| These are the most recent diaries filed under this tag: |
|---|
|
In 1965, as part of a thirteen-member panel under the Democratic administration of former President Lyndon Johnson, Jule Sugarman proved what pro-life means. Mr. Sugarman was pro-life in a unique way. It would be eight more years before abortion would...
by ReasonaBill
 5 comments
on Mon Apr 01, 2024 at 12:21 PM PDT
with 22 Recommends
|
|
This is a newsreel social and political silent documentary, one of the first ever made in the United States, produced by a leftist and communist cinema collective known as The Film and Photo League. Members would film protests and social movements...
by VPSReports
5 comments
on Sun Mar 24, 2024 at 12:32 AM PDT
with 23 Recommends
|
|
I really apologize for not meeting my deadline with a story. Too many balls, not enough hands.� Instead, an open thread, and hopefully some good discussion! I have often wondered about the various ...
by NeverEverAgain
157 comments
on Sun Mar 17, 2024 at 03:00 PM PDT
with 18 Recommends
|
|
Hunger and disease are not invisible if you care to see them, but politically vast populations have been left out of consideration (or worse), especially by Rs who viciously hate helping Those People.
by Mokurai
2 comments
on Wed Mar 13, 2024 at 09:00 AM PDT
with 11 Recommends
|
|
Cherry and other stone fruits, such as plums, peaches, and nectarines, are grown in British Columbia's interior region, where growers say that disruptive weather patterns from flooding, lack of protective snow cover, warmer temperatures, and sudden...
by Pakalolo
36 comments
on Fri Feb 09, 2024 at 01:26 PM PST
with 61 Recommends
|
|
"The Himalayan region – not just in India, but the entire Hindu Kush and Karakoram – has steep slopes that host snow or permafrost. These are vulnerable slopes, and as heat rises and there is a lack of sufficient snowfall, these areas are likely to...
by Pakalolo
86 comments
on Fri Jan 19, 2024 at 05:54 AM PST
with 459 Recommends
|
|
In low-income areas of Los Angeles without supermarkets, small stores are learning to profitably sell healthy foods their customers can afford. By� George B. Sánchez-Tello �for Capital & Main The ...
by Capital and Main
36 comments
on Fri Jan 05, 2024 at 08:20 AM PST
with 156 Recommends
|
|
Across England, children are eating erasers or hiding in the playground because they can't afford lunch. The latest statistics show 3.9 million children – eight in every class of 30 – are growing up in poverty. Jade Hunter, a headteacher at West...
by Adventurist
8 comments
on Fri Dec 22, 2023 at 09:10 AM PST
with 18 Recommends
|
|
Kitchens across America are bustling with Thanksgiving dinner prep: Turkeys brining, rolls and pies baking. But for millions of households, the holiday highlights the grim reality of hunger. The end ...
by Joan McCarter
14 comments
on Thu Nov 23, 2023 at 08:00 AM PST
with 108 Recommends
|
|
New House Speaker Mike Johnson’s entire political schtick is rooted in his “Christianity.” In one of ...
by Joan McCarter
113 comments
on Fri Nov 03, 2023 at 11:00 AM PDT
with 225 Recommends
|
|
Today: WCK and their affiliates are on the ground in Israel, Gaza, Egypt and Lebanon, delivering food in various forms. Donate if you can: donate.wck.org/… WCK’s story video: wck.org/… From ten days ago: My wife & I wondered, shortly after the...
by Solarman55
8 comments
on Fri Nov 03, 2023 at 06:02 AM PDT
with 31 Recommends
|
|
Copying link from Mother Jones, which does not have a paywall. This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. www.motherjones.com/… When I started reading this I immediately wondered how...
by Solarman55
15 comments
on Sat Oct 28, 2023 at 09:28 AM PDT
with 25 Recommends
|
|
In 2020, Congress funded meals for all children enrolled in public school regardless of income as part of pandemic support. It was a rare, welcome moment of bipartisanship in an incredibly hostile ...
by TealBomb
53 comments
on Tue Jun 27, 2023 at 02:00 PM PDT
with 91 Recommends
|
|
Yes, we can help end hunger, expand food access, and address climate resilience in the new Farm Bill Far too many people experience hunger in our wealthy nation, including 9 million children who are “food insecure.” Around the world, the number of people globally who are severely hungry has increased by 33% since last year. Climate change threatens to...
by Erin Tulley
13 comments
on Fri Jun 16, 2023 at 08:27 AM PDT
with 56 Recommends
|
|
It’s getting close to summer and school vacation has started in many states, soon to be all of them. For most kids, that’s exciting news. For kids experiencing food insecurity, it can mean hunger as they lose access to free meals at school. Many areas...
