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After spending a short tenure as one of the front page writers here I moved over to Salon where, for the most part, I write exclusively. I also host a podcast which has become a type of informal Trump University—except that folks are not scammed out of...
by Chauncey DeVega
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on Tue Nov 13, 2018 at 10:40 AM PST
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On Friday, ABC News’ Karen Travers challenged Donald Trump over his inflammatory rhetoric, asking him, in the wake of the MAGAbombings and the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, if he thought he was encouraging politically motivated violence with his...
by Aldous J Pennyfarthing
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on Sun Nov 04, 2018 at 10:09 PM PST
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Delusional Trump claims "riots" in Pittsburgh on Tuesday when none were reported by anyone, anywhere Trump continues to claim that the media covered protests of his Pittsburgh visit as riots. Nobody covered the protests as riots.
The reality is that Trump deliberately tried to incite violence in Pittsburgh on Tuesday by forcing his presence on the...
by annieli
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on Sat Nov 03, 2018 at 06:15 PM PDT
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This won’t exactly be a profound essay. I just wanted to let people know about another way to help out the Tree of Life Synagogue, because I’m literally going to go do that myself as soon as I’m done here.
The Steelers announced yesterday that...
by skralyx
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on Sat Nov 03, 2018 at 04:52 PM PDT
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I saw the words above some months ago and laughed out loud. I saw the same conglomeration of words repeated on a sign carried by a protester when Donald Trump inserted his presence where he was not wanted a few days ago in Pittsburgh; this time I did...
by ReasonaBill
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on Fri Nov 02, 2018 at 01:22 PM PDT
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The horrible events in Pittsburgh occurred last Shabbat. This Shabbat, then, is the seventh day to follow (not exactly the end of shiva, but sort of); and it is also the fourth yarhtzeit (anniversary) of a similar massacre in a synagogue in Har Nof...
by A DC Wonk
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on Fri Nov 02, 2018 at 03:51 AM PDT
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As part of the ongoing project to catalog every awful thing the Trump Administration has done as a reference for future political arguments and whatever few posterity survives to see 2020, here’s everything awful the Trump Administration has done this...
by smallch
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on Thu Nov 01, 2018 at 03:59 PM PDT
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It was a deeply troubling Saturday morning here in Pittsburgh. As you all must know by now, a man who has been bombarded with lies from the right (that a Jewish “cabal” was paying for an “invasion” of brown people coming to America and storming our...
by sasidechick
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on Thu Nov 01, 2018 at 10:56 AM PDT
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After the shooting in the church in Charleston, South Carolina, I wanted to post an article about gun control, but I was too angry to write coherently until several days passed. Then when I was finally able to use my anger wisely, I wrote advocating...
by Stephen Dreyfus
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on Thu Nov 01, 2018 at 10:16 AM PDT
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Gab is an “alternative” social media site that promises unfettered “free speech,” and while it says that calls to violence are prohibited, the site has been filled with the kind of hate speech that seems to have fueled (and was posted by) suspected...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Thu Nov 01, 2018 at 09:03 AM PDT
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Donald Trump’s degrading of the position of the President of the United States is summed up in the words of a former Associate Supreme Court Justice. Potter Stewart said in response to the pornography case of Jacobellis v. Ohio, "I know it when I see...
by ReasonaBill
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on Wed Oct 31, 2018 at 11:46 AM PDT
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Follow me on Twitter at @MattBors and check out the comics magazine I’ve launched at The Nib.
by Matt Bors
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on Wed Oct 31, 2018 at 10:06 AM PDT
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Robert Bowers, the 46-year-old who allegedly murdered 11 Jewish worshippers (and injured six others) at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh apparently bought all of the guns he used in the massacre legally. It was the deadliest attack against Jews...
by Marissa Higgins
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on Wed Oct 31, 2018 at 10:24 AM PDT
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As if it weren’t insulting enough that Mike Pence brought in a Messianic rabbi to pray for the Pittsburgh victims, it turns out that Loren Jacobs is not even a rabbi — he’s a fraud.
From the Hill,
“Jacobs was stripped of his rabbinic...
by wasplover
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on Wed Oct 31, 2018 at 07:55 AM PDT
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Donald Trump made his way to Pittsburgh despite tens of thousands of Pittsburgh residents signing their name to a letter pleading with him not to come. Religious leaders, families of the victims of the Tree of Life mass shooting, all of them pleaded...
by Jen Hayden
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on Wed Oct 31, 2018 at 08:03 AM PDT
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The mayor of Pittsburgh told Donald Trump to wait. Local religious leaders asked Trump to wait. Politicians in both parties begged Trump to wait. Tens of thousands of local residents told Trump not to come at all until he was ready to completely disown...
by Mark Sumner
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on Wed Oct 31, 2018 at 06:37 AM PDT
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Julia Reinstein from Buzz Feed posted this for all of us that couldn’t be there.
Thanks, Julia.
by durrati
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on Wed Oct 31, 2018 at 04:41 AM PDT
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The Pittsburgh Penguins tonight honored the victims of this week’s terrorist attack, by taking a strong principled stand against hate, in their game against the NY Islanders.
A moment of silence was held before the game. A collection was held to...
by AKALib
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on Tue Oct 30, 2018 at 07:15 PM PDT
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May remembrance of the names and lives of those gone before us be a light to guide us onward.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPhJyISKST8
To all the moving stories of Americans’ response to the tragic events in Pittsburgh… and in...
by mettle fatigue
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on Mon Nov 05, 2018 at 04:30 PM PST
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Trump unwanted in Pittsburgh and former top Repub excoriates party, 'rightwing propaganda industry'; Also: News on fighting to vote (and counting it accurately) in TX and environment is on midterm ballots...
On today's BradCast, the darkness...
by TheBradBlog
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on Tue Oct 30, 2018 at 06:42 PM PDT
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