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I have been a labor activist in Missouri for years. Here’s what other labor activists like me have done in the past year. The general media hasn’t picked up on this yet. I expect it to tomorrow. Anyway, Missouri just made history today. I helped gather...
by simpleman72685
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on Wed May 01, 2024 at 07:33 PM PDT
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A sermon from ‘self appointed rabbi’ Arnstein on why you can’t vote for the GOP. I think their whole concept and crusades against trans gender and the people streaming to our borders for the problems we've created and the 'American way of life' we've...
by iarnstein
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on Fri Apr 12, 2024 at 02:13 PM PDT
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Pro-Life people like to pretend the fetus is a genuine human being, i.e., a baby. That they pretend should be no surprise because their chosen label of “Pro-Life” contains its own pretense in that most of them are merely anti-abortion but pretend they...
by ArtD48
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on Sat Apr 06, 2024 at 02:47 PM PDT
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The following is a factual, semi-satyrical Op-Ed piece on political insanity and anti-Constitutional, anti-Christian fraud, abuse of power, and fraud upon the Court: Copyright © 2024 Michael Lucas Monterey (Creative Commons Licensing protocols) Who...
by mlmonterey
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on Sun Mar 10, 2024 at 04:22 PM PDT
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Rep. Jasmine Crockett brought her ability to drop mics all over Republicans’ hypocrisies and failures to MSNBC on Sunday. The Democratic congresswoman was asked by host Ali Velshi about fallout from the recent Alabama Supreme Court ruling that...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Tue Feb 27, 2024 at 07:30 AM PST
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“It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.” ― Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason In a civilized world, someone with a critical and potentially fatal condition receives immediate...
by TheCriticalMind
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on Sat Feb 24, 2024 at 02:23 PM PST
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Former Democratic Rep. Tom Suozzi of New York delivered a master class Thursday on revealing the negative implications of his Republican rival's abortion stance during their first and final debate. Suozzi is facing off against Republican Mazi Pilip, a...
by Kerry Eleveld
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on Fri Feb 09, 2024 at 02:43 PM PST
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Missouri state Senate Republicans took time away from their filibustering of one another to vote down two Democratic-led amendments to the state’s draconian abortion laws that would have allowed exceptions for rape and incest on Wednesday. In 2022, the...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Thu Feb 08, 2024 at 01:56 PM PST
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“Though she be but little, she is fierce!” ― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream Note: The first five paragraphs of this piece are autobiographical and exist to set the scene. If you want to jump to the subject of the piece, start at “Allie...
by TheCriticalMind
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on Sat Jan 27, 2024 at 04:47 PM PST
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During an end of the year MSNBC panel discussion, writer, actor, and comedian John Fugelsang gave his thoughts on what he hopes to “leave behind” in regards to 2024’s national discourse. Fugelsang proposed leaving “behind right-wing fundamentalists and...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Tue Jan 09, 2024 at 10:22 AM PST
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Republicans claim their anti-choice crusade is pro-life. It is not. And their duplicity is hurting women — which is likely their aim. Since Roe gave women personal autonomy, conservatives have been fighting in state house trenches to regain control...
by TheCriticalMind
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on Tue Oct 24, 2023 at 05:10 PM PDT
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This is depressing. 2 years in jail for helping your kid during a huge trauma, the justice system is guilty of child abuse, the kid with never forgive herself probably. What was the mom supposed to do? Make a lifelong commitment to raise the kid? Note:...
by dblecircle
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on Fri Sep 22, 2023 at 06:33 PM PDT
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George W. Bush pleads with GOP's pro-life death cult to rescue program that's saved 25 million lives Remember celebrated cat painter George W. Bush? He was also U.S. president for a time. And a war criminal for even longer now. (Allegedly!) But before he turned invading countries for no reason into a worldwide craze, he had at least one good idea,...
by Aldous J Pennyfarthing
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on Thu Sep 14, 2023 at 01:25 PM PDT
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On Friday, Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee did the rounds on Fox News and Fox Business to attack her potential Democratic rivals in the 2024 Senate race. During her appearances, ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Fri Sep 08, 2023 at 12:33 PM PDT
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Another three people are dead in Florida. The state that also brought us the Pulse Night Club shooting and countless other shootings of innocent people minding their own business. Florida is an open carry state. The guy who did this had a history of...
by aPauledInNJ
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on Sun Aug 27, 2023 at 10:06 AM PDT
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Some abortion takes: The pro-life issue in America specifically is something to be very hard-line about because of the ‘peculiar institution’ of chattel slavery. In a country in which forced impregnation and child-bearing was an economic engine, there...
by Amillenial Fisking King
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on Fri Aug 18, 2023 at 07:48 AM PDT
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I have said if my state is going to be pro-life, then be pro-life. But really, the pro-life issue is about having a political wedge issue for support because honestly, we don’t care about kids here in Texas. What else would explain why we are 45th in...
by iarnstein
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on Tue Aug 15, 2023 at 05:19 PM PDT
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In 750 words or less, what does “Republican” mean today? It means that Donald Trump’s history is all good, and nothing controversial about it is to be considered. Why not? Because this is a presidential election season, and he’s our guy. Unimportant...
by Wilburhorse
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on Wed Aug 02, 2023 at 01:41 PM PDT
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The term “pro-life” is a misnomer. What is called “pro-life” is really anti-abortion. Those who claim to be “pro-life” are usually not uniformly pro-life. There are 15 states where abortion is banned or mostly banned. (The list is below.) These state...
by tedfuller
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on Fri Jul 07, 2023 at 11:55 AM PDT
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Woo… Now that is some hard hit on pro-life… If you are gonna force this situation on women and young girls then men need to stand up and do what they have to do and handle their responsibilities… This would make child support begin at conception…. Nice...
by CantSpell
100 comments
on Thu May 18, 2023 at 07:07 AM PDT
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