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this is the kind of thing I’d definitely prefer to read.

I’d boycott red states out of fear as well as principle.

should be writhing in embarassment and shame.

Ditto w.r.t. Kavanaugh.

Hope you get super-well soon!

I’ll stop preferring Sanders when a beter alternative becomes available.  Few others even come close, and they have even less chance of getting elected to anything consequential than Sanders does.

how Obama just rolled over when the Republicans refuse to talk to his S. Ct. nominee.

We could all think of more, of course.

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especially including anyone the Dem establishment puts forward.

What “strenuous, and very public, diplomatic effort to avert” the war?  I followed this story pretty closely and saw no sign of it.

is also kicked off platforms controlled by US-based oligarchs.

Based on a 2015German report:

And whether any further fundings have occurred?  “Federal money for gun research all but disappeared after Congress in 1996 enacted the so-called Dickey Amendment, which barred the C.D.C. from spending money to “advocate or promote gun control. … In 2019, Dr. Rosenberg and Mr. Dickey’s former wife, Betty, … helped persuade Congress to rest…[Read more]

but I can’t agree with any characterization of objections to censorship as “whining.”

Give me back the traditional First Amendment exceptions; any incursions beyond that, I view as catastrophic for us all.

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/how-to-defeat-the-billionaire-class?s=r

(You can read it without subscribing, but I hope you’ll consider subscribing.)

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another means for privacy eliminated.

and I’m only part-way through the video.

Fwiw, while researching how “democratic” Ukraine is, I took a look at some other countries. None of the countries the US has invaded or otherwise meddled in during my lifetime for the stated purpose of spreading democracy do now actually qualify as democracies – at best, they’re hybrids, and several, s…[Read more]

in the videos above; but I’m going to fail again at restraining myself from complaining about the method of delivery: 12 min. to convey info that could have been communicated without material loss in one.