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I was diverted from my resolutions for the New Year because a local TV channel was running a Twilight Zone marathon over the weekend. I found myself caught up in the cascading episodes, 25 minute tales of kindness, cruelty, random chance, the best and...
by xaxnar
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on Tue Jan 02, 2024 at 11:16 AM PST
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by Texas Tribune
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on Sun Dec 17, 2023 at 02:00 PM PST
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The War to End All Wars? In August 1914, the idea of total war between great industrialized nations arrived with a vengeance. After one thousand, five hundred and fifty-one days of intense fighting and nine million dead and many more wounded or...
by JekyllnHyde
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on Fri Nov 10, 2023 at 03:23 PM PST
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I entered a prompt contest. This week I am sure many of the Daily Kos readers fretted over government shutdowns, Trump scandals, GOP cowards and traitors, our wannabe dictator threatening generals and journalists. I was trying to write a story based on...
by Grey Panther
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on Sat Sep 30, 2023 at 03:59 AM PDT
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Please excuse the roughness of this Diary. It’s somewhat of an emotional topic for me, and I don’t think I can give it a polished voice without making it too… clinical. For the last several months I’ve been waiting for the results of my Social Security...
by Puck Goodfellow
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on Tue Jul 11, 2023 at 09:17 PM PDT
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Indoctrination was and is the mainstay of America. It’s been this way from the beginning. What’s happening today is that our society as a whole, is shifting, kicking and screaming the whole way toward a more perfect union. When TFG and any right winger...
by JDWolverton
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on Sat Jul 22, 2023 at 01:14 PM PDT
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Hromadske met with Ivan in his Lviv apartment to talk about flashbacks from the war, the "snail's state," depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder. About what usually remains behind the scenes of heroic reports of our struggle. And what can await...
by stlgeek
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on Sun May 14, 2023 at 09:59 AM PDT
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Zoom In On This Child’s Face and Ask Yourself: “Why Are Your Guns More Valuable Than Our Kids?”
by Thinkler
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on Tue Apr 18, 2023 at 10:20 AM PDT
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I opened my phone up yesterday to discover the news that Senator John Fetterman had sought inpatient treatment for clinical depression. I sat and stared at my phone for a few minutes, speechless and awash from a veritable firehose of competing...
by SquireForYou
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on Fri Feb 17, 2023 at 06:39 AM PST
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Some History In 1912, German scientists first synthesized MDMA, also known as Ecstasy or Molly (yet both Molly & Ectatasy is rarely ever really MDMA). Sometime later in the 1970s, chemist Alexander Shulgin made it in his lab, and then Sasha and his...
by Mark Rose The Intolerant Lefty
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on Tue Dec 13, 2022 at 11:21 AM PST
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Living with the aftermath of murder is never easy for co-victims. It makes liars out of us. Guns make us liars. The Lies My mother realized, when I started school, that my classmates and teachers would ask if I had any siblings. My deeply religious...
by judyrosella
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on Sat Nov 26, 2022 at 10:30 AM PST
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Episode #43 of the Countdown podcast is up. A-Block (1:31) SPECIAL COMMENT: Trial of the Proud Boys starts in DC, near the trial of the Oath Keepers, while one liberal commentator is blasted for asking about climate change and Hurricane Ian, but Tucker...
by Proginoskes
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on Thu Sep 29, 2022 at 12:36 AM PDT
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Shatter the Silence FCPS Applauds TBI and PTSD Law Enforcement Training Act, Calling It “Crucial” To Believing Survivors and Removing Predators from the Streets.
On August 16, President Biden ...
by Shatter the Silence Fairfax County Public Schools
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on Wed Aug 31, 2022 at 01:15 PM PDT
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Danang 65 was a huge writer on Daily Kos for years. He was a combat vet from Vietnam and helped his brothers and sisters with Mindfulness and recently was diagnosed with a small cell cancer. (More than likely from Agent Orange). DaNang was referred to...
by Vetwife
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on Sun Aug 28, 2022 at 09:57 PM PDT
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Police are arresting domestic violence victims instead of abusers. In 2021, my son-in-law experienced a psychotic break attacking my daughter when she demanded he apologize for a false accusation. She called me on her speaker phone to tell me about it....
by Sandy Potts
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on Wed Aug 03, 2022 at 02:25 AM PDT
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. America’s Father’s Day was first celebrated on June 19, 1910, in Washington State. That was only a few years before Ann Jones’s...
by TomDispatch
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on Mon Jun 20, 2022 at 07:48 AM PDT
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By adhering to Just War Doctrine, Ukrainians gained the moral high ground and will make world better War is hell. It kills thousands, severely injures many more, and brutalizes and emotionally traumatizes everyone touched by it, often dragging everyone involved down for decades, if not centuries. It should be avoided whenever possible. But if fought...
by RandomNonviolence
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on Mon May 16, 2022 at 09:37 AM PDT
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I launched my campaign for the Virginia House of Delegates Friday, and thanks to everyone here, it was a huge success. I really wanted the next post I wrote to be about THAT, but then I noticed, in catching up with news I’d missed on the campaign...
by SquireForYou
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on Mon May 09, 2022 at 06:27 AM PDT
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Mental Health Awareness Month: Trump determines cognitive tests tell him he's 'smart.' I know better This month is Mental Health Awareness Month. It’s important because every day, people in this country and around the world have experiences that impact their mental health. It can be situational—maybe it’s just a bad day or week—or chronic and ongoing....
by Christopher Reeves
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on Mon Apr 25, 2022 at 10:29 AM PDT
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The day started with the microwave needing replacing. The night before hubby put the veggies in to heat up and at the end of the 3 minutes — bzzzzzt, snap and crackle, but no pop. Then there was that burning electrical smell. Then the GFCI did pop. No...
by JDWolverton
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on Wed Dec 15, 2021 at 06:54 AM PST
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