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In October of 2015 a Daily Kos writer asked what’s up with the climate burning while the Republicans fiddle on Benghazi. In 2024 Republican leaders are still too ignorant and/or corrupt to respond responsibly. Part of the difficulty is that many...
by speedboat
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on Thu Aug 15, 2024 at 01:42 PM PDT
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I saw that earlier today Judge Merchan delayed by a couple of months the sentencing of convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, traitor, fraud, and pathological liar Donald J. Trump in the Hush Money case due to the Supreme Court’s historically abusive and...
by JunglelandDan
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on Tue Jul 02, 2024 at 08:24 PM PDT
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I am an old guy, not quite as old as President Biden but close, and I have watched in dismay at the media reaction to the recent Presidential Debate. This election is not a horse race as it is represented in most of the media, which I think has...
by H Green
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on Fri Jun 28, 2024 at 10:50 PM PDT
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A cartoon by Mike Luckovich. Campaign ...
by Mike Luckovich
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on Tue Jun 25, 2024 at 04:50 AM PDT
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The � Supreme Court � is headed into its final week with about a quarter of the cases heard this year still undecided, including ones that could reshape the law on everything from abortion to social ...
by Associated Press
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on Fri Jun 21, 2024 at 11:00 AM PDT
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A cartoon by Pedro Molina.
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by Pedro Molina
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on Sun Jun 23, 2024 at 04:55 AM PDT
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When the Supreme Court overturned a Trump-era ban on bump stocks, an accessory that turns semiautomatic rifles into weapons of mass destruction, Justice Samuel ...
by Joan McCarter
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on Tue Jun 18, 2024 at 12:30 PM PDT
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Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida—House chaos agent and primary attention seeker— asserted Monday that there are new “frivolous investigations” against him and that the Ethics Committee had already ...
by Joan McCarter
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on Tue Jun 18, 2024 at 11:30 AM PDT
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A cartoon by Pedro Molina. Campaign ...
by Pedro Molina
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on Tue Jun 18, 2024 at 10:00 AM PDT
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by DRo
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on Wed May 29, 2024 at 10:47 AM PDT
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A lot of times you can look at what somebody does and come up with different possible reasons for their actions. Some legitimate, some sinister. You could probably do that with the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to hear former...
by RickElia
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on Sun Mar 03, 2024 at 06:07 AM PST
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Trump and his Republican Party still have absolutely nothing. They are trying to blast out corrupt Shokin's lies. However, I suspect that is almost exclusively for the benefit of the base. The vast majority of voters have no idea who he is and for most...
by Dem
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on Tue Sep 05, 2023 at 07:11 AM PDT
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Can little Ukraine teach big America how to deal with our oligarch problem? Viktor Medvedchuk was the Rupert Murdoch of Ukraine. He ran a rightwing television network and owned TV stations across the country, while simultaneously being one of the...
by thomhartmann
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on Tue May 30, 2023 at 08:07 AM PDT
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New polling suggests that the actions of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas are so corrupt that even Republican voters are largely repulsed by them
A newly released Economist/YouGov poll found ...
by Kerry Eleveld
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on Thu Apr 13, 2023 at 01:50 PM PDT
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Well well well, isn’t this rather curious: www.orlandosentinel.com/… There’s a paywall here but just as summary, investigative reporters at the Orlando Sentinel discovered that almost a million and a half dollars designated for those infamous “migrant...
by Tweedledee5
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on Sat Nov 19, 2022 at 03:02 PM PST
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Sry in advance for the late night frustrated rant...but WTF!?!?!?!... Can someone please clue me in to when this country/world decided it was ok to reward someone for simply stepping down or taking a vacation after some egregious event?!? This Bovine...
by itwasniceknowingyouamerica
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on Fri Mar 04, 2022 at 01:45 AM PST
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Imagine that, Trump is suing the New York state attorney in an effort to stop the investigation into his corrupt business read New York Times article here By Jonah E. Bromwich, Ben Protess and William K. Rashbaum Dec. 20, 2021, 9:49 a.m. ET Donald J....
by The Boss Gomez
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on Mon Dec 20, 2021 at 07:15 AM PST
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NY Times: Senator Joe Manchin III, Democrat of West Virginia, said on Sunday that he could not support President Biden’s signature $2.2 trillion social safety net, climate and tax bill, all but dooming his party’s drive to pass the measure as written....
by Albanius
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on Sun Dec 19, 2021 at 07:55 AM PST
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Krysten Sinema is open for businesss long as you are just a Crazy Rich Donor!
by laloalcaraz
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on Tue Oct 26, 2021 at 04:44 PM PDT
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This is a warning to all smaller metro areas regarding the financing of stadiums or other large boondoggles for private interests with public financing. Per Forbes magazine, “Publicly Financed Sports Stadiums Are A Game That Taxpayers Lose.” Forbes is...
by Progressive John
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on Mon Jun 07, 2021 at 06:16 PM PDT
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