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Republican representative Darrell Issa of California says he will not run for re-election
Issa was first elected to Congress in 2001 to represent a district that was recently reconfigured due to Prop 50
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New footage yet again contradicts DHS claims about its killing of a US citizen Body camera video obtained by CBS News in the Ruben Ray Martinez case is another example of the administration misrepresenting lethal action from immigration agents.

New Footage Yet Again Contradicts DHS Claims About Its Killing of a US Citizen

Body camera video obtained by CBS News in the Ruben Ray Martinez case is another example of the administration misrepresenting lethal action from immigration agents.

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My brother, we had to explain a 1/3 pound burger was bigger than a quarter pound burger and still failed

Um, Fort Campbell middle school would like a word. We have many schools on bases, and Bolton knows it. More ghoulish nonsense from war Hawks to justify the murder of little girls.

BREAKING:Democrat Alex Holladay defeats Republican Bryan Renshaw in the Arkansas House District 70 special election, flipping the GOP-held suburban Little Rock seat from 🔴 to 🔵.

6. Russia is safe because it has nuclear weapons
7. Everyone rushes to acquire nukes

when you say "mobilize human beings," I'm rolling my eyes

There are a lot of posts out there with the close-up visual of Markwayne Mullin on January 6, but this is a better perspective.

He’s not protecting others; he’s protecting himself and hiding. You can see plenty of people at the entry door, ready to take on the insurrectionists, but not Markwayne.

I too have fond memories of the happy innocence of america when I was a child (a meatgrinder war in Vietnam, huge constitutional crisis with watergate on the horizon, gas shortages, inflation, political assassinations, etc etc)

‘Let Them Eat Cake’* Revisited

For a candidate who campaigned on lowering costs, the rapid hikes in gasoline prices seems like it should worry him, but he is as sanguine as the French aristocracy before The Horror... The president isn’t bothered by the at-home consequences of his new war.…

Workers in the US have more in common with workers in Iran than with their own billionaires and politicians.

This is a fact and a sad one, because it shows that the heartwarming Intelligent People Can Disagree world has been destroyed by bad faith and we just have to beat these guys at their own game.

the deal Obama achieved was free

Virginia Moves to Ban Schools From Calling Jan. 6 ‘Peaceful’ - GOP Erupts Over ‘Mind Control’ Claim Let me tell you about the latest conservative meltdown. Republicans are desperately attempting to rewrite the narrative of the Jan.

Virginia Moves to Ban Schools From Calling Jan. 6 ‘Peaceful’ - GOP Erupts Over ‘Mind Control’ Claim

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Pete Hegseth's murderous buffoonery, coming amid a lifetime in which he's betrayed everyone close to him and failed up from one disaster to the next, is a perfect example of how the appeal of Trumpism is that it creates a permission structure for people to openly be their worst selves

A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES …Massachusetts Bay, who were in the way and also beginning to trade some of their land to people outside the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Their chiet, Massasoit, was dead. His son Wamsutta had been killed by Englishmen, and Wamsutta's brother Metacom (later to be called King Philip by the English) became chief. The English found their excuse, a murder which they attributed to Metacom, and they began a war of conquest against tha Wampanoags, a war to take their land. They were clearly the aggressors, but claimed they attacked for preventive purposes, As Roger Williams, more friendly to the Indians than most, put it: "All men of conscience or prudence ply to windward, to maintain their wars to be defensive." Jennings says the elite of the Puritans wanted the war; the ordinary white Englishman did not want it and often refused to fight. The Indians certainly did not want war, but they matched atrocity with atroc-ity. When it was over, in 1676, the English had won, but their resources were drained; they had lost six hundred men. Three thousand Indians were dead, including Metacom himself. Yet the Indian raids did not stop.

Rereading Zinn, bc it feels appropriate, and this quote jumps out.

The thread of U.S. imperialism and the need to conquer other peoples for resources and power reaches far into the past, predating the establishment of this god awful country

Why was this story on the front page of the UK’s Daily Telegraph — but NOT America’s leading newspapers?

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Blue moone,
Thou sawest me stondinge
Al oon --
Wythout a dreame yn myne herte --
Wythout a love of myne owene.

Blue moone,
Thou knewest al Ich was ther for --
Thou heardest me sayinge a prayer for
Someone Ich trewelye koude care for.
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JUST IN Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs vetoes #SB1439 that would have created a special license plate, with $17 of the $25 fee being funneled to Turning Point USA.

We are not Charlie Kirk, we will not carry the flame, we won’t fight for the gospel, we won’t honor his name :)

There will be attacks on Americans and it'll be his fault.

the price of oil surging means you can burn your shein clothes, extract the oil, and make more money than you paid

CSPAN @cspan . @SpeakerJohnson after House blocked War Powers Resolution: "We're not at war, we have no intention at being at war. The president and the Department of Defense have made it very clear, this is a limited operation."

Darkly funny he had enough self-awareness to revert to "Department of Defense" here.

It wasn't a question, Donald. And you're stupid for thinking it was. You are also a traitor to our troops for ignoring the statement and not investigating if it is true.

LA City Council’s City President Marqueece Harris-Dawson says he has been pulled over four times while a member of the council; the most recent was this week. He missed a committee meeting because of the stop, according to him.

Among the questions: “how do you have this vehicle,” according to him.

However much you hate this person it isn’t enough.

The 75 Elections to Watch This March - Bolts The 2026 midterms really are starting. Five states hold all of their primaries for federal and state offices in March, and voters there face high-profile choices. They’ll decide which Democrat... Read More

Tempe, Arizona, has a contract with Flock, a surveillance company that shares data with law enforcement, including ICE. Ending that contract is one candidate’s priority in next week’s city council election there.

I hear people on TV say "mano a mano" when they mean "man to man." It doesn't mean that. It means "hand to hand."

now ask the idiot to point to it on a world map