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While looking up references for a recent post, I rediscovered something Sara Robinson wrote back in 2009 that reads now like a terrible prophecy. Robinson has a number of posts archived at Orcinus that are must reads, along with Dave Niewert’s own...
by xaxnar
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on Wed Feb 01, 2017 at 07:55 PM PST
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TRUMP and his entire kakistocracy cesspool is Very Bad for Americas Image …and American Business interests:
SEE DailyKos Mexico BOYCOTTS DJT: He is 'Bad for American Business'
ALSO Mexicans protest Trump with massive boycott of U.S. companies...
by LOrion
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on Wed Feb 01, 2017 at 03:43 PM PST
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On Tuesday, January 31, just over ten days after Mein Führer Donald Trump was sworn in on the same Bible that Abraham Lincoln was sworn in on, 14 Jewish community centers (JCC) in 10 states had bomb threats called in. Director of the JCC Association of...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Wed Feb 01, 2017 at 11:19 AM PST
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During the campaign, CNN went farther than any other network in booking toadies to explain away Donald Trump's most offensive statements, positions and gaffes. We heard from Jeff Lord. We heard from Trump's ex-campaign runner Lewandowski. We heard from...
by Hunter
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on Wed Feb 01, 2017 at 10:17 AM PST
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Just a quick note. I just tried calling both of my senators (Schumer and Gillibrand) to filibuster the horrendous Gorsuch nomination today. I couldn’t get through — lines were busy, voicemail was filled up. I was still able to leave messages at their...
by xaxnar
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on Wed Feb 01, 2017 at 10:26 AM PST
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Here’s a letter I have been sending to every Senate Democrat I can, even those outside my state, because my two Senators are both members of the GOP. My parents, who were both WWII Vets would be appalled at what’s happening and writing helps me dispose...
by Illaraphaniel
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on Wed Feb 01, 2017 at 08:42 AM PST
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One of the biggest frustrations of being a Democrat, as we all know here, is that our leaders in Congress are consistently silent when Republicans grab power. It’s called the “battered wife syndrome”, “ostrich syndrome”, or “collegial-to-a-fault...
by CanyonWren
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on Wed Feb 01, 2017 at 08:32 AM PST
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(Also published on Medium here.)
Although some have been saying this for quite a while, yesterday was the first time that I connected the dots into a cogent strategy, and it truly didn’t seem like hyperbole to say that the US is teetering...
by David121
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on Wed Feb 01, 2017 at 06:34 AM PST
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We saw it in DC, Trevor Noah saw it in New York.
Like a lot of other people all across the country, I rushed to /r/Dailyshow on Reddit to check. And my concern was echoed all across the country. EXCEPT ….. not in Canada. There it was fine.
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by Victor Klemperer Respawned
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on Tue Jan 31, 2017 at 09:20 PM PST
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I would like to apologize to Fox News personality Sean Hannity for ever suggesting that he is a racist. I realize now that he is, in fact, a fascist. An authoritarian bootlicker; a dull-minded propagandist for the power of the moment; an amoral and...
by Hunter
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on Tue Jan 31, 2017 at 03:01 PM PST
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Oh look, Sen. Mitch McConnell is having another one of his frequent bouts of The Amnesia. Maybe Donald Trump is only the tip of a mental health iceberg: Are all our Republican leaders suffering from an inability to remember their own statements from...
by Hunter
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on Tue Jan 31, 2017 at 01:30 PM PST
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As part of the new Republican push toward authoritarianism, the party has indicated we can expect absolutely no House Oversight inquiries into Trump's refusal to divest from businesses that he will now be profiting from as president. Yes, it quite...
by Hunter
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on Tue Jan 31, 2017 at 11:34 AM PST
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Amy Goodman at Democracy Now! had Sarwat Husain on to discuss a recent, and alarming survey that was sent to hundreds of Muslim leaders in Texas. More alarming is that the survey was sent by Republican Rep. Kyle Biedermann.
The inflammatory...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Tue Jan 31, 2017 at 10:39 AM PST
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Ten years from now we will all be asked by a child who is five years old today: what did you do when Donald Trump became President?
Depending on what happens within the next six months or a year, your answer may have to be whispered or stated...
by MoDem
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on Tue Jan 31, 2017 at 07:15 AM PST
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As the man said we have had vicious kings and idiot kings but I don’t think we have ever been cursed by a vicious idiot boy king before (www.youtube.com/...). Well Tyrion I think you nailed it son, particularly when it comes to Foreign Policy. We have...
by TrickleDownPoverty
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on Tue Jan 31, 2017 at 08:17 AM PST
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...but it can, & is already well underway. I think this is a very cogent analysis of what is happening & what the Trump & Bannon plan to do: all actions & signs point to this. Please read:...
by yunohu
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on Mon Jan 30, 2017 at 10:44 PM PST
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My grandmother is almost 95 years old. She fled the Stalinist takeover of a formerly-independent eastern european country with my mom on her back, traversed two war zones, and spent 2 years as a displaced person in a camp in the American zone of...
by Eomer
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on Mon Jan 30, 2017 at 06:24 PM PST
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Bannon's last job was peddling racism, conspiracies—but Trump gives him a top national security seat With the man who turned Breitbart "News" from a conservative outlet to one catering to "alt-right" white nationalism having now been promoted to the top ranks of Trump's National Security Council, ...
by Hunter
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on Tue Jan 31, 2017 at 09:01 AM PST
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Trump is singlehandedly trashing our country’s reputation as a place of freedom and refuge. Okay, he does have some help from Bannon and the servile acquiescence of the Republican establishment. ...
by brooklynpaul
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on Mon Jan 30, 2017 at 03:00 PM PST
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Why aren't more American business leaders speaking out against Trump's destructive immigration orders? Take a wild guess.
A few chief executives joined protests against President Donald Trump's temporary ban on immigration from seven Muslim...
by Hunter
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on Mon Jan 30, 2017 at 01:05 PM PST
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