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Far-right�MAGA Christians have already signaled that they’re fine with women and girls being forced to give birth to their rapists’ babies . And they’re more than okay with singing hosannas ...
by Aldous J Pennyfarthing
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on Wed Jan 31, 2024 at 04:20 PM PST
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UPDATE: Friday, Sep 1, 2023 · 5:54:00 PM +00:00 · Dem lightly edited for clarity and to fix grammar/usage/convention errors. As some here may recall, when I was an undergraduate and just after my first degree, I was a fundamentalist. I had a...
by Dem
158 comments
on Fri Sep 01, 2023 at 07:04 AM PDT
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The tale is one of an evil time, When souls were fettered and thought was crime, And heresy’s whisper above its breath Meant shameful scouring and bonds and death! —John Greenleaf Whittier, “How the Women Went from Dover” Mifepristone, the abortion and...
by thomhartmann
272 comments
on Mon Feb 27, 2023 at 08:15 AM PST
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A very smart friend of mine, an attorney and staunch fighter for racial justice, posted the screen caps below wherein the OP reports that he was able to get one of his local christo-fascist churches booted from tax exempt status with the IRS. The post...
by antonrobb
166 comments
on Wed Jul 06, 2022 at 06:52 AM PDT
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The US Constitution was written so that each branch of the federal government would be a check on the other branches. The president can be impeached by the US House of Representatives and convicted by the US Senate. The president can veto bills written...
by Dem
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on Sun May 15, 2022 at 06:46 AM PDT
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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is warning the nearly 2 to 1 majority of the population who disagree with overturning Roe vs Wade that he and the five who back the Alito opinion won’t be “bullied” and that this majority which disagrees with the...
by Dem
46 comments
on Sat May 07, 2022 at 11:33 AM PDT
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Again, let's be crystal clear here. Compared to the content of the opinion, who gave us the information is merely at worst a passing curiosity. This overturned a ruling relied upon and confirmed for nearly fifty years. Furthermore, the radical nature...
by Dem
265 comments
on Wed May 04, 2022 at 09:57 AM PDT
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I firmly agree that this is the dog catching the bus. The next step is enforcement which means criminalizing abortion. I suspect it was a right winger who leaked this to keep Alito's opinion and majority as the final copy of the document. I also...
by Dem
46 comments
on Tue May 03, 2022 at 04:32 PM PDT
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www.cdc.gov/… The ten US states with the highest life expectancy all voted for Joe Biden while the ten with the lowest life expectancy chose Trump, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. Life expectancy is highest in Hawaii (81 years)...
by mastergardener2k
22 comments
on Fri Feb 11, 2022 at 04:34 PM PST
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From my Facebook page: “Our world in data presents the data that shows getting vaccinated saves lives. If you are not vaccinated, then look at the fucking data ....
by Dem
62 comments
on Sun Jan 30, 2022 at 04:53 PM PST
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I realized that I left unsaid some context and things that should be said. Not all of those who have made mistakes regarding public statements about COVID are equal offenders. Some have been better on COVID than others. Venus did make a misstep when...
by Dem
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on Mon Jan 17, 2022 at 09:15 PM PST
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I used to be a fundamentalist before graduate school. So, I have a lot of fundamentalists in my Facebook friends. One of them continually pushes anti-vaccine conspiracy theory nonsense. When I see that, I can’t ignore it. . . A fundamentalist within my...
by Dem
28 comments
on Thu Nov 25, 2021 at 06:32 AM PST
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I was a fundamentalist until graduate school. I still have many fundamentalists in my Facebook circle. Some and one in particular pushes anti-vaccine conspiracy theory nonsense incessantly. It seems like every day she is attacking the vaccines safety...
by Dem
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on Sun Nov 14, 2021 at 07:38 PM PST
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When I was a freshman working on my first degree, I became a fundamentalist. I was mentored and participated in bible studies and was a devout and sincere Christian who daily read my Bible, prayed, memorized Scripture and participated in ministry. I...
by Dem
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on Wed Oct 27, 2021 at 04:01 PM PDT
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Dear Citizens and Elected Officials: In the fall of 2015, when John Delaney was my Congressman in Maryland’s terribly gerrymandered 6th Congressional District, he gamely travelled to the far Western reaches of this improbable district, near the West...
by billofrights
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on Fri Aug 20, 2021 at 08:19 AM PDT
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Welcome to what is the 1000th profile here at “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day”, where we’ll be profiling former White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee-Sanders, the political legacy that sprung from the Fundamentalist-kooky loins of former...
by republicinsanity
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on Mon Jul 05, 2021 at 02:29 AM PDT
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news.gallup.com/… The Gallup Poll has results that may seriously rattle everyone’s assumptions of American society and politics. From 1937, the first time they started asking about church membership, to 1999, about 70% of...
by mastergardener2k
365 comments
on Mon Mar 29, 2021 at 01:49 PM PDT
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over at america’s favorite armed compound in the woods, as the lights flicker out on donald trump’s chances to overturn the election, the septic tanks are overflowing with maga tears. high melodrama and maudlin conceit has long been the...
by aarrgghh
8 comments
on Mon Dec 14, 2020 at 04:31 PM PST
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Dear Citizens and Elected Officials: I was going to write about this story by Fintan O’Toole more than a month ago, but didn’t get to it. The events of last evening, March 2nd, 2020, the eve of Super Tuesday, and the bailing out of the race — Pete...
by billofrights
55 comments
on Tue Mar 03, 2020 at 07:23 AM PST
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Others have speculated on this question, and I have previously posted a diary in which I argued that evangelicals support Trump because his support for Israel may trigger the apocalypse. But I want to propose a different angle of interpretation:...
by Dan K
50 comments
on Fri Feb 21, 2020 at 11:42 AM PST
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