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Trump’s proposed tariffs will hurt everyone, but not equally. The tariffs will hurt some people more than others, and also some states more than others. Some will see the impact immediately, others will see the impact later. Wanna take a guess which...
by Alonso del Arte
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I often see posts saying Dem’s need to improve their messaging. But none get down to the nitty gritty, limiting themselves instead to generalities like, “We have to better understand who we’re talking to.” Or “We have to speak their language”. All of...
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I’ve occasionally written here and elsewhere about the Republican and the general right-wing effort to deny reality. “Elsewhere” includes a book I published about it, though there the focus was on how religion, Christianity in particular, operates by...
by Dan K
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The shooting of United Health CEO has sparked quite a response. On the one hand, it’s a cold-blooded killing which of course has no reasonable or rational justification or excuse. Murder is murder. But then, if that’s the case — what should be the...
by Frank Vyan Walton
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We’ve been inundated with reports on Project 2025, but what about Project Esther? Unveiled on October 7, 2024, the one-year anniversary of Hamas’ murderous rampage, the Heritage Foundation’s Project Esther is a far-right McCarthyist attack on...
by Bill Berkowitz
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Gun violence is a devastating public health crisis, claiming over 120 lives every single day in the United States. Behind each statistic is a story—a mother, father, child, or friend whose life was cut short by preventable violence. Yet, instead of...
by cindybanyai
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This political cartoon is by me and Becky Hawkins. A post and transcript is here, and I'll also post the transcript in comments. Support these cartoons!
by Barry Deutsch
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(Cross posted from my crappy little blog, which quotes the article more extensively. Note that there are no Succession references, because I have never seen the show) Rupert Murdoch has lost the court fight to cut 3 of his 4 children out of control of...
by msaroff
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Lindsay has driven me crazy for a while. He was a never Trumper, and there was his famous saying that he was done with Trump after January 6th. Then he changed his tune, just like so many other cowardly Republicans. When he later showed up with Trump...
by Bill Addis
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Yes, in October 2001, less than a month after the 9/11 attacks, the war in Afghanistan began. It would, after a fashion, prove to...
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I just read this tweet & needed to share it I’ll unfold this excellent post The “brave” Assad ran away to Putin. Where will Putin run away? This year's Human Rights Day is marked by heartbreaking images of Syrian prisons and torture chambers, which...
by eeff
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Happee Twosday, kids!
Pull up a chair, grab a cuppa and join us for some this….and a bit of that!
by The Marti
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The term “snowflake” is often used as a derogatory term to describe someone who is perceived as being overly sensitive, easily offended, or unable to handle criticism or opposing viewpoints. The first known use of the term goes back to Missouri in the...
by KirkLC
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The Electoral College is another compromise to slave holding states (2nd amendment being one other), to avoid a disadvantage to their non slave population in terms of their ability to elect the executive officers. If slaves were excluded from the...
by jjhaydeniii
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Perhaps surprisingly, email newsletters are the second most popular news source for the Democratic activists who have taken our survey so far. This category is near and dear to my heart because I have been sending email newsletters in one form or...
by bob fertik
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By the time Europeans had begun their invasion of North America, American Indians had been engaged in farming—in raising a variety of food crops—for thousands of years. For Indian people in the ...
by Ojibwa
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The Daily Bucket is a nature refuge. We amicably discuss animals, weather, climate, soil, plants, waters and note life’s patterns.
We invite you to note what you are seeing ...
by CaptBLI
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Choosing a title was not easy for me. The Middle east is a very complicated place. I believe It’s a good thing to eliminate these weapons, my concern is the innocent by stander, when you kill people their families turn against that country IMO, which...
by eeff
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Somehow, the “stink” of socialism makes everything bad. And yet. The armed forces seem pretty popular. The fire department still gets cakes baked for them at Christmas. Even potholes are decried as much as the “construction season” to fix them. How is...
by ultrageek
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