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It’s been another busy week for VP Kamala Harris. I’ll begin, midweek (Thur. Mar. 14), to highlight Vice President Harris’ visit �to a Planned Parenthood Clinic in St. Paul, Minnesota, as ...
by lpeacock
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on Tue Mar 19, 2024 at 05:00 AM PDT
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Reposted from My Substack Watching as events unfold I’ve come to the conclusion — as have others — that the entire MAGA project is really just one giant White Power movement. Back in 2017 during the Unite the Right rally what we saw were fringe actors,...
by Frank Vyan Walton
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on Tue Jan 09, 2024 at 09:00 AM PST
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A president should not be able to self-pardon, nor should they be able to pardon prior presidents a la Ford/Nixon. Neither should they have the power to pardon people or entities who might be co-conspirators in crimes in which the President was...
by jtg
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on Sun Nov 05, 2023 at 12:02 PM PST
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Yesterday’s New York Times has a fascinating article about Trump pardoning a major drug dealer and violent loan shark; it’s titled “A Troubling Trump Pardon and a Link to the Kushners.” Like with so much reporting on Trump and his possible criminal...
by thomhartmann
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on Mon Nov 27, 2023 at 06:28 AM PST
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Vivek Ramaswamy may have best summed up the inaugural 2024 Republican debate on Monday night with this distinctly grim assessment during an exchange with former Vice President Mike Pence. "It's not morning in America, we live in a dark moment,"...
by Kerry Eleveld
237 comments
on Thu Aug 24, 2023 at 06:48 AM PDT
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Let me start out by saying that I am not advocating this in any way shape or form. But it does pose an interesting possible scenario. I feel that Trump and the country need a trial and he should be convicted. That said what would be the result if the...
by aPauledInNJ
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on Mon Aug 07, 2023 at 07:41 AM PDT
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As otherwise noted here on Kos, Rudy Giuliani was sued by a woman named Noelle Dunphy today. Ms. Dunphy alleges that Giuliani, as her off book employer, was a drunk and not a good drunk. She alleges he sexually harassed her, sexually assaulted her,...
by KeithDB
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on Mon May 15, 2023 at 07:15 PM PDT
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Leave it to Donald Trump to turn the exercise of mercy into yet another demonstration of corruption. Trump pardoned or commuted sentences for 238 people during his time in the White House. ABC News now finds that at least 10 of them have since come...
by Laura Clawson
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on Thu Dec 22, 2022 at 06:41 AM PST
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Sixteen days before the Insurrection, there was a White House meeting with Trump, Pence, Meadows, Giuliani and 11 Republican representatives —mostly members of the Freedom Caucus—in which they discussed overturning the 2020 election. Joining Trump,...
by SBvotes
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on Tue Nov 29, 2022 at 02:54 PM PST
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— — Making the offer on behalf of “the Boss” — Matt Gaetz. Making the offer to key Trump conman and backroom dealer — Roger Stone. With respect to charges (obstruction, lying to FBI, witness tampering) — that Stone was found GUILTY of, back in November...
by jamess
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on Mon Aug 01, 2022 at 05:14 PM PDT
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Joe Sonka of the Louisville Courier-Journal has more details on the possible judicial nomination by Biden of a corrupt anti-abortion Federalist lawyer to the Eastern District Court. I say now “possible” because it was set to happen on June 24th. Yes,...
by Merlin196357
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on Sat Jul 02, 2022 at 10:51 AM PDT
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— — Pardon me !? ... I mean pardon them !? Two other startling reveals, which were kind of swept away in the flood plain, of a dozen other stunning reveals … [...] Driving the news: "Mr. Meadows did seek that pardon, yes ma'am," [Cassidy] Hutchinson...
by jamess
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on Tue Jun 28, 2022 at 05:23 PM PDT
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Cassidy Hutchinson, the one-time aide to former President Donald Trump’s Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, will testify before the Jan. 6 committee on Tuesday. The 1 PM ET hearing was announced abruptly Monday night, and her appearance was kept tightly...
by Brandi Buchman
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on Tue Jun 28, 2022 at 05:28 AM PDT
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by Hilmbrown
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on Wed Jun 29, 2022 at 09:04 AM PDT
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For its fifth hearing, the Jan. 6 committee unloaded grave evidence of former President Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election by deploying pressure that reached into every branch of the U.S. government and was, investigators...
by Brandi Buchman
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on Thu Jun 23, 2022 at 04:57 PM PDT
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President Biden today announced he would commute the sentences of 75 nonviolent drug offenders, part of a "Second Chance Month" meant to call attention to the failures and systemic racism of the war on drugs. Three pardons were announced, including the...
by Hunter
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on Tue Apr 26, 2022 at 11:14 AM PDT
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The Washinton Post has a blockbuster article based on information from a film by a Danish filmmaker who followed Roger Stone for two years for his film. The WP reviewed 20 hours of footage from the video recordings. The article covers basically the 1/6...
by txdoubledd
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on Fri Mar 04, 2022 at 03:49 PM PST
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More than two-thirds of registered voters—68%—said they do not believe participants in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol should be pardoned, according to a new Politico/Morning Consult poll released Wednesday. Voters who opposed Jan. 6 pardons...
by Kerry Eleveld
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on Wed Feb 09, 2022 at 01:28 PM PST
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Does absolutely everything this guy does have to be pathetic and corrupt? And how does it take anyone on the planet more than two minutes to size up this gormless grifter? I can’t precisely remember the first time I heard Donald Trump’s voice, but I...
by Aldous J Pennyfarthing
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on Wed Feb 02, 2022 at 05:00 PM PST
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Donald Trump had been losing ground with the Republican base over the past couple months of polling. His main GOP rival, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, had seemed to beat Trump at his own game on wooing the diehard anti-vaxxer contingent of a voting bloc...
by Kerry Eleveld
31 comments
on Wed Feb 02, 2022 at 03:04 PM PST
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