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Real Name: Michael Lazzaro
Groups: Daily Kos Elections, Daily Kos, Feature Box, Comics, Daily Kos Labor, Community Contributors Team, Daily Kos Liveblogs
Twitter: @HunterDK
Diaries published: 9048 (1 day since last diary on Thu Dec 07, 2023 at 11:54 AM PST)
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Most Recommended Diary: Comrades, The Revolution Is Upon Us, 902 comments, 1099 recommends
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On Nov. 30, Washington Post Editor-at-Large Robert Kagan wrote an extended opinion piece arguing that Donald Trump is on a "clear path" to establishing a dictatorship in this country, and that ...
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on Thu Dec 07, 2023 at 11:54 AM PST
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On Friday, former Republican Rep. George Santos was expelled from Congress, half a year after being indicted for embezzling money from his campaign , one month after being indicted again for ...
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on Wed Dec 06, 2023 at 03:30 PM PST
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene piped up with more Republican thoughts Monday, and if you know anything about Greene, you already know it's going to be bad.
This time, the notorious Georgia ...
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on Tue Dec 05, 2023 at 03:00 PM PST
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When new House Speaker Mike Johnson announced that he would be "keeping [his] promise" to release all 44,000 hours of Capitol security camera footage from the Jan. 6 insurrection, it wasn't just far-...
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on Tue Dec 05, 2023 at 12:55 PM PST
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Media critics and experts have repeatedly warned that the political media's sloppy insistence on gossip and horse-race coverage while ignoring the public issues behind the politics is the "darkness" ...
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on Mon Dec 04, 2023 at 11:55 AM PST
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We've previously reported on The Heritage Foundation's Project 2025, an effort to provide a future Republican presidential administration with a pre-built agenda and an army of loyalists who have ...
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on Fri Dec 01, 2023 at 12:04 PM PST
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- I’m a retired business professor and nothing about the Musk/Twitter acquisition seems to make even the slightest business sense. It’s still in the first week after the acquisition and Elon has managed to blow up Twitter and probably Tesla into the...332 comments 586 Recs
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