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A recent story by Scott really touched a lot of people. It had two main responses, the gratitude for writing such a powerful piece. The other�an almost equally powerful sense of being trapped in a ...
by Eddie Baby
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on Sun Apr 07, 2024 at 08:55 AM PDT
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Enough Already! Even On Easter My Family Was Talking About Trump! We Can't Let Him Get Into Our Head I'm someone who has been following current events for over FIFTY years! During that time, no human being has gotten this much attention — at least in the USA — as Tyrant Trump! And it’s got to ...
by ThinkOutsideTheBox
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on Mon Apr 01, 2024 at 08:11 AM PDT
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Welcome to my world Won't you come on in? Miracles, I guess Still happen now and then Step into my heart Leave your cares behind Welcome to my world Built with you in mind Knock and the door will open Seek and you will find Ask and you'll be given The...
by TexDem
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on Fri Mar 22, 2024 at 07:30 AM PDT
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Biting satire is one way of getting under the skin of wannabee dictators. The Smothers Brothers in the 1960’s started a revolution that benefits us to this very day!
Before the Smothers Brothers ...
by ThinkOutsideTheBox
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on Tue Mar 05, 2024 at 03:15 PM PST
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We know that we have a problem. So where do we begin, in order to do something about it? Step boldly onto the path, which is directly in front of you. But perhaps you do not see the path immediately, so we must point it out to you, with what Mumon...
by Mokurai
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on Sun Mar 03, 2024 at 09:00 AM PST
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I think everyone I know personally and in real life is a MAGA. Many of them are friends, some of them very good friends. When my partner had a stroke a neighbor lady helped us get through it, including driving us up to the hospital on a Sunday, dressed...
by McCrowlerr
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on Fri Mar 01, 2024 at 08:50 AM PST
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I just learned within an hour of writing these very words that my previous fundamentalist church and its elders failed to protect young girls and despite bright warning lights chose not to act. There are many victims in this story. Denton Bible Church...
by Dem
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on Fri Feb 23, 2024 at 06:56 AM PST
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Anyone who hasn’t yet seen this riveting footage, should take a look. And then note the guy taking the video you’re watching, he’s the guy screaming “Show me your faces!” repeatedly at this phalanx of Neo-Nazis, who according to Frank Figliuzzi,...
by citixen
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on Mon Feb 19, 2024 at 07:00 PM PST
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This is a message from a Facebook friend that I just received : "I've really been thinking about things you have said and I believe you are correct. This is the most important election of our time. It is a vote for democracy and I will castó vote...
by Dem
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on Wed Jan 31, 2024 at 01:50 PM PST
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The drone attack on a remote US base in Jordan that killed 3 Americans and wounded two dozen more has been linked to Iran, or more precisely to Iran-backed militias: 3 American Soldiers Killed in Drone Strike in Jordan, U.S. Says “Three U.S. service...
by Dan K
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on Mon Jan 29, 2024 at 09:37 AM PST
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Let’s face it. Only some self-fixated, rich-born, White, bullying, bombastic, ceaselessly lyin’ scion could cow, coerce, and/or mesmerize tuskers, newsies, and ‘No Labeler’ enablers en route to ravaging Lady Liberty to the verge of a win-or-coup,...
by Inspector Clueso
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on Sat Jan 27, 2024 at 11:38 AM PST
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Trump promised to make America the way it used to be. Since the end of WW2, no one in DC has done more to push Blacks down and pull Whites up. Only President James Buchanan, working with Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney, did more to hurt Black...
by 888guy
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on Wed Jan 17, 2024 at 05:58 PM PST
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(Cross posted from my blog) I’m sure that many of you are familiar with Alden Capital, but for those of you who are not, they are a hedge fund whose business model is to purchase a newspaper company that has dominant market penetration in a...
by msaroff
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on Mon Jan 15, 2024 at 07:43 PM PST
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A week ago I asked what you considered the definition of evil. I’m quite surprised at the number of people who offered their opinion. Thank you to all who commented. This post is to summarize what you said and to add a bit more. Nearly all of the...
by bellist
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on Mon Jan 15, 2024 at 11:21 AM PST
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I just watched President Biden's campaign speech at Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, South Carolina. When Biden calls out criminal defendant Trump for his misdeeds, Biden's face and posture convey not only anger at Trump, but sadness that he has to...
by 888guy
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on Mon Jan 08, 2024 at 04:35 PM PST
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How would you define evil? What are things an evil person does? What villains do you remember most from life or fiction and what do they do that makes you call them evil? No villain is too small (or big) to be mentioned. I'm exploring a definition of...
by bellist
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on Mon Jan 08, 2024 at 11:09 AM PST
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CNN has been researching some of the things the new Sneaker ™ has done over the years: Mike Johnson’s America: Revisit landmark SCOTUS decisions and use government to ‘restrain evil’ It boils down to this: “One of the primary purposes of the law in...
by Dan K
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on Tue Nov 21, 2023 at 02:22 PM PST
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This BETTER HUMAN STORY series was introduced here in October with a piece titled -- with chutzpah but with honesty as well -- as “A ‘Big Picture’ View that Might Help Human Civilization (and Our Democracy) Survive.” It promised an integrated...
by AndySchmookler
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on Sat Nov 11, 2023 at 09:01 AM PST
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Justice Arthur Engoron is a human being like the rest of us. Today he’s facing down intractable evil. Something most of us will never have to experience in our entire lives. Dictator Trump’s sociopathic lawyers are attempting to bait Justice Engoron to...
by ThinkOutsideTheBox
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on Sun Nov 05, 2023 at 11:46 PM PST
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There is no question we are facing real challenges, as individuals, as a democracy, as a country, as a species. There is no shortage of institutional failures, of horrors, of existential threats. “Deaths of Despair” has become a bit of a meme —...
by xaxnar
191 comments
on Sat Oct 21, 2023 at 08:42 PM PDT
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