politics
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Update 09/07/2025
Dad joke: Why did the banana go to the doctor? He wasn’t peeling well. …………………………. From MSNBC: House Republicans have launched an investigation into Wikipedia, a long-standing target of conservative criticism. For several months, Elon Musk and other conservatives have waged a campaign to portray the online encyclopedia as an oppressive tool of leftist manipulation. Continue reading
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Update 08/31/2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — Empathy is usually regarded as a virtue, a key to human decency and kindness. And yet, with increasing momentum, voices on the Christian right are preaching that it has become a vice. As in: “Empathy becomes toxic when it encourages you to affirm sin, validate lies or support destructive policies,” said Allie Continue reading
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Update 08/10/2025
And so goes the Bureau of Labor Statistics and its reliable data: With no basis in fact, Trump charged that Erika McEntarfer, the Commissioner of Labor Statistics, “rigged” the data “to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad.” Then he ordered her fired and replaced with someone else — presumably someone whose data Trump will Continue reading
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