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Reposted from Dark Skies on the Horizon
Did you know that Trump is an old Softee? Well, it’s true. �Listen to what he said about all his former employees who he let resign when they realized he ...
by Frank Vyan Walton
on Thu May 02, 2024 at 09:08 AM PDT
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Letters from an American: April 28, 2024 Senior GOP are not 'challenging democracy' but are working to forcibly impose an autocratic Christian Theocracy across the US which will be violent and intolerant of opposition. Bill Barr, Trump's criminal...
by DrLou
on Mon Apr 29, 2024 at 06:38 PM PDT
with 36 Recommends
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GOP-controlled statehouses have been cranking out reams of preposterous and frightening library legislation. One proposed bill in Louisiana, � HB 777 , would make it a crime for librarians to use ...
by Jen Sorensen
on Wed Apr 17, 2024 at 04:55 AM PDT
with 453 Recommends
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Saints preserve us! For just $59.99 (plus tax and shipping), you can proudly shelve (perchance to read) your copy of the King Donald edition of the King James Holy Writ (including “Two Corinthians!”). At no extra cost, you’ll receive the effectively...
by Inspector Clueso
on Fri Mar 29, 2024 at 09:36 AM PDT
with 16 Recommends
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For people concerned about insurrectionist elements of the Republican Party in the Trump era, this story may help sort out some of the paradoxes. For starters, how can a religion be anti-religion? Here are a few excerpts from a story I recently...
by Frederick Clarkson
on Sat Mar 16, 2024 at 11:14 AM PDT
with 514 Recommends
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Last month, Politico published a story focusing on Russell Vought , the Office of Management and Budget director during the Trump administration and current president of the extreme-right Center for ...
by Hunter
on Tue Mar 12, 2024 at 06:30 AM PDT
with 253 Recommends
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NOTE: See the UPDATE below. While Senator Katie Britt has gotten a lot of flak for her performance (and it was a performance), something else was going on. People have commented on her presentation — they way she emoted, the way she sounded, ‘the woman...
by xaxnar
on Sun Mar 10, 2024 at 08:03 AM PDT
with 697 Recommends
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In 2016, the steely-haired, parental pelf-made, lyin’ scion whom Garry Trudeau calls “a clanking cowbell” won the GOP nod for POTUS. Decrying that fraught milestone (a watershed, as it turned out), in the preface to his “Doonesbury” collection YUGE!,...
by Inspector Clueso
on Mon Mar 04, 2024 at 12:26 PM PST
with 162 Recommends
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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
on Sun Mar 03, 2024 at 07:59 AM PST
with 148 Recommends
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As always: if � you find value in this work I do, please consider helping me keep it sustainable by joining my weekly newsletter, � Sparky’s List! � You can get it in your inbox or read it on ...
by Tom Tomorrow
on Mon Mar 04, 2024 at 05:00 AM PST
with 445 Recommends
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The Heritage Foundation’s roadmap on how they want to transform the federal government has been discussed before, but not taken as deeply as it might have been. Carlos Lozada has taken time to read it, and the language he quotes is chilling. The entire...
by xaxnar
on Thu Feb 29, 2024 at 10:51 AM PST
with 257 Recommends
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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
on Tue Feb 27, 2024 at 04:00 PM PST
with 369 Recommends
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By Karen Rubin, News-Photos-Features.com, editor@news-photos-features.com Considering that 90% of the military aid we send to Ukraine is actually spent here in the United States on US defense manufacturers and American workers, you have to wonder why...
by NewsPhotosFeatures
on Tue Feb 27, 2024 at 07:24 AM PST
with 26 Recommends
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In a case involving the accidental destruction of frozen embryos, the the Alabama Supreme Court disturbingly referred to the embryos as "extrauterine children" kept in a "cryogenic nursery." Needless to say, this is wreaking havoc on Alabama's IVF...
by Jen Sorensen
on Tue Feb 27, 2024 at 05:00 AM PST
with 387 Recommends
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Both the Jerusalem Post and The Telegraph are reporting the results of a confidential survey by the state-run Iranian Culture and Islamic Guidance Ministry of nearly 16,000 Iranians polled anonymously that were leaked to Iran International, a...
by Irontortoise
on Sun Feb 25, 2024 at 07:33 PM PST
with 21 Recommends
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Could the 2024 CPAC conference be even more toxic, paranoid, hateful and undermining of the actual values of our nation’s Founders? I don’t think so. An Alabama judge who is happy to appear on a QAnon nutcase’s show has abandoned any pretense of...
by HJCV
on Sun Feb 25, 2024 at 05:57 AM PST
with 20 Recommends
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Even (or especially) when sore loser/aspiring Leader for Life Donald Trump channels his inner Fuhrer (with, among other things, screams for “vengeance” on “vermin”), his cult follows as if in lock step. Or in jack boots. And now (as if inspired by CPAC...
by Inspector Clueso
on Fri Feb 23, 2024 at 09:14 AM PST
with 5 Recommends
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By now, you’ve no doubt heard of the decision by the Alabama Supreme Court that frozen embryos are children, deserve the rights of children, and if unused and discarded, can be the basis for a “wrongful death” ruling” “Unborn children are ‘children’...
by Hlinko
on Thu Feb 22, 2024 at 05:55 AM PST
with 158 Recommends
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Two New York Times columnists from opposite sides of the political spectrum have similar columns out today warning of the dangers of Trump. First up (because I saw him first) is David French, conservative: The Greatest Threat Posed by Trump [W]hat...
by Dan K
on Fri Jan 12, 2024 at 09:28 AM PST
with 17 Recommends
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House Speaker Mike Johnson, whose grand vision for America includes transforming every uterus in the country into a Pez dispenser, is convinced he’s the North American Moses who will lead his people to the Promised Land. What Promised Land does he...
by Aldous J Pennyfarthing
on Thu Dec 07, 2023 at 01:00 PM PST
with 491 Recommends
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