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A new book suggests now the necessity of reexamining the historical materialist project of Walter Benjamin recognizing those moments of historical contact as acts of recognizing the constructed historical object. “Historicism tends to be hermeneutic because it values cautious, rigorous, and contextualized interpretation of information; or relativist, because it rejects notions of universal, fundamental...

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  • April 24, 2021

Friendly reminder, there’s a big Governor’s race in Virginia this year: Virginia Republican state Sen. Amanda Chase is no stranger to making provocative statements, and comments she made this week related to the Derek Chauvin murder trial have once again stirred up controversy. After a jury found Chauvin guilty of killing...

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  • April 22, 2021

According to reporting from The Intercept, the FBI secured the records of lawmakers and their staff just hours after the violent attempted coup by Trump supporters against the United States of America in the US Capitol on January 6th. Phone records include suspected collaborators within Congress. The data is non-content and includes “pings’ from cell...

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  • February 24, 2021

According to reporting from The Intercept, the FBI secured the records of lawmakers and their staff just hours after the violent attempted coup by Trump and his supporters against the United States of America in the US Capitol on January 6th. Phone records include suspected collaborators within Congress. The data is non-content and includes “pings’...

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  • February 24, 2021

Who could have ever predicted this? I mean, who other than anyone who glimpsed at Parler for five minutes or saw Donald Trump speak before his horde of whiny orcs? You’ll never believe this, but apparently there was every indication that violence was brewing prior to the actual violence that...

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  • January 12, 2021

cnu.edu/… The Judy Wason Center polled four key State Senate districts that may determine control of the Virginia legislature in the November 5th election and found that Democrats lead the generic ballot by 14%. When asked who do they want to control the legislature, Democrats win by 13%. Independents prefer...

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  • November 1, 2019

The Gulf Stream, if viewed from above, is a deep dark blue stream of ocean off the Atlantic coast of Florida. It has a clockwise system of currents which transports warm water from the tropics, up the US east coast according to Wiki. It crosses the Atlantic to northwestern Europe...

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  • September 9, 2019

Instant … x This is how a racist manager spoke to a black customer at a DaysInn in Norfolk, Virginia. This bigotry is unacceptable. This employee must be fired immediately @daysinn. pic.twitter.com/UdQW8IpElK — Simar (@sahluwal) April 21, 2019 Karma … x Hello, Please be advised the employee in this video...

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  • April 22, 2019

I’ll start this out relatively empty but update it quickly.  Trump has approved strikes on Syria.   White House briefing starts in one minute. 21:02 EST: He’s already ordered the launch. Combined operation with France and UK.  Attack underway. 21:03 EST: Sounds of explosions in Damascus. Reminder: Just half an hour...

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  • April 14, 2018

No lead-in needed; we all know what’s happened, and we all know what looks to be in the works.  Let’s get into the news, but first, let’s get into the players (if you already know all this, feel free to skip): Syria / Assad: No introduction needed. Controls generally the...

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  • April 10, 2018

As a rule, I typically don’t cover local party races. It’s not really a shock that there’s politics that get played in…well, politics. Every now and again I hear about back-stabbing cliques, coups, or just bad behavior. (PS–yes, I saw that Polk County.)   Yet when people from various progressive...

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  • March 31, 2018