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On 24 August in the year 410, Rome was overrun for the first time in almost 1000 years. Visigoths led by Alaric I sacked Rome completely. Shocked cable news pundits at the time opined…
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Attacks by Republican fundamentalists on women’s human rights in the US have accelerated over the past five-plus years. These attacks, obviously, are based on fear. Much like their brethren in countries such as Iran,…
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Close Your Eyes And See   After 20 years, over $2 trillion spent, mountains of dead. What was it all for? On 1 October 2001, three weeks after the 9/11 attacks and six days…
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If This Was Scratch And Sniff You Would Smell The Horseshit   Rightwing Republicans and their media leaders have been quick to condemn President Joe Biden for failing to evacuate Afghan allies. In the…
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The Blame Game, of course, has begun. Media outlets could not wait. They were forming at the mouth, ready to sell headlines and bylines, eager to forget what came before. And then they pounced.…
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Philip Pullman. Zadie Smith. Giannina Braschi. Wendell Steavenson.   The commercial pressures, the forces urging us to buy and discard and buy again. When everything in public life has a logo attached to it,…
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“It’s not about comparing them. It’s more about seeing what happened before in history and what’s happening now or in the last few years”. A new documentary takes a deep dive into the historic…
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"I will fight like hell for you every single day" Well, Thanks Gov. Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul officially will be New York's first female Governor, in 13 days or sooner. Yesterday, as the world…
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Sandra Sealy. Kimberle Williams Crenshaw. Jessica Valenti.   Women have always had to be #creative about making limited resources work to sustain themselves and their families. They understand what it means to make the…
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Signs That Gulf Stream Is At Risk Of Collapse A shutdown of the currents would have devastating global impact and must be prevented, say worried scientists. Such an event would have catastrophic consequences around…
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NOPE! She Has Spoken. The former failed vice presidential candidate and former Alaska governor Sarah Palin said recently that she is thinking about running for senator in 2022 to unseat Alaska's Lisa Murkowski. But…
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High-Ranking Cowards The two highest-ranking elected Republicans in the United States of America said they were too busy to watch the congressional testimony of four police officers who defended them, the rest of their…
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Rene Descartes. Michael Curtis. William Carr.   Good sense is the most equitably distributed thing in the world, for each man considers himself so well provided with it that even those who are most…
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Wealth Supremacists And White Supremacists. United In Anti-Democracy, Backed By SCOTUS ˜ A Sunday Read That Will Make You Crap Your Pants ˜ Why isn’t Joe Biden doing all he can to protect American…
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You're Not A Senator. Haven't Been For A While.   Since January of this year, at least 14 Republican-led states have gone after the voting rights of American citizens with a vengeance. At least…
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When You've Been Exposed You Can't Cover Up What's Been Laid Bare When Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi refused on Wednesday to seat Republican Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio and Jim…
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Suddenly, right-wing Republicans and their lying brethren in bullshit-media outlets have decided getting vaccinated might not be all that bad, that getting the shots just might save your life. What changed? After months and…
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According to a news report from The Guardian, Russian president Vladimir Putin launched a secret multi-agency effort to interfere in U.S. democracy with the goal of putting Donald Trump in the White House. The…
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Think Republican Attacks On Voting Rights In Georgia, Florida, Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona, Texas And Other States Is No Big Deal, That There's Time To Turn America's Traitors Around…   Then Remember This…   In…
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  We Learn Or We Rot   Republican Representative Andy Biggs of Arizona was asked at a recent event sponsored by the far-right group Patriot Voices, a Rick Santorum organisation, what he thought about…
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When Someone Tells You, Shows You, Who And What They Are, Believe Them In a leaked video, Republican Representative Chip Roy of Texas at an event hosted by far-right Patriot Voices admits his party…