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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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America’s position as the sole great power within the international system has come to an end. The future of the liberal world order has become precarious. Brief History & Theoretical Concepts in International Relations The balance of power within the...
by frankfaiola
24 comments
on Sat Jan 13, 2024 at 10:11 PM PST
with 27 Recommends
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American adults cannot handle drug legalization OR drug criminalization By Mike Males Just in the last five years, a staggering 771,000 Americans ages 21 and older have died from drug and alcohol abuse. That’s the entire adult population of a major...
by mmales
20 comments
on Mon Dec 11, 2023 at 11:02 AM PST
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Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is trying to carve out a space below Donald Trump in the Republican primary for president. Haley has clearly been told that leaning into being a parent who has kids might be her only winning personality trait, and...
by Walter Einenkel
177 comments
on Mon Nov 20, 2023 at 02:37 PM PST
with 129 Recommends
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The mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, once again reminded Americans that as long as guns of war are readily available to everyday Americans, we are not living in a safe country. That did not stop ...
by Walter Einenkel
98 comments
on Fri Oct 27, 2023 at 12:05 PM PDT
with 278 Recommends
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On Wednesday, after three weeks and one day of chaos and infighting, Republicans finally elected a new speaker of the House in Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana. As is custom, Minority Leader Hakeem ...
by Walter Einenkel
54 comments
on Wed Oct 25, 2023 at 03:00 PM PDT
with 215 Recommends
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Late Tuesday night, the Republican Party got their act together enough to say they were ready to maybe vote for a new speaker of the House: Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana. It only took them a few weeks of grinding our government to a snail's pace for...
by Walter Einenkel
70 comments
on Wed Oct 25, 2023 at 08:46 AM PDT
with 149 Recommends
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“Preliminary results from MIP [Military Intervention Project] show that the US has increased its military usage of force abroad since the end of the Cold War. Over this period the US has preferred the direct usage of force over threats or displays of...
by frankfaiola
11 comments
on Tue Oct 24, 2023 at 12:20 PM PDT
with 8 Recommends
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Pardon me if I cannot remember which Republican strategist or Never Trumper on MSNBC said that Vivek Ramaswamy is a “big idea guy.”� But I have heard on more than one occasion�from some pundits ...
by Merlin196360
39 comments
on Wed Aug 09, 2023 at 05:00 AM PDT
with 74 Recommends
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Gov. Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign is spiraling around a toilet filled with Republican names like Tim Scott, Nikki Haley, Mike Pence, Chris Christie, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Asa Hutchinson, to ...
by Walter Einenkel
42 comments
on Tue Aug 08, 2023 at 02:10 PM PDT
with 106 Recommends
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You probably believe that a significant part of the wildfire problem is too much fire suppression in past decades, so part of your reaction to news about recent wildfires may be “it’s just nature playing catch-up”, “environmentalists caused this” or...
by CorpFlunky
47 comments
on Sun Jul 30, 2023 at 11:12 AM PDT
with 21 Recommends
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So you’re a Conservative Republican and you’re against DEI. I wonder why. Many Republicans have passed laws or forwarded bills against DEI initiatives in state universities. Also, some companies have terminated their DEI initiatives, along with their...
by Zeke Springer
25 comments
on Sat Jul 15, 2023 at 05:09 PM PDT
with 31 Recommends
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In yet another decision overturning long-standing precedent, the Supreme Court has ruled that colleges and universities can no longer consider race as part of their admissions process. This decision has far-reaching implications for students of color...
by msouza
4 comments
on Fri Jul 14, 2023 at 09:30 AM PDT
with 40 Recommends
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As part of a historic nationwide wave of protests, a number of Chicago activists went to McCormick Place to protest a controversial vote held twenty years ago today — June 2, 2003. On June 2, 2003, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted 3 to...
by msszczep
2 comments
on Fri Jun 02, 2023 at 03:51 PM PDT
with 7 Recommends
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On Tuesday, Democratic Gov. Jared Polis of Colorado signed SB23-183, a bill eliminating a 2005 law that had proven to be a telecom-driven obstacle to building municipal broadband. The bill does a couple of things but most importantly, it “enables...
by Walter Einenkel
12 comments
on Wed May 03, 2023 at 03:26 PM PDT
with 84 Recommends
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There are nitwit “policy makers” who think all inflation is bad. Inflation is virtuous and good when it comes from raising the pay of underpaid workers. They get paid more and we pay a bit more for the services or stuff they produce. However, I see a...
by boblite
12 comments
on Fri Feb 24, 2023 at 12:01 PM PST
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What is an origin story? It’s a story we tell ourselves. We humans study anthropology to understand evolution, which allows us then to understand where we began. A couple of days ago, I began a story that decidedly did not read like a resume. In fact,...
by novapsyche
51 comments
on Fri Feb 10, 2023 at 06:00 AM PST
with 57 Recommends
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Pollution credits in the form of carbon offsets continue to fictionalize capital. As valorization, corporate greenwashing will continue as long as the image of free-market solutions implies that capitalism will solve the climate crisis. Similarly The...
by annieli
8 comments
on Sun Apr 30, 2023 at 03:00 PM PDT
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Introduction Democrats have fallen sharply downwards, backwards, on the farm bill, similar to, and related to, their increasing failures on the rural vote. It’s become so bad that there’s really nothing Democrats can do. They must support another of...
by Iowa Farm Activist
3 comments
on Fri Jan 27, 2023 at 09:23 AM PST
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Maybe because “political correctness” has too many syllables and “reverse discrimination” was too obviously ridiculous, the new term the conservative movement (with a big media assist from libertarian millionaire influencers like Glenn Greenwald and...
by Walter Einenkel
144 comments
on Tue Jan 17, 2023 at 11:23 AM PST
with 104 Recommends
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