by Laura Clawson
6 comments
on Thu Jun 08, 2023 at 02:40 PM PDT
with 39 Recommends
|
|
We Get What You Pay For One month ago, a former Marine, Daniel Penney, killed an unarmed homeless person, Jordan Neely. The 24-year old white Marine choked to death Neely, a 30-year old black man, in a New York City subway car while another rider...
by SUSANIFORPEACE
3 comments
on Wed May 31, 2023 at 03:03 PM PDT
with 5 Recommends
|
|
Brutal floods and landslides in Northern Italy, the Balkans, the Alps, Croatia, Bosnia, and Slovenia Europe is the fastest-warming continent on Earth, the World Meteorological Organization and the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service warned in late 2022. The research found that Europe has been warming by 0.5 Celsius every decade since 1991. Europe's...
by Pakalolo
55 comments
on Fri May 19, 2023 at 04:51 AM PDT
with 179 Recommends
|
|
“An empty stomach knows no morality.” Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Only fifteen short years ago, when there were one billion fewer of us, food riots erupted globally from price increases in rice. Though crops at the time were bountiful at harvest, the rapid...
by Pakalolo
82 comments
on Mon Apr 24, 2023 at 02:33 AM PDT
with 139 Recommends
|
|
Welcome to the Street Prophets Coffee Hour, a place where politics meets up with religion, art, nature, food, and life. We’re at the middle of the week, when we need a push to get over the hump and start looking toward the weekend. Come in, take a...
by Aashirs nani
11 comments
on Wed Apr 19, 2023 at 01:06 PM PDT
with 18 Recommends
|
|
I put this in comments but will also add it here: I just heard from John, The baby has not been released from the hospital today. This is all the information I have but it is worrisome. Melbourne is a baby in Ghana, not quite two years old. His father...
by McCrowlerr
7 comments
on Sat Apr 15, 2023 at 07:57 AM PDT
with 8 Recommends
|
Recommended
- I just want to say thank you from Ukraine to every US citizen and every friend of Ukraine all over the world who took action and made this critically needed military assistance package possible. Thank you for every call and email to your congressman,...134 comments 591 Recs
- I just found out that some of our oldest (longest term) and dearest Kossacks have recently been laid off or resigned. Apparently It came up in the comments in the diary about the Second DK Site Maintenance with the recent update. I had no idea. I...747 comments 1289 Recs
- One predictable effect of the various states charging the fake electors is that because these people were State Party officials, any lawyers hired by the defendants will very likely have their fees paid by the state party. e.g. In GA, the State...46 comments 224 Recs
- Ukraine keeps up the pressure on Russian oil supplies. If you freeze the video at 0:03, I think you can see in the flames the appearance of Oil Terminal Jesus. Speaking of attacks inside Russia. Since when is it a crime in Russia to take bribes? If...143 comments 360 Recs
- From The Detroit News: Lansing — Michigan prosecutors consider former President Donald Trump and some of his top aides co-conspirators in the plot to submit a certificate falsely claiming he won Michigan's 2020 election, an investigator for Attorney...85 comments 378 Recs
- Latest news out of Arizona: Arizona state House passes a bill to repeal 1864 abortion ban The issue now moves to the state Senate, which is also expected to vote to repeal the near-total ban the Arizona Supreme Court upheld earlier this month. After...34 comments 187 Recs
- Multiple news outlets are reporting that infamous right-wing election conspiracy-slinging website, The Gateway Pundit, has declared bankruptcy in order to “consolidate” risk associated with multiple pending lawsuits. These defamation lawsuits are the...20 comments 145 Recs
- Well, this guy, and I don’t know who he is calls out Trump’s bible and mixing politics and religion. I was reading and came across this on another site and felt it was sure worth sharing. I have been saying this for years. Separation of Church and...127 comments 263 Recs
- It’s long been obvious that Trump thinks he is above the law, that the law does not apply to him. This is clear in his ludicrous attempts to claim that being (or having been) president means he gets absolute immunity from prosecution, but that rests on...102 comments 291 Recs
- I've followed the general outlines of artificial abiogenesis experiments for decades now, but I did not see this coming. (And my apologies to any actual biologists who knew about this line of reseach ages ago and find this old news.) First some...27 comments 142 Recs
- The type of dyslexia that I have is referred to as visual dyslexia, I have tinted glasses, and use colored overlays. The reason that I am writing this short diary? I learned to read late, and as a result, I was mocked until it was both diagnosed and...1 comments 7 Recs
