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Don't get me wrong Donald Trump needs to be stopped. None of our partisan differences, ideological conflicts, or activist agendas will matter if our democracy is destroyed. Imagine Trump weaponizing the FBI and IRS to go after his critics. If...
by The Other Liberal
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on Sun Jan 28, 2024 at 09:50 AM PST
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Missing from the New York Times year end reporting about Trump and his trials is any acknowledgement that the Times -- and the Washington Post -- helped Trump and hurt Hillary before Trump even entered the race. In April 2015, both papers printed...
by 888guy
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on Sun Dec 31, 2023 at 07:23 AM PST
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Derek summarizes research on what is the best strategy to encourage niceness, forgiveness, generosity in people that are naturally self-interested. It turns out to be an eye-for-an-eye philosophy. Later winning models gave a little more forgiveness to...
by jasciu
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on Sun Dec 24, 2023 at 09:19 AM PST
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The whole concept of gerrymandering is based on the fact that our political affiliation is public knowledge. Why are we required to make that information public? Actually, we’re not — we can register as “Independent” and not state which party we...
by JailTrumpNow
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on Fri Nov 10, 2023 at 01:55 PM PST
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First, let’s review some basic rules regarding honesty and fairness. Under the law (with which I think most people agree), a law officer may not “plant” evidence to try to win a “guilty” verdict, nor knowingly lie about any evidence that was obtained...
by EvanJellicoe
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on Wed Nov 08, 2023 at 08:53 AM PST
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Who wants to fix an unfair game when their guys are winning? Why rush to level the playing field when it’s your team that gets to run downhill? Republicans love to call people struggling to make ends meet who avail themselves of various government aid...
by RickElia
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on Thu Aug 31, 2023 at 04:00 PM PDT
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From the agency’s press release, the National Labor Relations Board ruling today in Cemex Construction Materials Pacific LLC is a vindication for the union organizers at Cemex but also a powerful precedent that will meaningfully shift the balance of...
by lockedjew
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on Fri Aug 25, 2023 at 04:01 PM PDT
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I’m old. Pre-title IX old. I remember wanting to play hockey. But girls couldn’t be on the hockey team. I remember being a kid and asking, “Why?” Restricting me from a sport based on my gender made zero sense to my developing brain. How it made sense...
by Everyday People In Crisis
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on Tue Jun 27, 2023 at 10:22 AM PDT
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Well, the world needs ditch diggers, too. – Judge Smails in the movie “Caddyshack.” Sometimes I’ll see a Facebook profile of someone I went to high school with many decades ago. More often than not, it’s apparent looking at their posts that they’re...
by RickElia
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on Thu Apr 20, 2023 at 06:40 AM PDT
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“We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.” — Former US Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis We’re told by the Declaration of Independence that our nation was...
by thomhartmann
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on Sat Jan 28, 2023 at 11:19 AM PST
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Inspired by a DK diary today from xaxnar. We must keep the heat on ALL Republicans (not just Trump) for their hateful extremism. And if we can take away their preferred term for themselves “conservative”, so much the better!
by rmartin1241
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on Sat Jan 14, 2023 at 10:33 AM PST
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President Biden delivered his message to the United Nations COP27 climate conference today in Egypt . It is a message of ambition and hope that we can and will prevent the worst of climate change ...
by greenandblue
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on Fri Nov 11, 2022 at 01:40 PM PST
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President Joe Biden has announced debt forgiveness for millions of Americans saddled with crippling and excessive college debt. Naturally, the right is attacking him savagely and hypocritically. Neanderthal American Majorie Taylor Greene has grunted...
by DBowman
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on Sat Aug 27, 2022 at 08:23 AM PDT
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Why is it so easy for humans to psychologically wash their hands of another person, or group of people? How do they make themselves approving (in terms of attitude) of their behavior? This is an active process. And, then, what is fairness? We all have...
by novapsyche
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on Sat Jun 04, 2022 at 11:02 AM PDT
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The Alt-right exaltation of violence is percolating. Kyle Rittenhouse was glorified at a gathering recently, in what was a thinly-veiled form of hero-worship. That mentality (a machismo-based running of the bullshit), is launching headlong toward a...
by themorrowfamily
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on Tue Dec 28, 2021 at 04:16 AM PST
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The bold policy proposals that make up the Build Back Better (BBB) plan President Biden and Democratic leaders moving through both houses of Congress right now have already won the support of most ...
by Ian Reifowitz
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on Sat Sep 25, 2021 at 06:29 AM PDT
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I recently moved to a small rural town with a bit of a drug problem. Last week the Sheriff’s Office arrested 34 people for various drug, weapons, parole violations and other offenses. Since we have less than 3,500 folks in town, that’s about 1% of the...
by CorpFlunky
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on Tue Jun 08, 2021 at 07:14 AM PDT
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Do you think that the state should pay people's child support in the event of sterilization failure? Do you think that the state (meaning the government) should pay people's child support in the event of sterilization failure? After all, being forced to pay child support for 18+ years as a result of sterilization failure could significantly ruin one’s...
by ExtremelyAgile
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on Thu Mar 04, 2021 at 11:45 AM PST
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Do you think that men should have the option of bilateral epididymectomy for sterilization purposes? Do you think that men should have the option of bilateral epididymectomy for sterilization purposes? After all, a bilateral epididymectomy (in other words, the surgical removal of the epididymis on both sides of the scrotum; the epididymis is the tube...
by ExtremelyAgile
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on Wed Mar 03, 2021 at 12:16 AM PST
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In drafting my latest Labor Film of the Week diary, a stray thought came to mind about so-called “right to work” laws. “Right to work” is an anti-union concept I’m sure a great many Daily Kos readers are already somewhat familiar with. I am no...
by Random82
21 comments
on Fri Feb 26, 2021 at 08:44 AM PST
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