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Welcome to the New Day Cafe! This is an open thread.
My power went out for a bit, so electricity is on my mind. I thought I’d share a few tunes on the topic.��
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by samanthab
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While the most common stereotype of Plains Indians brings forth an image of horse-mounted buffalo-hunting nomads living in tipis, many of the Plains Indian nations were farmers who lived in ...
by Ojibwa
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Roger Fortson, who was Black, was killed in a home invasion. His home was invaded. By the police. Reports are that the police went to the wrong apartment, AGAIN. Airman Fortson tried to exercise his 2nd amendment right to defend himself with a gun he...
by Kevo2007
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May 7, 2024 Albany NY: I went to Albany International Airport to catch the 2024 Hurricane Awareness Tour. Two Hurricane Hunter aircraft were on display, one from the USAF 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron and one from NOAA. The purpose of the tour:...
by xaxnar
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Just back from my happy place —�I’ve been�floating around in the warm tropical waters of coral reefs watching the wildlife going about their daily activities.�This�time we went to the atolls off ...
by OceanDiver
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Mark Sumner's diary is here. Good morning, trial junkies. As always, I will guide you to Mark Sumner’s diary when he posts one. And if our curmudgeon happens to be out of TO, follow the comments, that’s where all the updates are. Thanks again to DRo...
by gchaucer2
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WAPO. wapo.st/… So trump has promised to tank all industries that affect the profit margin of big oil. From article: Trump’s response stunned several of the executives in the room overlooking the ocean: You all are wealthy enough, he said, that you...
by Danchi
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They’re getting started nice and early, folks. The Trump campaign has just filed a lawsuit to discard all mail-in ballots in Nevada that arrive after Election Day, even if they are postmarked before or on the day and are legitimate in every other...
by thesphynx
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On Tuesday, Joe Biden went hard after antisemitism on the right, on a day of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Annual Days of Remembrance , with ample linkages to the disgusting support for awful Hamas behavior coming out of the University Left....
by Mrmuni12
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If you are like me, you will need mental health breaks to maintain your sanity this year. For my part, I am starting my day with a great song, working alphabetically by song title (note: this does ...
by libertarianheretic
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Welcome to the Daily Kos Elections Live Digest, your liveblog of all of today's campaign news. You can find our collection of public data at dailykosdata.com .
Please note: The Live Digest is a ...
by Daily Kos Elections
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by David Waldman
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I posted yesterday about something that might have been missed because The NY Times chose to run it on Saturday. Here’s another opinion piece that also ran on May 4, 2024 (full access gift article). This is something that needs to be acknowledged more...
by xaxnar
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Haiti’s new�unelected governing body, the Transitional Presidential Council, was sworn in on April 25. As Reuters notes , “[t]he transitional government's mandate runs until February 2026, by ...
by Denise Oliver Velez
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I believe business schools and what they teach have reached a point where it is almost impossible to run a business successfully on their terms.
This is mostly spit balling. �It offers little in ...
by angryea
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Life Lessons and Other Bits from May Birthday Kids “Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson "When the Republican candidate inscribes the slogan...
by Bill in Portland Maine
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“Once you have the courts, you can pretty much do what you want.” Jason Stanley, How Fascism Works. The Supreme Court hearing arguments on presidential immunity in late April seemed like a game show in another language with rules the right-wing...
by Rare Old Bird
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You don’t have to be a person of faith to have a solid moral code that leads you to want to do the right thing.�But some religious people�do find that their faith grounds them, gives them strength,
by GoodNewsRoundup
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OF SHARKS, AND LIVER DISEASE By Don C. Reed Her name was Vanessa; she was six years old, and fighting liver disease. To keep her alive, her family had to monitor every gram of food she ate. She would sometimes be so hungry, after having eaten her tiny...
by diverdonreed
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As the Far Wrong Wing shrinks toward irrelevance, it continues to take refuge in Cognitive Dissonance, the inability to process the failure of prophecy. Thus the prophecies proliferate and became more vicious, while back in the real world we continue...
by Mokurai
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