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Fox News seems to be working some Donald Trump damage control by way of … Chick-fil-A. Trump reportedly pulled in more than $50 million at a billionaire-hosted Florida fundraising event over the ...
by Walter Einenkel
 179 comments
on Thu Apr 11, 2024 at 01:00 PM PDT
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Many of the billionaires who claimed they were “sorry” they voted for Donald Trump in 2020, supported other Republican primary candidates this past year, and denounced Trump’s attempted insurrection are all being wooed back to the MAGA fold, according...
by Walter Einenkel
133 comments
on Sat Mar 30, 2024 at 10:00 AM PDT
with 219 Recommends
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“Ancient poetry and mythology suggest, at least, that husbandry was once a sacred art; but it is pursued with irreverent haste and heedlessness by us, our object being to have large farms and large crops merely. Henry David Thoreau, WALDEN With the...
by Gregg Matson
4 comments
on Sun Mar 17, 2024 at 04:56 PM PDT
with 16 Recommends
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United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain testified before the Senate Thursday , highlighting the progress our ...
by Walter Einenkel
191 comments
on Sat Mar 16, 2024 at 06:00 AM PDT
with 431 Recommends
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Two founders of Donald Trump’s Truth Social social media platform filed a lawsuit against him on Wednesday. They allege that he and others have been involved in “11th hour, pre-merger corporate ...
by Walter Einenkel
167 comments
on Fri Mar 01, 2024 at 02:30 PM PST
with 371 Recommends
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The Republican claim of their support for everyday working Americans isn’t aging well. If you pay attention, you can’t miss their pro-rich, anti-poor-and-middle-class agenda. More proof came in the form of a New York Times guest essay titled, “Many...
by RickElia
1 comments
on Thu Feb 29, 2024 at 07:36 AM PST
with 15 Recommends
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The federal government’s Summer Electronic Benefit Transfer program, which provides low-income families with $120 in food assistance per eligible child while schools are out of session, will ...
by Walter Einenkel
106 comments
on Sun Feb 18, 2024 at 04:00 PM PST
with 228 Recommends
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by Flak
40 comments
on Wed Jan 31, 2024 at 03:14 PM PST
with 108 Recommends
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Top tech executives appeared in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday as a part of a hearing titled “Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis.” Senators asked questions of the CEOs of Meta (the parent company of...
by Walter Einenkel
75 comments
on Wed Jan 31, 2024 at 01:25 PM PST
with 88 Recommends
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I am sure that you have heard all kinds of media discussing Donald Trump’s hold on the Republican base. Mostly the discussion includes consternation at the base’s willingness to accept Trump’s lies, arrogance, and criminality. For any other political...
by disoffshore
26 comments
on Wed Jan 24, 2024 at 01:22 PM PST
with 8 Recommends
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A new report compiled by think tank Groundwork Collaborative shows the inflation we continue to see across the country is mostly driven by corporate profits. According to their findings, “corporate profits drove 53 percent of inflation during the...
by Walter Einenkel
142 comments
on Mon Jan 22, 2024 at 11:10 AM PST
with 368 Recommends
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The richest people in the world are enjoying the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. This year’s annual get-together began with an Oxfam report detailing how the five richest men in the world have more than doubled their wealth in the last...
by Walter Einenkel
226 comments
on Fri Jan 19, 2024 at 09:00 AM PST
with 222 Recommends
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“The idea of having to ‘earn a living’ implies that by default, you don’t actually deserve to be alive.” James Ellars Not surprisingly, America’s growing union movement is disagreeable to our wealthy ruling minority, because when workers stick...
by Gregg Matson
5 comments
on Sat Jan 13, 2024 at 12:04 PM PST
with 13 Recommends
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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
33 comments
on Thu Jan 04, 2024 at 10:14 AM PST
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As of today, I am no longer an Amazon Prime member, and will no longer be buying from Amazon. Here are the reasons: . 1) Substandard products from substandard providers. Yes, there are a lot of quality products, but there are a lot of crap products...
by danarheaelliott
620 comments
on Sun Dec 10, 2023 at 09:34 PM PST
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This piece is appearing this weekend as a newspaper op/ed in the very red congressional district in which I ran for Congress as the Democratic nominee in 2012. Here, the piece is followed by an exchange I had, one the online form of one of those...
by AndySchmookler
7 comments
on Sat Nov 25, 2023 at 08:31 AM PST
with 17 Recommends
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This poem first appeared in print in 1899.� Its message is absolutely up-to-date.
A Vision of the End
by Too-qua-stee
I once beheld the end of time! �
� Its stream had ceased to be. �
The ...
by strawbale
4 comments
on Wed Nov 22, 2023 at 01:00 PM PST
with 15 Recommends
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Not too long after attempting to pick a literal fight with Teamsters General President Sean O’Brien at a Senate committee hearing Tuesday, Sen. Markwayne Mullin appeared on the Oklahoma-based podcast “Undaunted Life: A Man’s Podcast.” And Mullin and...
by Walter Einenkel
81 comments
on Wed Nov 15, 2023 at 12:21 PM PST
with 96 Recommends
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World's richest man Elon Musk went on libertarian entertainer Joe Rogan’s podcast on Tuesday. In the clip below, Rogan tries to get Musk to open up on how he feels after one year of ownership of X (
by Walter Einenkel
120 comments
on Sat Nov 04, 2023 at 04:00 PM PDT
with 252 Recommends
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The Christian Bible is truly the book that is bought by so many yet read by so few. The new Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Christian theocrat Mike Johnson, is one of the minority of people who see themselves as being a Christian* who...
by Deist
14 comments
on Fri Nov 03, 2023 at 11:55 AM PDT
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