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In Arizona, the state’s top court reinstated an 1864 Civil War era law that bans virtually all abortions. The Arizona Supreme Court has seven MAGA judges, all appointed by Republican governors. The 1864 law they reinstated was passed by a territorial...
by Alan Singer
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on Sun Apr 21, 2024 at 01:09 PM PDT
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Sexual choking is on a rapid rise. It kills. It is a threat to human brains, human minds and human dignity. We need to stop it in its tracks, whether as parents and grandparents, members of school boards, public citizens, or merely human beings. I did...
by CitizenJoe
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on Sun Apr 14, 2024 at 08:59 AM PDT
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The ripple effects of the Dobbs decision are impacting not only the right to an abortion but also abortion funding, IVF, and even recreational sex. Joining us on this week's episode of "The ...
by The Downballot
40 comments
on Thu Mar 14, 2024 at 02:17 PM PDT
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The connection between the Alabama determination that frozen embryos are “children,” and the “pro-life” assertion that abortion is “murder,” is obvious: it’s the religious belief that human life begins at conception. But in terms of the psychological,...
by AndySchmookler
46 comments
on Sun Mar 03, 2024 at 07:59 AM PST
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I reckon a lot of y’all have heard now about the MAGA idea concerning recreational sex. If you haven’t, it’s pretty simple. According to a Rolling Stone article, a 2023 video from the Heritage Foundation said that, “conservatives have to lead the way...
by nancyjones
368 comments
on Tue Feb 27, 2024 at 05:32 PM PST
with 490 Recommends
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I am about to reveal a secret. A secret that, many have predicted, could destroy Western Civilization if made available to the public. All unmarried men and boys LOOK AWAY NOW! It’s a hole surrounded by hair. That’s it. That’s the secret that has...
by SmallTownHick
9 comments
on Sun Feb 25, 2024 at 07:50 AM PST
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, thoroughly spanked on the public stage by Donald Trump (and Gov. Gavin Newsom), is back in his home state trying to clean up some of the mess he made. On Thursday, DeSantis and his team released an announcement that he will...
by Walter Einenkel
59 comments
on Tue Feb 20, 2024 at 10:58 AM PST
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On Wednesday, ABC News reported on texts House ethics probe investigators had discovered between Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida and an unnamed woman. Those texts purported to show the Florida congressman propositioning the woman to come on a three-day...
by Walter Einenkel
201 comments
on Fri Feb 16, 2024 at 10:02 AM PST
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Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo has been following up on the developing story out of Florida, where the head of the Florida state Republican Party, Christian Ziegler and his wife Bridget Ziegler, a founder of Moms for Liberty, were involved in a...
by xaxnar
171 comments
on Tue Dec 05, 2023 at 11:51 AM PST
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Florida GOP Chair Christian Ziegler is being investigated after a woman filed a complaint with the Sarasota Police Department alleging sexual battery, according to reports that surfaced Thursday. Ziegler is also the husband of Moms for Liberty...
by Walter Einenkel
160 comments
on Thu Nov 30, 2023 at 12:44 PM PST
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Thank blogger and teacher Mercedes Schneider for giving me this idea. In her blog deutsch29, Schneider castigates book-banning Moms for Liberty’s campaign to pull “pornographic material” out of school libraries. In Brevard County, Florida, the books...
by Alan Singer
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on Thu Nov 16, 2023 at 02:58 AM PST
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Have you ever wondered why people refer to TFG as Trump, but those same people tend to say Hillary when they speak of Hillary Rodham Clinton? Ever wonder why calling a man a douchbag is particularly insulting? Maybe calling a man a tool, jerk, dick or...
by JDWolverton
95 comments
on Sun Sep 17, 2023 at 01:29 PM PDT
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There is a common fact that unites all humans — regardless of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, politics, height, and hair color — we are only here because our parents had sex. (The sticklers will ask, what about IVF? But nobody likes a...
by TheCriticalMind
50 comments
on Wed Aug 23, 2023 at 04:55 PM PDT
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Warning: This is not a political diary (well, not much). I don’t much care for David Brooks as a rule, but for some reason the title of his NYT op-ed this morning intrigued me: To Be Happy, Marriage Matters More Than Career (ignore the dangling...
by Dan K
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on Fri Aug 18, 2023 at 03:32 PM PDT
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The recent Ohio special election that blew up a GOP attempt to head off voter initiatives lest voters enshrine the right to an abortion in the state constitution should have sent a message to Republicans. The GOP obsession with abortion is turning off...
by xaxnar
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on Tue Aug 15, 2023 at 05:14 PM PDT
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“Why, is not this better now than groaning for love? Now art thou sociable, now art thou Romeo, now art thou what thou art, by art as well as by nature. For this driveling love is like a great natural that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in...
by TheCriticalMind
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on Tue Aug 08, 2023 at 05:13 PM PDT
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You could call it a comedy of errors: A Tampa Bay school district made itself look ridiculous by deciding to censor Shakespeare’s works. But it’s actually just another scene in an unfolding tragedy as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis moves to dumb down and...
by Charles Jay
44 comments
on Wed Aug 09, 2023 at 12:00 PM PDT
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by � Molly Minta
Mississippi Today
Mississippi will have to pay more than $400,000 in attorneys’ fees after the attorney general’s office spent years defending a sodomy law that criminalizes ...
by Mississippi Today
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on Sun Jul 30, 2023 at 03:00 PM PDT
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Few if any will read this article — so I won’t go to any great length and loss of time to make one. But since you are here — click the links and get a DIY education. Worth your time. Time to learn about what the “ENSO” is…. might be in our collective...
by Dooey
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on Mon May 29, 2023 at 02:07 PM PDT
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You might have heard of the notorious author J.K. Rowling’s tweets concerning her worry about the intersections of so-called ‘feminism’ (trans-exclusionary feminism) and trans rights. You’ve probably heard people online, especially trans people and...
by ThatRadicalQuing
19 comments
on Tue May 23, 2023 at 07:51 PM PDT
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