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GOP IOWA CAUCUS

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Criminal defendant, rapist, financial and moral fraud wins in Iowa.

For a few years, most of the world suffered through the psychological and economic devastation of the pandemic. Average workers emerged – quite remarkably – in almost the same shape as before the Covid-19 virus hit.

But that shape wasn’t all that great. Economic inequality remains quite terrible. Wage increases are only recently (and barely) outstripping inflation. And people are as angry at corporate elites, politicians and institutions of all kinds as they’ve ever been. Labor union support is soaring.

All this helps explain why former President Donald Trump romped to victory in the frigid Iowa GOP caucuses yesterday despite barely running a campaign in the state and skipping all the debates.

BAN MAGAZINES

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Ban high-powered rifle magazines, not books. Assault weapons and high-capacity magazines are a clear and present danger to humanity.

Let us effectively draw attention to the issue of gun violence and contrast it with the recent challenges to book bans. We need to address the dangers posed by assault weapons and high-capacity magazines while highlighting the ongoing fight for students' access to literature.

SEXY SIXTIES

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Do you want to know a well-kept secret now revealed and out in the open? What do 3,000 women in their sixties say about sex?

A FIRST-OF-ITS-KIND KINSEY INSTITUTE SURVEY OF OLDER WOMEN’S FANTASIES AND MORE.

 

EIGHT SEX TOPICS:

OLDER IS BETTER
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Do you agree with me that sometimes folks falsely feel like there's an age limit when it comes to work, fame, ideas, or good fortune?

My younger daughter and my older online partner and good pal are both celebrating birthdays. I say they never get older, they're getting better. As long as it’s not another day older and deeper in debt.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDiq6rSrBo4

Take Uncle Sam, who is much older, and deeper in debt, yet still has some great ideas under his tall hat and inside in his head.

ANOTHER DOMINO

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Two states down and 48 more to go before they lock him out of the ballots and his MAGA Republicans will have to write is votes.

It is reassuring to see that we now have 2 US states that can fully comprehend the US constitution. But still quite alarming at the vast number that still follow an adolescent senior citizen antagonist or simply don’t care. Meanwhile America Keeps Hoping It’s Curtains for Trump. However, However, the adolescent senior citizen is Still in Center Stage.

US DEBT

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If you vote Republican, it may be even higher, according to published reports national #debt breaks an all-time high of $33.9 trillion.

GOP Theatrics

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Former President Donald Trump has repeatedly called special counsel Jack Smith “deranged” and a “thug.” Now his attorneys are comparing him to the Grinch.

#SWIFTAYLOR

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To no one's surprise, TIME magazine has announced its 2023 Person of the Year: She is superstar singer-songwriter Taylor Swift.

Swift gave TIME an interview. She seldom gives exclusives. This was reportedly her first in-depth interview in years. Swift is perceived, globally, as a role model of empowerment for young people. 

PROPAGANDA PUSHBACK

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Book banning and the increasing news deserts continue to underscore the importance of access to vetted news and information.

These are the challenges that librarians, researchers, fact-checkers, and journalists have been tackling for some time. 

Accoto published reports, the U.S. military lacks the ability to quickly deploy personnel that can fend off malevolent actors trying to shape public opinion and must act now to build up such “information forces,” according to a newly revealed Pentagon strategy.