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Though I’ve personally always been more inclined to go with the “Every Day is Earth Day” modus operandi, I think it’s still worth celebrating and uplifting the “official” Earth Day. Especially in these times when there are so many things going on in...
by citisven
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on Mon Apr 22, 2024 at 04:14 PM PDT
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America has a long history of creating second-class citizens. In 1807, New Jersey removed the vote for women and free people of color. In the 1820s and 1830s, the Court decided that Native Americans no longer owned their land, once it had been...
by CorpFlunky
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on Mon Apr 15, 2024 at 10:01 AM PDT
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Republicans know most Americans aren’t fans of tax cuts for billionaires, more pollution, deregulation of polluting industries, high-priced drugs, privatizing Medicare, ending Social Security, criminalizing abortion and birth control, student debt,...
by thomhartmann
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on Mon Apr 15, 2024 at 08:02 AM PDT
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A sermon from ‘self appointed rabbi’ Arnstein on why you can’t vote for the GOP. I think their whole concept and crusades against trans gender and the people streaming to our borders for the problems we've created and the 'American way of life' we've...
by iarnstein
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on Fri Apr 12, 2024 at 02:13 PM PDT
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2024 is about as consequential an election year as they come, not that anyone on this site needs to be reminded of that. I don’t need to list all the reasons why every American who cares about freedom and democracy should be itching to get to the polls...
by citisven
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on Sun Apr 14, 2024 at 03:51 PM PDT
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So, according to this USA TODAY article, some young voters are “willing to see a trump win, if ‘Dems ‘learn-a-lesson’ from it : Young voters aren't warming up to Biden. They know it means Trump could win again. Don’t these young voters have “Aunties”...
by BlackGrannyRising
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on Thu Apr 11, 2024 at 05:49 AM PDT
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I’ve been working in Florida Politics in some capacity for about five years. My route was non-traditional, but now i’m 22, and I’ve worked as a vendor for over fifty campaigns, and been senior leadership on 15, ten of which have been victorious....
by JacksonofFL
100 comments
on Sat Mar 30, 2024 at 01:25 PM PDT
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Democratic states tend to transform into authoritarian autocratic dictatorships in stages Political scientists and other political experts have been sounding the alarm bells that Donald Trump is a danger to democracy in the United States. But what...
by frankfaiola
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on Sat Mar 30, 2024 at 02:16 AM PDT
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This is the type of coverage we need to see more of from CNN: Donald Trump-backed Senate Republican candidate Bernie Moreno, who won a tough primary race last week in Ohio, refused to say if he believes the 2020 presidential election was stolen from...
by poopdogcomedy
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on Sun Mar 24, 2024 at 10:14 AM PDT
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Well, Trump got his candidate in Bernie Moreno (R. OH) on Tuesday, beating out both State Senator Matt Dolan (R. OH) and Secretary of State Frank LaRose (R. OH) in the primary. Trump really didn’t want Dolan to win because Dolan refused to push The Big...
by poopdogcomedy
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on Thu Mar 21, 2024 at 11:38 AM PDT
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While the mainstream media is still largely tiptoeing around exactly what we can expect from a second Trump term, Robert Reich at Inequality Media has been turning out videos that talk about it in plain language and pull no punches. There seems to be...
by xaxnar
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on Thu Mar 21, 2024 at 06:59 AM PDT
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38 elected officials in Arizona have credibly participated in election denial activities. Together, election deniers in the state legislature alone represent 53.3% of the state’s constituents. Please read the article (linked above) — I won’t waste your...
by Adventurist
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on Sat Mar 16, 2024 at 10:03 AM PDT
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There has always been a certain lack of "give a shit." That's quite evident from things like conducting employee interviews, much less dealing with already hired lazy employees. So many people just squeak by. Forget giving "value-added" effort. And it...
by RMDF1949
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on Thu Mar 14, 2024 at 06:44 AM PDT
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U.S. Supreme Court rules Congress has the power to bar Trump from being on the ballot or create a process to do so, not state officials Former President Donald Trump achieved a decisive victory at the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this week, as the Court...
by frankfaiola
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on Sat Mar 09, 2024 at 08:38 PM PST
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From Axios: Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R), running for Senate in the state, would not commit Thursday to voting for federal IVF protections. Why it matters: Republicans have largely argued IVF protections must happen at the state level after the...
by poopdogcomedy
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on Thu Mar 07, 2024 at 07:35 PM PST
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I’m old, but I get it. I get the lack of enthusiasm by younger voters. I have three children in their 20s, and they can’t get excited for this election between two really old guys. Of course, most of us know the dire consequences of this election, but...
by imobannon
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on Tue Mar 05, 2024 at 08:13 PM PST
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Well before I got a time-out, some people were arguing with me saying that PDA has a spending cap. This is true, although it’s arbitrary and can be changed. There’s still around $4 billion of PDA funding still available — billions of dollars, not...
by Jim Carner
142 comments
on Sun Mar 03, 2024 at 04:03 PM PST
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I voted on Friday. I had received my ballot book in the mail, but the ballot never arrived. It was expected since Trump’s stooge Louie DeJoy took over the postal system. I regularly get mail from other addresses, sometimes from the same block, and...
by jtg
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on Mon Mar 04, 2024 at 07:05 AM PST
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It’s early voting in GA for just the President. It’s part of Super Tuesday and the rest of the GA primary is in April. Since it’s become apparent that Supremes have stuck their placeholder on Lady Justice and made her tip over, democracy is left up to...
by brother brown
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on Thu Feb 29, 2024 at 11:25 AM PST
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This is frickin’ scary!! And you can’t change the movie, so we’re all stuck with facing this! A long-time friend/colleague of mine said if our democracy falls, she’s leaving the country. I pointed out that the other so-called safe countries, like...
by WatchfulEye
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on Wed Feb 28, 2024 at 05:09 PM PST
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