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Whenever Fox News launches an attack on someone, it's a safe bet that whatever has offended them is something they...
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A few years ago, I wrote the piece titled "Boomers Must Take Some Blame And Help Fix Generation Y Unhappy...
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Those committed to truth and facts must fight five times harder than the Republicans and their lies.
It depresses me to acknowledge this, but the Republicans’ commitment to blatant and serial lying, and Orwellian “make believe” governing, pose a real threat...
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President Trump and his Republican sycophants are the masters of projection. It turns out voter fraud is from Trumpsters. It...
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It’s a sign of the times that Liz Cheney had to explain herself: https://twitter.com/Liz_Cheney/status/1387921478889394183?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Naturally, her gesture of courtesy did...
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At home with my elder five sisters I very soon learnt that freedom of speech had consequences, by that I...
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That is one line that jumped out at me from this Washington Post opinion piece by Jennifer Rubin that describe...
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Well, actually, he’s a Badger, not a duck. I was born in Wisconsin and currently live in Oregon. Believe me,...
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Darn those class commitments, aligning us to our political choices in a democracy, made worse by all those folks who...
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No, not by the US but by that jolly benevolent Empire of the British. Of course, it was started by...
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Let’s hope he does another two-hour snore-fest speech. “Trump to speak at CPAC conference in Florida next week: he plans...
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Texas is the coalmine canary of failures in the GQP's industrial policy. The “clusterfuzzle” appears to be only in Texas:...
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I know many don’t read Bruni’s column in the NYT, often for good reason, but sometimes it is worthwhile. Some...
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For much of the world’s history, we have been ruled by violence and its descendants. Kings won their thrones by...
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Of all the depredations Donald Trump has exposed my tender, guileless soul to, making me feel warm fuzzies for a Cheney...
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“Can anyone honestly say that if some of those in the mob with zip ties, stun guns and other weapons...
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As Climate Crisis returns to the new US administration agenda, negative emissions technologies (NETs) may find their implementation hindered by...
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NY-Sen: Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D), “House will send impeachment article to Senate on Monday”
From CNN: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said that the House's article of impeachment will be delivered to the Senate...
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the Diet Coke button's gone, Trump is golfing in Florida, and Kevin McCarthy tries to revise history
More Charlie than Kevin, McCarthy now tries to polish a turd about the insurrection, tiptoeing a fine line between Trumpists...
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not a lot of time but plenty of evidence, just like the last impeachment if 45 gets “more unstable”?
Impeachment and insurrection part deux on deck for next week, even as there’s now mixed messaging on the part of...
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Twitter has finally and permanently suspended @realDonaldTrump from its platform. Bye Felicia. xAfter close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account...
Suddenly, we’re all talking about the felony murder doctrine. Broadly, that’s a legal principle stating that if someone is involved...
A prepared Stacey Abrams did not allow This Week host to create a false equivalence between her Georgia election and...
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rMoney finds that conscience like a visually impaired squirrel. https://twitter.com/nielslesniewski/status/1345524927777169409?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw “It would not be Congress’s job to second-guess the state’s...
There are now so many pardon requests there’s a spreadsheet for them, but Trump’s so angry at the lost loyalty,...
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“An incompetent coup, a clown coup, a ludicrous coup, a ridiculous coup – these are all still coups”
Counting coup involves winning prestige against an enemy rather than doing serious damage. We’re now way past that point. But the...
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This story supports a group reading of Karl Marx’s Capital Vol 1. #GoodMorningMarx #WeeklyMarx This covers chapters 14, 15, 16. ...
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Here’s the latest news today out of Georgia courtesy of Emerson College’s latest poll: The final Emerson College poll before...
Admittedly I had a choice of two The snake-oil-salesman from New York Crazy Uncle Snowflake Joe Biden I certainly didn’t...
Mother Jones has a great piece about the Alaska U.S. Senate race between incumbent U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R. AK)...
“Trump's odds of victory will decrease rather quickly, absent a sharp increase in his poll numbers.” Trends will out, and...
Yale Environment 360 notes "just as global warming has propelled the Arctic Ocean past a tipping point which will lead...
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“Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.” Trump’s betrayal has come from a number of sources, and he’s...
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Black people get that question put to us a lot more often than you would think. It is generally followed...
What are these assholes even talking about? Now, I knew they’d be pricks about this regardless, but isn’t a little...
President Obama has weighed in on the passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the confirmation battle that’s sure to ensue....
U.S. Senate candidate, Jon Ossoff (D. GA), recently did an interview with Q Magazine and vowed to be an unwavering...
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In his latest screed, Trump made the usual nonsense claims, hoping to gain support from independents who might be afraid of...
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This week I attended (remotely) the Rethinking Economics Festival and encountered challenging pluralist discourses like a platform economy (noting that...
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Today in disinformation: the plan continues to be no plan, increasing our information search-costs. The best example of that is...
Former GOP Congresswoman Claudine Schneider represented Rhode Island’s 2nd District from 1981-1991. She is also the founder of the group,...
GOP spokeswoman Liz Harrington slams Joe Biden because he had the nerve to paraphrase the constitution by replacing men with...
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If you ever get annoyed, look at me I’m self employed. I love to work at nothing all day BTO ...
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Received this e-mail today from former presidential candidate, Andrew Yang, in support of former Vice President Joe Biden’s presidential campaign:...
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee appeared on Face the Nation this morning, and he made some good points. The first being...
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Oceans water column is heating faster than predicted, screwing any efforts to slash CO2 and methane.
The oceans are really what tells you how fast the Earth is warming. Using the oceans, we see a continued,...
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The oceans are really what tells you how fast the Earth is warming. Using the oceans, we see a continued,...
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Having it both ways, Trump signs Uighur sanction on China yet approved of Uighur concentration camps
Trump got stuck dealing with his approval of Uighar concentration camps while also signing their condemnation in the Uighur Human Rights...
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If they had taken over the city, Boeing and Amazon would have already been nationalized/syndicalized, so Trump is spewing more disinformation....
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#BunkerBoy remains in the White House today hiding behind his #Babygate. xMany people say there are more people on the...
