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I somehow got on the mailing list for Imprimis magazine from Hillsdale College. Each month, I receive this small, 6’’ by 10’’ magazine in my mailbox, with a single 6-page essay from some far-right politician or think-tank propagandist. At the back is a...
by AChris
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on Sat Apr 27, 2024 at 01:56 PM PDT
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I’d like you to meet my new favorite person Tommy, who goes by “My_Doode” on TikTok and other platforms. Tommy regularly debates MAGA - and he regularly crushes them. He brings the facts, and he brings receipts. I’ve been watching his video obsessively...
by Frank Vyan Walton
42 comments
on Thu Apr 18, 2024 at 09:11 AM PDT
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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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Michael R. Turner (R-OH), chair of the House Intelligence Committee, said it is “absolutely true” that Republican members of Congress are parroting Russian propaganda. “We see directly coming from Russia attempts to mask communications that are...
by jasciu
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on Tue Apr 09, 2024 at 10:37 AM PDT
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I just saw this over on Raw Story — and for the first time I actually went on to Truth Social and watched a whole video… and I’m shaken. Joyce Vance has it right:’ "This isn't the kind of thread where you can like the tweets — it's too awful, but...
by CathyM
40 comments
on Sat Apr 06, 2024 at 04:05 PM PDT
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Right-wing strategist and Fox News contributor Kellyanne Conway has been showing up on various programs to try out her newest line of attack messaging: Democratic politicians don’t say “thoughts ...
by Walter Einenkel
226 comments
on Thu Apr 04, 2024 at 03:15 PM PDT
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For over a hundred years, reactionaries, racists, and imperialists in the Western world have been cultivating the image of a white woman in peril as a means to an end: maintaining white privilege and supremacy. In 2004, the late Gwen Ifill from PBS...
by C0RI0LANUS
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on Tue Apr 02, 2024 at 03:12 PM PDT
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The Nation has picked up a hit piece that I originally read on DKos. This is the latest in a long campaign of misinformation and court filings designed to stop people from switching away from fossil fuel vehicles to electric vehicles. First, understand...
by CorpFlunky
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on Mon Apr 01, 2024 at 10:19 AM PDT
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The eagerness with which the disciples of the Donald Trump cult embrace what they regard as his divine perfection is always disconcerting. But from time to time they manage to transcend even their typical levels of blind devotion. Click here to Tweet...
by News Corpse
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on Sat Mar 30, 2024 at 04:38 PM PDT
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This Is The Face That Will Destroy AI We’re taking a little detour here into the faults of AI - again. The above photo of me is a true, unfiltered, unadorned look at my face at 7:53 p.m. on March 24th, 2024. Now let’s look at what Microsoft’s AI...
by The Tell with Christine Axsmith
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on Thu Mar 28, 2024 at 06:45 PM PDT
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Well, she's out. Just a day after NBC and MSNBC hosts publicly blasted the company's hiring of Donald Trump-allied former Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel, the network's executives reversed course. NBCUniversal News Group Chairman...
by Hunter
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on Tue Mar 26, 2024 at 03:57 PM PDT
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[This is a shortened version of this article which was originally posted on My Substack. If you wish to read the full story you can Subscribe now for Free] Chaya Raichik is a Domestic Stochastic Terrorist. That’s not a question, as far as I’m concerned...
by Frank Vyan Walton
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on Wed Mar 27, 2024 at 12:08 PM PDT
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Former Republican National Committee Chair and rainbow- fentanyl-misinformation spreader Ronna McDaniel was recently hired to be a paid on-air contributor for ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Mon Mar 25, 2024 at 01:37 PM PDT
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There was a recent diary on Daily Kos, which in turn cited an article on Raw Story, about an associate of Rudy Giuliani who knowingly helped spread falsehoods about President Biden in 2020. That associate testified in court that Giuliani had given a...
by Perlinator
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on Fri Mar 22, 2024 at 08:51 PM PDT
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Wednesday morning’s House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing, titled “Influence Peddling: Examining Joe Biden’s Abuse of Public Office,” was yet another chance for Democratic ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Wed Mar 20, 2024 at 03:45 PM PDT
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The anti-anti-racist right is proceeding to build conspiracy theories around the new machine-learning services provided by big tech. This conspiracy theory seems to have more purchase among the ‘respectable’ conservatives than many others have (though...
by AChris
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on Tue Mar 12, 2024 at 07:43 PM PDT
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*The Republican party really does stand for freedom! Just be aware that they define freedom very differently than you and I do. When the ruling class gets more freedom, the rest of us get less freedom. And if we lose so much freedom that the USA...
by Perlinator
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on Sun Mar 10, 2024 at 08:44 PM PDT
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The process of corporate watering down and suffocation of media that does its job moderately well has been quite successful. Money and creeping one-sidedness. First get rid of the older “More expensive” people… ease out the more effective ones who ask...
by IreGyre
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on Sat Mar 09, 2024 at 07:50 PM PST
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My family was not religious, but we were always aware that we were Jews. Until I was 12, we were the only Jewish family in a Catholic neighborhood. Some families wouldn’t let their children play with us. My parents sent us to Hebrew School, to get in...
by AliceT4
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on Sat Mar 09, 2024 at 01:03 PM PST
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If the Republican party’s strategy of exploiting fake issues keeps working, they’ll keep using it. If you know of anyone who has been falling for the right’s current demagoguery, show them the cartoon above.
by Perlinator
5 comments
on Fri Mar 08, 2024 at 08:19 PM PST
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