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The 2024 Presidential Greatness Project Expert Survey has been released. Compiled from input by 154 historians and presidential experts, the results are making conservatives everywhere feel not so great. The biggest issue for Republicans is that Donald...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Mon Feb 19, 2024 at 02:17 PM PST
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The Earl Babbie Research Center at Chapman University, in Orange, Calif., has been running an annual survey of Americans' top worries since 2015. They recently released a summary of their 2023 results. Wave 9 was conducted in the spring of 2023 by...
by Clio2
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on Fri Feb 16, 2024 at 12:29 PM PST
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First of all, let me admit my own prejudice and say that I am or have been almost totally against government funds being taken from the Public School system and routed to private schools and home schooling. My attitude has been fairly entrenched due to...
by jwgarman
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on Thu Jan 25, 2024 at 09:26 PM PST
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This report of a survey (taken the day before the Oct. 7 assault by Hamas) shows that Hamas has had few supporters in Gaza. If there was doubt about the sentiment among Palestinians in Gaza regarding Hamas’s rule, a survey completed in Gaza the day...
by ybruti
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on Mon Nov 13, 2023 at 10:05 AM PST
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The International community's attitudes toward the United States have “certainly rebounded since President Biden was elected,” Richard Wike, director of global attitudes at the Pew Research Center, said on Tuesday, August 8, 2023, at a forum held by...
by frankfaiola
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on Sun Oct 22, 2023 at 09:05 PM PDT
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I am SO HONORED! The Speaker of the House wants ME! Little old ME! to “serve on [his] Speaker’s Task Force.” He says that even though he is “the highest ranking Republican in Washington, D.C.” he understands “that the most important Republicans are...
by pixxer
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on Tue Oct 17, 2023 at 08:56 PM PDT
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co-authored by Kylie Holzman, UVA ‘26 This article first appeared on Sabato's Crystal Ball, UVA Center for Politics. KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE — Like so many other female politicians, Nikki Haley faces a “woman problem” and must combat sexist...
by Carah Ong Whaley
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on Fri Sep 29, 2023 at 07:46 AM PDT
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It’s time to take a few minutes for ourselves and families and friends. This post is helping me break from stress. Petting the dog, playing with the cats—what’s your way of putting all the bad stuff aside?
by Coloradowoodsman
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on Wed Aug 09, 2023 at 09:48 AM PDT
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This morning I wanted to thank Jack Smith so I made a sign and my dog and I went downtown in Carson City in front of the Legislative Building. I was there about an hour and a half on Carson City’s main street and during that time a few people walked by...
by Footh
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on Sun Jun 11, 2023 at 01:47 PM PDT
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Quick survey about what crafts our members an followers pursue. See the poll ...
by vgranucci
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on Sun May 21, 2023 at 05:00 PM PDT
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Via Solutionary Rail: In Washington State, the climate imperative and transportation justice demand that policymakers favor trains - not more lanes or planes! Several opportunities to learn more / get your voice heard about passenger rail service along...
by xaxnar
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on Tue Feb 07, 2023 at 11:35 AM PST
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President Joe Biden promised to forgive $10,000 in federal student loan debt per borrower while on the campaign trail. Now, Biden was far from the most progressive or excited about student debt forgiveness—Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, for...
by Marissa Higgins
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on Mon Feb 14, 2022 at 12:48 PM PST
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At this point in the novel coronavirus pandemic, it’s abundantly clear—if it somehow wasn’t pre-pandemic—that educators are overworked, underpaid, and asked to balance too many needs, desires, and priorities all while trying to teach young people....
by Marissa Higgins
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on Tue Feb 01, 2022 at 01:54 PM PST
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Study finds 1 in 5 nurses want to quit their careers as pandemic takes extreme toll on mental health While health care workers have been providing care for thousands across the country, little to no care is available for them—especially mental health care. In the past two years, hospitals nationwide struggled with a rise in hospitalizations due to the...
by Aysha Qamar
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on Fri Dec 17, 2021 at 10:52 AM PST
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In an effort to be a better neighbor and citizen, I have been pushing myself to actually read some public service announcements that are emailed to me. The one from my city’s public library included a request for Bellinghamsters to complete a survey...
by dragonwerx
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on Fri Dec 03, 2021 at 07:59 PM PST
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Republicans have taken a running leap into transphobia when it comes to keeping trans youth out of sports. Across the nation, state lawmakers have introduced bill after bill that aims to prevent trans youth—more often than not, trans girls—from...
by Marissa Higgins
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on Wed Oct 06, 2021 at 02:13 PM PDT
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While discrimination against communities of color can be traced back to the beginning of the United States, a recent rise in discrimination and hate is considered an outcome of the Trump administration’s xenophobic rhetoric. From the first day of...
by Aysha Qamar
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on Mon Oct 04, 2021 at 01:09 PM PDT
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After 9/11, Muslim Americans and people of color nationwide reported more incidents of hate than before. The novel coronavirus has further contributed to this rise of hate crimes against communities of color, with data compiled by the FBI finding...
by Aysha Qamar
19 comments
on Fri Oct 01, 2021 at 01:27 PM PDT
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Between the ongoing global pandemic, the unrelenting far-right movement here in the United States, and the lingering issues caused by Donald Trump’s time in office, it can be all too tempting to dismiss climate-related concerns as matters to be figured...
by Marissa Higgins
52 comments
on Tue Sep 14, 2021 at 09:13 AM PDT
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As the world still continues to combat the novel coronavirus, parts of life are beginning to reopen (at least temporarily), bringing many people out of their homes for the first time in a while. ...
by Marissa Higgins
179 comments
on Sun Sep 05, 2021 at 05:30 PM PDT
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