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Trump said “bloodbath” as a follow-up consequence to failing to elect him, after speaking about the electric vehicle industry. His method and manner of stating it and repeating the word were meant to attach it to the “failure to elect” portion as both...
by GreyHawk
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on Fri Mar 22, 2024 at 07:31 PM PDT
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LrqNzRn4DE Greetings and welcome to A Song of Zion, our weekly check-in and virtual minyan for Jews on Daily Kos. This is an open thread, and we treat it as a safe space for Jewish folks here. Non-Jews are welcome...
by mettle fatigue
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on Thu Mar 21, 2024 at 04:36 PM PDT
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After a year of contentious budgetary sparring and dyslexic priorities, Congress recently passed funding for the Pentagon to the tune of over 800 Billion dollars just a few days before this year’s Christmas season went into full swing. Given the...
by Anakai
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on Fri Dec 22, 2023 at 05:56 PM PST
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Joe Schilling was known by many names in his home of West Maui. He was known by locals as Maui Joe, and Uncle Joe. He had many hobbies, and accumulated a large collection of bullet shells that he searched for on the beaches and in the forests. And...
by Tevye
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on Sat Aug 19, 2023 at 03:02 PM PDT
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Buddhism says to give up attachments of all kinds. A multitude of other religions have a piece of this elephant: give up something you value, often by killing it. It could be cattle, or birds, or ...
by Mokurai
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on Sun Jul 30, 2023 at 09:02 AM PDT
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High School Student Wrestler Who Stopped and Subdued Kidnapper Has Died. Remembering A Gentle Giant. On March 25th, 2020 at around 9:00am, 16-year-old Canaan Bower of Las Cruces, New Mexico was pumping gas at a Circle K, when he heard the screams and saw much of it go down across the street at a competing gas station, Chucky’s Food Mart on Thorpe...
by Tevye
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on Sat Jan 14, 2023 at 03:54 PM PST
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On May 5th, in Boynton Beach, Florida, at the busy intersection of Congress Avenue and Woolbright Road, in the middle of rush hour, 63 year-old Laurie Rabyor felt it coming on, and she tried to pull over. But it was too late. Laurie had been fasting...
by Tevye
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on Sun May 22, 2022 at 03:08 PM PDT
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In 1969, Charles Manson convinced his followers to murder Sharon Tate and six others. Manson claimed to have heard messages in the Beatles’ “Helter Skelter” (schizophrenic pareidolia?), and he had his followers butcher the fair, young, terribly...
by novapsyche
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on Wed Mar 16, 2022 at 10:15 AM PDT
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While Americans are always asked to sacrifice during crises, corporations parasitically continue to exploit us all. The current inflation proves many corporations are parasites Watch Politics Done Right T.V. here. Our Ukrainian brothers and sisters,...
by Egberto Willies
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on Sun Mar 06, 2022 at 12:54 PM PST
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I’m an atheist, I don’t believe in God. However I do acknowledge that other people do. And with that belief comes worship and ritual behaviors. There is something in America that is worshiped as much, maybe more, than any God though and that is...
by ontheleftcoast
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on Mon Jan 10, 2022 at 06:30 AM PST
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My Application To Host Afghan Family Has Been Accepted! Bittersweet, Because Of The Son Left Behind. I received word on Thursday from my attorney, who I served with overseas when neither of us had a wrinkle on our faces, that my request to host an Afghan family was finally accepted. A specific Afghan family. It took longer than expected because of the...
by Tevye
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on Sat Feb 19, 2022 at 03:10 PM PST
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Dead Man On The Ground. Bullets Flying. Others Running For Safety. He Ran Straight Towards A Madman. When 26-year-old ( his birthday was 4 days previous ) Anthony Huber woke up next to his girlfriend Hannah Gittings that morning of August 25th, 2020, how would he have known that it would be his last day on earth? It wasn’t on his mind. The breakfast...
by Tevye
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on Sun Nov 21, 2021 at 03:08 PM PST
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When Confronted By Evil, They Fought Back. Remembering The Brave Brave Passengers/Crew Of Flight 93. The 33 passengers and 7 crew members of United Airlines Flight 93 were already aboard the Boeing 757 for the morning trip from Newark International to San Francisco International when the terror began….when United Airline Flights 11, 77 and 175 were...
