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I’ve always dipped into my retirement income to donate to political campaigns. I give of my time as well, but haven’t attempted to quantify that. In past years, however, I found myself committing some of the cardinal sins of so many donors: giving on...
by Blue Boomer
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Since The Washington Post’s Nov. 28 report that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered a second missile strike to kill survivors of an alleged drug-smuggling boat coming out of Venezuela, there’s been plenty of coverage throughout the legacy media and...
by Meteor Blades
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President Donald Trump went on a manic late night social media posting binge on Monday night, reinforcing concerns about how abnormal his behavior has been during this presidency.
Between the hours ...
by Oliver Willis
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The White House can’t seem to take a hint: Artists don’t want their music all over the Trump administration’s egregiously cruel deportation videos.�
Sabrina Carpenter is the latest musician ...
by Alix Breeden
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In 1974, as the full extent of the Watergate cover-up scandal became known, the people awarded Nixon a -36% approval rating. No President since Gallup started polling has come close. But Trump is taking a run at it. At his inauguration, Gallup had him...
by TheCriticalMind
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“Is it my imagination, or is dying, and grieving, harder in the age of Trump with his endless flak field of chaos, cruelty, corruption, and lies?” The question hangs in the air as my buddy, a hospice Bereavement Counselor, takes a sip of his high...
by Scott Janssen
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The Obesity Epidemic: What Really Happened in the 1980s You've seen the arguments. Seed oils are poison. Sugar is the devil. Fast food destroyed America. The government ruined everything. Or maybe it's all Big Pharma's fault. Everyone's got a villain....
by lobachevsky
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I came out as bisexual in 2009. It was hard, having been raised to believe that being queer was the worst thing you could be, worse than a murderer, a rapist or a pedophile, as gay people were automatically all 3. It was, I thought, the hardest thing I...
by A Bleeding God
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When Tyson Foods announced it would close its beef processing plant in Lexington, Nebraska in early 2026, most Americans didn’t notice. But they should have. Not because Lexington is unique — but because it isn’t. What’s happening there is a warning, a...
by sbanks
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I’m certain you seen stories similar to this, a single family half MAGA, half not. Two kids, a son (Chad) and a daughter (Haley) who are essentially progressives living in LA and New York(?) while their parents in Oklahoma are both hard-core full-on...
by Frank Vyan Walton
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