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Whenever I hear MAGAs claim they love Trump, I want to say… If you really loved him, you’d gather a group and go do an intervention. Because this is a man who has never healed from his childhood trauma. And who brags compulsively but never feels...
by Rich Snowdon
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on Sat Feb 03, 2024 at 07:38 AM PST
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You can make a difference to the hurt being caused by climate chaos and the great extinction event in your town or your city! How? Reuse, repurpose, and recycle this information. You can push your local politicians to act. It will make a difference!...
by birches
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on Mon Jan 29, 2024 at 10:00 AM PST
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Via the BBC Abrielle Baldwin, 23, was shot in the chest by one brother while she had her 10-month-old son in a carrier, the Florida sheriff's office said. The brother was then shot by their other sibling, who pulled his own gun, Pinellas County...
by xaxnar
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on Wed Dec 27, 2023 at 09:49 AM PST
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"There is something about her voice — a quality — that you really can't put into words. It's a magical quality." — Sting, after Eva Cassidy had recorded a version of his song "Fields of Gold" in 1996, the year she died. Going Against the Grain Almost a...
by JekyllnHyde
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on Wed Dec 27, 2023 at 05:31 PM PST
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Link to Earlier Diary — "We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal." I posted a diary earlier this morning about JFK’s accomplishments. It highlights three of his memorable speeches and other policy...
by JekyllnHyde
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on Wed Nov 22, 2023 at 05:04 PM PST
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Briefly, from J IMENA * email: Resources on how to talk with children during times of crisis �
by mettle fatigue
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on Mon Oct 09, 2023 at 04:05 PM PDT
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More than one full day after a senseless yet premeditated murder where a next-door neighbor (who’d been asked to stop shooting his gun after 11 o’clock at night) killed five people of an entire family, including a nine-year-old boy, Texas Gov. Greg...
by novapsyche
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on Tue May 02, 2023 at 09:05 AM PDT
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Knowing His Life Was About To End, Cleveland Pilot's Final Words Are A Reminder Of What's Important. Hi friends, a portion of the diary is a d'var Torah, which explains some Jewish observances for the layman. So please be aware, if that is of little interest to you. Thank you. If you knew that your life was about to end, and you had just a moment to...
by Tevye
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on Sat Mar 11, 2023 at 03:41 PM PST
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I am going to make this as short as I can. Because it hurts me too much, to to write about our personal Human tragedy. At this time, my beautiful active wife of 52 years, and ten months, is in the local Hospital ICU hanging to life by a thread. She is...
by KGB hates US
506 comments
on Fri Dec 09, 2022 at 10:11 PM PST
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What has been described as a “stampede” at a Halloween party in Seoul’s night club district of Itaewon has turned into a mass casualty event that at last count included 146 people dead and another 150 injured. Hundreds of people were apparently pushed...
by Mark Sumner
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on Sat Oct 29, 2022 at 12:50 PM PDT
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At around 3:50 P.M. in San Pedro, located in Los Angeles County, two people were fatally shot and five others were injured by gunfire. According to LAFD Captain Erik Scott, all of the individuals injured or killed were adults ranging from age 23 to 54....
by VPSReports
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on Sun Jul 24, 2022 at 11:08 PM PDT
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by River Rover
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on Mon Jun 27, 2022 at 07:41 PM PDT
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I see the headlines once again, plastered across the banners of the major American newspapers; 19 children and two teachers, killed in the small town of Uvalde, west of San Antonio. On May 14, it was a mass shooting at a grocery store in Buffalo, New...
by chsplyr
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on Wed May 25, 2022 at 01:37 PM PDT
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Here we are again. And again. When will it end? It will end when we start asking and facing the right questions. My Uncle Ed was an avid duck and goose hunter. That’s what you did in Minnesota at the turn of the (last) century. That and ice fishing. He...
by JimLieb
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on Wed May 25, 2022 at 01:37 PM PDT
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I don’t normally air extreme laundry in my life but this past week has been unbelievable to most people. Before any of you say, oh you must be super strong, let me tell you, I am not and it is my faith that has guided my steps this past week. I got...
by Vetwife
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on Sun Feb 27, 2022 at 07:15 AM PST
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Two small tight knit communities are in mourning this week. Saturday night my town lost Faith, a 16 year old driving across a normally dry wash. She is the granddaughter of a retired fire chief here in town with family still on the job. Another town...
by sandbear75
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on Mon Jul 26, 2021 at 12:33 PM PDT
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A Non-Political Message to the DKos Community: Leave Nothing Unsaid/Unknown With Your Partner - UPDT Yesterday, my wife of 18+ years died suddenly. She apparently suffered cardiac arrest while sleeping and I was in the front room. We had been together for nearly 20 years, had three children together (all of them on the Spectrum), and had weathered so...
by merchantbard
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on Sat Jul 24, 2021 at 02:58 PM PDT
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“the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. ... ” I didn’t believe it when Wayne LaPuke said it back in 2012, and the proof of its fallacy just keeps pouring in. A few days ago, in the public square in Old Town Arvada,...
by rflctammt
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on Sat Jun 26, 2021 at 10:13 AM PDT
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Every gun in this country is a tragedy waiting to happen... ABC News At least nine teenagers and juveniles have been injured after a gunfight broke out at a 12-year-old’s birthday party. (snip) When authorities arrived they discovered that multiple...
by PvtJarHead
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on Wed Apr 21, 2021 at 07:17 AM PDT
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Earlier this week, a historic Reparations bill made its way out of committee, though in so doing, it was more a symbolic gesture than anything else. Beyond a House victory, the fate of H.R. 40 — and its chances of ultimately making it to Joe Biden’s...
by cabaretic
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on Fri Apr 16, 2021 at 08:12 AM PDT
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