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In slightly weird news, Women Who Code is shutting down! I know, tech is having problems everywhere, and especially websites are having to figure out funding streams. But WWC is far from just a website, and it seems like they still have plenty of...
by elenacarlena
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on Sat Apr 20, 2024 at 05:04 PM PDT
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. As TomDispatch regular John Feffer suggests today, Donald Trump has a distinct affinity for the kinds of gang leaders we’ve been...
by TomDispatch
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on Thu Apr 18, 2024 at 07:39 AM 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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Your honors, sirs and madams, Messrs. Merchant, Engoron, McAfee, Kaplan, Honorable Judge Ms. Cannon: I am a juror in the Trump case before you. I am a witness, too. And a clerk. And the child of the judge, the spouse of the prosecuting attorney, a...
by kay dub
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on Wed Apr 10, 2024 at 10:21 AM PDT
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Late afternoon Monday last week, New York police officer Jonathan Diller was no doubt looking forward to going home to play with his little boy before bedtime. Then, while dealing with what seemed a routine matter, the 31-year old was shot and killed....
by Alan Austin
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on Tue Apr 02, 2024 at 03:46 AM PDT
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Donald Trump threatening violence against the country and even average citizens has become commonplace in America's political landscape. From “ bedlam ” to “ bloodbath ” ...
by Kerry Eleveld
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on Tue Apr 02, 2024 at 07:45 AM PDT
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Element removed OCIndependent OCIndependent’s Newsletter 14 hrs ago I wrote this to Joyce Vance. If you agree, amplify it by re-posting everywhere. Joyce, it's time to act. You and people like Barbara McQuaid can spearhead the action more effectively...
by O C Patriot
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on Sat Mar 30, 2024 at 12:29 PM PDT
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Hear ye, hear ye. The unity-seeking, competent nice guy who (thank God) beat the Obese Usurper (who STILL claims to have won “by landslide”) now looks to have begun to fight back. Regarding the Trump-shared video of a truck sporting a...
by Inspector Clueso
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on Sat Mar 30, 2024 at 11:48 AM PDT
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Let me begin by admitting that violence has never been completely absent from American politics. Just ask Huey Long. Or the four presidents (Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, Kennedy) who were assassinated, plus at least four who almost were (Jackson, FDR...
by Dan K
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on Fri Mar 29, 2024 at 08:52 PM PDT
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I read this on another blog and then investigated where it came from and it is more than disgusting...It is begging for secret service intervention. www.meidastouch.com/... Trump Posts Image of Joe Biden Kidnapped And Bound With Rope Trump signals...
by Vetwife
397 comments
on Fri Mar 29, 2024 at 02:50 PM PDT
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Donald Trump and his sons put a bullseye on the Hispanic daughter of New York Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan this week, identifying her by name and picture in repeated posts on his Nazi-infested social media site. Predictably, she’s now receiving...
by thomhartmann
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on Fri Mar 29, 2024 at 08:02 AM PDT
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During a ludicrous forced-birther symposium on Tuesday, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene breathlessly said, “We will repeal the FACE Act if we can get our opportunity,” referring to the 1994 law that ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Wed Mar 20, 2024 at 02:00 PM PDT
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Let’s start with a somewhat disturbing punishment: The parents of murderous school shooter Ethan Crumbley have been convicted of involuntary manslaughter, first the mother in February, now the father. The case was prosecuted by Oakland County...
by elenacarlena
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on Sat Mar 16, 2024 at 05:05 PM PDT
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Trigger Warning- terrible, horrible violence inflicted upon a young woman A young mother- Mahogany Jackson- was horribly tortured and murdered last week in Alabama by 8 people. I came across the story yesterday, and if it was reported by the national...
by RachelinNYC
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on Fri Mar 15, 2024 at 02:20 PM PDT
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WHAT IS MISOGYNY? Misogyny is hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against women. It is a form of sexism that is used to keep women at a lower social status than men, thus maintaining the societal roles of patriarchy. Misogyny has been widely...
by populationmediacenter
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on Tue Mar 12, 2024 at 06:56 AM PDT
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It’s only March, and I’m already feeling like this year is going to be one hell of a roller coaster ride over how I feel about the future of our democracy. (Actually, I’ve been feeling like this for years now, but this year it’s coming to a head.)...
by Dan K
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on Tue Mar 05, 2024 at 01:20 PM PST
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“Hitler killed five million [sic] Jews. It is the greatest crime of our time. But the Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher’s knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs.....It would have aroused the world and the...
by gmoke
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on Wed Feb 21, 2024 at 08:53 PM PST
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I wanted to share a gift link to an NYTimes column by David French that resonated. French writes eloquently about the bigger picture within all the Trumpian drama and nonsense: The rise of violent threats against people the MAGA cult doesn’t like. Even...
by this is only a test
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on Sun Feb 18, 2024 at 07:32 AM PST
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Mike Males Rampaging mobs looting stores, streets littered with drug-stuffed bodies, cars smashed, failed gun laws… all blamed on “Soros”-installed district attorneys, left-wing legislators, softheaded judges, and “progressive” local policies. It’s so...
by mmales
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on Tue Jan 23, 2024 at 02:04 AM PST
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Ha'aretz - 22 January 2024 by Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib “Opinion |I Grew Up in Gaza. This Is What I Hope for Its Future” The senseless killing of 30 of my own relatives in Gaza forces me to seek a fundamentally different future. Palestinians must...
by mettle fatigue
164 comments
on Tue Jan 23, 2024 at 02:30 PM PST
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