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Good morning and happy Tuesday, Gnusies! If you’re seeking refuge from non-stop coverage of the BLOAT, you’ve come to the right place. There’s so much good news out there that this GNR is ...
by arhpdx
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on Tue Apr 16, 2024 at 04:00 AM PDT
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INTRO:� � �As the ‘24 Elections approach, the situation is slowly becoming more clear. In�only 7 months and 2 days, we’ll be holding the final day of voting for the Presidency, the House and ...
by lemay50
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on Wed Apr 03, 2024 at 04:00 AM PDT
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Good morning, Gnusies! It’s officially spring, and new life is bursting out all around us. Today’s haul of good news indicates that there’s also new energy and progress around the world in ...
by arhpdx
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on Tue Apr 02, 2024 at 04:00 AM PDT
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Happy Tuesday morning, Gnusies! It seems like the daily news has settled into an annoyingly predictable pattern: endless stories about the BLOAT�and his increasingly unhinged acolytes, ...
by arhpdx
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on Tue Mar 19, 2024 at 04:00 AM PDT
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Rod Lamberts wrote a decade ago: If there’s one thing decades of advertising, public relations, psychology research and science communication have taught us, it’s that throwing facts at opposing opinions with the hope of changing people’s minds is like...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun Mar 03, 2024 at 08:00 AM PST
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In writing this diary, I was inspired by the Facebook post of Arturas Kvederis. I will use some of his (proofread) words below in quotation marks. "Many people choose not to delve into details of war as they might be shocking, traumatizing, and...
by KyivGuy
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on Sun Feb 25, 2024 at 01:14 PM PST
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If you live in a district that is represented by a Republican in the US House of Representatives, you might feel like calling them to ask them to vote a certain way is an exercise in extreme futility. I know I’ve felt that way the last several years....
by nancyjones
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on Fri Feb 16, 2024 at 06:46 AM PST
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Happy Tuesday morning, Gnusies! I have a lot of good news to share today but no particular theme to tie it all together, so let’s just get straight to it. Pour yourself a big mug of your ...
by arhpdx
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on Tue Feb 20, 2024 at 04:00 AM PST
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Happy Mardi Gras, Gnuville! I The motto of New Orleans, “Laissez les bon temps rouler” (Let the good times roll), is especially appropriate at Mardi Gras, when the good times roll all day and ...
by arhpdx
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on Tue Feb 13, 2024 at 04:00 AM PST
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There are signs of hope for the November election. Results from the primaries in Iowa and New Hampshire tell us that Trump and his tribe might have alienated just enough Republicans that we’ll be able to stop fascism in the fall. Some strategists even...
by Rich Snowdon
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on Wed Jan 31, 2024 at 09:50 AM PST
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Half a century ago last month, President Richard Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act, which, in a move that would be unthinkable today, the Senate had passed unanimously and the House of Representatives approved in a 390-12 vote. As President Joe...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun Jan 21, 2024 at 08:00 AM PST
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Activist Protest Music is a long-lost art, but the MAGAs are ready to shut it down completely anyway Reposted from My Substack Over the New Year’s holiday, the Right-wing became amazingly triggered by Punk Pop Group Green Day changing one word in their seminal protest song “American Idiot” from “I’m not a part of the redneck agenda” to “I’m not a part...
by Frank Vyan Walton
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on Sat Jan 13, 2024 at 09:30 AM PST
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In an August 1967 speech at the 11th Annual Southern Christian Leadership Conference Convention in Atlanta, Georgia, the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. asked his audience, which included much of the leadership of the African American civil rights...
by Alan Singer
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on Wed Jan 10, 2024 at 06:59 AM PST
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Many people are forced to wear ankle monitors because they’ve been deemed a threat to the public. Perhaps they have a history of pedophilia and the authorities want to be sure they don’t go to schools or parks with children. Or, maybe they have a past...
by Zoe Rosenberg
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on Tue Jan 09, 2024 at 11:44 AM PST
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Good morning, Gnusies! I’ve found lots of hope-inspiring news nuggets for us today. 2024 is starting out with a lot of promise, despite some intractable problems. So pour yourself a big mug of ...
by arhpdx
146 comments
on Tue Jan 09, 2024 at 04:00 AM PST
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This year, to the best of our abilities, we will ensure our listeners know about activism, healthcare, economics, and elections. The Right misinforms. We will continue to inform you. Watch Politics Done Right T.V. here. Podcasts (Video — Audio)...
by Egberto Willies
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on Mon Jan 01, 2024 at 01:03 PM PST
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Everybody likes a spectacle. If there is an extravaganza to see, people will travel from near and far to see it. Although, I’ve never been very impressed by the people who travel from near. Far seems harder. But people want to see a show, and history...
by daylin
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on Tue Dec 19, 2023 at 07:47 AM PST
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The spotlight is a weekly, categorized compilation of links and excerpts from environmentally related posts at Daily Kos. Any posts included in the collection do not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of them. Because of the...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun Dec 17, 2023 at 08:08 AM PST
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The spotlight is a weekly, categorized compilation of links and excerpts from environmentally related posts at Daily Kos. Any posts included in the collection do not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of them. Because of the...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun Dec 10, 2023 at 08:00 AM PST
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Good morning, Gnusies! We’ve all been thinking lately about Goodie’s upcoming DKos series highlighting all the great things that Biden has done during his first three years. And in that context, a piece I found on Press Watch jumped out at me —...
by arhpdx
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on Tue Dec 12, 2023 at 04:00 AM PST
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