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    Idaho drag performer awarded $1.1 million in defamation case against far-right blogger

    A jury has awarded more than $1.1 million to an Idaho drag performer who accused a far-right blogger of defaming him when she falsely claimed that he exposed himself to a crowd, including children, during a Pride event in June 2022.
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    Minnesota GOP endorses antisemite Royce White in Senate Primary

    Talking about "politically corrupt Jewish elites" doesn't strike you as antisemitic?
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    What is the longest period of Time Israel as country existed without being colonized by another country?

    Mainly because the AI response didn't include it. But if that's before Israel was 'unified' maybe it doesn't count as 'a country'.
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    Trump repeatedly booed (and occasionally cheered) during speech to Libertarian Party convention

    Former president Donald Trump encountered an unusually tough crowd at the Libertarian National Convention on Saturday night as the audience loudly booed him and used noisemakers to drown out his speech. The first current or former president to speak at the third-party’s convention, Trump made...
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    ICJ orders stop to Israel's military operations in Rafah

    The court on its own has no enforcement power. This would have to come from a UN Resolution.
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    Pro-Palestinian supporters at Columbia University confront Jews ‘to push them out of camp’

    I sense some goalpost shifting, but what the hey, there are dozens of international interfaith movements, where the non-Christian elements do not hate Christians. The International Association for Religious Freedom has existed for more than a century. IARF has over 90 affiliated religious...
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    Donald Trump indicted by Manhattan grand jury

    Epic typo! (or Freudian slip?)
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    Pro-Palestinian supporters at Columbia University confront Jews ‘to push them out of camp’

    I don't hate Christians or the concepts of vicarious atonement or divinities. I expect most of the non-Christians who post here with more than 1,000 posts (and haven't been permabanned) could say the same.
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    Pro-Palestinian supporters at Columbia University confront Jews ‘to push them out of camp’

    Iunno, but Christians are not universally hated, so it's not a very interesting false claim.
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    Miami Meteorologists rebukes DeSantis for scrubbing climate change from state law

    We know the anthropogenic factors that are the leading contributors to climate change. This is knowledge.
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    Pro-Palestinian supporters at Columbia University confront Jews ‘to push them out of camp’

    Maybe it's only 1/3, since the Koran purports to fix the first two chapters. Look, I have no dog in this fight. But stevevw is pushing some strange narrative that Islam somehow uniquely rejects Christianity, when in fact all non-Christian faiths reject Christianity.
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    Abortion in Arizona set to be illegal in nearly all circumstances, state high court rules

    The repeal of the 1864 law that the state Supreme Court recently reinstated won’t take effect until 90 days after the legislative session ends, which typically happens in June or July. -- Newsom signs bill allowing Arizona abortion doctors to work in California Licensed Arizona physicians who...
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    ICJ orders stop to Israel's military operations in Rafah

    Different courts for different things. ICJ doesn't handle the Mafia or human trafficking or messy divorces. It handles disputes between nations. [The ICC is pursuing both Israel and Hamas for crimes against humanity.]
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    NJ Councilman arrested for theft after rivals put tracking device on political signs

    GOP split in Readington fuels nasty civil war tied to Trump and Kean vs. Malinowski congressional races The backdrop to the story is a bitter internal fight between moderate old guard Republicans and a newer, significantly more conservative [MAGA] faction in a Hunterdon County municipality...
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    Trump’s legal troubles are putting state parties in a financial crisis; Some state operations are broke, and the RNC is tightfisted

    The Republican Party of Texas’ convention has long featured lucrative corporate sponsorships by Fortune 500 companies. But this year, the names of its biggest past sponsors were missing from the banners and agendas. The Texas state party is among portions of the larger Republican Party led by...
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    Revelation of secret Obama-era program casts doubt on stated reason for Trump Mar-a-Lago raid

    Wow, even if this is true, it is dumb. Since OP has not linked the actual article, it is here. I will save you the loss of braincells. Here's the crux: This revelation cuts a knife through the entire indictment as it proves that many, if not all, of the documents President Trump is accused...
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    What is the longest period of Time Israel as country existed without being colonized by another country?

    I would have guessed the longest period as 'its own country' was the time of the ancient kings, and that seems to be born out by chatGPT, so roughly 300 years from the time of David to the Babylonian Exile.
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    Louisiana’s coast is sinking. Advocates say the governor is undermining the state's successful Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority

    A new Republican governor is taking aim at the state’s coastal protection agency. For the past decade, Louisiana’s program for coastal protection has been hailed as one of the best in the country, after the devastation from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita pushed the state to shore up coastlines...