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This piece is appearing as an op/ed in newspapers this weekend in the very red congressional district in which I was the Democratic nominee for Congress in 2012. ******************************** When I was getting educated, the idea that things in the...
by AndySchmookler
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on Sat Apr 20, 2024 at 07:56 AM PDT
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Alarm bells are ringing: If the GOP wins the presidential and congressional elections in November, we will fall off the precipice into fascism! This is no boy cries wolf. On multiple fronts, Republicans and their funders are moving to ensure and...
by acamins
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on Thu Dec 21, 2023 at 01:05 PM PST
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Huffpost right now has a lead “Why the bad vibes”? They come to the unsurprising conclusion that it is because economic life for many people is worse now than during the pandemic. Surprise! There are two economies, one for the upper 40% and the other...
by dmontaine
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on Mon Dec 04, 2023 at 05:40 PM PST
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There is no question we are facing real challenges, as individuals, as a democracy, as a country, as a species. There is no shortage of institutional failures, of horrors, of existential threats. “Deaths of Despair” has become a bit of a meme —...
by xaxnar
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on Sat Oct 21, 2023 at 08:42 PM PDT
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South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham drew some derisive laughter for his recent remarks arguing that Mr. Trump should be free of any criminal inquiry into his attempts to steal the 2020 election, and that instead we should let the next...
by RETIII
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on Fri Aug 18, 2023 at 06:42 AM PDT
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I’ve been coming to Daily Kos less and less because all there is is despair. The diary on the front page about Europe falling into far right rule has done me in entirely. I waited patiently through COVID for some kind of hope for the future, but Daily...
by alkatt
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on Mon Jul 03, 2023 at 09:33 PM PDT
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The world is so full of malevolent actors and there are so many crises, due to so many factors (even my baseball team’s at the bottom of the league!) It’s surely causing many people crisis fatigue. There’s that orange guy who thinks he should be a king...
by Joyce Siegel
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on Wed Sep 21, 2022 at 10:59 AM PDT
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There is a big media narrative, often echoed in diaries and comments here (sometimes for legitimate arguments, other times for trolling and morale-busting from the usual suspects), that the Dems Are Going To Get Clobbered. Why? For any number of a...
by EngineerScotty
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on Thu Sep 30, 2021 at 12:59 AM PDT
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I’m an optimist. I was five or six when my parents got divorced. I had never heard the word “divorce” before, so I had a little trouble getting my head around it. After asking a few questions about who I would live with and what would happen to my...
by lafosner
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on Wed Aug 25, 2021 at 01:00 PM PDT
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[Edited to deal with paragraph separations. On further edit, the paragraphs have 3 lines between them on edit, and appear as a wall of words when saved. I don’t know how to make this format properly. Sorry. I believe this is a worthwhile diary.] Back...
by kbman
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on Tue Mar 09, 2021 at 09:13 PM PST
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I had to call her for other reasons. Our conversation started out okay, she said she was staying safe, wearing her mask, not going out unless it was absolutely necessary. I said that is great, i am glad she is staying safe because so many...
by Cmae
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on Fri Dec 11, 2020 at 11:24 AM PST
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Three Bean Leaves My oatmeal beeped 3 times from the microwave when I looked out the window and saw Ruby, my 7 year old Beagle carrying you in her mouth. Frustrated, that I had to put regular clothes on to go outside, since I haven’t been doing...
by Girlfromappalachia
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on Wed Sep 09, 2020 at 09:53 PM PDT
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I am so proud of the Badger state. We live in the Twin Cities (MN) and have friends who live in WI. A few days ago, Meg and I were having a Zoom wine and cheese hour with MN friends who now live across the border. Our friend Marla loathes Trumpism but...
by thresholder
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on Tue Apr 14, 2020 at 10:46 AM PDT
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MCUBernieFan wanted me to share some Good News about how we are winning, because things are indeed bad right now on several fronts. I wrote him a comment, which I can now expand on.
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by Mokurai
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on Thu Apr 09, 2020 at 04:00 AM PDT
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From the abstract of a study published online in JAMA Psychiatry Feb. 12. In the United States, men die by suicide at 3.5 times the rate of women.1 One driver of this gender disparity may be high traditional masculinity (HTM), a set of norms that...
by mettle fatigue
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on Thu Feb 27, 2020 at 02:41 AM PST
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Dan Rather has seen and reported on a lot in his career. His is a voice with the weight of experience. Yesterday on Facebook he posted some words of explanation and encouragement that need to be heeded www.facebook.com/... They are counting on despair....
by Witgren
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on Mon Feb 10, 2020 at 09:18 PM PST
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We lost in the Senate. Not a single witness will be called. The President is now our King. He can do to us whatever he wants. Beat us. Rape us. Murder us. Gun us down in the street in the name of his notion of what’s “best” for the nation. He can do...
by Madisonian
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on Thu Jan 30, 2020 at 08:42 PM PST
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I am about to give up in despair. I drive an old junk van with over 215,000 miles on it because the money I could be spending to buy a new vehicle I donate to Democratic candidates in hopes that I am making a difference. Republicans lie and bully....
by Robert Norman
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on Fri Jan 10, 2020 at 06:42 PM PST
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How do you sell a message of hope to people who have abandoned it and no longer believe in progress? Monica Potts has a commentary in the NY Times on what she has found upon moving back to rural Arkansas: In The Land of Self-Defeat — What a fight over the local library in my hometown in rural Arkansas taught me about my neighbors’ go-it-alone...
by xaxnar
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on Sat Oct 05, 2019 at 07:47 PM PDT
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I find myself despondent and unable to make my peace with my place in history. I decided to write to clear my head and hopefully stumble on some truth.
Saturday, September 14
Do the things that ...
by MRN 8255000
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on Sat Sep 28, 2019 at 06:00 AM PDT
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