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The Artist In 1905, a 21 year old Mexican named José Orozco lost his left hand manufacturing fireworks, after which he devoted himself full time to his love of drawing. As a young man, he participated in the political protests of the day, along with...
by CorpFlunky
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on Fri Jul 05, 2024 at 01:07 PM PDT
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When a journalist from The Young Turks asked MAGA supporters whether they would support a Trump dictatorship they said yes. (Watch the video) The doom and gloom scenarios regarding a potential anti-democratic Trump presidency can no longer be dismissed...
by Mark Taylor Canfield
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on Thu Jul 04, 2024 at 03:43 AM PDT
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The American Revolution: No taxation without representation. When you use martial law to trample our personal freedom, we will fight back and build the best democratic republic in world history. We will protect individual rights and constrain a ruler's...
by Jamisonesq
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on Wed Jul 03, 2024 at 01:21 PM PDT
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I’ve long said that any talk of “revolution” triggers the heck out of me. That’s the case whether it’s�Sen. Bernie Sanders and his supporters talking about it, or,� more recently , Rep. ...
by kos
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on Thu Jul 04, 2024 at 12:00 PM PDT
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Who would have imagined that a Paramount+ limited series about the plight of an aristocrat in post-revolution Russia would be such a hit? Based on Amor Towles’s 2016 novel of ...
by snielson
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on Mon May 20, 2024 at 01:00 PM PDT
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Our species has had a wild and crazy adolescence. These days we’re facing the consequences of our irresponsible behavior. We can now see that our bad habits will kill us if we don’t quit. It’s time to grow up. Can we stop eating too much meat, using...
by AliceT4
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on Sat Jan 06, 2024 at 03:16 PM PST
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About one year after the 9/11 attacks on the US, the leader of the Islamic terrorist organization of al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, published an open letter to America explaining why al Qaeda attacked the US on September 11, 2001. The British newspaper The...
by Deist
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on Sat Nov 18, 2023 at 01:14 PM PST
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The end of the Cold War and the collapse of "really existing" socialism in Eastern Europe were two critical events that have had an impact on cultural studies and political economy, among other things. What are the prospects for major structural...
by annieli
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on Sun Oct 22, 2023 at 03:00 PM PDT
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I was on my Substack today and someone reached out to me about my last post on ONE ANGRY BLACK CHICK with so much love and support I cried. It was then that I recognized that I hadn’t had one panic attack since I began writing here and elsewhere and to...
by sepiasiren
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on Wed Aug 30, 2023 at 02:53 PM PDT
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Let’s deal in oversimplifications for this argument. Imagine an extremist Christian man and an extremist Muslim man talking about their beliefs in a living room somewhere. Their discussion grows more and more heated, and, depending on the men’s...
by AliceT4
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on Wed Jul 26, 2023 at 11:54 AM PDT
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The Revolution will not be televised, but it seems it will be live streamed. Things are moving quickly. I recommend this You Tube personality, I believe he strives for truth and accuracy In a time and place where there is little of both. He feels Putin...
by JPH102
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on Sat Jun 24, 2023 at 07:43 AM PDT
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There are probably several colloquial sayings, somewhere along the line of telling someone they “think their shit doesn’t stink.” It’s essentially the same as telling someone they are “holier than thou,” or otherwise think they are better than everyone...
by imobannon
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on Thu Mar 02, 2023 at 09:54 PM PST
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Sunday, January 15, 2023 is the anniversary of the birth of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1929. Monday is the federal holiday recognizing his contributions to the struggle for racial equality and social justice in the United States. Dr. King...
by Alan Singer
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on Sun Jan 08, 2023 at 12:55 PM PST
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From The Guardian today: Iranian shopkeepers and lorry drivers staged a walkout in nearly 40 cities and towns on Monday after calls for a three-day nationwide general strike from protesters as the government declined to confirm a claim by a senior...
by Irontortoise
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on Mon Dec 05, 2022 at 07:30 PM PST
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Former US President Donald Trump has told the truth: I want to be America’s dictator. Using his Truth Social Internet platform, he claims “massive & widespread fraud & deception” in the 2020 election means “the termination of all rules, regulations,...
by Nevit
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on Sun Dec 04, 2022 at 06:03 AM PST
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The Who: Eminence Front Promo Nope… this isn’t a screed against that tune by The Who. To the contrary, it’s lyrics poetically describe a root cause of where we’re at today as a nation. One has to be old enough to have a functional picture of how this...
by Anakai
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on Sat Mar 25, 2023 at 08:48 PM PDT
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Does it seem to you that with each dawn’s early light, we are encouraged between morning coffee and leaving home to greet the new day with a full plate of lost faith in ourselves? Are talking heads of every variant of self-serving ill-gotten gain...
by The Reasonable Voice
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on Tue Sep 27, 2022 at 02:49 AM PDT
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Should I stay or should I go now? If I go, there will be trouble And if I stay it will be double The Clash, 1982 Always good for a laugh, the delusional naked Emperor may have topped our guffaws at his drink bleach suggestion to cure Covid-19...
