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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and ...
by side pocket
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on Sun Feb 25, 2024 at 09:01 PM PST
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The Alabama Supreme Court has ruled that frozen embryos are “children. ” The case involved a clinic being sued for “wrongful death” after accidentally destroying embryos belonging to three ...
by Tara the Antisocial Social Worker
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on Sat Feb 24, 2024 at 05:00 PM PST
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Tonight’s selections from Birmingham, England’s UB40’s fourth album, 1983’s Labour of Love . I used to listen to this cassette while falling asleep when I was 13 or 14. I remember Labour of ...
by Al Dorado
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on Thu Feb 01, 2024 at 09:01 PM PST
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Not much has changed in the booze-soaked kingdom in which it remains illegal to toke on a joint. It’s a great place to invest in the alcohol industry. The man on the ground shamelessly poses for a selfie while another holds a policeman’s helmet, and...
by Adventurist
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on Sun Dec 24, 2023 at 12:16 PM PST
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This piece develops from a talk I gave at a meeting discussing the economic situation in Britain and how this issue will play out locally in London. It also provides some suggestions where we can develop grassroots local campaigns in local communities...
by NY brit expat
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on Sun Dec 17, 2023 at 03:00 PM PST
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I thought it might be appropriate to lighten the mood a bit and offer you a bit of Trivia to use round the Christmas table. Or let’s face it win a bet in a bar! The above shows you the two routes that can be taken to drive from New York to Boston in 16...
by Lib Dem FoP
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on Mon Dec 11, 2023 at 06:32 PM PST
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Tonight’s selections from Thee Headcoatees ‘The Sisters of Suave’ , a compilation of singles.
Somewhat surprisingly, there’s not much written about them online. I have a book on the gals ...
by Al Dorado
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on Thu Jan 04, 2024 at 09:01 PM PST
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CREW reports that based on leaked copies of Trump’s tax returns he appears to have made $160 Million from foreign sources while he was in the White House. Donald Trump made up to $160 million from international business dealings while he was serving as...
by Frank Vyan Walton
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on Wed Nov 08, 2023 at 09:59 AM PST
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Moira Donegan has a piece about new House Speaker Mike Johnson, and more broadly, about how the Republican Party is trying to rebuild itself on extremist ideas about sex & gender: Gender ...
by Tara the Antisocial Social Worker
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on Sat Nov 11, 2023 at 05:00 PM PST
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With the recent�attack by Hamas on Israel after decades of strife there, my mind drifted back to Northern Ireland. �When I taught World Religions I always spent a class going into the background of ...
by Peter Olandt
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on Fri Oct 20, 2023 at 06:11 AM PDT
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Lawyers for the immediate ex-President of the USA were in the English High Court on Monday trying to bring a case against the company that compiled the Steele “Russia, Russia, Russia” Dossier on Putin’s interference in the 2018 Presidential elections....
by Lib Dem FoP
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on Mon Oct 16, 2023 at 08:08 PM PDT
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This morning I had a scheduled flu shot and a surprise COVID jab in a special Saturday session run by my G.P in London. I had already booked my 2 minute slot for the flu vaccine but got a message via the NHS app that they also had COVID boosters...
by Lib Dem FoP
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on Sat Sep 16, 2023 at 11:52 AM PDT
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We are once again in the midst of a campaign about the railways. Privatisation of train lines has not meant that there has been massive investment on trains, it has not meant that train services run efficiently and reliably on schedule, and it has not...
by NY brit expat
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on Sun Aug 20, 2023 at 03:00 PM PDT
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The Health Secretary for England, Steve Barclay has accepted the recommendations of the Government’s Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) for COVID booster shots this. Winter. NHS England will now organize the roll-out which will...
by Lib Dem FoP
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on Tue Aug 08, 2023 at 05:37 PM PDT
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Those who’ve been following my writing here at Daily Kos may be aware I’ve long been advocating for the railroads we need for the 21st Century and the challenge of the Climate Crisis. I’ve been working with Solutionary Rail for some time, and more...
by xaxnar
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on Tue Jul 25, 2023 at 12:04 PM PDT
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Today is the one-year anniversary of the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade. Half the states, containing 25 million women, now have restrictions on abortion. (Handy map.) Fourteen states ban abortion under almost all circumstances. And...
by Tara the Antisocial Social Worker
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on Sat Jun 24, 2023 at 05:00 PM PDT
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If you want a look at what conservatism has done elsewhere, there’s a scathing indictment of the Tories in England in The NY Times by Samuel Earle, a journalist who writes about politics and culture and the author of “Tory Nation: How One Party...
by xaxnar
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on Thu Apr 27, 2023 at 01:41 PM PDT
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Since Ukraine has been in the news so much this week, on the 1-year anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, I thought I’d look into the history of women’s rights in Ukraine. This is necessarily brief, given that I don’t have a whole lot of...
by elenacarlena
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on Sat Feb 25, 2023 at 05:16 PM PST
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As Daily Kos covered on Wednesday, contributors, subscribers, and general readers of The New York Times were invited to sign an open letter calling upon the paper to do better by and for the trans community. This doesn’t mean turning into an overtly...
by Marissa Higgins
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on Thu Feb 16, 2023 at 10:19 AM PST
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Metachromatic leukodystrostophy (MLD) is a rare genetic disease which is thought to affect 1 in 40,000 children born in the USA. It causes progressive damage to the nervous system and brain. In its most common infantile form it is devastating and...
