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I’m sorry that I looked at Twitter and saw that “Voter ID” was trending (apparently due to the PA Republican Party and Musk, and all their hangers-on). I noticed one oddity, or perhaps a ‘tell’ in some of these posts — multiple posters (including the...
by AChris
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on Wed Apr 03, 2024 at 01:43 PM PDT
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Recent events have me thinking of W.B. Yeats, “The Second Coming”. Most of our literate Kos folks will remember some of it. “Things fall apart, the center cannot hold; ...The best lack all conviction. while the worst are full of passionate intensity...
by oldcrow
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on Tue Jan 23, 2024 at 06:56 PM PST
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MAGA extremists really aren't a homogenous group. Overall, they want to stop the country from devolving into a miasma of diversity, equality, socialism, wokeness, permissiveness, and corruption. Yet they pursue different agendas to get there. Sometimes...
by Sarajen
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on Mon Jan 15, 2024 at 12:53 PM PST
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Former President Donald Trump attacked The Atlantic and its publisher and majority owner, Laurene Powell Jobs, a billionaire philanthropist who is the widow of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. On Saturday, Trump posted a diatribe on his money-losing Truth...
by Charles Jay
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on Mon Nov 27, 2023 at 02:00 PM PST
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Tee Shirt and Sticker designs are showing up at Tee Public for Proud Vermin. I hope others will join me and stand up to this fascist bully crap. I do not make a penny off of these links. https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/53241868-proud-vermin...
by Dooey
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on Thu Nov 16, 2023 at 04:50 PM PST
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Welcome to what is the 1253rd original profile here at “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day”, where we’ll be profiling Robert Foster, a former one-term member of the Mississippi House of Representatives from 2015-2019 who was also a failed...
by republicinsanity
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on Sun Nov 12, 2023 at 10:38 AM PST
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Man at Trump rally is asked why he supports Donald Trump: “I like Trump as a person. Most importantly, I like his Christian values.” Kayfabe as the dramaturgy of false consciousness will seemingly never end until the Emperor does a strip-tease. The...
by annieli
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on Sat Oct 07, 2023 at 04:48 AM PDT
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We’re the good guys; they’re the bad guys. That trope has been used by both sides. Of all conflicts. Ever. We’re right; they’re wrong. Gay rights? We’re right; they’re wrong. Doesn’t matter which side of that argument you are on, does it? Abortion? Gun...
by ultrageek
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on Wed Jul 12, 2023 at 07:34 PM PDT
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“Fair and Balanced,” they said. (*2) They lied. Oaths; Courts; the Fourth Estate It was once suggested that the Hippocratic Oath was first uttered when Hippocrates stubbed his toe, painfully, on a rock. But that is not the type of oath with which this...
by Telly Caneesis
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on Sun May 28, 2023 at 03:35 PM PDT
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First heard about this on TRMS Monday, but haven’t seen it featured here yet — despite going viral around the world now (Guardian, WashPost, etc) thanks to @abby4thepeople who managed to capture the whole confrontation on her cell phone and post it to...
by Irontortoise
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on Thu May 18, 2023 at 08:42 AM PDT
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Next week, CNN will take a shot at normalizing American fascist movement leader and GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump, a man who openly embraces murderous Nazis, Vladimir Putin, white supremacy, misogyny, religious bigotry, and political...
by thomhartmann
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on Wed May 03, 2023 at 08:28 AM PDT
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Here is the Constitution's take on the debts and debits of our Country: All bills of credit emitted, monies borrowed, and debts contracted by, or under the authority of Congress, before the assembling of the United States, in pursuance of the present...
by Thinkster
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on Mon Apr 24, 2023 at 07:21 PM PDT
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Donald Trump has provoked a bullying crisis in America that extends from elementary school all the way to Congress. It’s time to say, “Enough!” Marjorie Taylor Greene, an infamous bully who once chased then-17-year-old Parkland school-shooting survivor...
by thomhartmann
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on Wed Mar 22, 2023 at 09:29 AM PDT
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Folk singer Woody Guthrie was most definitely antifa. His guitar had the inscription, “This machine kills fascists.” Guthrie sang songs against the Nazis such as “Sinking of the Reuben James” in 1942, dedicated to the crew members lost on the destroyer...
by Charles Jay
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on Thu Mar 16, 2023 at 01:53 PM PDT
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Make no mistake. There is a battle right now between autocracy and democracy around the world. Countries are lining up on either side. And that’s really what’s going on, at this stage, with Ukraine. This is literally a battle for the 21st century...
by thomhartmann
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on Wed Mar 01, 2023 at 08:27 AM PST
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The late salsa superstar Celia Cruz is slated to appear on the U.S. quarter. Selected for her vast achievements in the musical arts to be part of the American Women Quarters Program, Cruz is set to become the first Afro Latina on the coin. But under...
by Gabe Ortiz
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on Wed Feb 15, 2023 at 01:10 PM PST
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Ron DeSantis appears to have succeeded in his attempt to bully the College Board into stripping Black Lives Matter, discussion of gay Black thought leaders, and multiple well-known Black authors from their African American Studies Advance Placement...
by thomhartmann
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on Fri Feb 03, 2023 at 08:20 AM PST
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In the Midterms Latino voters voted against loony Republican Big Lie candidates and Lifted Like Luisa! this is my latest cartoon for Front Page Live and Corazon Latino. And it looks like Latino voters will support Senator Warnock in Georgia, let's gooooo!
by laloalcaraz
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on Thu Dec 01, 2022 at 02:35 PM PST
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After showing themselves as being terrible at predicting political outcomes and what voters are focused on, the Media FINALLY has one good thing to celebrate about the 2022 Midterms. Trump is freaking out and has started to attack the darling of the...
by Merlin196357
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on Fri Nov 11, 2022 at 10:19 AM PST
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There is no respite from plutocrats’ fascism after November 8 elections. They spent billions. They will spend billions more to destroy democracy. Violence. Destruction. Sexism. Racism. Anti-Semitism. Anti-LGBTQ. Anti-transgender. Anti-Union. Americans...
by BigLow
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on Wed Nov 09, 2022 at 11:18 AM PST
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