
Our modern Marie Antoinette
Flies...
by Runyonr
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on Tue Aug 22, 2017 at 10:13 AM PDT
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US Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin is a wretched and greedy man. Mnuchin has found himself what seems to be an equally wretched and greedy wife. Louise Linton, a former actress, loves being in the social media zeitgeist. Up until a little...
by Walter Einenkel
349 comments
on Tue Aug 22, 2017 at 09:26 AM PDT
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