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a little something huge that sweetened my coffee and stirred my spirit today. thewhitepages.net/...
by seawitch
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on Tue Mar 18, 2025 at 09:26 AM PDT
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Another repeated example of Republican Doublespeak is the phrase “activist judge”. Doublespeak is any language “constructed to disguise or distort its actual meaning.” The activist judges phrase is meant to convey the criticism that judges are going...
by pouncecafe
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on Sun Mar 16, 2025 at 09:38 AM PDT
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Recent Columbia University graduate and Palestinian immigrant Mahmoud Khalil was recently detained by President Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security following his work leading the school��
by Walter Einenkel
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on Tue Mar 11, 2025 at 07:00 AM PDT
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Well, Gnusies, we’ve had a tough few weeks, and last week felt especially abusive. I wasn’t sure on Friday that I’d find enough good news to fill today’s GNR. Silly me! As usual, I found ...
by arhpdx
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on Tue Mar 18, 2025 at 04:00 AM PDT
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Protests pro or con? Let’s get non-binary here! The simple act of getting together to organize is revolutionary, don’t forget it! That’s why repressive governments prevent this. “We the people” together may have less $ than 4 billionaire oligarchs, but...
by biscobosco
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on Sun Mar 09, 2025 at 01:31 PM PDT
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To be blunt this was originally going to be a rant about Democratic resistance and lack thereof. but i figured it would pointless to contribute to the Democratic circular firing squad. so instead, I will list my recommendations for people to make their...
by Alf513
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on Sat Mar 08, 2025 at 11:11 AM PST
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There’s been some little discussion of its IPO, the crowd funded message to the people running this shit show, we don’t like it and there are A LOT OF US. There has been no loud organized leadership out of this mess. Small events have been highly...
by ynohtnA
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on Sun Mar 02, 2025 at 02:59 AM PST
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Recently I attended a choir concert organized by a nearby synagogue that brought together the synagogue choir and choir members from two local churches. The music was from the traditions of the different houses of worship, and the messages of the songs...
by DocG
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on Sat Feb 22, 2025 at 10:24 AM PST
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UPDATE: Monday, Feb 17, 2025 · 5:40:26 PM +00:00 · KyivGuy While the UWC’s map below lists a lot of events, please note that not all anniversary events are listed on the map. If you can’t find a rally near you, search and check Ukrainian groups or...
by KyivGuy
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on Sun Feb 16, 2025 at 04:19 PM PST
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As President Donald Trump settles into his second term, Democrats and grassroots activists are scrambling to counter what they call an authoritarian takeover of U.S. democracy.� A new grassroots ...
by Morgan Stephens
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on Fri Feb 07, 2025 at 07:00 AM PST
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This post is written by a human with no AI assistance. As it (mostly) should be. There continues to be a great deal of consternation about the emerging AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and many others. And with good reason. Their...
by Game Theory
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on Tue Jan 28, 2025 at 12:35 PM PST
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This post was originally published on the szcz.org website. Once again I expected/hoped that Donald Trump would lose to a woman candidate, and once again I was disappointed that this did not happen, so once again we have to endure four more years....
by msszczep
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on Tue Jan 21, 2025 at 04:16 AM PST
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Well, here we are on the far side of Inauguration Day. battered by devastating executive orders, beset by billionaire bros, white supremacists, Christian nationalists, lawless pardonees, and ...
by DebtorsPrison
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on Tue Jan 21, 2025 at 06:00 PM PST
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Good morning, Gnusies! Despite this being the first day of what I’m choosing to call the Mump administration, there’s plenty of good news to celebrate. And because the�heroes among us will ...
by arhpdx
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on Tue Jan 21, 2025 at 04:00 AM PST
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As this year comes to its inevitable end, a part of me is grieving. I feel sad and angry. I spent the entire past year wearing an annoying, uncomfortable monitor on my ankle while mentally preparing for the possibility of imprisonment. I spent the...
by Zoe Rosenberg
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on Mon Dec 30, 2024 at 09:15 AM PST
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Good morning, Gnusies, and welcome to Tuesday’s Good News Roundup!
As usual, I’ve been steadily gathering�encouraging news stories for you during the past two weeks, so I was initially startled ...
by arhpdx
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on Tue Jan 07, 2025 at 04:00 AM PST
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Merry Christmas Eve, Happy (Almost) Hanukkah, and Joyful Post-Solstice! Whatever you’re celebrating, the time for happy get-togethers with friends and family is here — and fortunately, there’...
by arhpdx
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on Tue Dec 24, 2024 at 04:00 AM PST
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--There's a game we play each time Susan and I drive from Sacramento to Mendocino, CA. It is 208 miles, much of it on Highway 20, an east-west rural road that lifts us from the valley, to T-bone into Highway One at Fort Bragg at the Pacific Ocean ....
by B52D
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on Wed Dec 18, 2024 at 02:41 PM PST
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Good morning, Gnusies! Wow, what a week this has been!! While we’re still trying to wrap our heads around the dangers we’ll be facing from a would-be dictator in the White House, folks in the ...
by arhpdx
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on Tue Dec 10, 2024 at 04:00 AM PST
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KRFP FM aka Radio Free Moscow has been educating and entertaining people for over two decades and all our broadcasters, save the station manager, are volunteers. We do our own weekday morning and ...
by brentbent
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on Tue Dec 03, 2024 at 04:00 AM PST
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- I and many others have been getting hammered here because we said that Chuck Schumer needs to step down as Minority Leader after failing to lead us against the terrible Republican CR. I’ve had people make ad hoc arguments calling me a “Grasshopper” and...192 comments 262 Recs
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