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One incident occurred just hours ago as a flight gets diverted to OKC because a…
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Trump's DOJ secretly obtained Washington Post reporters’ phone records “The Trump Justice Department secretly obtained…
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Expect some GOP to be triggered by this new information about intelligence produced during Trump’s term…
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The New York Police Department’s (NYPD) Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating after two Asian…
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Ivanka Trump has spent the past five years trying to position herself in the public’s…
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Truly a tool, as the Inspector General reports are coming and Previous Guy’s going to be…
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Likely the RWNJ social media site Gab was constantly under FBI surveillance even before 6…
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Though my spot on the introversion spectrum lies somewhere between Kleenex box-wearing Howard Hughes and urine-collecting…
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One hopes that after the farce of a Trump impeachment acquittal, that criminal proceedings begin in…
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The impeachment managers drew a straight line from Trump to the insurrection and harm’s way for…
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Please practice greater situational awareness from January 17 to January 20. We all trust that…
Another Trump-Russia participation trophy, because Devin was so stupid he won’t get an indictment until…
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As with most faculty politics, there is a subtext to the story of a professor…
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Edward Abbey memorialized environmental resistance to mindless development in his tome The Monkey Wrench Gang….
Prisoners about to be executed are sometimes asked what they want for their last meal….
Yale Environment 360 notes “just as global warming has propelled the Arctic Ocean past a…
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Sometimes I really wonder if we deserve to survive as a species. CNN is reporting…
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In a few months, winter will arrive, and we are woefully unprepared for the sicknesses…
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Started at 547pm ET Apparently like the Germans and Pearl Harbor, for Trump, the second…
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The weird have turned pro, but the advantage of mask-wearing is the disruption of facial…
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Fortunately, Trump has telegraphed one of his tactical options to remain in power. x For…
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In his presser, Trump blamed Portland violence on “professional anarchists” because of course they carry…
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I’m just an old race horse out to pasture, pawing the ground when the race…
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Now more evidence emerges in the #RussiaBounty scandal and Trump simply looks to be even…
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Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Bob Casey, Jr. (D. PA) in support of…
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Received this e-mail yesterday from Jon Ossoff’s (D. GA) U.S. Senate campaign: In the midst…
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From the Leavenworth Times editorial board today: Guns should be kept safely and securely. The…
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Hottest day ever recorded north of the Arctic Circle; reached 100.4 F; 80 years faster than expected
Even if a small fraction of the Arctic seafloor carbon is released to the atmosphere,…
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Here we go again. Police officers decided to hold young teenagers at gunpoint as they…
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Trump delivering a White House speech on race relations written by Stephen Miller is like…
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#BunkerBoy remains in the White House today hiding behind his #Babygate. x Many people say…
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I reached for the grimy tumbler. It was empty. Not even any ice. I reached…
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Boo. Fucking. Hoo. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said on Monday that former President Obama should…
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I never liked Jennifer Rubin’s columns during the Obama era. She came across as automatically…
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Aside from sinophobia rather than russophobia, The NY Times has documented more of the details…
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Kitchen Table Kibitzing is a community series for those who wish to share a virtual…
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Today’s Trump presser had a couple of lies today, which seems normal as he’s become…
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COVID-19 is not like the seasonal flu, among other things. The above chart should end all…
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Today’s COVID presser approached a high point in propaganda content: x “That's one million eight…
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Today Trump tried bait and switch, doing a briefing on the indictments and increased military…
As snarky as I like to get vis-à-vis the ocher abomination, I really can’t say…
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The usual “anti-government” dismantling of the state preached by Trumpists rationalized their inability to contingency…
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The New Republic has a new piece out about how the media is responsible for creating…
The NY Times has a new article describing the dirty trick campaigns in this election…
This cannot be the government that America deserves in 2020, but there will be a…
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If you’re asking when climate change is going to “happen,” you’re really asking when’s it…
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Did we really want a criminal in the WH. The DoJ IG report is available….
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About a year and a half ago, Politico posted this story — ‘Too inconvenient’: Trump…
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Here is The Politicus Top 5 Political Books of October 2019: An unprecedented behind-the-scenes portrait…
