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- an exhibition of optical effects and illusions
- a: a constantly shifting complex succession of things seen or imagined
b: a scene that constantly changes - a bizarre or fantastic …
- thinks Sanders has a very narrow path to the nomination (almost impossible).
- will vote for Clinton if she's the nominee.
- thinks Democrats and the Clinton campaign are setting …
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The Greens are the Only Anti-Establishment Party
The Green Party is increasingly seen as the only viable alternative to the establishment parties in today’s political landscape. From the Canary: "Polling shows public see the Green Party as the anti-establishment party”.
Polling indicates that …
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MAGA is an emotional movement by @transworld@masto.ai
Trump officials have warned that transgender troops weaken the force, but a new review of open service tells a different …
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I’m Tired of being Nostradamus
Ya know, it’s really fucking irritating to be right. I’ve known for a while what’s coming. Trans people told you, black people told you, marginalised people told you years ago this would happen. But it didn’t impact you, so you didn’t listen.
Donald …
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The Big Ask
I like what Cory Doctorow posts on here a lot. I agree with his prescriptions to the problems a lot too. However, what’s lacking is context regarding why these solutions may not come to fruition.
It’s hard to call a government that allows …
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Book Favourite: A Demon Haunted World
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan 📚
This is one of my favourite books. So much of what is wrong with the world is within the pages of this book. Nostradamus would have been proud of Sagan.
“I have a …
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The Rise of Far-Right Leaders in Western Democracies: British Politics is Driving me Crazy Edition
Hi, my name is Marti Abernathey and I’m an American that’s settled in the UK. I’m happy here, but lately British politics and the thinking around it from the general public is gas-lighting me. From Davie Moo’s TikTok:
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Mastodon Reports
I’m quite amused at the moderation of my Mastodon instance. I’ve been reported by exactly two different factions: Zionists, and Democrats. That just about tracks. Silencing, for having opinions contrary to the narratives of both factions, …
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Who Owns Bluesky and Why it Matters
My initial reservations about Bluesky were that it is algorithm-based, it is a closed platform (you can’t run your own Bluesky server), and it was first created by Twitter’s founder Jack Dorsey.
Reading Cory Doctorow’s Bluesky and …
Transgender
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The Labour Party's Unseen Influence on Trump's Win
I haven’t seen too many people talk about one angle of the Donald Trump win. They did awfully after getting advice from the Labour Party. You can never tell how much advice they actually listened to Labour advisors like Jonathan Ashworth, but the …
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What Trump’s Election Tells Us About Global Politics
I’m an American living in the UK, and my wife is Brazilian. in both the UK and in Brazil, I’m seeing people say they can’t believe that Trump won the election. This is an extremely myopic view.
Fourteen million voters picked the …
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The Rise of the 4B Movement Post-USA Election and How it’s Transphobic
Since the election of Donald Trump in the USA, there’s been a resurgence of the 4B movement online. From Wikipedia:
4B (or “Four Nos”) is a gender critical, radical feminist movement. It first emerged during the South Korean …
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The Future of American Politics: Moving Beyond Party Lines
I woke up yesterday morning in my bed in Southeast England. I realized the country of my birth has elected Donald Trump again. I wrote this post in 2016 talking about the many reasons the Democrats lost to Donald Trump. Over the four years after the …
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Democratic Phantasmagoria
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Reactionaries, TERFs, and Bodily Autonomy
A couple of things have been stewing in my brain for a while, and I can't stop thinking about them.
First off is a term that describes people who don't believe in the right of individuals to make decisions about their own lives and bodies. Radical …
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The Dilemma at the Center of the UK Labour and USA's Democratic Party
I'm an American living in the UK for the last six years. When I lived in the United States, I was involved with Democratic politics on a state and national level. Reflecting on that experience has made me conclude that the Labour Party and the …
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The Deprogram: S1 E2
I just started listening to a podcast called The Deprogram. You can find them on Twitter too. This episode of the podcast is about American Exceptionalism.
American Exceptionalism
Many Americans have never travelled outside of the United States …
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Examining 'Twilight of Democracy': A Critical Review
Twilight of Democracy: The Failure of Politics and the Parting of Friends by Anne Applebaum
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
I can appreciate this Applebaum's perspective, but a few things bother me. She centres herself as the unchangeable middle who is free …
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Who Is To Blame for Trump's Win?
I've seen many Facebook/Twitter friends post this story from Newsweek:
The implication is that if not for Sanders supporters, Hillary Clinton would be POTUS, not Trump. It wasn't Bernie Sanders supporters that sunk the Clinton campaign. It was …
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Healthcare
It's Foolish to Think of the Saving of Obamacare is a Victory
Many Democrats are celebrating the defeat of the Republican's attempt to "repeal and replace" Obamacare this morning. What the hell are Americans celebrating?
I'm an American ex-pat working for the National Health Service (NHS) in the United …
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Understanding Privilege in Atheist Spaces
The genesis of this post is from a comment I left on The Thinking Atheist Podcast page. The host, Seth Andrews, invited various people on his podcast to talk about "Trigger Warnings and Safe Spaces." One of the guests was Bill Ligertwood, a …
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Bernie or Meh, The Clinton Path to Defeat
I’ll say it up front, I’m a Bernie Sanders supporter that:
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James O'Brien on Jeremy Corbyn:
Listening to the podcast of the Thursday edition of LBC's James O'Brien's radio show, I was surprised that he'd admit that he might be wrong about The Labour Party's leader, Jeremy Corbyn. Previously, he'd said that Corbyn supporters were akin to …
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My Klansman Poppy Taught Me How To Love Republicans
Growing up in a super dysfunctional household, I had very little in the way of nurturing. Between working full time and regularly engaging in marital battles, my mom had little quality time with us kids. I spent a lot of time with my …
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Climate Change and the Search for Truth
(Recently on a progressive e-list I’m on a person pointed to the work done by Science and Public Policy Institute and suggested that we “learn the truth” about climate change. The following is my response to him)
When someone claims …
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Mark Twain, Ya Ain't So Bad
Today my son was complaining about how he hates being forced to read books, that it took all the pleasure out of them. Finally I had found a way to pounce on him and tell him about my love for Mark Twain! I too had the same sanitized version of …
Reflection
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Religion
An Apology To My Christian Friends
Writing a response to a hateful, bigoted blogger, the words of Gandhi came to mind.