by Lib Dem FoP
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on Wed Feb 15, 2023 at 07:45 AM PST
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- Today, the state of Louisiana managed to do something I didn’t think possible — they found a new low. Once Jeff Landry, a far-right acolyte, was elected governor I knew the place was going to be in rough shape. The state legislature is hopeless, with...65 comments 206 Recs
- This is the best news of the day. As Dark Brandon might say, trashing an over-the-horizon radar is a big fucking deal. Is that the silhouette of Ammo Dump Jesus in the ball of flame blessing the bavovna? Run away! Run away! Russians try an assault with...60 comments 243 Recs
- Dickie Betts has passed, now jamming with Duane. The Allman Bros were a major part of my life’s soundtrack. Not because I was into them but my little brother was. Donnie had them cranked all the time, Southern Rock was his genre. Donnie also recently...125 comments 320 Recs
- I’m hoping Mark Sumner will be up with a live blog but there’s a load of stuff already happening: All from WaPo Liveblog: Justice Juan Merchan dismissed Juror No. 2, a nurse who said she had concerns after people she knew identified her as a juror and...374 comments 338 Recs
- GET OUT THE VOTE BIG TIME! HERE ARE THE RESOURCES YOU NEED TO DO THAT! Hope Springs from Field PAC (background in this DKos story). Voters of Tomorrow (younger voters) led by Santiago Mayer Leaders We Deserve (younger voters) led by David Hogg The...16 comments 122 Recs
- Ever since Russia invaded Ukraine, my heart has been heavy at the suffering of so many innocent people in Ukraine. War is always a tragedy, but this war is particularly touching to me because of its David vs. Goliath, good vs evil quality. The bravery...148 comments 300 Recs
- Today should be an interesting day in Judge Merchan’s court room.� Donald Trump reposted an attack by Fox’s Jesse Watters on the jury members selected for Trump’s current trial in NYC on ...227 comments 443 Recs
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- I am no fan of religion but will acknowledge there are some benefits to churchlife. My Mom loved church music and looked forward to choir practice and Sunday mornings I was always taken to Sunday school. Dad prefered the Church of the 18 holes when...182 comments 121 Recs
- From Electrek (Industry blog) : In a major clean energy benchmark, wind, solar, and hydro exceeded 100% of demand on California's main grid for 30 of the past 38 days. Stanford University professor of civil and environmental engineering Mark Z....167 comments 675 Recs
- Fed Chair Jerome Powell reveals the cause of persistent inflation - economy is becoming uninsurable.Jerome Powell, chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, was nominated by Donald Trump in 2018 and confirmed by the US Senate. President Joe Biden renominated him when he entered office in January of 2021. The job of the Fed...193 comments 496 Recs
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- Assorted serious and (mostly) humorous items, after-the-jump. But first: Top Comments appears nightly, as a round-up of the best comments on Daily Kos. Surely ... you come across comments daily that are perceptive, apropos and .. well, perhaps even...3 comments 7 Recs
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- Please go read thecriticalmind story on MTG and space lasers she wants to place on the southern border. As I live less than 30 miles from the southern border I thought I would put my insights on the border and how Customs and Border Protection and the...4 comments 5 Recs
- Today at Columbia University the NYPD was called to execute a fascist raid against college students…exercising their right to protest…. www.nytimes.com/… I haven’t seen anything about this here..,.but this is a police state type action. These young...14 comments 5 Recs
- I decided to celebrate my�birthday Monday by returning to Bolinas. It may have been�two years since I� drove over Mount Tamalpais to visit my old�home. A friend accompanied me for the afternoon. We ...74 comments 21 Recs
- The horse race isn’t really relevant right now. For one thing it can change, for another swing states are what matter, but there’s a lot more to polling that is of interest. Last week Kerry Eleveld, a DK staffer here made a post showing how polling...11 comments 14 Recs
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- Zog Marano: a modern Yiddish poet's Passover questions to Marranos centuries before. Welcome to A Song of Zion , our weekly check-in and virtual minyan for Jews on Daily Kos. This is an ...5 comments 8 Recs
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- I hope you’re sitting down for this. Take a deep breath. OK, ready for this shocking news? It looks like a senior director at Turning Nazi Point USA and an Arizona state representative has resigned for his “job” at TPUSA and ended his reelection...10 comments 23 Recs
- Today, the state of Louisiana managed to do something I didn’t think possible — they found a new low. Once Jeff Landry, a far-right acolyte, was elected governor I knew the place was going to be in rough shape. The state legislature is hopeless, with...65 comments 206 Recs
- Palestinian paramedics said Israel gave them safe passage to save a 6-year-old girl in Gaza. They were all killed. Nick Kristof: “One of the most heartbreaking stories from Gaza was of 6-year-old Hind who was sole survivor when her vehicle was hit. Her...18 comments 35 Recs
- � All of these people, should they desire, can indicate events and details they remember differently. But there is one unfortunate exception. In 1958, Rosalind Franklin died at the early age of ...14 comments 9 Recs
- Jewish Space Lasers redux The Republican House is trying to pass a bill giving supplemental aid to Israel for the rest of fiscal 2024. Rep. MT Greene (R-GA) has problems with it. And has offered an amendment, the sole purpose of which is to throw sand...29 comments 63 Recs
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