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When the Proud Boys aren’t having beers with people on trial for murder or burning things they’ve vandalized from Black churches, they’re attempting to play a game where they both distance themselves from Donald Trump and their failed...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Fri Jan 22, 2021 at 09:29 AM PST
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Far right Michigan Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey (R-Clarklake) has decided to change the story he’s been telling about what happened at a meeting with three militia groups after the Anti-Defamation League called the meeting disturbing...
by Hank Z
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on Fri Jan 22, 2021 at 06:01 AM PST
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We have a new president! But Republicans still run the show in most statehouses, and they’re not going to be shy about using their power to stymie the Biden agenda at every opportunity. And then there’s the next round of redistricting, where GOP...
by Carolyn Fiddler
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on Thu Jan 21, 2021 at 06:30 PM PST
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Representative Mace, I continue to be absolutely stunned at the denseness and the extreme present hedonism which dominates Congressional republicans. I saw the attempt to pretend to promote and support only censuring Trump and I heard Chuck Todd...
by Dem
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on Mon Jan 18, 2021 at 11:40 AM PST
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My favorite state often surprises a lot of people, as I am gay and Jewish so you might not think that Texas would be my favorite, but it is. I have been to 36 states and by far Texas is my tops. Houston had, of major cities, one of the first openly gay...
by CameronProf
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on Mon Jan 18, 2021 at 05:48 AM PST
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Leading Off ● Congress: With victories in Georgia's Senate runoffs, congressional Democrats now have the opportunity to pass the most important set of voting and election reforms since the historic Voting Rights Act was adopted in 1965. These reforms...
by Stephen Wolf
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on Fri Jan 15, 2021 at 04:29 PM PST
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Republicans are bad for our health. And maybe some of them will face at least a small measure of accountability. Former Gov. Rick Snyder (R-Michigan, 2011 — 2018) was supposedly unaware of the Flint water crisis until the news broke, and the death and...
by Alonso del Arte
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on Thu Jan 14, 2021 at 10:34 PM PST
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Several things are making me angry and very concerned. (1) The failure of Senate and House Republicans to bluntly deny and refute the big lie when the election was called [btw 90% of votes have paper ballots which can be used to verify the accuracy of...
by Dem
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on Sun Jan 17, 2021 at 10:39 AM PST
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Finally, at long last, former Michigan Governor Rick Snyder was charged for the Flint water crisis. Unfortunately, it is only a misdemeanor. He did a lot of damage. Based upon what I read, I am not optimistic about the outcome. LANSING,...
by Dem
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on Wed Jan 13, 2021 at 06:19 PM PST
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By this time next week, we’ll have a new president! (… hopefully) But with Donald Trump’s second impeachment (who says Congress can’t act with state legislature-like speed when it wants to?) because of his responsibility for last week’s violence...
by Carolyn Fiddler
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on Thu Jan 14, 2021 at 06:10 PM PST
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Also: Military condemns Capitol insurrection Corporations dump Repub coup-supporting lawmakers Sheldon Adelson dead Surprising GOP support for impeachment; Schwarzenegger's important response... On January 3rd -- three days before Trump's violent...
by TheBradBlog
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on Tue Jan 12, 2021 at 07:14 PM PST
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EDIT: rec list! Also, a few editing changes due to my sheer and utter excitement! Update: Added an educational video for those needing more background on this crisis. Breaking news from the state of Michigan: Former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, his...
by bilboteach
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on Tue Jan 12, 2021 at 11:55 AM PST
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In the wake of the Jan. 6 attempts on our Nation’s capitol, as well as numerous state Capitol buildings across the country, lawmakers are moving quickly to figure out ways to minimize the chances for serious violence surrounding our every polarized...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Mon Jan 11, 2021 at 12:59 PM PST
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While some may see it as a clueless failed attempt and view the participants as a bunch of clowns, there was at least one faction within that was serious, equipped, dangerous and which had an evil and dangerous plan. It seems to be very similar to the...
by Dem
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on Mon Jan 11, 2021 at 08:30 AM PST
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In my twenty years of voting, I have twice voted for a presidential candidate who won the popular vote but lost the Electoral College: Al Gore in 2000 and Hillary Clinton in 2016. Even if we believe that President George W. Bush won re-election fair...
by Alonso del Arte
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on Wed Jan 13, 2021 at 01:13 PM PST
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On December 14, 2012, less than 15 minutes after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School made international headlines, a man I considered a friend posted on Facebook about how awful this was because “now they will come after our guns.” I...
by David B
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on Sun Jan 10, 2021 at 09:08 AM PST
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— — Don’t let GOP/Trump apologists get away with their normal two-step shuffle — to excuse the inexcusable from the Twitter toddler. YES indeed — we could have, should have, seen this coming ... And we probably would have, if Trump...
by jamess
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on Sat Jan 09, 2021 at 02:31 PM PST
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It appears that at least 13 elected state officials—all of them Republicans—participated in the events surrounding the storming of the nation’s Capitol building during the Trump-incited riots. So far, the insurrection has resulted in the deaths of five...
by Dartagnan
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on Fri Jan 08, 2021 at 10:42 AM PST
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The U.S. Capitol wasn’t the only place violent Trump supporters gathered on Wednesday, though it was by far the most extreme case. In events across the country, Trump supporters falsely convinced that the election had been stolen gathered outside of...
by Laura Clawson
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on Thu Jan 07, 2021 at 09:05 AM PST
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What we saw today was inevitable. It was the inevitable result of Trump skating into the White House via the electoral college and being allowed to stay in the White House by senate republicans despite the evidence for his serious crimes. However, it...
by Dem
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on Thu Jan 07, 2021 at 01:04 AM PST
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