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Groups: New England Kossacks, 50 State Strategy Project
Diaries published: 306 (16 days since last diary on Wed Mar 22, 2023 at 10:05 AM PDT)
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The New College of Florida was always an oasis for non-traditional students who rejected the party and football atmosphere at Florida’s other public universities. Students could pursue a self-directed course of study based in liberal arts that...
by DowneastDem
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on Wed Mar 22, 2023 at 10:05 AM PDT
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On paper, Oklahoma seems like a good place for starting a business: low taxes, plentiful affordable housing, very low cost of living in comparison to California. But after making abortions illegal after “fertilization” — by far the most restrictive in...
by DowneastDem
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on Tue Jun 07, 2022 at 07:40 AM PDT
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Three years ago the Senate Republicans were poised to vote on Trump’s $trillion tax cut giveaway to billionaires and large corporations. The final vote they needed to pass the measure was that of Susan Collins, who was considering a last-minute...
by DowneastDem
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on Fri Oct 30, 2020 at 10:16 AM PDT
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Two weeks ago a mob of Nazis stormed the Reichstag in Berlin after one of the leaders announced that “Trump has landed in Berlin!”. That was the signal they had been waiting for; only the brave intervention of three police officers prevented them...
by DowneastDem
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on Tue Sep 08, 2020 at 07:14 AM PDT
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Tens of thousands ‘Corona-Truthers’ descended on Berlin today to protest the measures implemented by Angela Merkel and her government to prevent the coronavirus spread. What is ironic is that the preventative measures have been...
by DowneastDem
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on Sat Aug 29, 2020 at 03:06 PM PDT
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The New York Times has an excellent article explaining why white evangelicals overwhelmingly support Trump. The gist of the piece is that these folks are willing to overlook Trump’s obvious character deficiencies because he promised that...
by DowneastDem
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on Sun Aug 09, 2020 at 01:31 PM PDT
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- What a friggin candy-ass lying hypocritical self-contradicting little paranoid snowflake Elon Musk is. “My commitment to free speech,” the new Stalin of Twitter wrote on November 6th, “extends to not banning the account, following my plane, even though...313 comments 654 Recs
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- A few weeks back I wrote a Kos diary about a Russian family who suddenly fled the country (leaving behind a prosperous small business) after police arrived at their door threatening arrest for treason after both parents picketed against the war in...103 comments 368 Recs
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is pretty much the worst. The prominent anti-vaxxer (see here, here, and here, and also here and here as his family runs away from him), anti-masker, and anti-sound health policy scion of the famous family has done incredible...499 comments 841 Recs
- “O, that way madness lies.” — King Lear The anti-vaxxer madness has descended to a new level of insanity. Teachers at the Centner Academy in Miami have been advised against getting the COVID vaccination before school resumes in the fall. The Academy’s...310 comments 234 Recs
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- Mother Jones reports that stock prices for two of the nation’s biggest private prison profiteers have taken a tumble since Election Day, and it’s obvious why. These companies make obscene amounts of money imprisoning human...132 comments 295 Recs
- There are still miles to go in this election, and with his premature victory announcement minutes ago President Trump continues to show his true (and despicable) colors, marring what until that point had been an election process less tarnished by...48 comments 13 Recs
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