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Disclaimer For the record, I didn’t want to be the first person to travel to all 10 American Concentration Camps by electric vehicle. Some here call me an arrogant, self-aggrandizing elitist (although they have to use smaller words). I really don’t...
by CorpFlunky
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on Thu Mar 28, 2024 at 08:12 AM 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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Feel good story. In honor of Women’s History Month. Boys have been often regarded as being bad. My father’s best friend said his whole generation was thought unfit, mentally and physically, in 1939. Two years later they went to war and became the...
by Nine Shift
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on Fri Mar 01, 2024 at 10:08 AM PST
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sounded off about the current Republican attack on reproductive rights and the resulting Alabama Supreme Court ruling that has jeopardized IVF treatments during a ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Tue Feb 27, 2024 at 04:00 PM PST
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Consider it the bleakest of all-American miracles. The latest NBC News poll has Donald Trump’s lead over Joe Biden in a projected...
by TomDispatch
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on Tue Feb 13, 2024 at 07:21 AM PST
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That’s a rhetorical question. Of course we haven’t. And we won’t until we and enough of the public take control our commons, physical and digital, including system wide networks to individual contributions. We’ve trashed much of our physical commons,...
by greenandblue
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on Sun Feb 04, 2024 at 03:01 PM PST
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We knew this was coming. We knew that banning trans care for youth and children would never be enough for the FASCIST Republican Party. We knew that total eradication of the American transgender community was coming and now we have proof. From Erin in...
by CyberMindGrrl
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on Sat Jan 27, 2024 at 08:35 AM PST
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www.threads.net/… Truly terrific ad. It will make you laugh, cry and most of all think. Abbott is a criminal and a cruel sociopath. We need more powerful ads like this. Let’s get this circulating to our friends who are t engaged in this race yet. It is...
by Chilipalmer
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on Tue Jan 23, 2024 at 06:27 PM PST
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First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist Then they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Socialist Then they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out Because I...
by CyberMindGrrl
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on Fri Jan 05, 2024 at 10:00 AM PST
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The far-right U.S. Supreme Court’s originalist ideology threatens citizens' basic human rights The 1973 Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade ruled that the Constitution protects a woman’s right to an abortion on the grounds that the 14th Amendment’s Due...
by frankfaiola
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on Wed Jan 03, 2024 at 01:59 PM PST
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This decision by the Texas Supreme Court — mandating that a pregnant woman carry a dying fetus to term — encapsulates everything that is wrong with the anti choice movement. There is no compassion to be found anywhere in connection with this ruling. I...
by SignWithIntegrity
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on Tue Dec 12, 2023 at 02:07 PM PST
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West Virginia Democratic Executive Committee Passes 21st Century Economic Bill of Rights Resolution October 4, 2023 West Virginia Democratic Executive Committee Passes 21st Century Economic Bill of Rights Resolution For Immediate Release October 3,...
by TroyNMiller
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on Wed Oct 04, 2023 at 11:38 AM PDT
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Freedom and Liberty — America is supposed to be all about the two. But freedom for whom? Freedom from what. Liberty — or license? Freedom — or privilege? Where does someone’s freedom end and another’s begin? What is freedom, without freedom to...
by xaxnar
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on Sun Oct 08, 2023 at 09:33 AM PDT
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In an unsurprising turn of events for anyone who has been paying attention to the Republican Party’s relentless anti-LGBTQ+ campaign of the past year, the USA ranked 31st out of 136 nations, a “C” grade, well below Canada, Australia, Uruguay,...
by CyberMindGrrl
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on Mon Sep 25, 2023 at 01:18 PM PDT
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New polling of 20,000 American voters just dropped yesterday and it shows a HUGE majority of Americans absolutely do not trust politicians to make decisions about abortion and gender affirming care for transgender individuals. As Republicans across the...
by CyberMindGrrl
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on Tue Sep 19, 2023 at 11:37 AM PDT
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Happy birthday, Markos Moulitsas. May the years be better and better. I love Daily Kos. That's a quantitative fact. Most of my online consumption and contributions have come through Daily Kos. Not counting work, you host over 90% of my public writing....
by greenandblue
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on Sun Sep 10, 2023 at 03:00 PM PDT
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Self-proclaimed “originalists” tend to use their alleged doctrine as a fig leaf for enacting their prejudices. In addition to the subject of reproductive autonomy, that’s especially in evidence, it seems, with regard to the Second Amendment. The...
by Old Rotorhead
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on Thu Aug 31, 2023 at 11:29 AM PDT
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The 19th News Is reporting that Ohio voters have rejected Issue 1, by a 13 point margin, with 97% of the votes counted. Thank you to everyone who wrote, called, canvassed, or contributed, to bring about this win!
by strawbale
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on Tue Aug 08, 2023 at 08:50 PM PDT
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I just saw/heard an argument for TV cameras for the Trump's attempted coup case from Glenn Kirschner that I had not heard before. The� fourth charge �speaks to Trump's attempt to deny the exercise ...
by Dem
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on Fri Aug 04, 2023 at 03:03 PM PDT
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Sadly, the conservative Supreme Court has made it ok for “conservatives, so called Christian business owners to discriminate against the LGTB “A hair salon in Traverse City said it will no longer provide services to certain members of the LGBTQ...
by The Boss Gomez
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on Tue Jul 11, 2023 at 10:26 AM PDT
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