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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is doing some deep healing through music: Andre Benjamin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9X_UTqWYHM Paul Simon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj9gCGl53xs Two examples of expanding our musical horizons, at least on...
by gmoke
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on Sat Mar 23, 2024 at 08:36 PM PDT
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A bit of housekeeping first. This is a new section of the newsletter. If you don’t want to receive it, you can opt out of it via your subscription management page .
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by angryea
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on Fri Mar 15, 2024 at 05:00 AM PDT
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I can’t really write much now, I’m sorry. I joined Rotten Tomatoes� and I’m busy rating every TV show I’ve ever watched. I don’t know why; I don’t think you get a prize or anything. I ...
by ZenTrainer
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on Mon Jan 08, 2024 at 05:30 PM PST
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Yesterday I watched one of my favorite movies, Fiddler on the Roof, and that got me to thinking about my favorite movies and programs and why I liked them. So I thought that I would explore that here. My lead photo is one of the earliest targets of...
by Desert Scientist
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on Sat Nov 11, 2023 at 07:22 PM PST
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Jimmy Carter appeared on the prime-time game show “What’s My Line” in 1973, just two years after becoming Georgia’s governor and four years away from becoming President of the United States. Apparently, he was still basically an unknown because the...
by madasheck
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on Sat Oct 14, 2023 at 04:16 PM PDT
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I stumbled on a BBC documentary called "South Africa: On the edge of darkness" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofwx-kyxHq4) a week or so ago. It was a hard look at the South African energy and climate situation where coal provides 85% of the...
by gmoke
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on Sat Aug 12, 2023 at 08:49 PM PDT
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While watching Chris Hayes tonight, the latest Trump indictment was the story, but two things stuck out. One, Jack Smith has set this case up to be fast-tracked (as can be) with no classified docs, a bunch of unindicted co-conspirators, and just bald...
by brother brown
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on Wed Aug 02, 2023 at 08:33 PM PDT
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On Sunday morning, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene took time away from space laser theorizing to post a tweet about how her television might be watching her. Writing , “Last night in my DC residence, ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Mon Jun 26, 2023 at 11:35 AM PDT
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News of the Supreme Court’s historic betrayal of some 50 years of precedent on the issue leaked on May 3, 2022 . Judging by the ads Republicans aired that month, they seemed to believe they had an ...
by Kerry Eleveld
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on Sat Jun 24, 2023 at 11:01 AM PDT
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Well folks It’s over, for now, maybe? Anyway, Thank you Ted Lasso. They say people come into our lives for a reason, a season or a lifetime. You came for 3 seasons, right when we needed you. You were a breath of fresh air in the midst of fear, death...
by SDM4life
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on Mon Jun 05, 2023 at 08:08 AM PDT
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Stealing women’s rights is wrong. Where is the freedom for women to act on their own behalf, based on self-knowledge of their own bodies? Stealing women’s rights is wrong. When women are dying due to your careless and your couldn’t-care-less decisions,...
by RussellWriter
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on Mon May 01, 2023 at 10:21 AM PDT
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I Love Lucy pioneered many of the things that later sitcoms relied on. Like accidentally inventing the rerun:
Emily VanDerWerff of The A.V. Club wrote retrospectively: [77]
I Love Lucy […] is ...
by Youffraita
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on Fri Apr 07, 2023 at 07:30 AM PDT
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The defamation lawsuits against Fox News have put a huge "told you so" on a trend in American society accelerating since at least the 1930s when that era's radio became a major outlet for religious hate-preachers. This trend first was mapped out in a...
by rlegro
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on Mon Mar 13, 2023 at 01:32 PM PDT
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You know Laurie Metcalf. She was Roseanne’s wacky sister Jackie on Roseanne. She was Sheldon’s mother in The Big Bang Theory. She was an insane killer in Scream 2 . But her first and greatest ...
by Youffraita
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on Sun Feb 26, 2023 at 09:55 PM PST
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One show I really got into but never seemed to be a hit nationwide was Airwolf It ran from 1984 until 1987 and was your usual Reagan era show, military rah rah, explosions good. It had two well known stars which you would have thought would have...
by CameronProf
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on Mon Feb 06, 2023 at 09:14 PM PST
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First time story writing from me. In general I am more of an observer and commenter on DKOS as it is a US website for US politics and that is not an area where I have any expertise or knowledge to contribute. But there have been a few discussions...
by Angloviking
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on Mon Feb 06, 2023 at 02:51 AM PST
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If you’re a Democratic candidate for office in New Mexico, Texas, California, Arizona, Nevada, Florida, Colorado, New Jersey, New York or Illinois, get ready: the ceiling is about to fall in on you. The white vote in America is split, leaning 53%-42%...
by thomhartmann
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on Thu Jan 26, 2023 at 07:34 AM PST
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AdImpact's "Cycle-in-Review" report has some eye-popping data about political spending in the 2021-2022 election cycle. The ‘22 midterm was the most expensive midterm election on record, and by lot. Perhaps most notably, ad spending in 2022 reached...
by Kerry Eleveld
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on Sat Jan 14, 2023 at 07:00 AM PST
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Kevin McCarthy is now an eleven time loser! His credibility as a political leader and the reputation of the Republican party have been irreparably damaged while Democrats are looking solid & unified. Representative Hakeem Jeffries is slated to become...
by Mark Taylor Canfield
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on Thu Jan 05, 2023 at 02:44 PM PST
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The main reason Republicans have kept on getting re-elected despite lousy policies is simple. Conservative oligarchs and corporations have bought up much of the news media, both radio and TV. And that news media keeps on spewing hate and lies. Such as...
by boblite
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on Tue Nov 22, 2022 at 12:25 PM PST
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