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Over the past year, Donald Trump has repeatedly taken credit for overturning Roe v. Wade, which upended access to abortion across the country. Now the Biden campaign is aiming to make Trump eat ...
by Kerry Eleveld
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on Tue Apr 02, 2024 at 03:45 PM PDT
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With the Republican Party in perpetual disarray, Rep. Nancy Mace appeared on CNN Wednesday evening to talk with host Jake Tapper and explain why she was going to vote for Rep. Jim Jordan for speaker of the House. “Well, I think Jim Jordan is not out of...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Thu Oct 12, 2023 at 01:00 PM PDT
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In the late 1950s, Johnny Carson hosted the television game show “Who do you trust?” The 2023 answer for far too many Americans appears to be, “Not institutions and certainly not my government!” That is alarming because, like it or not, our lives...
by acamins
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on Tue Oct 10, 2023 at 08:00 AM PDT
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On Wednesday, Rupert Murdoch’s propaganda porch cut from its studios to the White House Press Briefing Room. There, Peter Doocy obliviously shot off his own foot (which was in his mouth at the time). As if trying to drub the ever-effervescent Karine...
by Inspector Clueso
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on Fri Oct 06, 2023 at 01:20 PM PDT
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The next time you go shopping for food (and all the other things grocery stores in big chains carry) take a moment to think about what you are really paying for. There’s a must-read in The NY Times that explains why the food chain is being exploited by...
by xaxnar
148 comments
on Mon May 29, 2023 at 07:52 AM PDT
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Just a handful of days ago, I got into a discussion with someone here about the fact that just about everything we know about the world we learn from second- and third-hand sources. Therefore, we’re reliant on trust in these sources for nearly all of...
by novapsyche
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on Thu Apr 20, 2023 at 09:51 AM PDT
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When it comes to the really important things, Republican lawmakers are failing us, cannot be trusted I think “They can’t be trusted” is a great hook. It can be connected to large numbers of important failures. Like dealing with climate change. With gun violence. With homelessness. With abortion. With poverty. With children going hungry. With...
by boblite
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on Tue Mar 28, 2023 at 10:43 PM PDT
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One aspect accelerating the homelessness problem, not discussed enough, is corporations buying housing throughout America. The average homebuyer hasn’t a chance against the greed of a corporation outbidding every struggling American. Since the housing...
by Frankly Speaking
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on Sat Jan 28, 2023 at 10:31 AM PST
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The Christmas story, whether fable or fact, has warmed many, many hearts in the past two millennia. Many a sermon has been preached to illustrate one or more of the angles behind the basic story that the pastor wanted their flock to remember. Today’s...
by rmartin1241
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on Sat Dec 24, 2022 at 02:21 PM PST
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Democrats have spent $43M in advertising for right-wing Republicans in six states in the 2022 primaries. In West Michigan the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee spent half a million dollars on an ad boosting John Gibbs, an election denier,...
by b3LLsb33r
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on Sat Aug 06, 2022 at 08:33 AM PDT
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This is the fifth installment of the mental health series that I started at the beginning of the month. I am planning to take a pause at the end of the month and head a little into June, unless ...
by bilboteach
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on Sun May 15, 2022 at 06:00 AM PDT
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The previous entry in this series was titled “Do You Want to Build a Snowman?” —�How Trauma Works . I highly recommend reading that diary to put this one in perspective. This one will be ...
by bilboteach
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on Wed May 11, 2022 at 04:00 AM PDT
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Ok, since little the little guy is hanging around and is really starting to count this as home, and me as his Pootie daddy, I will tell his story. NOTE: The reason I call him “The Duke” is he is a stickler for Protocols in greeting, as I will show in...
by PadreMellyrn
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on Thu Mar 03, 2022 at 03:29 PM PST
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Leader Schumer: One can't be done without the other — Speaker Pelosi: That’s right — Leader Schumer: — we all agree to that. Leader Schumer: We can’t get the bipartisan bill done unless we're sure we're getting the budget reconciliation bill done. We...
by nmprogressive
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on Mon Dec 20, 2021 at 12:46 PM PST
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I asked a friend who is a Navy pediatrician recently for views on off-label usage of Comirnaty in order to vaccinate underage kids. This person replied that they’d love to do so with their own kids but couldn’t as Department of Defense only permits one...
by Fffflats
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on Sat Aug 28, 2021 at 01:15 PM PDT
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Thank you for the courage to pull our troops out of Afghanistan. Thank you for putting an end to 20 years of wishful thinking, lies, corruption, billions of dollars wasted, and blood and sacrifice that ultimately served no purpose of ours. The American...
by xaxnar
273 comments
on Mon Aug 16, 2021 at 06:09 AM PDT
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A Non-Political Message to the DKos Community: Leave Nothing Unsaid/Unknown With Your Partner - UPDT Yesterday, my wife of 18+ years died suddenly. She apparently suffered cardiac arrest while sleeping and I was in the front room. We had been together for nearly 20 years, had three children together (all of them on the Spectrum), and had weathered so...
by merchantbard
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on Sat Jul 24, 2021 at 02:58 PM PDT
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(First off — I’m very much a liberal dude far more for Bernie Sanders than Joe Biden — and I don’t consider myself at all wrong about that. But yeah — I’m writing about the importance of trust.) This is about our shared power. That is — the power...
by Ryan in FL
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on Sun Jan 24, 2021 at 09:59 AM PST
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One of the events that got me very worried is the one we all have been giving so much attention to. The Capitol riot was a frightening attempt to overthrow a democratic election. But the other is something that happened to me and my wife...
by Thutmose V
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on Thu Jan 14, 2021 at 06:06 PM PST
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Will VP Pence & Trump's Cabinet use 25th Am. to remove Trump? Never has there been a better case for using it, yet I doubt they will. There is no doubt that Donald is deeply disturbed, delusional & definitely dangerous! He's...
by HaterOfLies
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on Fri Jan 08, 2021 at 11:01 PM PST
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