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By now, if you’re reading my cartoons, you know that I use AI to generate them. Feel free to vent your feelings about AI in the comments. You’re not bothering me. Instead, I’ve decided to ...
by PrivateIce
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Weather kept us from getting out in Michigan and the primary election meant no canvassing in Maryland (although weather might have prevented us from doing so anyway). These kinds of things happen, especially with Climate Change, and at the beginning of...
by snowbored
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In his article posted May 17, Professor Juan Cole at the University of Michigan provides several quotes from Vaughan Lowe, a lawyer and Oxford professor of Public International Law. Speaking at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), Professor Lowe...
by ybruti
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LIVE UPDATE FROM RING..Here Way to Watch Tyson Fury vs. Oleksandr Usyk fight card, live stream, PPV price, date and start time it’s FREE? Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk will meet on Saturday in Saudi Arabia in a fight that will determine the first...
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This cartoon is by me and Becky Hawkins. I’ll post a transcript in comments. We can keep making these cartoons because of lots of supporters pledging low amounts - $1-$3 - and that's just how I like it! Please peruse my peculiar but plucky Patreon!
by Barry Deutsch
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Experts on the breakdown of democracy warn us to be ready for when the bright red warning lights start flashing. And no sign is more ominous than when you have political leaders explicitly promoting violence against whole segments of the population....
by kindler
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Big story, these past few days, about Justice Alito’s house having flown the flag of the Insurrection just days after January 6. And about how Alito and Thomas should both recluse themselves from cases involving the Insurrection, and presidential...
by AndySchmookler
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This is not as big a book as The Shock Doctrine, but it is denser, with numerous illusions exposed by careful experiments. Naomi Klein was exposing one huge illusion with vast real-world consequences. Today I am taking on some of the most important...
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Welcome to DKos Asheville. This space appears each weekend to share links to news and opinion from Asheville and Western North Carolina. The floor is open for comment and discussion. Wishing all a good day from this beautiful part of the world. “Daily...
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By David Glenn Cox This is how things get started and wind up out of control. Supreme Court fudge, Samuel Alito is in trouble. Let me explain my dear Watson. Alito’s compound flew an upside-down American flag after January 6th. The first assumption, an...
by This Carbon Based Life
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Astoria, Oregon, situated at the mouth of the Columbia River within a few miles of the Pacific Ocean, began as a trading post known as Fort Astoria, named after John Jacob Astor, the New York ...
by Ojibwa
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Heather Cox Richardson is a national treasure. Her regular posts act as a historical record to the monumental times we are currently living through, as well as providing important context that adds depth to our understanding of the current events. I...
by Phi1istine
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A new, not-yet-peer-reviewed study from the National Bureau of Economic Research—the folks who designate the beginnings and endings of U.S. recessions—asserts that economic losses from temperature rise due to global warming will be far, far worse than...
by Meteor Blades
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I used to teach a course in satellite tracking, which involves a fair amount of statistics. For your poll debating pleasure, I offer this from the first year of Obama’s first term. Poll Tracker, now defunct I believe, let you do all kinds of...
by Mustellus
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At the outset of American involvement in World War II, America's mobilization to meet the threat of Fascism in those times (Germany, Japan, Italy) was astonishing: the numbers of tanks, planes, ships, etc. that got produced in a short time was more...
by AndySchmookler
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Good morning, Newdists. I’ve not been on line at all this week until now. It’s raining like hell out there, and tomorrow is graduation for at least 3 Univs that I know of. A friend’s kid is graduating. I was invited but I’m not going anywhere. I’ll...
by Crimson Quillfeather
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Is there a way to reverse the decision by five Republicans on the Supreme Court that it’s OK for billionaires and big corporations to bribe politicians? Americans are watching with increasing shock and dismay: — President Biden tried to knock up to...
by thomhartmann
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From Friday’s [May 17] “Letters from an American” article by Heather Cox Richardson: . . .today it [the Dow Jones index] closed above 40,000 for the first time in history, ending the day at 40,003.59. This extraordinary performance means investors have...
by EvanJellicoe
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I expect all of us have wondered how Israel’s far right took over their government. How Netanyahu is still Prime Minister though faced with serious corruption charges. Why the seeming majority of Israel’s people are against the extremists’ policies and...
by Solarman55
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"Wild Florida" is a diary series that explores the flora and fauna of the Sunshine State. Yes, we are a single-party wannabe-fascist state, but we have some amazing wildlife here.
by Lenny Flank
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