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Trumpists have not lived through a dictatorship. Some of us have. They blindly accept having Trump as a dictator. They haven’t experienced the gradual gnawing at rights, including human rights. Trumpists think it’s funny and entertaining to listen to...
by Chandrea
on Tue May 07, 2024 at 11:01 AM PDT
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It is not going well. As General Zaluzhnyi predicted a few months ago before his ouster as Ukraine’s Commander-in-Chief, the war in Ukraine is increasingly boiling down to who controls the electromagnetic space or innovates the fastest and best. Both...
by Decimus
on Tue May 07, 2024 at 11:27 AM PDT
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Covid. It’s about as good as it gets right now. Wastewater surveillance, weekly deaths, and hospitalizations are at or near pandemic lows. Yet Covid is still a thing to watch, and many of us still adjust our behaviors based on the weather forecast. So...
by Examined
on Tue May 07, 2024 at 09:11 AM PDT
with 172 Recommends
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(UPDATE) According to Snopes, DJT did go to his other kids’ graduations. Will Barron’s be any different? The judge _explicitly_ made that not be a day in court so the soon-to-be-felon 🤞 could attend. (Newsweek) Instead, DJT is scheduled to give...
by polecat
on Tue May 07, 2024 at 08:47 AM PDT
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Do elite Republicans and the CEOs who fund them hate working people? Or are they simply unable to control themselves, even when deep down inside they know they’re ruining America? In Ohio, there’s a growing statewide petition effort to get a...
by thomhartmann
on Tue May 07, 2024 at 08:10 AM PDT
with 117 Recommends
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Mark Sumner's Liveblog is here. Good morning, trial junkies! I did find yesterday fascinating but I used to practice regulatory environmental law which can be boring to some. As before, I’ll guide to Mark Sumner’s diary if he chooses to write one. He’s...
by gchaucer2
on Tue May 07, 2024 at 06:25 AM PDT
with 136 Recommends
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People seem to have noticed that President Biden is gaining on TFG in the polls. But this is what we have been finding at the doors, in every state (which just so happen to be Swing States) where Hope Springs from Field PAC [website] volunteers are...
by snowbored
on Tue May 07, 2024 at 09:05 AM PDT
with 57 Recommends
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Paul Krugman has outdone himself (a high bar, too!). His column this morning includes a perfect description of what the far far right has become. Florida governor DeSantis just signed a "save our beef" law: Florida has banned making and selling meat...
by Dan K
on Tue May 07, 2024 at 12:31 AM PDT
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Finally, at least one Republican politician understands what this election is all about. Former Georgia Lt Governor Geoff Duncan (who had an eyewitness view of tfg’s attempt to overturn the results in that infamous phone call demanding an additional...
by Irontortoise
on Mon May 06, 2024 at 05:26 PM PDT
with 158 Recommends
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Eleven days ago in Gaza, a heatwave topping 100 degrees Fahrenheit enveloped the Gaza strip, bringing with it even more misery, which piled on to starvation, no potable water, the smells of decomposing bodies buried under tons of rubble with raw sewage...
by Pakalolo
on Tue May 07, 2024 at 01:45 AM PDT
with 59 Recommends
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Here’s the headline of the current lead story on the Washington Post website: “Social Security and Medicare Finances Look Grim as Overall Debt Piles Up” Here’s the lead paragraph: Social Security and Medicare will run out of money in just over a...
by wruckusgroink
on Mon May 06, 2024 at 03:15 PM PDT
with 227 Recommends
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Two key witnesses today walked through the documents central to the prosecution’s claims of business fraud in today testimony. Neither witness was a progressive, or Mike Cohen or any liberal of Biden ilk. Nope, they were both financial officers from...
by KeithDB
on Mon May 06, 2024 at 01:42 PM PDT
with 138 Recommends
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From Newsweek : Two images of classified documents were found on a phone owned by Donald Trump 's valet, federal prosecutors have claimed in court. Prosecutors will call a phone expert to show ...
by ericlewis0
on Mon May 06, 2024 at 04:03 PM PDT
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More than paperwork, the prosecution continues as we discover how the conspiracy was actually written down by Trump financial officers. Deborah Tarasoff, who testified in Donald J. Trump’s criminal trial on Monday, is an accounting department employee...
by annieli
on Mon May 06, 2024 at 10:05 PM PDT
with 155 Recommends
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Reposted from Dark Skies on the Horizon De Niro: He’s a sick person, who has been allowed into our system. I’m tired of calling him names. He just can’t be anywhere near the office of the Presidency. Q: You’ve played a lot of bad guys, would you ever...
by Frank Vyan Walton
on Mon May 06, 2024 at 11:18 AM PDT
with 136 Recommends
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When Hamas attacked civilians in southern Israel on October 7, the world was aghast, and sympathies were with Israel, the victims, and their families. And it was clear that something would have to be done about Hamas. But thanks to the actions of the...
by K S LaVida
on Mon May 06, 2024 at 12:09 PM PDT
with 217 Recommends
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I started work on this 2021 cartoon on November 28, 2006. (Or at least, that's when my computer tells me this file was created). I had the idea and wrote a bunch of panels, but I wasn't happy with them, so I left it in my folder of unfinished cartoons....
by Barry Deutsch
on Mon May 06, 2024 at 10:44 AM PDT
with 344 Recommends
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Plane gone. Crew dead. What a shame. This Russian fast-attack ship was destroyed quickly. This is the type of boat that was destroyed. Ukraine appears to have deployed a naval drone that can fire air-to-air missiles, making it a threat to low-flying...
by quaoar
on Mon May 06, 2024 at 02:14 PM PDT
with 386 Recommends
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Here’s the afternoon liveblog.� I’ve scheduled for 2:15.� I may be a tad late.� For those of you following, updates are in the comments section.� I’m not as talented as Mark Sumner to use the ...
by gchaucer2
on Mon May 06, 2024 at 11:10 AM PDT
with 145 Recommends
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I first saw this news tweeted out by Palestinians. But axios reporter Barak Ravid and Reuters is also saying this. Reuters is also reporting the story. CAIRO, May 6 (Reuters) - Hamas said on Monday that it had accepted a Gaza ceasefire proposal from...
by AVeng
on Mon May 06, 2024 at 10:02 AM PDT
with 180 Recommends
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