We used to agree that Nazis were the bad guys.


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At some point, the OK symbol of making a circle with your thumb and forefinger and holding the other three fingers out became an alt-right symbol? What?


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This came up in Facebook's "On This Day" -- I've wanted to find this recently. It was originally a comment I made on someone else's Facebook post but that I later posted by itself. It was made during the 2012 Presidential campaign between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama.

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I've been interviewed and photographed by Newsday for a local-interest angle about the Science March.


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President TrumpsterFire


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So President-elect Donald Trump just pulled Stephen Bannon into his White House. White nationalist and anti-Semite Stephen Bannon.

Any of my fellow Jews who aren't worried and think that it won't happen to us (again) should be.


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I've been seeing a lot of posts, mostly from my fellow people on the left, both in the lead-up to the election and post-election, of Melania Trump's professional modeling work along with some version of "This your new First Lady" with an undertone of snickering. Ha ha ha, look how sexy she is, look, she got her picture taken with no clothes on. ( Read more... )

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This morning before work I went out to my local polling place and exercised my right as an American citizen to vote. There were no lines, but I was number 276 just in my district and there was a steady stream of voters coming in ( Read more... )