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Today is 9/11, the event that first brought America together and then was cynically exploited by George W. Bush and Dick Cheney to have a war against Iraq, following their illegal invasion of Afghanistan just a bit more than a year earlier. Yet the...
by thomhartmann
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on Mon Sep 11, 2023 at 08:11 AM PDT
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Many years ago I was an artist working to capture my life story in paintings using old dolls and toys to represent the people in my life, my family — especially my father and grandmother who were both deceased by that time but whose influence has...
by Susan Warley
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on Wed Jul 12, 2023 at 01:43 PM PDT
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90 feet high, according to George. His crew took down that massive tree pictured above. I will say, She was a little past 40 years along. We had her “clear cut” 15 years ago, and they did a great job. Breakage from wind, and my wife reckons a lightning...
by McGovern78
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on Fri Oct 01, 2021 at 01:17 AM PDT
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Published Yesterday, Brown University came out with the newest version of its massive series of studies of the cost of war, which can be accessed here, through its summary of findings. watson.brown.edu/… The projects includes a vast number of...
by Mrmuni12
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on Thu Sep 02, 2021 at 02:07 PM PDT
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This is my first diary. I have followed the news this morning and it is next to impossible to make heads or tails out of it. There are a lot of hot takes and pretty much every hot take I have seen is deficient in some way. You can’t boil down a war...
by PastorOfMuppets
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on Sun Aug 15, 2021 at 08:05 AM PDT
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Seven years after the Soviet Union collapsed in a heap of post-Afghan-War rubble and seven years after President George H.W. Bush...
by TomDispatch
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on Thu Jul 29, 2021 at 07:27 AM PDT
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Did you know there’s another Bush politician? No, not warmongering party guy . Not warmongering� scary CIA guy .
by Walter Einenkel
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on Thu Jun 03, 2021 at 05:05 PM PDT
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. “War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothin’!” So went the famed Vietnam War-era protest lyrics first sung by the Temptations....
by TomDispatch
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on Mon Mar 29, 2021 at 09:00 AM PDT
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. If, on September 10, 2001, you had told me that my country, which from 1979 to 1989 had fought a secret war against the Soviet...
by TomDispatch
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on Thu Mar 25, 2021 at 10:13 AM PDT
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It is no secret that we, in America, are as divided as we have ever been since the civil war. We may already be in another civil war. The next few months will show us whether all the FBI alerts for domestic terrorism are backed by serious...
by 40ford
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on Sat Feb 20, 2021 at 03:33 PM PST
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• 2001: They zealously supported a bill that violates the Bill of Rights and they called it the “Patriot Act”. • 2009: They pretended to be outraged when then-President Obama bowed to the Emperor of Japan. • 2014: They also pretended to be outraged...
by Perlinator
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on Mon Feb 08, 2021 at 08:17 AM PST
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. TomDispatch is essentially a no-submissions site. The only exception I’ve made over the years has been for those in the U.S....
by TomDispatch
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on Tue Dec 08, 2020 at 11:10 AM PST
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by WB Reeves
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on Sat Nov 14, 2020 at 12:31 AM PST
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Democrats speaking out have no affect on those who are listening to Trump and his toadies. Republicans like Romney and Kasich don’t have any credibility with them. Gov Wilder (ma), Gov Ridge (ex-pa), Hogan (md) have tweeted out support or at...
by bcknynj
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on Tue Nov 10, 2020 at 01:37 PM PST
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In normal times, I understand George W Bush’s desire to “Retire” from politics, but this isn’t… I understand his natural lean toward avoiding ruffling fellow GOP feathers, but it’s not that party any more… I understand not wanting to tarnish his legacy...
by KKwriter
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on Mon Oct 26, 2020 at 08:23 PM PDT
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Dear Kos Family: I am writing this letter to all of you today to ask you to sign and share this petition asking former President George W. Bush to publicly endorse Joe Biden for president. Let me start by acknowledging that many of you will disagree...
by nate1024
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on Mon Oct 19, 2020 at 04:00 AM PDT
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I find this as a big story. All former living Presidents and this not limited to their staffs and former cabinet members who are standing ready to vote against Trump. I used this pic as it was the only one I could find that included all...
by Vetwife
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on Sun Sep 27, 2020 at 08:19 AM PDT
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Donald J. Trump is a self-confessed mass murderer by negligent homicide. He has admitted he knew how dangerous the coronavirus was early on, but chose to lie about it “because he didn’t want to start a panic.” Nearly 200,000 Americans are dead because...
by xaxnar
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on Thu Sep 10, 2020 at 02:47 PM PDT
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by Marcus G. Miller A few weeks ago, in front of the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, a throng of protesters clapped along to live music even as they were shouting the names of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, holding signs, and chanting “Black...
by Prism Guest Writer
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on Tue Jun 30, 2020 at 11:55 AM PDT
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There have been a lot of commentators in the past few days comparing the present mess to 1968, when there was rioting in the streets of the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy, and general unrest over the Vietnam War. Those are valid...
by Dan K
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on Mon Jun 01, 2020 at 12:47 PM PDT
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- I am enraged. I am gobsmacked. I am heartbroken and miserable - and (somehow), surprised. Though I really should not be. Between the pundits, the MSM talking heads and the usual suspects in the Democratic party (with one shock out of left field from...52 comments 42 Recs
- Intermission Holy Crosstabs! Thanks to the primal forces of nature, 2024 is already halfway over. The second quarter ended Sunday, and that means it's C&J number-crunching time. Every few months we post results of some recent C&J polls to give you a...43 comments 43 Recs
- With both the pundits and media, as well as the masses, so eager to post their hot takes on whether Biden should stay in the race or step down, it's mind-boggling to me why no one waited for any data to come in before making a snap judgement. In...32 comments 35 Recs
- Below is an unrolled string of tweets from Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse about our political predicament. More of our Senators should be talking like this and joining Whitehouse’s relentless attacks on the corruption and authoritarianism eating...313 comments 726 Recs
- Intro:� Like many (most?) of the DK community, I was shaken- and then enraged- by the CNN Presidential “debate” and the SCOTUS rulings on immunity and the power grab under the Chevron Decision .�40 comments 52 Recs
- I read a story, not here, today saying that the majority decision written by Chief Justice John Roberts which gave immunity to US Presidents for actions which they take while undertaking Official Acts; was based on NOTHING in the Constitution. They...321 comments 651 Recs
- Two months ago, Hunter Biden sent a "cease and desist" letter to Fox News demanding that they retract false stories that they have been disseminating for more than a year about President Biden's son. Never mind that the network never had a shred of...42 comments 206 Recs
- In January, Donald Trump's legal team argued that a President ordering the assassination of political rivals would be legal and acceptable, there was silence from the media. In April, the former Attorney General of the United States said that Trump...7 comments 22 Recs
- with Jill, Hunter, and the Obamas www.borowitzreport.com/… I am posting The Borowitz Report with permission from Andy Borowitz. If you like his work you can see it on SubStack. If you like it a lot, like I do you can subscribe & receive it by email....98 comments 256 Recs
- From the AP: The Biden administration told emergency room doctors they must perform emergency abortions when necessary to save a pregnant woman’s health, following last week’s Supreme Court ruling that failed to settle a legal dispute over whether...34 comments 182 Recs
- That strike yesterday in Crimea netted big gains — a warehouse full of drones. Bavovna The second house had the ammunition. Ammo Dump Jesus approves of this message. Russia continues to relentlessly shell Kherson. This is a long thread that talks about...65 comments 344 Recs
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