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by BLAYMAN
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on Sun Feb 18, 2024 at 06:29 PM PST
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This is going to be a bit long, so bear with me, but I’ve been thinking recently about how my 80-something evangelical mother views the world and how it provides some much-needed context for a lot of the nonsensical arguments tossed around by...
by indythink
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on Sun Nov 12, 2023 at 10:04 AM PST
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It is absolutely outrageous to say that President Biden supports the genocide of the Palestinian civilians. It's incredibly ignorant to attack President Biden and not vote for him on the basis of a claim that he supports Israel targeting Palestinian...
by Dem
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on Wed Nov 08, 2023 at 01:49 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. In September 2007, Karen Greenberg ominously titled her third report for TomDispatch “Guantanamo Forever.” Give her credit. So...
by TomDispatch
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on Thu Oct 05, 2023 at 07:23 AM PDT
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Since caregivers are so overwhelmingly women, I find this an appropriate opening topic for WOW. And since I care about climate, I have recently been wondering about adult diapers (Mom is bed-bound, ...
by elenacarlena
57 comments
on Sat Sep 30, 2023 at 04:59 PM PDT
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Republicans who argue there are two standards of justice are right, but NOT the way they think. Criminal Defendant Trump is being treated with greater kindness and generosity than most any other criminal defendant at any time in American history. No...
by 888guy
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on Sat Sep 23, 2023 at 02:27 PM PDT
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. It’s reasonable to ask: What gets anyone involved in politics, American-style? What leads any of us to decide to protest anything?...
by TomDispatch
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on Mon Jul 03, 2023 at 10:42 AM PDT
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Leading up to the 2022 midterm, the media devoted gobs of ink to the Republican fantasy that crime would be a major driver of the "red wave" that ultimately wasn't. If Republicans, particularly in swing states and districts, have been plotting their...
by Kerry Eleveld
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on Thu Jun 15, 2023 at 09:16 AM PDT
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It takes an institution, if you don’t have one, build one. Fascism cloaked as conservatism is an institution, and it takes an institution to fight an institution. Conservatives have been honing their tactics for the past four centuries. They have...
by Joseph2482
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on Fri Apr 28, 2023 at 10:07 AM PDT
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I’m going to ask something of you. I am not asking for myself, but for a group of drama students in a state where creativity is feared and frowned upon, where thinking is frowned upon, where ...
by BeninSC
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on Sun Feb 26, 2023 at 07:00 PM PST
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Injustice reigns as Tyre falls,
Victim to violence at the hands of those
Sworn to protect, to serve and uphold,
But instead, they took a life so bold.
The streets were filled with screams and cries,
by poeticsnewspoet
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on Mon Jan 30, 2023 at 07:00 AM PST
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Recall Clark County NV DA for allowing a kidnapping torturer-of-women to go free in less than 2years Benjamin Obadiah Foster was a man who held his girlfriend captive for two weeks where he tortured her. He got a sweetheart deal of two years instead of spending decades behind bars. He forced his girlfriend during that time to eat lyme. And what was...
by Justice for Women
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on Sat Jan 28, 2023 at 11:59 AM PST
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I WOKE up to the immorality of the MAGAs and their sociopath leaders. Woke is the past tense of wake. The Merriam-Webster definition is “aware of and actively attentive to important societal facts and issues”. The first 35 years of my life was spent...
by jjhaydeniii
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on Mon Jan 30, 2023 at 09:01 AM PST
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So, we have a problem! Actually we have quite a few problems when it comes to the Rule of Law, and the execution of said laws. We have this guy, the individual in charge of the DOJ, Merrick Garland clearing not exercising his powers to ensure that all...
by allenels
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on Thu Jan 19, 2023 at 11:48 AM PST
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A video of an art gallery owner abusing a homeless person has made its rounds on social media, ultimately leading to the man’s arrest. Identified as Collier Gwin, the 71-year-old man was arrested Wednesday after San Francisco District Attorney Brooke...
by Aysha Qamar
265 comments
on Thu Jan 19, 2023 at 12:11 PM PST
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It seems so unlikely that we will see any justice on this issue. We can’t seem to act to save ourselves much less our victims.
by Hilmbrown
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on Wed Dec 14, 2022 at 03:19 PM PST
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I think everyone has some year that stands out in their minds. We have such horrid and dismal news this day and time and 1963 was the beginning of lots of troubles in the 60’s, however we did see the beginning of justice and change and if I had to pick...
by Vetwife
31 comments
on Sun Dec 11, 2022 at 08:48 AM PST
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One of the most shocking documents released this year by Australia’s Bureau of Statistics shows imprisonment rates of indigenous versus non-indigenous Australians. You would think after decades of focus on the destructive impact of incarceration...
by Alan Austin
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on Mon Nov 21, 2022 at 04:57 AM PST
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Our founding fathers were idiots. Make no mistake about it. To appease slave states they gave all this power to states regardless of their size. The whoppers being: 1) every state gets at least 3 electoral votes, 2) Every state gets two Senators and 3)...
by TheGreenHornet
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on Fri Nov 18, 2022 at 03:29 PM PST
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With excellent cinematography, a wonderful soundtrack, masterful acting and a compelling, emotional story, Till is a movie for all time. It paints a sickening picture of societal injustice that sadly is on the rise in America. Check out this official...
by rmartin1241
12 comments
on Sat Nov 05, 2022 at 06:02 PM PDT
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