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"I don't regard Putin as a bad guy." — U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff Rep. Jim Hines (D-CT) has called the latest Witkoff/Rubio kerfuffle a “Goat Rodeo” What does goat rodeo mean? A goat rodeo is a slang term for something going totally,...
by annieli
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The Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) governs the conduct of every person in the United States military, ...
by sabrina haake
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What if every state did the Transparent Election Initiative to negate the pernicious effects of Citizens United and its political action committee grifting down by the dental floss bush. Every state, whether via legislators or ballot initiatives, has...
by annieli
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Randall Munroe, creator of the XKCD comic strip, published this comic yesterday titled “Fifteen Years.” This comic is the fourth one in a series since 2012 - 2012: Two Years, 2017: Seven Years 2020: Ten Years 2020: Fifteen Years Parts of the previous...
by AKALib
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Ukraine says it agrees with much of the provisions of the revised peace plan that Europeans have developed. Russia says Ни за что. It seems to me that Ukraine agreeing to limit the size of the armed forces to 800k is not much of a concession since...
by quaoar
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I do not live in Boston. The nuance of the city’s politics is likely lost on me. The closest i came to Boston politics was working with an engineer who was Mayor Menino’s (RIP) brother in law who had some interesting insights. Like when his sister...
by RandomNeuron
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All that work Steve Witkoff did to appease Putin and it’s all getting carved up. Poor Steve. Trump isn’t a details guy — unless it involves putting gold-plated crap all over the Oval Office. Trump was in a damn hurry to force Ukraine to accept by...
by quaoar
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The resignation of one of the most prominent and divisive figures in the MAGA movement shocked many on Friday, after Marjorie Taylor Greene's bombshell announcement that she would be leaving office. Good riddance for a MAGA phenomenon that lasted far...
by annieli
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Social Media's version of stochastic counterterrorism in X is Rentier Capitalism amok Translation of Mister Orange ‘accordion hands’ Krasnov killing the Department of Education (or putting it on life-support) demoting ‘professional’ college degrees:...
by annieli
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I thought I was way past being shocked by anything Trump does, but this story that broke yesterday will go down in history — and not in a good way. First, we have a bipartisan group of senators saying that they were told by Marco Rubio that the plan...
by quaoar
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