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Newest "anti-woke" tantrum: Right-wingers don't think kids of different races can be friends
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We all know what "Make America Great Again" means.
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Newest "anti-woke" tantrum: Right-wingers don't think kids of different races can be friends
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We all know what "Make America Great Again" means.
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Good neighborship
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Quite literally. It's a shared project between Belgium and France.
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Haley says US has ‘never been a racist country’ | CNN Politics
America has always had racism, but America has never been a racist country
I'm really quite stunned by this claim. She seems to be parsing words to dodge reality. The US wrote slavery into its Constitution, engaged in a series of racist genocides of the indigenous people, and excluded immigrants of various ethnicities throughout its history. We've certainly improved, but to say we've never been governed by racism is either ignorant, revisionist, or pandering to some of the worst people.
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Incorrectly assuming something is a date
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WASP = White Anglo-Saxon Protestants. It's a reach, but it's funny so I'll give it to them.
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"I'm so tired of these psychos": Parents in a Pennsylvania swing district toss out Moms for Liberty
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Good for the community, too. It takes a village to get rid of that astroturf group.
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Alberta woman dies after being denied transplant for refusing to get COVID vaccine
"Taking this vaccine offends my conscience. I ought to have the choice about what goes into my body, and a lifesaving treatment cannot be denied to me because I chose not to take an experimental treatment for a condition"
Hun, you're not the only person who is looking for a transplant. If you're not going to protect yourself from COVID-19, you don't get the organ. Plain and simple.
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New Explosive Roger Stone Video Dooms Donald Trump’s Main Legal Defense
Reminder that Roger Stone coordinated timing with WikiLeaks to drop the emails that Russia had hacked and passed off to WikiLeaks. The low point of Trump's campaign - the release of the Access Hollywood tape - had WikiLeaks dripping emails within hours. Julian Assange's outfit had fallen from a champion of press freedom to a facilitator of the Russian dictatorship interfering in elections.
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1Password discloses security incident linked to Okta breach
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Regardless, I'm glad they are being open about this. I use 1password, so I want to know absolutely anything that could be a threat, especially after the debacle with LastPass.
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The Supreme Court says it is adopting a code of ethics for the first time
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To paraphrase someone else, it has enough should clauses to drive several favorable RV loans through.
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Mike Johnson elected House speaker with broad GOP support
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Seems like moderate Republicans weren't objecting to an extremist (ala Jim Jordan). They were objecting to an extremist who had too much of a public profile. They just needed someone obscure enough that they wouldn't catch too much flak for choosing them.
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New far-right “vision board” outlaws trans people and imprisons all pornographers
Philip Wallach of the American Enterprise Institute called the visioning effort an “authoritarian fantasy.”
When the center-right is like "slow down, too far crazy right", you know it's bad.
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Israel’s military claims it has cut Gaza in half, surrounded Gaza City
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One issue the IDF has been working with for a while is the sheer amount of tunneling by Hamas. There is dense housing right on top of the tunnels. Destroying the tunnels can lead to the above buildings collapsing, as well as the damage caused by any explosives.
Will they annex and depopulate Gaza? I hope not. That's just going to create another generation of fighters itching for revenge. Grievances outlast Hamas, and they will likely find a form. That said, maybe a single state solution will be the best form of government, as long as Palestinians, Jewish Israelis, and other groups are guaranteed equal rights. The half-ass "two state" attempt right now isn't working.
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Bernice King Calls Out Amy Schumer For Implying Her Father [MLK Jr.] Would Support Bombing Palestinians
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Don't forget posting small excerpts of larger works that completely miss the larger meaning in favor of a modern political agenda.
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Crimean Tatars being herded onto trains for deportation by the Stalinist regime, where 22-40% would die after 5 years of forced labor and resettlement, 1944
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Okay, but this actually happened and is well documented. The event is not under question.
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Exclusive: John Kelly goes on the record to confirm several disturbing stories about Trump | CNN Politics
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There are plenty of veterans out there that don't advertise it because it's not a core piece of their identity. Of course the 'Murica veterans are going to be more frequently Trumpers. My uncle was in the Vietnam War, but he's only talked about it a handful of times when asked. He despises Trump, not because he's a vet, but because of who Trump is.
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Canada warns travelers to US about anti-LGBTQ laws
check relevant state and local laws
Nice of them to include this. It varies so widely by state. If you're in San Francisco, you're going to be just fine. If you're out in the sticks in Texas, you might find yourself watching your back.
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And if they didn't want Hakeem Jeffries specifically, they could have bargained for someone else. If they were in the mood to cross the aisle, they would be holding all the cards.
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YSK that there is no such thing as an "alpha wolf"
I just call them good doggos. Is that okay?
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Trump was warned that FBI could raid Mar-a-Lago months ahead of time, lawyer's notes show
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What really kills me is how even people who don't particularly like him are backing him. My husband's uncle doesn't like the man, but in a discussion with me replied to the number of charges with "if that's not an abuse of power I don't know what is". It's like he hadn't even considered that Trump could well be guilty enough to warrant multiple indictments.
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American Communists aligned with the Soviet Union attack protesting Ukrainians during the Soviet-engineered genocide of the Holodomor, Chicago, USA, 1933
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Remember, it's only genocide if it's perpetrated by the West or capitalists.