#Civilian

A photograph of 3 young friends, Jack Miller, Frank Kosa, and Clifford Olds (right), enjoying a night out at The Monkey Bar, Pearl City, on Dec 6, 1941. Jack and
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WHEN DOES THE BIRD SING The Trump card is played. It's a lot easier than you all think. Some of you got it right.Under Section 3 of Amendment 14 to
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Is Mitch McConnell married Zhao Xiaolan, whose father is Zhao Xicheng, a classmate and a close friend of Jiang Zemin. McConnell is an older crocodile China has sought to
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What Trump has done in office:* Trump signed 3 bills to benefit Native people. 1 gives compensation to the Spokane tribe for loss of their lands in the mid-1900s, 1
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Okay, starting a thread now on family values on the American homefront during WW2. It goes some unhappy places, sorry, and got away from me a bit at the end,
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1/ THREAD on Oath Keepers and an Insurrection of Total War. Stewart Rhodes is head of Oath Keepers, an anti-government organization that makes direct appeals for membership among active-duty military
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Let's talk about Cam Ne and how it relates to coverage of war crimes allegations against American troops in Vietnam. It set the tone of such coverage until Seymour Hersh
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As Sen. @ChrisMurphyCT notes, there is no justification for massive ($23 billion!) proposed US arms sale to #UAE, given their involvement in unlawful strikes that have killed scores of civilians
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In October 1964 WABC in New York broadcast a 1 hour special on right wing extremism in America, focusing on how that year's GOP nominee, Barry Goldwater, had stimulated new
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#AbolishThePolice doesn't mean abandoning public safety: it's about replacing armed police officers with public services that perform the same safety roles. Writing in the @theappeal, @avitale sets out 10 ways
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In selecting Gen. Austin over Michèle Flournoy, Biden cites the former's role in the drawdown in Iraq as evidence of his suitability for the office. A closer look at that
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1/5 A lot is at stake on #Syria this week: sanctions, humanitarian pledges, crossborder assistance, intra Kurdish reconciliation. This fragmentation of issues reflect the consequence of the war but it
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(THREAD) I can never forgive the American education system for universalizing the Holocaust. For some reason we've decided to teach it as “This could have happened to you,” when in
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No. It's not about a book. It's not even about Hunter Biden. It's about ethics.GOVERNMENT ETHICS. What may be perfectly ethical for you or me, may very likely be UNethical
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Content warning for the video in the link. It shows a Syrian shoot a TOW-missile against a group of perhaps 15 soldiers standing together. It explodes perfectly on target, and
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In response to the June #BLM uprising, the NY state legislature revoked Bill 50a, which shielded police misconduct records from public scrutiny.https://pluralistic.net/2020/06/12/digital-feudalism/#hiding-in-plain-sight1/ A police union law
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