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Tue, 11/07/2023 - 02:30
Why Trump is beating DeSantis It’s still a long way until the first Republican primaries but unless something changes quickly, it is looking more and more grim for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and more and more secure for former President Donald Trump. The polls in the early primary states show that Trump is still polling at least 20 points higher than DeSantis who still isn’t catching on. DeSantis appeared on Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo’s show this weekend and insisted that he’s floundering because the News Media doesn’t want him to be the nominee which isn’t true at all. If anything they were champing at the bit for a real horse race against Donald Trump because that would make excellent copy. But it is reasonable to ask why has been sinking in the polls over the last few months. The consensus among the pundit class seems to be that he’s just unlikable so the more people see of him the less they like him. I suspect there’s some truth to that. But it may just be the contrast between him and Trump, the political superstar.
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Tue, 11/07/2023 - 01:53

The failure of journalists to mount a campaign to free Julian Assange, or expose the vicious smear campaign against him, is one more catastrophic and self-defeating blunder by the news media.

The post Chris Hedges: Journalists Abandoned Julian Assange and Slit Their Own Throats appeared first on MintPress News.

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Tue, 11/07/2023 - 01:00

This article was written by Martin Anderson-Clutz (mandclu) with editing and production by Avi Schwab (froboy).

The Drupal Event Platform (DEP) committee within the Drupal Event Organizers Working Group (EOWG) is working to reduce the time and resources it takes to create an event website site through the creation of a flexible and customizable website starter kit for event organizers. In this post, we'll update you on our massive 1.0 stable release. Check out our latest demo video too.

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Tue, 11/07/2023 - 00:30
Tick, tick, tick…. Florida man Cesar Sayoc was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2019 for sending over two dozen inoperative pipe bombs to perceived enemies of then-President Donald Trump. None exploded. No one was injured. His intended victims were lucky. Politics in the U.S. is not yet full-on blood sport, but there are days it trends that way. Taunts, red hats, belligerence and semi-autos are at any moment inches away from mayhem. People have had to go into hiding over viral accusations disseminated both by social media, propaganda outlets such as Fox News, and political figures such as Donald Trump. The right-wing media complex has yet to feel enough pain in its pocket to pull back from provoking its audience to credible threats of violence. In the case of the Jan. 6 insurrection, it was actual violence. One victim of Tucker Carlson gets a profile this morning in The New York Times: What’s known about the man — a two-time Trump voter named Ray Epps — is that he took part in demonstrations in Washington that day and the night before. He was captured on camera urging a crowd to march with him and enter the Capitol.
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Mon, 10/07/2023 - 23:14
It is not possible to determine the scientific method that it is appropriate to employ for a given task (in a particular context) without knowing the nature of the task. And to know the nature of any scientific task it is always essential to have an insight into (i.e., to seek to determine) the nature […]
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Mon, 10/07/2023 - 23:09

Dr. Ramzy Baroud: "Notice how the Quran is often burned, Islam insulted, or Islamic symbols desecrated whenever the West is undergoing a crisis and is desperate to either ignite an anti-Muslim public frenzy or distract from its own failures."

The post Burning the Quran and the Counter-Offensive: Why the West Is Panicking appeared first on MintPress News.

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Mon, 10/07/2023 - 23:00
“I did that” Being on the field and in the game (rather than a heckling spectator) means that, even if you get politically run over sometimes, you don’t feel like road kill. Small consolation, maybe, but it’s something. And sometimes you get personal credit for the wins. Keep hope alive, Jesse Jackson might say. E.J. Dionne suggests that hope is more than a sop, but “a demanding virtue, not a sunny disposition.” Also, it’s practical, he writes. (It gets me up every morning.) Meaning it’s not naive to seek out “a rendezvous with hope“: Carol Graham, my colleague at the Brookings Institution, has made the study of well-being her life’s work as an economist.
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Mon, 10/07/2023 - 22:00

Broken boiler

Combination washing machine-stove

Bathroom with three sinks and no toilet

Twin ghosts

Banging pipes that sound like the weeping of an old Italian widow

Former home of sex cult

Current home of sex cult

No roof

No walls

No floors

Tile-eating termites

Shag ceiling

Built on quicksand

Foundation is gum

Landlord is snakes

Infestation of spunky mice with strong design opinions

Soaking-wet basement

Man living in crawl space (category: kind eyes)

Man living in crawl space (category: lust for blood)

Comes with previous owner’s Komodo dragon, who will only sleep in my baby’s crib

Down payment of both kidneys

Mold that enters my brain, causes me to lose touch with reality, and makes me think I’m a sun-dried tomato

Venetian plaster