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Kirk Swearingen

Kirk Swearingen

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Can't we get a nationwide gag order against Trump's violent threats?

On Christmas Day in 1170, as the story goes, King Henry II, exasperated by his disputes with Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, said...

14.04.2024 8

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Who brought the crime, the drugs and the rape? It was him

When Donald Trump came down that tacky golden escalator in his grotesque Fifth Avenue building on June 16, 2015, to the half-hearted applause of a...

24.03.2024 100

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After decades of embarrassment, New York finally dumps Trump

New York just told Donald Trump to pay up and get outta town — and while he was at it, to leave his fraudulent businesses behind for the locals to...

29.02.2024 8

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Republicans pick up where Trump’s “perfect call” left off

So, Donald Trump has betrayed the Ukrainian people for a second time.  His treachery is of historic, maybe even literary, proportions: repeatedly...

05.02.2024 20

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Can we send Trump into exile? It worked (sort of) with Napoleon

Judges overseeing the various criminal trials of Donald John Trump, our only ex-president with a mug shot, have repeatedly warned him that they'll...

28.01.2024 70

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Biden's economic troubles aren't bad vibes - they're "micro-insults"

Many people are upset with the economy and don’t care what the macroeconomic measures (GNP, inflation rate, job numbers) say. They watch the meter...

16.01.2024 20

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Trump the Confederate

Republicans are still losing their minds about the ruling by the Colorado Supreme Court and the 34-page ruling from Maine’s...

07.01.2024 20

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Don't panic, men: We're not helpless — and we don't need the right's phony masculinity

In spare moments between elbowing rivals, physically threatening colleagues and witnesses, dehumanizing their political opponents and refusing to...

24.12.2023 40

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"Trump derangement syndrome" is real — but it's not what they say it is

Like the malicious, boastful schoolboy he will forever be, Donald Trump smirkingly twists apt descriptions of himself and his often cartoonishly...

10.12.2023 7

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Sure, Joe Biden is pretty old: Listen, could you do what he's doing?

For months, since Joe Biden's age became the pet topic of the corporate media — you know, rather than the openly authoritarian maneuverings of the...

27.11.2023 10

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Joe Biden's economy is, honestly, pretty amazing: How come he doesn't get credit?

If the economy is so bad, why are shops and restaurants so packed? I understand that anecdotal evidence is hardly worth mentioning, but it does make...

13.11.2023 6

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The gang that couldn't shoot straight: Will the GOP's baffling "ignarrogance" be its undoing?

This may be almost too obvious to say, but even when Kevin McCarthy was occupying the chair as speaker of the House, wasn’t the seat already vacant?...

15.10.2023 6

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Calm down, everybody: An ugly election is coming — but younger voters will save us

Remember those yard signs and bumper stickers during the 2020 presidential campaign that said "Any Functioning Adult"? Well, here we find ourselves...

01.10.2023 2

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