- Arizona AG Kris Mayes announces the State Grand Jury has returned indictments in the state's 2020 fake electors scheme. The Lara Trump-led RNC’s newly installed senior counsel for election integrity was indicted today for election fraud and conspiracy....27 comments 106 Recs
Recent Diaries
- The type of dyslexia that I have is referred to as visual dyslexia, I have tinted glasses, and use colored overlays. The reason that I am writing this short diary? I learned to read late, and as a result, I was mocked until it was both diagnosed and...1 comments 7 Recs
- The vast majority of police officers in the US are decent, hard-working people who may never fire their weapons once in the line of duty. Law-enforcement personnel are members of the DailyKos community. We have relatives who are cops. But too many...1 comments 1 Recs
- Welcome to White House Picture of the Day Showcasing a photo from the White House Photography staff, led by Adam Schultz. Feel free to join us anytime and share with us what is happening in ...1 comments 2 Recs
- Of all the damn fool stupid ideas …2 comments 5 Recs
- If you're willing to lie about the climate, what are you not willing to lie about? There are few things as cut and dried as hundred year old physics. There are few things as obvious as the fact that if you extract massive amounts of hydrocarbons from...1 comments 0 Recs
- Episode 164 has been uploaded. iHeartRadio this podcast all podcasts Omny.FM this podcast all podcasts ivoox this podcast all podcasts Apple this podcast all podcasts Preview: YouTube, later A-Block SPECIAL COMMENT: The “Presidential Immunity” case...7 comments 4 Recs
- More than 34,000 people have been killed in Gaza. Half of those were children. The number could easily be twice that. Given the number of people missing in the rubble. Students and faculty have been protesting at universities across the U.S. Columbia,...30 comments 14 Recs
- On Saturday, I will perform a wedding ceremony in San Clemente, Ca.� It is a beautiful city on the coast.� I am speaking as a Deputy Commissioner of Civil Marriage for the first time since the ...10 comments 8 Recs
- Ukrainian strikes against Russian logistics or Russian aviation assets in deep rear areas will likely be operationally significant, however, only if Ukrainian forces successfully coordinate them with ground operations to exploit the degraded Russian...21 comments 62 Recs
- SPOILER WARNING: A late night gathering for non serious palaver that does not speak of that night’s show. Posting a spoiler will get you brollywhacked. You don’t want that to happen to you. ...21 comments 6 Recs
- Sydney Morning Herald —�Biggest climate revolt rocks Woodside as investors turn up heat on emissions Australian oil and gas giant Woodside has been rocked by the biggest investor uprising ever ...18 comments 21 Recs
- Guests: Heather Digby Parton of Salon, Keith “KeithDB” Barber of Daily Kos Also: PA primary results Biden signs Ukraine aid bill; SCOTUS revisits abortion rights AZ House Dems repeal 1864 near-total abortion ban... The court takes Wednesdays off in...1 comments 4 Recs
- Russia doesn’t have a bail bond system. It’s handled by letting people who have done minor infractions to be let free. But they can’t leave town. For other crimes the defendant is put in prison. There isn’t a wait until trial. Just toss them in jail....9 comments 16 Recs
- A new AP investigation describes how political fights quickly trampled scientific efforts to identify the origins of COVID-19. The investigation drew on thousands of pages of undisclosed emails and documents and dozens of interviews that showed the...5 comments 10 Recs
- Kitties love trees, whether it is cat trees indoors, or living trees outdoors...Arbor Day is Friday… Kitties are eager to observe it in their own way…� But first, the rules… You are all ...63 comments 46 Recs
- In theory, next week my schedule should be back to normal. In the meantime, have an open thread. I have not been sneaking into the trial and drawing a mustache�a Tinyhands Tribblehead while he sleeps,8 comments 21 Recs
- Multiple news outlets are reporting that infamous right-wing election conspiracy-slinging website, The Gateway Pundit, has declared bankruptcy in order to “consolidate” risk associated with multiple pending lawsuits. These defamation lawsuits are the...20 comments 145 Recs
- Hi all: I thought I would give a quick update on the work of the Progress Centre PAC (based in Centre County, Pennsylvania, literally the blue dot in the middle of the state) and let folks know how it's going. Quick recap: The PAC is called Progress...1 comments 3 Recs
- You won't have indicted fabulist George Santos, expelled Congressman, to kick around anymore. Santos’ LGBTQ+ activism highlighted his identity as an out gay conservative. Santos has ended his campaign for New York’s 3rd congressional district after...8 comments 17 Recs
- One predictable effect of the various states charging the fake electors is that because these people were State Party officials, any lawyers hired by the defendants will very likely have their fees paid by the state party. e.g. In GA, the State...46 comments 224 Recs
