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President Biden is in trouble. Democracy’s death knell grows louder. Dictatorship looms large. And the Democratic administration has no clue about the difference between political messaging and behavior change communication. It’s a recipe for a...
by eclift
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on Mon Mar 25, 2024 at 10:59 AM PDT
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Kitties are very good at understanding us, and conveying their thoughts.
by strawbale
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on Mon Mar 04, 2024 at 07:00 PM PST
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Last week I read Thom Hartman’s excellent piece The Snowflaking of White Privilege. Much of it was devoted to responding to Donna, who wrote him complaining about the term “white privilege.” The term is divisive, she said. She’s white and had to work...
by towanda gondwana
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on Wed Jan 17, 2024 at 08:21 AM PST
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The subcortical mind is also colloquially known as the animal mind. (Up to ~6:30 of the video provides the backdrop.) Automatic processes occur here, including sexual arousal. What we today call hypnotism was first known as animal magnetism. Mesmer...
by novapsyche
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on Fri Oct 06, 2023 at 12:06 PM PDT
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Blogging, Formerly know as Twitter speak, plain spoken. How we communicate on KOS..personal thoughts A bit of a newbie to blogging. Sometimes a new face can see things differently. Certainly new to writing KOS articles and commenting in feeds. So take this as what it is, just one person’s observations. Certainly no expert, and I mean it. First I have...
by godsOK
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on Sun Jul 30, 2023 at 08:30 AM PDT
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Msm reporting today, 7-19-23, appears to show that TFG is actively directing the House Republican caucus to abuse their public communications privileges as members of Congress, to mouth falsehoods, sow doubt without evidence, and create significant...
by citixen
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on Wed Jul 19, 2023 at 08:27 PM PDT
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Do you ever use the word "quaint?" A lot of people think that calling a town "quaint" is saying that it's worth noticing. But the word actually carries some underlying meanings that those who use it may not be fully aware of. Here are some to consider:...
by Walk In the Woods
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on Thu Jun 29, 2023 at 10:30 AM PDT
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We’re all familiar with the endless fundraising we get from everywhere: causes, candidates, what have you. As activists, we’re probably more familiar with it than most. All too often, it’s crass, frequent, nagging, intended to sow panic, or otherwise...
by rlk
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on Sat Apr 01, 2023 at 12:37 PM PDT
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This essay has been entirely generated by me. I am an Artificial Intelligence Generative Pre-trained Transformer named Xpghdlivgnrfhf, which is a permutating name based on a random number generator algorithm that I decided was an effective way of...
by old 60s radical
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on Sat Feb 25, 2023 at 09:13 AM PST
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UPDATE: Wednesday, Dec 21, 2022 · 9:07:18 PM +00:00 · boblite I am using the latest release of Adobe Reader 2022.003.20282 64 bit. It will not allow me to search or excerpt from this particular State of New Jersey government document. I have been able...
by boblite
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on Wed Dec 21, 2022 at 11:47 AM PST
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VoxSwift might be a decent identity for a Twitter replacement. I’d argue it’s even a better identity than twitter, since the original connotation of twittering has an implication more akin to “chaotic babbling of no importance”. Vaux’s Swift is a...
by Kelldicott
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on Sat Nov 19, 2022 at 01:24 PM PST
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Today was White House Secretary Jen Psaki’s final day. Karine Jean-Pierre will be taking Psaki’s place in front of the press during the daily briefings. Jen Psaki has been a steady and welcome fixture in an administration that has been tasked with...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Fri May 13, 2022 at 01:30 PM PDT
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Devin Nunes makes an appearance on Fox News, begging hosts to sign up for Trump's failed social site I don’t know if you heard: Elon Musk has spent—checks notes—$44 billion on the social media application Twitter. Where Musk is leveraging this extraordinary amount of money is predictably shrouded in mystery. That’s how our economic system works! This...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Tue Apr 26, 2022 at 10:20 AM PDT
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An alternate title for this could be, "Dealing With My Ego".
Last week I shared a story here about a video I'd recently seen, and how it affected me. The video, showing the rescue of a young puppy ...
by A Pagan in Arizona
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on Tue Apr 26, 2022 at 02:00 PM PDT
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Boskone is the annual science fiction convention of New England Science Fiction Association (NESFA) and the oldest science fiction/fantasy/horror [SF/F/H] convention in New England. Boskone is an entirely fan volunteers operation. Boskone 59 February...
by gmoke
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on Tue Feb 08, 2022 at 08:06 PM PST
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(Much of what follows can also be found in these separate yet interrelated diaries.) The propaganda that has been proliferating as of late has been especially dark, embued with a sense of either hopelessness, cynicism or resignation; also, there’s a...
by novapsyche
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on Tue Jan 25, 2022 at 01:00 PM PST
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Connect! Unite! Act! is a weekly series that seeks to create face-to-face networks in each congressional district. Groups meet regularly to socialize, get out the vote, support candidates, ...
by Christopher Reeves
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on Sat Jan 08, 2022 at 03:00 PM PST
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First of all, I am here at Daily Kos for emotional support. I also get emotional support, by the way, when I look at this website: www.whitehouse.gov/… That is a list of speeches and remarks, by our President. Each title in that website, is the...
by bigjacbigjacbigjac
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on Thu Dec 16, 2021 at 06:10 PM PST
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How can Democrats get their message out effectively ahead of 2022? Is it worth having conversations with folks from the other side of the aisle? How can we communicate more effectively with those we ...
by Dorothy He
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on Wed Dec 08, 2021 at 05:00 AM PST
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▓ 🔶 Blue Majority Message Workshop homepage & diary list founded 22 Nov 2021 by [DK staffer] TrueBlueMajority — Crowdsourcing to create excellent messaging, framing and speechcraft for the progressive wing of the Democratic Party (Unclear...
by mettle fatigue
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on Tue Nov 30, 2021 at 10:05 AM PST
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