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Just now saw this trenchant critique of the disgraceful behavior of what we laughingly call “the free press” or “fourth estate”. More like “the Trump megaphone”.
Really and truly, we need to be focusing critical attention on what the MSM is...
by boblite
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on Fri Nov 16, 2018 at 04:57 AM PST
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By Stephen F. Minkin
Traveling in the searing sun and suffering from blistering feet, sickness, dehydration and fatigue, the refugees coming from Honduras on the so-called Caravan are not the “real bad people” Trump describes but rather they are...
by smink
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on Tue Nov 13, 2018 at 09:07 AM PST
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Conservatives love to be scared. And Trump loves to scare them. Rational Americans look at a caravan of desperate, hungry, thirsty, dirty vagabonds and see a people yearning to be free. But Trump paints them as terrorists, gang-bangers and drug dealers...
by TheCriticalMind
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on Sat Nov 03, 2018 at 05:27 PM PDT
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Over its 130 years of existence, Jewish agency HIAS has helped millions of refugees and vulnerable people displaced by war and persecution, including Mazen Hasan. With HIAS’s help, the engineer arrived to the U.S. in 2014, after fleeing his native Iraq...
by Gabe Ortiz
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on Thu Nov 01, 2018 at 12:47 PM PDT
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“Yeah, Charlie, that Brown Caravan with all of those needy Immigrants called Refugees are headin’ toward our Borders, and we still do not have that gol’ durned Trumpian Wall built, ‘cause of all of those pesky Bleedin’ Heart Liberals, and the Land...
by Leah Sellers
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on Wed Oct 31, 2018 at 09:33 AM PDT
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U.S. Citizenship and the 14th Amendment
14th Amendment: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”
Trump: "It was always...
by Alan Singer
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on Tue Oct 30, 2018 at 11:44 AM PDT
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It was one year ago today that “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” profiled Wendy Rogers, who not only failed to get herself elected to the Arizona State Senate during the 2010 Tea Party Wave, but failed in the past three elections to get herself...
by republicinsanity
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on Tue Oct 30, 2018 at 04:35 AM PDT
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The U.S. military expects to deploy 5,000 troops to the southwest U.S. border in anticipation of the arrival of a group of migrants, most of whom plan to turn themselves over to authorities and seek asylum once they reach the U.S. Initial reports...
by Kerry Eleveld
114 comments
on Mon Oct 29, 2018 at 11:02 AM PDT
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Donald Trump has a habit of hearing something and then spewing out his gut reaction on Twitter, and here’s part of what spilled out Friday morning.
Let’s start with the obvious—this tweet is the despicable work of a sociopath casting a...
by Kerry Eleveld
119 comments
on Fri Oct 26, 2018 at 10:02 AM PDT
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Like a terrible hotel guest who trashes the room and leaves the clean up to the hotel domestics to clean up after they walk away, the United States trashed Central America for political and corporate reasons, creating civil war and instability, and...
by joe quigley
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on Thu Oct 25, 2018 at 05:04 PM PDT
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The Campbell Soup Company is facing some heat this week after one of its lobbyists, Kelly Johnston, joined the cadre of tinfoil-hatters (including the American president) currently claiming that the left is funding a large caravan of migrants...
by Jessica Sutherland
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on Wed Oct 24, 2018 at 10:26 AM PDT
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The Senate’s Medicare For All bill is co-sponsored by Cory Booker, Kirsten Gillibrand, Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and over a dozen others. The House version of the bill has 123 co-sponsors.
Seventy percent of Americans say they...
by subir
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on Wed Oct 24, 2018 at 08:31 AM PDT
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Now for any thoughtful person, of course this makes no sense, but I know people who aren’t stupid (though yes, they are “low information” people) who have been telling me that the “caravan” needs to be feared, and perhaps they should vote GOP because...
by NoRightFighting
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on Tue Oct 23, 2018 at 09:17 PM PDT
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"There's no proof of anything." That's the qualifier that should come with basically every statement Donald Trump ever makes, from his fervent claim that "there is no collusion" with Russia to the "millions and millions" of people who he said voted...
by Kerry Eleveld
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on Tue Oct 23, 2018 at 05:04 PM PDT
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The Buffalo, New York region has gone from welcoming nearly 2,000 refugees two years ago, to fewer than 450 this year following the Trump administration’s decimation of the refugee resettlement program, the AP has found, and will be...
by Gabe Ortiz
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on Tue Oct 23, 2018 at 01:08 PM PDT
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Sadly, the refugee caravan from Central American countries through Mexico creates terrible optics for Democrats, even though it has nothing to do with Democrats, and the refugees are simply looking for a better chance to survive. Nevertheless, the...
by midwestmoose
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on Mon Oct 22, 2018 at 12:50 PM PDT
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The Trump administration’s increased vetting of refugees has resulted in tens of thousands of people waiting in limbo, including Hadi Mohammed’s wife. “Mohammed, who worked as a security guard for the U.S. military in Baghdad, says he...
by Gabe Ortiz
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on Mon Oct 08, 2018 at 01:29 PM PDT
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This montage of images from the current “presidency” tells many stories, none of them pretty, none of them uplifting or inspirational We are the majority of Americans. We need to exercize our rights as citizens and demand a government of statesmen...
by daviddrichard1
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on Sat Oct 06, 2018 at 09:44 PM PDT
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By Karen Rubin, News & Photo Features
I didn’t see any United States representative at the high-level meeting on the Global Compact on Migration at last week’s United Nations meetings, and the seat for the US representative at the “High Level...
by NewsPhotosFeatures
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on Wed Oct 03, 2018 at 07:29 AM PDT
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You’d think that having your life threatened for working with the U.S. military would help your effort to reunite with your family—including a sick child—in the U.S., but that hasn’t been the case for Mohammad Hamid Ayoubi. He worked as an interpreter...
by Gabe Ortiz
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on Mon Oct 01, 2018 at 01:28 PM PDT
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