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Ladies and gentlemen, Ron DeSantis has left the building . The real question is … does anyone care?
In terms of the polls, it certainly wouldn’t seem to make much difference. In New Hampshire,
by Mark Sumner
 91 comments
on Mon Jan 22, 2024 at 03:30 PM PST
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Back on October 14, I posted a diary where I expressed strong anti-war sentiments in response to the situation between Gaza and Israel. My anti-war stance is long-standing and I expressed it in those terms. Several people considered me well-meaning but...
by novapsyche
706 comments
on Wed Nov 08, 2023 at 12:04 PM PST
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The story of how America became involved in, fought, and emerged victorious in World War II has by now been solidified from generation to generation. This has been done in near-canonical fashion, focusing mostly on the strategic battlefield contests,...
by Dartagnan
55 comments
on Tue Oct 10, 2023 at 06:18 AM PDT
with 273 Recommends
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Throughout our nation's history, due to the inconvenient fact that we human beings and our political leaders are innately fragile, vulnerable, and suffer from occasional lapses in intelligence, we’ve collectively allowed national embarrassments to...
by DavyZJones
16 comments
on Sun Sep 17, 2023 at 08:44 AM PDT
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Some recent media coverage has drawn attention to the disappearance of public pools across the United States, and the deadly consequences of that disappearance. Right-wing media dude Erick Erickson ...
by Laura Clawson
76 comments
on Sun Aug 06, 2023 at 08:00 AM PDT
with 129 Recommends
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Wherein Mike Pence stands in support of the SCOTUS recent gutting of Affirmative Action because of Barack Obama and Colin Powell. You see, we’ve already made enough progress, we don’t need any more. ABC host Jonathan Karl grilled former Vice President...
by Frank Vyan Walton
57 comments
on Mon Jul 03, 2023 at 08:00 AM PDT
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If you haven't watched Katie Phang's television show on MSNBC, I highly recommend it. She is an extremely intelligent attorney and does a great job of getting to the heart of issues. Her guest was Dr. Wayne A I Frederick who is the president of Howard...
by Dem
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on Sat Jul 01, 2023 at 12:45 PM PDT
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Richard and Leah Rothstein’s new book is an organizer’s guide to integrating communities.
By� Kelly Candaele �for Capital & Main
When Richard Rothstein’s book �“
by Capital and Main
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on Tue Jun 06, 2023 at 08:20 AM PDT
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Here at Top Comments we strive to nourish community by rounding up some of the site's best, funniest, most mojo'd & most ...
by gizmo59
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on Thu Apr 13, 2023 at 07:00 PM PDT
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Florida's Stop W.O.K.E. Act leads textbook company to strip mentions of race out of Rosa Parks story Florida rejected 42 math textbooks last year because they supposedly “incorporate[d] prohibited topics or unsolicited strategies.” Math textbooks. Now imagine that same state review process being applied to social studies textbooks. It’s happening...
by Laura Clawson
155 comments
on Thu Mar 16, 2023 at 08:31 AM PDT
with 141 Recommends
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���� So the creator of the comic strip, Dilbert , has been removed from over 100 newspapers for his racist tirade.
���� On his podcast, Scott Adams said “White people should get the fuck away ...
by Zeke Springer
41 comments
on Wed Mar 01, 2023 at 05:00 AM PST
with 64 Recommends
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Scott Adams: White people need to "get the fuck away" from Black people, they're like "a hate group" “I say, segregation today... segregation tomorrow... segregation forever.” — Former Alabama governor George Wallace (1963)
by OK Dodo
587 comments
on Thu Feb 23, 2023 at 12:51 PM PST
with 455 Recommends
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In Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power (Basic Books, 2002), Jefferson Cowie focused on the history Barbour County, Alabama, to document the way a deeply self-serving concept of “freedom” was used by whites to justify racist...
by Alan Singer
19 comments
on Wed Feb 08, 2023 at 07:32 AM PST
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Republicans have no shortage of creativity when it comes to pushing former President Donald Trump’s name out into the general public, as much as we would like to forget the monstrosity of his four years in office. One recent example comes to us out of...
by Marissa Higgins
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on Fri Feb 03, 2023 at 10:05 AM PST
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(By Max Sawicky) It looks like I have an opponent for the Virginia House of Delegates, District 30. His name is Geary Higgins, and he has been in Loudoun County forever. It’s funny, when I first began checking out local politics and his name came up, I...
by LiveBaitEntrepreneur
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on Wed Feb 01, 2023 at 01:27 PM PST
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This weekend is the 50th anniversary of the once (and hopefully future) establishment of a woman’s right to control her own destiny — ie, the right to decide for herself if she should have an abortion. In recognition of that, I thought I would share...
by Dan K
20 comments
on Sun Jan 22, 2023 at 12:43 PM PST
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In 1974, Boston implemented a forced busing plan to address educational inequity. Nearly 50 years later, the issues remain.
by Kio Herrera
This article was originally published at Prism
Kim ...
by Prism Guest Writer
40 comments
on Fri Jan 20, 2023 at 08:15 AM PST
with 61 Recommends
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Advocates debate the best way to scale and implement reparations to recognize centuries of slavery, segregation, and redlining that continue to impact Black Americans today.
by Frances Nguyen
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by Prism Guest Writer
42 comments
on Fri Jan 06, 2023 at 08:15 AM PST
with 107 Recommends
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It is time for Democrats–voters and the politicians who represent them–to abandon charter schools as a strategy for education improvement or to advance equity. Charter schools, whether for- or non-profit, drain funds from public schools that serve all...
by acamins
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on Mon Oct 24, 2022 at 05:25 PM PDT
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When Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis lured migrants onto a plane in Texas with promises that they would find jobs and work papers in Boston, then dropped them in Martha’s Vineyard, he was echoing an earlier history that shows exactly who he is. Massachusetts...
by Laura Clawson
106 comments
on Thu Sep 15, 2022 at 11:45 AM PDT
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