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This is a newsreel social and political silent documentary, one of the first ever made in the United States, produced by a leftist and communist cinema collective known as The Film and Photo League. Members would film protests and social movements...
by VPSReports
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on Sun Mar 24, 2024 at 12:32 AM PDT
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I’m old, but I get it. I get the lack of enthusiasm by younger voters. I have three children in their 20s, and they can’t get excited for this election between two really old guys. Of course, most of us know the dire consequences of this election, but...
by imobannon
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on Tue Mar 05, 2024 at 08:13 PM PST
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I used to follow Mark Shields on ARCA Max. Nowadays my guy is Marc Munroe Dion. He’s a solid. He doesn’t restrict himself to pre-approved points of view in an effort to blend in with the choir. In this opinion piece he addresses Immigration, ladies and...
by AnotherOklahoman
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on Fri Jan 19, 2024 at 10:25 AM PST
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I find it mindboggling that people are flooding the border to come here when what they are rushing to ….will soon be just as bad as what they have left. We have Fascists, racists, 600 mass shooting in 23, one today at High school. Killing...
by Vetwife
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on Thu Jan 04, 2024 at 10:14 AM PST
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Make your vote count in 2024. This wannabe dictator is telling you exactly who he will model his Presidency on. LISTEN TO HIM. Please share #laloalcaraz cartoons, and please order your 2024 Lalo Alcaraz Cartoon Calendar NOW! Makes a great gift!...
by laloalcaraz
57 comments
on Tue Dec 19, 2023 at 06:40 AM PST
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An old Nevada rancher refuted me, “Fact checkers? Who believes them?” Pulitzer Prize credibility danced on the tip of my tongue. But why bother? We used to have a generally accepted consensus on what makes a fact. Now algorithms serve up information...
by speedboat
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on Mon Dec 18, 2023 at 08:51 PM PST
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Vivek Ramaswamy recently gave an interview with Republican mega-donor and propagandist Tom Klingenstein. The opening statement (below) sounded like a full embrace of totalitarian attitudes, and I wanted to share it not because Ramaswamy himself is...
by AChris
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on Mon Dec 04, 2023 at 02:31 AM PST
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The media is focused more on horse race numbers than the existential threat that Donald Trump and the Republican Party he owns presents to the United States and our people. They are treating these numbers as if it is almost predetermined that this is...
by Dem
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on Thu Nov 30, 2023 at 06:51 AM PST
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In 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, as well as 2022, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” posted profiles of Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who in our first profile, we discussed his three terms as Texas Attorney General where he worked...
by republicinsanity
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on Thu Nov 23, 2023 at 09:10 AM PST
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The top line general election polls numbers from polls conducted before even the first election during either major party's primary has taken place are unreliable. There are some really strange views found below the top line numbers held by a majority...
by Dem
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on Mon Nov 20, 2023 at 07:50 AM PST
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The abuse of words Republican is not synonymous with evil in 2023. Sometimes a writer, daydreamer, gets lost in one’s thoughts. A mysterious time travel experience occurred to me. I have related it. A writer, daydreamer is often described as a...
by Grey Panther
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on Sat Nov 18, 2023 at 06:29 AM PST
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Well, I finally did it. I looked at “Truth” Social. According to Political Wire, Trump Pledges to Root Out the ‘Vermin.’ I followed the link. Technically, he just said we “live like vermin.” This is from the Real Donald Trump, in it’s entirety, and if...
by RainJustRain
44 comments
on Sat Nov 11, 2023 at 06:09 PM PST
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There has been no respite for the MAGA world. Trump’s bananas testimony on Monday was followed on Tuesday by Republicans losing elections across the country. Trying to keep up the myth that misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, and xenophobia are winning...
by Walter Einenkel
116 comments
on Wed Nov 08, 2023 at 12:58 PM PST
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. As I was writing this introduction, the nightmare in the Middle East, the forced displacement of hundreds of thousands of...
by TomDispatch
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on Tue Oct 24, 2023 at 10:17 AM PDT
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Something I ran into a few times helped my see the light regarding one of the “best words” in tfg’s limited vocabulary. I think it was a quote from Chris Christie, but I don’t remember exactly what triggered my “revelation.” (I have been thumbing...
by Mahavira
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on Fri Sep 22, 2023 at 03:29 PM PDT
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Should an authoritarian dictator take over the White House, they will be able to use two laws that undermine a democratic society. They can use the Insurrection Act to violently quell a popular uprising and the Patriot Act to secretly send opposition...
by SCRW56
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on Sat Aug 26, 2023 at 08:34 AM PDT
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California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced on Friday that his office is launching a civil rights investigation into the new and controversial Chino Valley Unified School District policy to notify bigoted parents about whether or not their children...
by VPSReports
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on Sat Aug 05, 2023 at 03:51 AM PDT
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The arsonist is filling his gasoline can. Now we wait to see if we’ll hand him the match to burn our country to the ground. In a frightening must-read story titled, Trump and Allies Forge Plans to Increase Presidential Power in 2025, reporters from The...
by RickElia
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on Wed Jul 19, 2023 at 05:39 AM PDT
with 27 Recommends
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Above you’ll find the current map of bans on gender-affirming care (GAC) for minors; if you compare/contrast with previous posts, you’ll note some changes... It’s a mess out there. Let’s see if I can bring some order to it. Vetos and Overrides The...
by QueerBillTracker
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on Mon Jul 10, 2023 at 07:31 PM PDT
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Brazil’s ultra-right former president Jair Bolsonaro, recently banned by a Brazilian elections court from running for elected office until 2030, “still faces other investigations that could put him behind bars” even if election-court matter did not...
by cfordlaw
5 comments
on Wed Jul 05, 2023 at 11:19 AM PDT
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