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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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MiddleEastEye War on Gaza: Charity says Egypt intelligence-linked firm charging $5,000 [per truck] to get aid over border January 30, 2024 Speaking on condition of anonymity, to avoid obstruction to relief effort, an...
by mettle fatigue
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on Sat Feb 10, 2024 at 03:07 PM PST
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Just today, Walter Einenkel posted a diary telling us of Sen. Mike Lee of Utah and his incendiary remarks in support of fellow Senator Tommy Tuberville’s extortion of the armed forces. Tuberville has been holding up military promotions in his pursuit...
by novapsyche
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on Mon Sep 11, 2023 at 06:43 PM PDT
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UPDATE: Friday, Jun 23, 2023 · 6:42:35 PM +00:00 · Dem Again, here's the relevant section of the Presidential Records Act and the relevant section of The Espionage Act and the definition of illegally retaining: The relevant section of The Espionage...
by Dem
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on Fri Jun 23, 2023 at 11:02 AM PDT
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My anger about what COMER is doing hasn't receded or gone away. Some time ago, I used to believe that there were good people on both sides who both were honest and both only wanted what they felt was best for this country. A lot of events show that...
by Dem
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on Tue Jun 20, 2023 at 06:33 AM PDT
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The so-called “Freedom Caucus,” that group of supposedly ideologically committed, failed seditionists that command a sizable portion of the House Republican majority, are throwing a hissy fit right now. They’re piqued at the deal struck by their...
by Dartagnan
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on Tue May 30, 2023 at 05:38 PM PDT
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by Mark Fiore
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on Fri May 26, 2023 at 05:00 AM PDT
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In 2011-2012, I was the Democratic nominee for Congress in Virginia’s 6th District. Then, as now, the Republicans were taking the whole American economy hostage to compel the Democrats to meet their demands. And so part of my job as a politician waging...
by AndySchmookler
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by Mark Fiore
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on Fri Apr 28, 2023 at 05:00 AM PDT
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As the United States creeps closer to financial calamity, Barely Speaker Kevin McCarthy is rallying House Republicans this week to pass his extreme "debt-limit" bill. It will be heard in committee today, with a possible floor vote later in the week....
by Paul Hogarth
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on Tue Apr 25, 2023 at 02:00 PM PDT
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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned Congress last week that the United States will hit its statutory borrowing cap on Thursday, Jan. 19. At that point, the Treasury Department will begin using “extraordinary measures” to stay under the cap for as...
by Paul Hogarth
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on Wed Jan 18, 2023 at 12:20 PM PST
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This piece is running as an op/ed in newspapers in the very red congressional district (VA-06) in which I ran as the Democratic nominee in 2012. ******************************** There’s no doubt that Kevin McCarthy was in a difficult position. The...
by AndySchmookler
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on Tue Jan 10, 2023 at 08:55 AM PST
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Today, July 1, Puerto Rico faces its seventh electricity rate hike in twelve months under power privatization, and the people are out of patience with the governments — their own, and “the U.S. itself”. Natural disasters are not Puerto Rico’s biggest...
by mettle fatigue
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on Fri Jul 01, 2022 at 02:12 PM PDT
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A lot has been said in praise of� “The�Ransom” �series on Haiti, recently published in The New York Times. Social media coverage of the series has been particularly intense; thousands of readers ...
by Denise Oliver Velez
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on Thu Jun 09, 2022 at 05:29 AM PDT
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As Republicans desperately try to Rewrite their MAGA History just Remind them what TI1 was All About — TI1 is simply the “short-hand” for Trump Impeachment One. Unfortunately, the lawlessness of MAGA-world’s “Loathsome Leader” will no doubt result in several such abbreviations, to mark so many “shock-weary milestones” — when those future chapters of...
by jamess
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on Sat Mar 19, 2022 at 06:45 PM PDT
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Tonight on The Beat with Ari Melber the real reason Joe Manchin and Krysten Sinema have been holding back their votes for the Biden Infrastructure plan finally came out: fund raising. To understand how this works, I refer to the book Extortion, written...
by lafosner
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on Tue Sep 28, 2021 at 08:22 PM PDT
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In the continuing saga of the former resident and his ongoing attempts to protect and prolong his one term grift, CNBC has an article up here. The title had me reaching for my popcorn: POLITICS Trump lawyers tell GOP to stop using his name and likeness...
by tjlord
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on Sat Mar 06, 2021 at 12:32 PM PST
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www.rawstory.com/… The high-profile attorney, who has joined several lawsuits aimed at overturning President Donald Trump's election loss, and reportedly suggested he could be the Messiah, has been claiming that various political elites are engaged in...
by ca cokz
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on Mon Jan 04, 2021 at 06:49 AM PST
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On Saturday, January 2d 2021 President Trump (along with others) participated in a conference call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger .� During this call the President of the United ...
by KeithDB
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on Sun Jan 03, 2021 at 07:02 PM PST
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The Washington Post has obtained and posted audio of President Donald Trump pressuring Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find 11,780 votes,” even going so far to threatening the Secretary and his lawyer with unspecified criminal...
by Crashing Vor
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on Sun Jan 03, 2021 at 10:37 AM PST
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