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If you’ve been trying to cope with the firehose of shit flooding the zone, one of the ‘interesting things’ is the way the Mainstream Media tries to explain the truly bizarre and unhinged things coming out of the Oval Office, by taking them at face...
by xaxnar
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Just a quick update with news about the economy. It looks like the destruction and chaos of President FUBAR has already started to have an effect. Here is a story from Kitco News: Preliminary Consumer Sentiment drops to 67.8 in February, inflation...
by zman1527
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When Donald Trump was campaigning in 2024, he made it very clear that one of his motives was revenge for mostly imagined wrongs — from being prosecuted (and convicted) for crimes he really did commit to people being insufficiently appreciative of his...
by Dan K
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It’s been a kinda crummy week (for obvious reasons...). Some days I’m able to maintain my equanimity, others—not so much. I often tie my moods to songs, so here’s this week’s assortment. From the great Lady Day. I find this one particularly apt; it...
by SeriousB
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It’s not as disturbing as elimination of foreign aid, suspension of medical research, or the compromise of all of our banking details. But it is very disturbing as a measure of the war on American culture. Donald Trump has named himself the new...
by MOtoCO
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TIME Magazine has a cover for Feb. 24, 2025, which comes to the conclusion as most news media have. Elon Musk is acting like he's the President of the United States. They've got him him sitting behind the Resolute desk. There were actually three desks...
by Bill Addis
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Here are a few stories related to astronomy to take our minds off for a few moments from the sabotage and destruction of our government and institutions being caused by trump and his tech-bro handlers. The Bullseye Ring Galaxy From the venerable Hubble...
by AKALib
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Just was searching for something else and this came up. More secret CRAP from the Rump encampment that we didn’t hear much about! Original article here… From the seems-bad,-bob department: Thu, Jan 23rd 2025 01:42pm - Mike Masnick For all the hype and...
by LarryCurlyMoe
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February 2025 Pacific Northwest Our temps are above freezing in the daytime but still freezing at night, which means ponds and marshes have ice. Yesterday when we were out and about we passed by Otto’s marsh to check on the swans. Otto’s is one of the...
by OceanDiver
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I went to the protest in Olympia, Washington that was part of 50 in 50 (50501) on Wednesday 2/5/25. Fifty protests in Fifty states. The initial protest there was promoted online by One America, highlighting immigrant rights. Not a huge crowd but...
by Joe Democrat
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This DEI Conspiracy theory has just reached peak crazy as newly anointed Attorney General Pam Bondi has ordered the DOJ to begin criminal investigations of schools and corporations for their ...
by Frank Vyan Walton
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Here is another poem to help celebrate and learn about in this Month dedicated to Black (African American) History... George Washington Carver, Scientist Agriculture and Biochemistry 1. CROP ROTATION Rotate your crops, Carver advised black farmers in...
by Paul Frea
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The Republican government shutdown is rapidly approaching. The continuing resolution passed at the end of last year which kept the government open into this year expires on March 14. If the government doesn’t pass these unfinished fiscal year 2025...
by JunglelandDan
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It’s time for a mutiny! When TFG finally does something impeachable, if any of his insane actions in just the past 3 weeks wouldn’t be considered impeachable, the Rethugs, if they have any courage, decency, and love for the Constitution they pledged...
by ameriworks
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It’s just a mash-up of Project 2025 and Steve Bannon’s white-board. It’s not “Shock & Awe”. We characterize the contemporary Russian model for propaganda as “the firehose of falsehood” because of two of its distinctive features: high numbers of...
by annieli
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Welcome to DKos Asheville! EST 2/13/2011 This space appears each weekend with links to news and opinion from Asheville and Western North Carolina, and the floor is open for comment and discussion. Wishing all a good day from this still beautiful part...
by randallt
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Trump’s new NIH Director, Jay Bhattacharya, an economist who put together the insanely moronic and anti-scientific Great Barrington Declaration during the COVID-19 epidemic that threatened to increase the epidemic death toll multifold, has now issued...
by zootfloggin
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Medicaid is the health insurance most relied on by non-elderly adults and children in rural areas and small towns, more so than those living in metro areas. Cuts will decimate their health & finances.
by Egberto Willies
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Team DOGE are losers. If I am wrong ok. DOGE is still lame. LOL Team DOGE are still losers. ********************************* I am not going to post a picture of all the Shiba Inu images of the Doge team. Why you ask? Because sooooo lame taking another...
by TexMex
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Dearest Newdists, I hope you all are well. I’ve read that the flu season this year is the most intense it has been in 15 yrs. Here is AP article on it . I hope you all are vaccinated and taking ...
by Crimson Quillfeather
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