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FL Governor Ron DeSantis is celebrating a new law mandating teaching of the History of Communism in Florida K-12 public schools. It’s not clear why he has decided to center an obsolete/fringe political movement in Florida’s education*, but it is a...
by AChris
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on Sat Apr 20, 2024 at 04:33 AM PDT
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Hello Darkness, My Friend; J. Hendrix's Drawing — The Week in Editorial Cartoons, Part 1 (Update #5) I expect to post an additional 15-20 editorial cartoons in the comments section, or as updates to the diary — particularly if the cartoon was published today. Scroll down a bit for manual updates. Many thanks for supporting this diary series. I’ll try...
by JekyllnHyde
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on Mon Apr 08, 2024 at 03:09 PM PDT
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This diary was inspired by another Daily Kos diary by angrea: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/3/19/2230024/-Civil-Wars-Are-About-Politics-and-Morals-Whatever-Reporters-and-Directors-May-Wish The author of that article quoted a documentary...
by Perlinator
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on Wed Mar 20, 2024 at 02:24 PM PDT
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Although the Donald is known for hugging and humping our country’s flag, he is against everything the United States of America is really about. And if he somehow gets a second term, he’ll have a cabinet that would enable him to wield a lot more power...
by Perlinator
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on Tue Mar 12, 2024 at 07:00 PM PDT
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*The Republican party really does stand for freedom! Just be aware that they define freedom very differently than you and I do. When the ruling class gets more freedom, the rest of us get less freedom. And if we lose so much freedom that the USA...
by Perlinator
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on Sun Mar 10, 2024 at 08:44 PM PDT
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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
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on Thu Feb 29, 2024 at 10:51 AM PST
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If, God forbid, Donald Trump gets into the White House again, he will not be President; he’ll be Dictator! And anyone who believes that a Trump regime is the path towards freedom is living in Opposite Land. Here is my version of the “About Us” page of...
by Perlinator
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on Mon Jan 15, 2024 at 03:50 PM PST
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S2E93 of the Countdown podcast is up at iHeart Radio. S2E93 on Omny.FM (and links to all of his podcasts) ivoox also carries his podcast. YouTube: Preview: A-Block SPECIAL COMMENT: In his three-day orgy of insults, expanding his list of those who are...
by Proginoskes
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on Mon Dec 18, 2023 at 09:29 PM PST
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I received a WhatsApp message the other day asking me to sign a petition demanding the Obama Foundation cancel the scholarship of a student for posting the above commentary on a photo of students demonstrating with Israeli and IDF flags. The people...
by thewavethatiam
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on Thu Dec 14, 2023 at 09:28 PM PST
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Some people seeing this article may be thinking “I love Donald Trump and I’m all in favor of a MAGA dictatorship!” If that’s what you’re thinking, be careful what you wish for; you just might get it. You may think that you want a MAGA dictatorship NOW;...
by Perlinator
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on Mon Dec 11, 2023 at 04:22 PM PST
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A second Trump term is very unlikely. But it’s not impossible. From what I’ve gleaned, Trump would be even less restrained in a second term than in his first; and he would be accompanied by sycophants who will do whatever he says, constitutional or...
by Perlinator
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on Wed Nov 29, 2023 at 03:04 PM PST
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Against the Church Totalitarian ... suffering is the sole origin of consciousness. ... man prizes it and would not give it up for any satisfaction. Dostoevsky, Notes from the Underground That this is true we can hardly dispute Since disputing it would...
by DerguteAl
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on Wed Nov 15, 2023 at 03:58 AM PST
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This is not a drill.� This is not a hoax. This is not hyperbole.� This is a Four-Alarm fire for our Democracy and if Trump — or any Republican — wins in 2024, it will be literally game over for ...
by Frank Vyan Walton
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on Mon Oct 02, 2023 at 09:00 AM PDT
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Abraham Maslow, in “The Authoritarian Character Structure” (1943), said: The authoritarian person tends to have a strong drive for power, status, external prestige[.] In extreme cases it can be said that he has a psychological need for power which may...
by novapsyche
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on Thu Sep 07, 2023 at 08:24 AM PDT
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Michelle Goldberg at The NY Times has taken the time to put together the GOP case for impeaching President Biden. Here’s a link through the paywall: The Coming Biden Impeachment Farce* * Apparently this headline was too edgy for the Gray Lady — the...
by xaxnar
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on Fri Jul 28, 2023 at 08:19 AM PDT
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Yesterday, Jen Rubin, who writes for the Washington Post, served as host of one of Politicon’s podcasts. Politicon is the platform best known for boosting the signal of Mary L. Trump, Donald Trump’s niece who wrote a tell-all book about their...
by novapsyche
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on Thu Jul 20, 2023 at 05:07 PM PDT
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When I was a child, nature itself seemed to have banned me from reading, as I have a form of visual dyslexia. I see the world, as I learnt, differently. I was lucky in both the means of my parents and the knowledge of my teachers that I was diagnosed...
by LaFeminista
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on Sat Mar 11, 2023 at 01:31 PM PST
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“But it’s never been as bad as right now — where it’s not just political, it’s cultural. People had a different view of how to do education, but there was not this attack on people’s basic humanity. This is really new. Randi Weingarten Another MAGA...
by Pakalolo
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on Tue Nov 22, 2022 at 04:22 AM PST
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Things just get scarier and scarier. The fact that they feel comfortable enough to be saying THIS stuff in one of their major publications should be a red alert: Republicans are flat-out embracing fascism right in the open now. Having CPAC with Viktor...
by Front Toward Enemy
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on Mon Oct 24, 2022 at 08:51 AM PDT
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When studying politics in the Trump era, one must concede that Trump’s brain is often an enigma. Until just now, I have been completely baffled why he still clings to his campaign to relitigate the 2020 election — even though many otherwise normal...
by rmartin1241
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on Wed Sep 14, 2022 at 03:14 AM PDT
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