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God I hope not All of the American media was atwitter on Thursday afternoon from rumors that CNN was going to release a bombshell report about North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, the Republican nominee for Governor. It turned out to be a gross and salacious story about his porn habits and comments calling himself a “Black Nazi.” It was reported during the day that the Trump campaign wanted him to drop out, presumably because they suspect he’s already dragging down the ticket, but he refused and because there was a midnight deadline to (possibly) remove him from the ballot, so that seems to be that. N. Carolina is very close according to the polls as are all the swing states. And while this possible help for Trump landed in the Trump campaign’s lap at the last moment, in other states they are working overtime to subvert the vote and contest the election results if they don’t go Trump’s way. Ground zero for those plans is Georgia, one of the states, along with N. Carolina and Pennsylvania, that are considered must win for Donald Trump assuming he manages to hold on to all the other states he won in 2020.
The echoes are pretty strong Here’s a radical notion. People’s worth isn’t based on their citizenship status or economic output. One would think we wouldn’t need an essay on the topic to remind us. But since Team MAGA is floating rhetoric reminiscent of Radio Rwanda, sadly, we do. All this time, Republicans scare-mongered about “illegals” and “migrant caravans” and “bad hombres.” After the fact-free smears of legal immigrants from “Haitia” eating pets in Springfield, Ohio, Sen. J.D. Vance made plain he considers even legally admitted immigrants worthy of deportation en masse. MAGA isn’t interested in documented vs. undocumented immigrant status. What’s at issue for them is nothing new and, dare we suggest, a matter of white, northern Europeans vs. everyone else. SNL spoofed that in 1988 when Gov. Mike Dukakis ran for president against George H.W. Bush: Bush Political Ad: He’s Whiter. President Joe Biden called the smears against Haitians legally in Ohio “simply wrong.” They have “no place in America.” Biden added, “We don’t demonize immigrants.
Chris Hedges delivers a sharp rebuke of the so-called ‘moral reckoning’ faced by Israeli soldiers, showing how they revel in the power to take life without consequence.
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With accusations of Russian ties and inciting pro-Palestine protests, Red Media and African Stream are the latest targets in the West’s crackdown on media critical of Israel.
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Tar Heel Follies By now you’ve heard there is another hole in Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson’s campaign for N.C. governor. “Martin Luther King on steroids” is sinking even faster as of yesterday. Since he is, of course, unwilling to exit the race, and since it is too late to strip his name from the ballot anyway, the big question is how much of a drag Robinson’s porn habits and Naziphilia will be on Donald Trump’s chances of collecting the state’s 16 electoral votes. BTW, MLK III is backing the Democrat for governor. Who’da thunk it? As Digby noted on Thursday, “Trump is terrified he’s going to lose N Carolina.” (Fingers crossed.) He’s up to his neck in Robinson. Robinson is down double digits in multiple polls against A.G. Josh Stein and already dragging down the rest of the state GOP’s MAGArrific statewide slate. Other Democrats used the blanket coverage of Robinson’s porn-Nazi-slavery habits to tie their opponents to him. They didn’t have to work hard at it. State Sen. Rachel Hunt is running against Republican businessman Hal Weatherman for lieutenant governor. Rep.
Doctors need a medical humanities that does more than just help them see health and disease through a patient’s eyes.
. Steve Keen gives a truthful view of the state of economics today. Modern economics has become increasingly irrelevant to the understanding of the real world. This irrelevance comes to a large extent from the failure of economists to match their deductive-axiomatic methods with their subject. Within mainstream economics, internal validity is everything and external […]
First published on October 9, 2009, this classic by Colin Nissan is our most-read article of all time. We’re celebrating the 15th anniversary of this freaky-ass harvest with the brand-new Decorative Gourd Beanie. See below for details!
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I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait to get my hands on some fucking gourds and arrange them in a horn-shaped basket on my dining room table. That shit is going to look so seasonal. I’m about to head up to the attic right now to find that wicker fucker, dust it off, and jam it with an insanely ornate assortment of shellacked vegetables. When my guests come over, it’s gonna be like BLAMMO! Check out my shellacked decorative vegetables, assholes. Guess what season it is—fucking fall. There’s a nip in the air and my house is full of mutant fucking squash.
Reform UK's leader claims to be fighting for free speech, but his party has banned a series of critical outlets from their events
'The depravity that millions of people had to endure in the name of the monarch. Even the clothing, the crown, the gems – everything is soaked in blood'
This is based mainly on “Crises and Decline in Credential Systems”, found in Sociology Since Midcentury, Randall Collins, 1981.
We’re currently in the late-middle stage of a higher education crisis in the West. This isn’t a worldwide crisis: the Chinese system is still in its expansion phase, but it’s very real here. Recently I was talking to a friend in Norway, who noted that most young people want a trades education and to avoid university.
Fifty years ago, two memos laid the groundwork for a right-wing takeover of the Supreme Court.
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An 'extraordinary' new poll reveals some uncomfortable truths about the war in Gaza
Home Office officials and border staff tell Byline Times that the plan to tackle small boat crossings is little more than a rebranding exercise
In her monthly column, Penny Pepper wonders what new threats disabled and elderly people will face as the season turns
John Mitchinson explores why he chooses to raise and then consume man's second best friend
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