by adoptauthor
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on Fri Sep 23, 2022 at 08:22 AM PDT
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The Four Horsemen appear on the news every day: war, disease, famine, environmental catastrophe. Gee, who could have seen this coming? Whoever wrote the Book of Revelation two thousand years ago, for one. None of these things are exactly new in human...
by AliceT4
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on Sun Mar 20, 2022 at 09:12 AM PDT
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Followers of Donald Trump are methodically placing election deniers, those who believe Biden stole the election through fraudulent voting, in crucial state positions who could legally overturn a popular vote if a Trumper candidate does not win the next...
by Nickjlicata
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on Fri Dec 31, 2021 at 03:55 PM PST
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- Elon Musk wants me executed. At least that’s the implication of a tweet he posted the day before yesterday. Of course, it’s not just me Musk wants executed. It’s millions of Americans who, as I do, oppose the so-called SAVE (Safeguard American Voter...60 comments 147 Recs
- Nothing on this tweet surprises me.94 comments 336 Recs
- Kevin Roberts said they’re in the process of a second American Revolution, one “which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.” That’s wrong on all counts. They drew first blood on January 6th. As to their messaging about this being a second...14 comments 98 Recs
- Yes! It’s easy! Search for IRS form 13909, “Tax-Exempt Organization Complaint.” It appears as a fillable PDF. Tell IRS that, based on the statements of Kevin Roberts, the foundation’s president, on June 11 and July 2, the foundation’s mission is no...48 comments 158 Recs
- I’ve been sick in bed with a bad cold since Wednesday, and have been hovering and commenting on and off the whole time. Yesterday, I spotted no less than four classic troll diaries and two concern trolling ones about, you guessed it, one Joseph...576 comments 856 Recs
- With no national support or attention, Arkansas women (and a few good men) did what everyone said couldn’t be done. On July 5, organizers turned in enough signatures to qualify an amendment to restore access to abortion in Arkansas. The amendment will...110 comments 595 Recs
- I have had it with this goddamned witch hunt aimed at forcing the most effective U.S. president of the last 60 years to step down. Enough is enough! We’ve seen all this bullshit before, in 2016: Hillary Clinton’s health just became a real issue in the...85 comments 250 Recs
- (Edit: I realized I should have added something about “doing something”, so I put that at the bottom). I’m hoping we’re near the end of our FreakOut™ over the debate last week. Wow. In all my years of being alive, being a father, being in the Navy, and...13 comments 71 Recs
- Andrea Mitchell of NBC News reports that Hamas has made a concession which may lead to a cease-fire in the nine month war in Gaza and lead to the return of hostages including American hostages, a deluge of humanitarian aid and release of Palestinian...79 comments 214 Recs
- Allow me to present my case in response to Adam Serwer’s opinion piece “Biden Must Resign” - The Atlantic, July 3, 2024 President Biden should continue to unashamedly run for his second term as President of the United States. To call for the...45 comments 65 Recs
- Ukraine Invasion Day 865: end the war with a sovereign UKR state led by an autonomous UKR governmentRussian forces conducted a series of drone and missile strikes against Ukraine on July 5 and 6. Ukrainian Air Force Commander Lieutenant General Mykola Oleshchuk reported that Russian forces launched 27 Shahed-136/131 drones from occupied Crimea and...44 comments 111 Recs
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- The July 5, 2024 update of NPR’s database on Department of Justice action on those charged with crimes linked to the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack (or riot or insurrection or word of your choice) records 1428 Number of people charged, federal 885...1 comments 3 Recs
- Joe Biden is the Democratic Nominee and he is not withdrawing from the race, and if he were to be usurped at the Democratic National Convention it would be wrong. It would be wrong for two reasons. First, it would be undemocratic to undermine the...5 comments 3 Recs
- Yes, this is a tough moment to be a Democrat – or even just a democrat, i.e., someone who believes in democracy. But wallowing or crying or rolling up into a ball sure isn’t going to help. Nor should we expect the Avengers to descend from the sky to...2 comments 8 Recs
- As I have written elsewhere, media personalities are not our friends. They are mostly risk-averse cowards, largely afraid to buck the slanted talking points that are sure to get their bosses’ chosen candidate elected. Noam Chomsky (putting aside where...3 comments 7 Recs
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- I post a weekly diary of historical notes, arts & science items, foreign news (often receiving little notice in the US) and whimsical pieces from the outside world that I often feature in "Cheers & Jeers". OK, you've been warned - here is this week's...2 comments 12 Recs
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- — — What happens when a non-stop lying Bully can bulldoze a true patriot and statesman on the national stage, without so much as a retort, from the event’s moderators? Apparently, heckling from the cheap-seats, now passes for civilized behavior. But I...4 comments 16 Recs
- Kevin Roberts said they’re in the process of a second American Revolution, one “which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.” That’s wrong on all counts. They drew first blood on January 6th. As to their messaging about this being a second...14 comments 98 Recs
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