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- If you perused the face page of the New York Times’ website Thursday morning, you would have seen an op-ed piece, characterized as a “guest essay,” by a right winger named Matthew Walther titled, “Why I Don’t Vote. And Why Maybe You Shouldn’t Either.”...295 comments 757 Recs
- I would blame this on the heat exhaustion I managed to land myself in over the weekend during a family reunion at Bryce Canyon and am only now coming out of, but I actually can’t, because this morning’s epiphany is just the tip of a years-long iceberg....90 comments 352 Recs
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- Not any ‘Weekend at Biden’s’, don’t waste time on Plan B substitute candidates. The option’s always there. Take the gloves off in these last 100+ days.34 comments 121 Recs
- Stormy Daniels had a 2-hour interview with Rachel Maddow on MSNBC last Monday, and the show is set to replay tonight at 8 p.m. It’s worth watching. In the interview, Stormy went into detail about the campaign both to terrorize her and also to ruin her...139 comments 429 Recs
- I am posting this article from SubStack. As usual, Mary Trump is more articulate on the matter than I am. In posting this on DKos I hope everyone can take her words, experience, and professional psychological understanding to heart....153 comments 662 Recs
- Sizeable tropical fish fleeing ocean warming are increasingly killed by cold bottom water upwelling.Hundreds of large ocean fish, including species such as highly mobile bull sharks, manta rays, and tuna, along with slower moving species such as whale sharks, convict surgeonfish, bigeye trevallies, and common blacktip sharks, were found to have died...36 comments 81 Recs
- Though the Supreme Court gave former President Trump broad protections from prosecution of his criminal charges, the prosecution can still overcome these barriers. I will go over the steps on how ...27 comments 44 Recs
- What a wonderful trip down memory lane: Remember the time in 2015 when the press declared that Hillary Clinton was absolutely, super-for-sure probably maybe dying? For those who don't remember, back during the 2016 campaign Democratic candidate Hillary...339 comments 459 Recs
- Welcome 🌻 to Fridayâs Roundup of Good News! One of my grandkids is challenging. She gets her way much more than she should. By making a fuss, and not always for things that are sensible, she ...41 comments 65 Recs
- Russian forces conducted drone strikes against Ukraine on the night of July 3 to 4 and a missile strike against Odesa Oblast during the day on July 4. The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Russian forces launched 22 Shahed-136/131 drones from Kursk...23 comments 89 Recs
- Russian ammunition on the left bank of the Dnipro River goes up in really big flames. Suppose it is any coincidence that Col. Gorodilov commands the Russian forces in Vovchansk that are said to be cut off? A two-kilometer advance by Ukraine is a BFD....62 comments 331 Recs
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- Evan Power, the chair of the Florida Republicans, challenged me on policy; unsurprisingly he was dead wrong. In this video I go into detail explaining how his ad deliberately lays out lies or mistruths to stop the people of Florida from voting in their...1 comments 0 Recs
- “No way to run a country.” What exactly does that mean? The Economist suggests we should elect a Farm Horse of the United States. Check his teeth. Check his hooves. Is he lame? Shoot him. Get someone who is physically up for the job. A disabled...1 comments 0 Recs
- In the days after the Presidential debate, as the media has been obsessing over the fact Joe Biden is three years older than Donald Trump, Donald Trump has been rage tweeting truly unhinged stuff like this “ELIZABETH LYNNE CHENEY IS GUILTY OF TREASON,”...5 comments 11 Recs
- YA literature loves a dystopian future And now the GOP is getting in on the act From snake oil to poison, proud public displays on Agenda 47 and Project 2015, are fact. Reality TV has a fascination With “The Real Housewives of Fill in the Blanks” Now...1 comments 1 Recs
- ASSESSING THE RELATIVE RISK OF A SECOND BIDEN TERM The media are obsessed with Biden’s poor performance in the debate last week, and many Democrats (and operatives who aren’t really Democrats) are hand-wringing over the implications of that event. In...4 comments 4 Recs
- One of the things that I pride myself on being clear-eyed about politics. I don’t believe in panic. Nothing good can come from making a rash decision. And unfortunately it is looking like we are headed to the most rash of rash decisions. With that...6 comments 4 Recs
- To put a stake in the ground opposing the ruinous decision made by the Supreme Court on presidential immunity, I created a petition seeking to amend the Constitution, explicitly making the president subject to all US laws, just like any other citizen....2 comments 3 Recs
- I believe President Biden has done a great and superhuman service these past four years of his administration. But a tremendous mistake had been made with the first debate. Watching it, it was pretty clear that he was off his game. The administration...19 comments 2 Recs
- After the debate, many more claims that President Biden is senile arose. There were many claims that the best way to explain what we saw in Joe Biden in the debate is that President Biden is senile. If what we saw could be explained in other ways...4 comments 1 Recs
- As a life-long Democrat and two years older than Joe Biden, this cartoonist understands how difficult the decision must be to step aside — for him, from running for a second term after improving and defending our democracy against Republican fascists.13 comments 0 Recs
- With what is at stake and the SCOTUS making it plain they will do whatever they must to give Trump the White House, we cannot have a 50.1%-49.9% win. It must be an absolute crushing defeat! Talk to everyone you know. VOTE!2 comments 0 Recs
- I would like to share an anecdote here. We are living in a nation in which an elderly man, apparently loaded up on cold medicine [and if so, perhaps in defiance of the Beers List], flubs a debate with a [figuratively] demon-possessed [literal]...2 comments 4 Recs
- If you are like me, you will need mental health breaks to maintain your sanity this year. For my part, I am starting my day with a great song, working alphabetically by song title (note: this does ...3 comments 5 Recs
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- Supreme Court genuflecks before Trump in Immunity Decision, making him if re-elected - as Sotomayor’s dissent says - like a king.1 comments 2 Recs
- Now that SCOTUS has granted the President greatly expanded powers, everything they’ve blocked during his Presidency now has a VERY green light to go forward. SCOTUS says that all “core” presidential activity is allowed: Student loan forgiveness: SCOTUS...9 comments 4 Recs
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- Cole Hadon has an interesting newsletter, as is normal from him, entitled F&ck Your Facts about the place that facts play in fiction. He is channeling Warner Herzog and the concept of ecstatic ...2 comments 2 Recs
- This is the kind of right-wing BS I choose to wake up to every morning. It’s all I can do to stop myself from commenting, “Yeah, our founding fathers all cooked the books to hide raw-dogging a porn star, didn’t they?” But I don’t, because then I’ll get...11 comments 33 Recs
- Remember back in our innocent days, when newspapers were too timid to say “Trump lied?” He was “less than truthful,” “inaccurate,” and “misrepresenting facts.” The pundits fretted that a lie is intended to deceive; how could they know whether he really...7 comments 7 Recs