"I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians."“Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. I consider western Christianity in its practical working a …
Indiana
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Rishawn and Abdul
Masson’s Blog recently posted about Republicans and Democrats being at each other’s throats and the prisoner’s mentality that has manifested itself here locally.
I think that description applies pretty aptly to the local blogosphere …
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Judge Not Lest Ye Be Scalia
I’m continually amazed at why people are afraid “to call a spade a spade.” The Washington Post reported Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia recently rebuked the Courts ruling overturning anti-sodomy laws. He said jokingly that …
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The Cost of War
My blood boils when I read crap from illogical, immoral, blind followers of President Bush. This is the cost of the real cost of war…
(hat tip to Free Iraq by way of A Citizen Of Mosul)
Precise collateral damage my ass…. Try to stop …
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The Republican Utopia
Listening to Mitch Daniels answer questions on the radio on Wednesday night, he lost my vote in the next election. I’m quite the liberal/progressive when it comes to my political beliefs. Even so, last election I voted for Mitch Daniels for …
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Mitch Loves The Jesus, Not The First Amendment
Indiana Governor, Mitch Daniels, called the recent ruling on Christian prayer at the statehouse “regrettable.” He went on to say:
"I just think it's regrettable. "It's in a long line now of, I think, confusing and sometimes clumsy …
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Lend A Hand, Just Not Mine
"It depends on what the meaning of the words 'is' is."
"To the extent the federal government didn't fully do its job right, I take responsibility."
"It depends on how you define alone "
Who uttered these quotes? The first and third quotes are …
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Freedom Is On the March For Crackers
Watching President Bush on CNN this morning talk about the “war on terror” something hit me. How can we be in “a global war on terror” as President Bush calls it, yet we don’t call the “detainees” down at …
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How Low Will You Go?
Friday, George Bush seemed to shoulder some of the blame for the slow reaction of federal rescue and relief efforts. Not a day later he shifted the blame to state and local officials in Louisiana. Bush said “The magnitude of responding to a …
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Gay Swedish Fiction By John Q Republican
This entry is a favorite of mine from my LiveJournal
Below is an article was in our local newspaper, “The Indianapolis Star.”
Lori Borgman Marriage: It’s for kids' sake March 14, 2004
If you want to peer into the crystal ball to see …
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Simple Solution, Water and Oil
Christ, are we too busy robbing Iraq of its riches that we cannot help the people LIVE? From Hnk’s blog:
"'Day after day the situation in Iraq is getting better,' that's what one high ranking military official said. Reality shows the opposite. …
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DON'T YOU DARE CALL ME A NAZI, YOU NAZI!
Because the whole system [is] like going to a concentration camp and picking out which people go to the death chamber." - Bob Novak 5/14/05
“I mean, imagine, the rule has been in place for 214 years that this is the way we confirm judges. …
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Please Bring Our Soldiers Home...
Help Jesus' General in the effort to recruit college Republicans into the armed forces.
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TRUTH IS BAD!
A youth opinion writer for the Indianapolis star wrote recently that
"Howard Deans recent comment generalizing the GOP as 'pretty much a white, Christian party' was both untimely and ill-advised." and that "The greatest prospect for the Democratic …
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Terri Schiavo
I told you so….
From the Florida’s medical examiner’s office:
"'She was incapable of surviving without her feeding tube,' Mr Throgmartin said, adding that she was blind and incapable of thinking, feeling or …
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Welcome to Jesusland
As a child, I used to be afraid that one day soon Armageddon would come and destroy my world. In those days I feared the rapture, yet now I welcome it.
"I'm a radical! I'm a real extremist. I don't want to impeach judges. I want to impale them!" - …
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Nervous....
Well, I went in the Indiana Statehouse for the first time in my life. And who stepped through those doors? Marti. It’s wierd to be in a space as a female that I have never been in as a male.
I was nervous as hell at first because it was a press …
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Decisive Victory
The Bush website proclaims a decisive victory! You be the judge….
CNN: Kerry: 87% Bush: 21% Tie 2%
CBS: Kerry: 87% Bush: 22% Tie: less than 1%
and that bastion of liberalism…
Fox News Kerry 51% Bush 48% Tie: less than 1% …
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My weekend
Sorry for not posting of late. I read a couple days back, but I can’t read back far enough to get caught up. If you have had something major happen, post a link to the url and I will make sure to read.
The reason I haven’t posted is …
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CNN's Decision
I sent this e-mail to CNN:
http://www.logcabin.org/logcabin/notice-description.tcl?newsletter_id=918062
I learned from the above URL that you refuse to run a commercial (a very tame commercial that I watched at their website) from the Log Cabin …
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500 parade
Cinnamon and I walked down to the Indianapolis 500 Parade. I took a bunch of pics….
He looks hot, she just looks dim. :)
I wish someone would have told me that President Bush was gonna be in the parade.
Sabrina, you need to zap some decent …