by Tevye
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on Sat Sep 11, 2021 at 02:37 PM PDT
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Having recently “returned” from a virtual pilgrimage to Italy, where images of sacrifice surrounded me, I find myself contemplating sacrifice and suffering. In the midst of co-leading a pilgrimage, I saw everywhere biblical images of sacrifice (Abraham...
by mbenefiel
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on Thu May 27, 2021 at 09:45 AM PDT
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I have a feeling Election Day and the transition of power will go much smoother than most of us expect. My intuition is decent. In 2016 I woke up in a cold sweat 30 DAYS before the election when I ...
by ThinkOutsideTheBox
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on Wed Oct 28, 2020 at 02:07 PM PDT
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When asked to in any way justify his lack of action, when he’s literally in charge of the Covid-19 task force, as he attends super-spreader events where many of his own co-workers are infected… he over and over invokes the grand sacrifices of the...
by Ryan in FL
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on Wed Oct 07, 2020 at 06:25 PM PDT
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The most revealing aspect of Goldberg’s Atlantic Monthly article (and subsequent interviews) on the Orange One’s disrespect for fallen, injured, or captured military is Goldberg’s statement today on Morning Joke that “Trump seems genuinely...
by KYLeveller
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on Fri Sep 04, 2020 at 02:33 PM PDT
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Let me be clear upfront: I do not have a single child. I do know many and all attend public schools. I also know teachers and staff. Many adults, be they parents, staff, or teachers, are afraid for themselves and for the children given Trump’s attempt...
by Sassine
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on Tue Jul 14, 2020 at 03:40 PM PDT
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And now there is a demand to naturalize them and give them full citizenship. On April 15th, Dombaev Dzhambulat, Ouloubaev Asla and Ahmedov Muhsinjon, three friends originally from the Russian Republic of Chechnya, were at a park in the French area of...
by Tevye
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on Fri May 22, 2020 at 04:03 PM PDT
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Upon the United States’ entrance into World War II, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt didn’t sugar coat the picture to boost the stock market. He didn’t promise a quick and easy victory, or that, like a miracle, conflict would simply end. He didn’t...
by GimpyOlNorman
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on Sat May 02, 2020 at 12:30 PM PDT
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- Barron Trump won't be an at-large convention delegate for his father after all. "While Barron is honored to have been chosen as a delegate by the Florida Republican Party, he regretfully declines to participate due to prior commitments," said a...48 comments 58 Recs
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- Burn, baby, burn. Ukraine hit this same refinery two months ago. Oh look! Lots of new job opportunities in Russia. I wonder if they have a good health plan. It has been anticipated for a while now that Russia would attempt an offensive near Kharkiv....44 comments 247 Recs
- I thought it was a joke and then I read Yahoo News. Let us not forget Trump had and may still have classified information but ah ha, then I thought, how many copies did he make of the classified docs? I mean the article said his mobile human printer...80 comments 215 Recs
- Early this morning a Russian oil refinery in Kaluga Oblast had a full 30 minutes warning that a Ukrainian drone was headed their way. The drone arrived right on time to hit the facility …. unmolested and with devastating effect. What air defense doing?...71 comments 205 Recs
- Let’s address the elephant in the room. Obviously, all the RFK Jr. brainworm jokes were long gone hours before my Friday night posting time. I don’t have some awesome, worth-the-wait, totally original, unheard RFK Jr. brainworm joke for you. Apologies....10 comments 42 Recs
- Late Night Snark: Let’s Get Boring Edition "I don’t know what's worse: that RFK Jr. had a worm that was eating his brain, or that his brain is so poisoned that it killed the worm. … And as if this story couldn’t get any weirder, it turns out that...116 comments 116 Recs
- A series of witnesses testified today as the prosecution is beginning to wind up its case against Trump. Perhaps most damaging was a Trump tweet which proved an opening statement claim made to the jury by his attorney to be a lie. Here are today’s...11 comments 84 Recs
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- Stormy Daniels is standing strong after spending more than seven hours over two days testifying about what happened one night in a Lake Tahoe hotel room with Donald Trump. And Trump attorney Susan Necheles’ attempt at “slut-shaming” the adult film star...74 comments 191 Recs
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