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I did not intend to post for another week or two, but this current top headline on the NBC News website floored me. "One of the great tragedies of American politics: Biden ends 5 decades in public life.” I just emailed them this response. “After just...
by Keith Frohreich
 24 comments
on Thu Jan 16, 2025 at 05:26 PM PST
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Like the carnival Geek, Stephen (don’t call me Steve) Miller is the one who puts his head into the lion’s mouth. The rubes will need entertainment as they’re led to the detention camps. As he works out his priorities, Mr. Miller appears to have learned...
by annieli
9 comments
on Thu Jan 16, 2025 at 05:51 PM PST
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For nearly a decade, Fox News has assumed the role of the Ministry of Propaganda for Donald Trump. Their program hosts and guests have been uniformly worshipful of the convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, and aspiring authoritarian, who has become the...
by News Corpse
12 comments
on Thu Jan 16, 2025 at 02:51 PM PST
with 33 Recommends
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Rep. Brittany Pettersen (D-CO) is doing the job Speaker Mike Johnson and the rest of the atavistic evangelicals celebrate as God’s work — having a baby. But they’ll be goddamned if they let her do the job her constituents elected her to do — represent...
by TheCriticalMind
87 comments
on Thu Jan 16, 2025 at 03:53 PM PST
with 156 Recommends
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I need a hug. 2025 is starting out horrible. First I had a bad fall and hurt my back. As a result the garbage has piled up and management is complaining. I'm trying to get help and get out what I can. Then someone hacked my debit card and that had to...
by michelewln
58 comments
on Thu Jan 16, 2025 at 02:18 PM PST
with 71 Recommends
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The Republican donor was mentioned in Lucy Walker's 2021 documentary Bring Your Own Brigade, which is about the Camp Fire that incinerated the town of Paradise in 2018. Valuable insights are provided by this film, as Walker interviewed numerous...
by Fuzzybrain
46 comments
on Thu Jan 16, 2025 at 12:43 PM PST
with 173 Recommends
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David Lynch, director of Mulholland Dr., Twin Peaks, Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Inland Empire, The Straight Story, Blue Velvet, Wild At Heart, Lost Highway, and the first adaptation of Dune has died. www.cbr.com/… From Comic Book Resource: Beloved...
by Matt Z
88 comments
on Thu Jan 16, 2025 at 10:50 AM PST
with 140 Recommends
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Hi guys! I can’t begin to tell you how much better Jackson is doing. Yay!!!! Part of it is the high-test painkillers, of course, but a huuuuuuge part of it is that he’s just in way less pain to begin with. I am so happy!!! I know I posted this already,...
by userexists
141 comments
on Thu Jan 16, 2025 at 10:52 AM PST
with 102 Recommends
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I have been in a very down mood lately as the return of the Orange Fascist Menace is now only days away. I have been very disappointed in the behavior of most national Democrats. Why they think they should honor the incoming fascist because of “respect...
by WaryLiberal
57 comments
on Thu Jan 16, 2025 at 09:47 AM PST
with 80 Recommends
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This will be a short diary. About 10 minutes ago, my doorbell rang. A man in a fedora and a handlebar mustache claimed he was a private investigator investigating a money laundering operation and wanted to ask me a couple of questions. Come to think of...
by billybam
133 comments
on Thu Jan 16, 2025 at 09:20 AM PST
with 320 Recommends
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In what even some Republicans (!) admit was an unusual effort at cooperation between two people who really don’t like each other, President Biden accepted help from his incoming successor to broker a cease-fire in Gaza — basically on the same terms the...
by Dan K
52 comments
on Thu Jan 16, 2025 at 09:32 AM PST
with 51 Recommends
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WELCOME TO THE EVENING SHADE A SANCTUARY OF SANITY AFTER A LONG HARD DAY OF FIGHTING FACISM YOU WILL FIND in the DIARIES a LOT of POLITICS AND EVEN MORE CRITTERS THE PERSON who MAKES the FIRST COMMENT WILL GET TWO CRITTERS EVERY PERSON WHO COMMENTS...
by Nanny Ogg
256 comments
on Thu Jan 16, 2025 at 04:30 PM PST
with 30 Recommends
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Earthwise is a regular feature on my local public radio station, WAMC. They recently had a story on restoring hedgerows in England. Hedgerows are lines of different types of bushes and small trees growing very close together typically placed between...
by xaxnar
84 comments
on Thu Jan 16, 2025 at 09:40 AM PST
with 139 Recommends
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Right wingers constantly push the myth that anything does not work correctly in USA is the result of companies and government being forced to hire women and minorities instead of competent, experience managers — who happen to be white males. Ian Welsh...
by NBBooks
24 comments
on Thu Jan 16, 2025 at 08:27 AM PST
with 54 Recommends
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In a few of my recent posts, I’ve written about how it was a particular blog post I wrote back in 2007 that led to my working for the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), where I’ve been for almost 18 years, fighting the ubiquitous rise of...
by ChrisRodda
16 comments
on Thu Jan 16, 2025 at 08:23 AM PST
with 36 Recommends
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This kind of opposition takes cojones. "I was brought up in the Soviet Union in the belief that when peaceful people are attacked by an evil and cruel aggressor, one should take up arms and go to fight. And if you cannot hold a weapon, help those who...
by quaoar
50 comments
on Thu Jan 16, 2025 at 01:42 PM PST
with 328 Recommends
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From Fortune
OptumRx ( UnitedHealth ), the group's pharmacy benefit manager, � along with its two main peers, Express Scripts and CVS Caremark Rx, have pocketed an extra $7.3 billion over cost ...
by shmuelman
147 comments
on Thu Jan 16, 2025 at 08:00 AM PST
with 301 Recommends
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ADAPTIVE UKRAINE: They Do Nothing Together Except on Assaults. Expect Ukraine To Take Full Advantage According to the captured North Koreans in the above caption photos they were made to understand that they were being sent to Russia … for TRAINING. Nobody told them that they were being sent to one of the hottest corners of the hottest war in the...
by Decimus
78 comments
on Wed Jan 15, 2025 at 11:43 PM PST
with 306 Recommends
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Russian forces conducted a large series of missile and drone strikes against Ukrainian energy infrastructure on the night of January 14 to 15. Transnistrian President Vadim Krasnoselsky announced on January 15 that Russia will soon provide Transnistria...
by annieli
40 comments
on Wed Jan 15, 2025 at 10:15 PM PST
with 155 Recommends
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Mike Turner (R-OH) removed from House Intel because Trump war policy needs everyone on the same page A ‘come to Moses’ moment for the House Speaker because the Group of Eight needs another rubber stamp for any future ‘special military operations’ by that Hegseth ‘warrior culture’. Also, grifting’s better with better (dis)information and...
by annieli
64 comments
on Wed Jan 15, 2025 at 07:39 PM PST
with 88 Recommends
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- Hi guys! I can’t begin to tell you how much better Jackson is doing. Yay!!!! Part of it is the high-test painkillers, of course, but a huuuuuuge part of it is that he’s just in way less pain to begin with. I am so happy!!! I know I posted this already,...141 comments 102 Recs
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- ADAPTIVE UKRAINE: They Do Nothing Together Except on Assaults. Expect Ukraine To Take Full AdvantageAccording to the captured North Koreans in the above caption photos they were made to understand that they were being sent to Russia … for TRAINING. Nobody told them that they were being sent to one of the hottest corners of the hottest war in the...78 comments 306 Recs
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