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A daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know. Biden tells Democrats he's staying in the race: 'It's time to come together' It’s all about beating Donald Trump. The Supreme Court has gone...
by Daily Kos Staff
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on Mon Jul 08, 2024 at 01:08 PM PDT
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Regardless of whether Biden stays in the race or not, it’s time — long past time — to once again make the race about Trump and what he would do to this country if given the chance. We even have a blueprint for it — Project 2025, which, astonishingly,...
by Dan K
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on Mon Jul 08, 2024 at 10:22 AM PDT
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The Artist In 1905, a 21 year old Mexican named José Orozco lost his left hand manufacturing fireworks, after which he devoted himself full time to his love of drawing. As a young man, he participated in the political protests of the day, along with...
by CorpFlunky
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on Fri Jul 05, 2024 at 01:07 PM PDT
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When a journalist from The Young Turks asked MAGA supporters whether they would support a Trump dictatorship they said yes. (Watch the video) The doom and gloom scenarios regarding a potential anti-democratic Trump presidency can no longer be dismissed...
by Mark Taylor Canfield
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on Thu Jul 04, 2024 at 03:43 AM PDT
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The American Revolution: No taxation without representation. When you use martial law to trample our personal freedom, we will fight back and build the best democratic republic in world history. We will protect individual rights and constrain a ruler's...
by Jamisonesq
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on Wed Jul 03, 2024 at 01:21 PM PDT
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I’ve long said that any talk of “revolution” triggers the heck out of me. That’s the case whether it’s�Sen. Bernie Sanders and his supporters talking about it, or,� more recently , Rep. ...
by kos
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on Thu Jul 04, 2024 at 12:00 PM PDT
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Who would have imagined that a Paramount+ limited series about the plight of an aristocrat in post-revolution Russia would be such a hit? Based on Amor Towles’s 2016 novel of ...
by snielson
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on Mon May 20, 2024 at 01:00 PM PDT
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Our species has had a wild and crazy adolescence. These days we’re facing the consequences of our irresponsible behavior. We can now see that our bad habits will kill us if we don’t quit. It’s time to grow up. Can we stop eating too much meat, using...
by AliceT4
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on Sat Jan 06, 2024 at 03:16 PM PST
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About one year after the 9/11 attacks on the US, the leader of the Islamic terrorist organization of al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, published an open letter to America explaining why al Qaeda attacked the US on September 11, 2001. The British newspaper The...
by Deist
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on Sat Nov 18, 2023 at 01:14 PM PST
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The end of the Cold War and the collapse of "really existing" socialism in Eastern Europe were two critical events that have had an impact on cultural studies and political economy, among other things. What are the prospects for major structural...
by annieli
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on Sun Oct 22, 2023 at 03:00 PM PDT
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I was on my Substack today and someone reached out to me about my last post on ONE ANGRY BLACK CHICK with so much love and support I cried. It was then that I recognized that I hadn’t had one panic attack since I began writing here and elsewhere and to...
by sepiasiren
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on Wed Aug 30, 2023 at 02:53 PM PDT
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Let’s deal in oversimplifications for this argument. Imagine an extremist Christian man and an extremist Muslim man talking about their beliefs in a living room somewhere. Their discussion grows more and more heated, and, depending on the men’s...
by AliceT4
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on Wed Jul 26, 2023 at 11:54 AM PDT
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The Revolution will not be televised, but it seems it will be live streamed. Things are moving quickly. I recommend this You Tube personality, I believe he strives for truth and accuracy In a time and place where there is little of both. He feels Putin...
by JPH102
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on Sat Jun 24, 2023 at 07:43 AM PDT
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There are probably several colloquial sayings, somewhere along the line of telling someone they “think their shit doesn’t stink.” It’s essentially the same as telling someone they are “holier than thou,” or otherwise think they are better than everyone...
by imobannon
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on Thu Mar 02, 2023 at 09:54 PM PST
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Sunday, January 15, 2023 is the anniversary of the birth of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1929. Monday is the federal holiday recognizing his contributions to the struggle for racial equality and social justice in the United States. Dr. King...
by Alan Singer
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on Sun Jan 08, 2023 at 12:55 PM PST
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From The Guardian today: Iranian shopkeepers and lorry drivers staged a walkout in nearly 40 cities and towns on Monday after calls for a three-day nationwide general strike from protesters as the government declined to confirm a claim by a senior...
by Irontortoise
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on Mon Dec 05, 2022 at 07:30 PM PST
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Former US President Donald Trump has told the truth: I want to be America’s dictator. Using his Truth Social Internet platform, he claims “massive & widespread fraud & deception” in the 2020 election means “the termination of all rules, regulations,...
by Nevit
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on Sun Dec 04, 2022 at 06:03 AM PST
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The Who: Eminence Front Promo Nope… this isn’t a screed against that tune by The Who. To the contrary, it’s lyrics poetically describe a root cause of where we’re at today as a nation. One has to be old enough to have a functional picture of how this...
by Anakai
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on Sat Mar 25, 2023 at 08:48 PM PDT
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Does it seem to you that with each dawn’s early light, we are encouraged between morning coffee and leaving home to greet the new day with a full plate of lost faith in ourselves? Are talking heads of every variant of self-serving ill-gotten gain...
by The Reasonable Voice
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on Tue Sep 27, 2022 at 02:49 AM PDT
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Should I stay or should I go now? If I go, there will be trouble And if I stay it will be double The Clash, 1982 Always good for a laugh, the delusional naked Emperor may have topped our guffaws at his drink bleach suggestion to cure Covid-19...
by adoptauthor
33 comments
on Fri Sep 23, 2022 at 08:22 AM PDT
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- I’ve been reading the post-debate analyses that, after acknowledging that Harris not only ate Trump’s lunch (and dinner, and breakfast), still feel they have to take her to task for not doing it the way they, the Commentators of the Universe, thought...38 comments 133 Recs
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- A Rout I’ll try to post more editorial cartoons in the comments section or as updates to the mail diary. Many thanks for supporting this diary series. If you missed my recent diaries, here are the links. Navigating the Roe Boat to Victory — The Week in...55 comments 269 Recs
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