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A very smart friend of mine, an attorney and staunch fighter for racial justice, posted the screen caps below wherein the OP reports that he was able to get one of his local christo-fascist churches booted from tax exempt status with the IRS. The post...
by antonrobb
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on Wed Jul 06, 2022 at 06:52 AM PDT
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The latest twist in the Proud Boys’ evolving post-insurrection strategy—in which they have shifted their efforts toward insinuating themselves into local right-wing protests and causes, hijacking them along the way—has been taking shape in the Pacific...
by David Neiwert
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on Wed Aug 11, 2021 at 05:22 PM PDT
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Dictator 2.0: Be Fruitful, and Multiply “Democracy itself is imperiled here at home and around the world. What we do now, what we do now, how we honor the memory of the fallen will determine whether or not democracy will long endure.” –Joe Biden, May...
by dsooley
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on Thu Jun 17, 2021 at 10:05 PM PDT
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From the Beginning Maybe I might've changed And not been so cruel Not been such a fool— --Greg Lake (Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Trilogy 1972) In November of 1923, the leader of the Nazi Party, Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP,...
by dsooley
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on Sat Jan 09, 2021 at 05:43 PM PST
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Just when you think that things can’t get crazier, the United States Secretary of State, while visiting Jerusalem, says on a Christian TV network that he thinks the idea that the Resolute Desk chair-warmer was sent by God to save the Jews is “possible”...
by KM Wehrstein
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on Fri Mar 22, 2019 at 08:21 AM PDT
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As excitement grows on the Left for an anticipated “Blue Wave” in the upcoming midterm elections, it is apparent that what has transpired over the past few election cycles has the very real ...
by Rmuse
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on Mon May 28, 2018 at 06:15 AM PDT
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Despite what evangelical know-nothings the current administration is overflowing with claim incessantly, the intent of the Founding Fathers and Constitution’s Framers is crystal clear regarding ...
by Rmuse
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on Wed May 23, 2018 at 08:00 AM PDT
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The U.S. Constitution demands that there is no religious test to serve in any government capacity as an elected office holder or employee and for good reason; America is not a theocracy. Despite clear language in the Constitution, and historical...
by Rmuse
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on Mon Feb 12, 2018 at 11:34 AM PST
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If it bleeds, it leads - unless it’s the blood of the American Indian. Right? MSNBC and televised media?Roughly three in ten Native Americans say they have been personally discriminated against...when interacting with the police (29%). Would a TSA...
by Winter Rabbit
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on Thu Feb 08, 2018 at 12:28 PM PST
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on Thu Jan 26, 2017 at 11:55 AM PST
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Bernie Sanders fought for a social revolution with the goal of economic prosperity for every American. Instead, we got an economic revolution with the goal of greater prosperity for wealthy Americans and the global oligarchy, and motivated more by a...
by ProseAndThorn
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on Tue Jan 17, 2017 at 08:00 AM PST
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Mike Pence is reknowned for nothing if not his medieval legislation, such as burial laws for fetal tissue, and his followers know it. So when Mike Pence was celebrating Christmas some concerned members of his flock decided to deliver a petition to...
by ursulafaw
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on Mon Jan 09, 2017 at 09:00 AM PST
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(Brexit: shocking disaster, incalculable foreseeable and unforseeable damage going forward, all over the world: just shows you how thoroughly a comparatively small bloc of passionate, deeply committed, deeply stupid voters can fuck things up for all of...
by Bill Prendergast
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on Fri Jun 24, 2016 at 03:00 PM PDT
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When you hear Ted Cruz or any other politician talk about turning the US into a Christian nation, beware. This does NOT mean keeping “one nation under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance or “In God We Trust” in our money. Turning America into a Christian nat
by Claire Conner
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on Thu Mar 24, 2016 at 12:54 PM PDT
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"Ted will be our next senator. And I gave Rafael a word the other day I said, 'This is just the beginning... He's going to become senator - and I believe some day either Supreme Court justice or ...
by Troutfishing
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on Wed Mar 25, 2015 at 07:48 AM PDT
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/24/us-usa-idaho-christian-idUSKBN0LS2Q020150224
The Kootenai County (Idaho) GOP has a proposal for a platform plank to declare Idaho a “Christian state.” ...
by Village Vet
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on Wed Feb 25, 2015 at 06:28 AM PST
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The subtext of the SOTUA was the trap shutting on the stupidest and most intelligent attempt to re-instate a corporate feudal system since the last one they fell into.
What I saw was a failed ...
by nolagrl
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on Wed Jan 29, 2014 at 10:26 PM PST
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The devils and demon-possessed are all over the place.
And, we're going to have them around until after the election of 2016.
There's that cadaverously thin and hollow-eyed Paul Ryan and his ...
by Karen Hedwig Backman
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on Sun Oct 20, 2013 at 11:12 AM PDT
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I don't think these GOP Assholes understand what they are asking for. I know that they have a fantasy about breaking up the union, and turning this into a collection of city states with a' la carte` ...
by GreenMother
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on Thu Oct 10, 2013 at 07:07 AM PDT
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This is an Open Thread / Coffee Hour and all topics of conversation are welcome. Today's suggested topic is metonymy and a update on the Vallejo City Council candidates that are running for the 4 ...
by linkage
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on Mon Jul 15, 2013 at 01:11 PM PDT
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