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Thu, 09/02/2023 - 03:30

By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost O.K., you have a speech of 7,000–odd words to deliver to Congress. It ought to run about an hour as these things go. But you have nothing to say.  Call Joe Biden.  He certainly got the job done Tuesday evening. But I am confused as to our 46th […]

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Thu, 09/02/2023 - 02:44

Join Lowkey for a special episode with Darin J. Sallam, creator of the Netflix film "Farha". Sallam and Lowkey discuss the Israeli government's efforts to silence the film, which tells the true story of a Palestinian girl's fight for survival during the Nakba.

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Thu, 09/02/2023 - 02:30
No agenda except trolling I missed this observation but Marcy didn’t: Former House Speaker Nacny Pelosi told CNN that the GOP heckling during the State of the Union Address was “showbiz” to cover putting Medicare and Social Security “on the table.” Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) told reporters after the SOTU that he considers Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) “a sick puppy” who had no business being there. Cameras caught their exchange on the House floor but not the dialogue. It’s who they are. It’s all they have left. Talk about waste, fraud, and abuse, we’re paying their salaries.
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Thu, 09/02/2023 - 02:27

Annexation of the Jordan Valley, which makes up approximately 30% of the occupied West Bank, is back on the agenda with the return of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his right-wing extremist coalition.

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Thu, 09/02/2023 - 02:27

In June 2020, as Spain’s public spaces slowly began to come back to life following one of the strictest lockdowns in Europe, two young men appeared for the first time in Barcelona. Little, if anything, would have seemed to connect them at the time. Marc, a prospective Social Education student at the University of Barcelona, […]

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Thu, 09/02/2023 - 01:00
He wielded them both “Here’s my message to all of you out there: I have your back,” President Joe Biden told Americans in his second State of the Union Address. Biden’s 2022 SOTU audience topped 38 million. His speech Tuesday night would be his most-watched of the year. He might not be able to match the right’s 24-hour disinformation networks for daily screen time, but for 75 minutes last night he had as much of the nation’s attention as he would have this year. He knew it and he used it. Democrats cheered. Republicans, many of them, jeered. Their style is their only substance. Biden brought both. If he meant to contrast his administration with his opposition’s chaos, he succeeded famously. “Biden made perhaps the best speech of his presidency,” tweeted The New Yorker‘s Susan Glasser.
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Thu, 09/02/2023 - 00:11


GOP sees higher rates and higher taxes as the enemy… 


 

Democrats = Higher taxes + higher interest rates… GOP = lower taxes + lower interest rates






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Thu, 09/02/2023 - 00:00

Now that Lebron James has become the NBA’s all-time scoring leader, the debate about who is the greatest NBA player ever has heated up again. Today, we try to settle the debate that has plagued sports talk shows, message boards, and Twitter threads for years.

Decision-Making/Clutchness

Lebron is the most willing passer of the three, which means he occasionally forgoes late-game shots that many fans feel he should take himself (as Jordan likely would). While both Jordan and Lebron have logged more game-winning shots than Pythagoras, there is more to basketball than shooting. Over his entire career, Pythagoras recorded an astonishing ZERO turnovers in the last two minutes of games. Never stepped out of bounds. Never made a bad pass. And never missed a game-winning or tying shot. Something that can’t be said for the other two.

Advantage: Pythagoras

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Wed, 08/02/2023 - 22:05

"Over 100,000 of our loved ones being lost to avoidable overdoses a year is not because of a lack of enforcement, it's a direct result of it," the director of the Drug Policy Alliance argued.

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