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What's with all the junk around his neck, who does he think he is? Bonnie Prince Charlie?
Incredibly, Steve Dawes came in third. Missouri officials are still trying to figure out how a person from another state got on the ballot and actually ended up with -34 votes. They didn't even know that their voting machines could register negative votes.
Swede (40,909 posts)
This is a good point.
Permanut (8,953 posts)
2. Let's see, money, power, greed, extortion..
Totally Tunsie (12,319 posts)
5. Throw in trumpie's tax returns also!
calimary (91,997 posts)
6. And ANOTHER K & R!!!
RELEASE the Epstein files - NOW!!!
And not just the few that were cherry-picked. ALL OF ‘EM!
ALL OF THEM, DAMMIT!!!!
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221424518
The only one running.
John Reed was one of the foremost left-wing leaders during America’s early 20th-century Progressive Era and had much in common with today’s Democratic Socialists.
John Silas “Jack” Reed was a Zohran Mamdani of his era. Both rose in left-wing American politics in their late twenties and early thirties, embraced socialism, and framed politics through class struggle and oppressor/oppressed themes. Both believed America’s political and capitalist systems had to be radically transformed -- or dismantled -- for working-class liberation. Were he alive today, Reed would likely see eye to eye with the NYC mayor.
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As correspondent for the socialist magazine The Masses, in August 1917 Reed sailed to Russia and supportively covered the Bolshevik insurgency, publishing what he saw in a book, Ten Days That Shook the World, which Lenin “unreservedly” recommended in its preface as “a truthful and most vivid exposition” of the first successful communist revolution.4 More confirmed in his views than ever, Reed naively wrote that after the Bolshevik coup “one hundred and sixty millions [sic] of the world’s most oppressed peoples suddenly achieved liberty.” After returning to the U.S., in 1919 he co-founded the Communist Labor Party of America, the predecessor to the Communist Party USA.
If you don’t have time to deep dive into Jack Reed’s involvement in early 20th-century American political radicalism, stream the 1981 epic film Reds, produced, directed, co-written, and starring Warren Beatty as Reed with a stellar cast featuring Jack Nicholson as radical labor advocate and playwright Eugene O’Neill and Maureen Stapleton as anarcho-feminist Emma Goldman. Beatty tells Reed’s political story around his loosely committed and rocky romance with his wife, feminist artist Louise Bryant, portrayed by the late Diane Keaton. I saw the three-hour, twenty-minute picture as a young political science and Russian studies major and was struck by its attention to detail, accurate sets, and captivating character portrayals of radicals during the Progressive Era, down to Reed’s Proudhon-quote “Property is Theft” sign hanging on his apartment door.
MOSCOW (AP) — The director of a factory supplying drones to the Russian military was badly wounded and his driver was killed when the car they were in exploded, news reports said Wednesday.
The state Tass and RIA Novosti agencies said that Vladimir Tkachuk was hospitalized in grave condition following the explosion late Tuesday in Bolshoy Istok just outside Yekaterinburg, 1,400 kilometers (about 870 miles) east of Moscow.
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Tkachuk headed the Uraldronzavod factory that manufactures Upyr (Russian for Ghoul) drones. Tkachuk, a small-scale entrepreneur, set up a team of engineers that developed the Upyr and organized its production near Yekaterinburg, Russia’s fourth-largest city and a key industrial hub in the Ural Mountains.
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Kommersant said that a week ago, the head of another maker of drones for the Russian military, Andrei Cherezov, was shot and wounded in the city of Tula.
Oklahoma man arrested after OSBI allegedly links him child sexual abuse cybertips
Check the mug shot and tell me what is suspiciously not mentioned.
OWASSO, Okla. (KOKH) — Authorities have arrested an Owasso man following an investigation into child sexual abuse material.
The investigation began when the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children received multiple cybertips containing possible child sexual abuse material.
As a result, the NCMEC contacted the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation Internet Crimes Against Children Unit for further help.
OSBI agents say they determined that 54-year-old Jason Dean Poledouris was at the center of over 20 cybertips.
Investigators allege that Poledouris possessed hundreds of images of child sexual abuse material, distributed several images of child sexual abuse material, and chatted about engaging in sexual acts with several children.
