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The video linked is courtesy of Brian Tyler Cohen who as many of you may know is doing a huge amount of amazing work. There is a YouTube video that is linked below, but the gist of it is a man named Bob thanked President Biden for lowering the cost of...
by Dem
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on Fri Apr 19, 2024 at 10:21 AM PDT
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Before I begin, I know. Twitter (called some other name I can’t seem to recall for whatever reason) is now being run by someone with a keen interest on spreading misinformation and rightwing rhetoric. Yadda yadda yadda. This is not the point of the...
by ASmartFish
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on Wed Jan 10, 2024 at 12:38 PM PST
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Well, I have to start somewhere: There must not be one law for the Jew and another for the Arabs....In saying this, I do not assume that there are tendencies toward inequalirty or discrimination. It is merely a timely warning which is particularly...
by LaFeminista
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on Thu Dec 14, 2023 at 06:12 AM PST
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When empathy isn't mutual, it enables hate and then violence. Single group empathy is self-defeating bigotry. As a Jew, the growing incidence of antisemitism terrifies me. So does mindless mob violence. Acquiesce to state-sponsored mass murder...
by acamins
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on Thu Dec 07, 2023 at 08:32 AM PST
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This is going to be a bit long, so bear with me, but I’ve been thinking recently about how my 80-something evangelical mother views the world and how it provides some much-needed context for a lot of the nonsensical arguments tossed around by...
by indythink
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on Sun Nov 12, 2023 at 10:04 AM PST
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I reckon this is what they call ‘survivors guilt’. Their names and faces are burned into my minds eye, as their pictures adorn a wall in my study. Today, as I do semi regularly, I stand in front of each one and close my eyes, in remembrance and prayer....
by Tevye
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on Sat Nov 11, 2023 at 03:52 PM PST
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News this week that the U.S. economy grew by a staggering 4.9% in the third quarter served as yet another reminder that, in spite of voters' dismal personal perceptions, the country's economic outlook is quite decent. Not only did Americans go on a...
by Kerry Eleveld
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on Fri Oct 27, 2023 at 03:50 PM PDT
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President Biden is a man of enormous empathy borne from his personal experience of terrible anguish and unimaginable loss. We saw it with the boy who stuttered. We saw it in his compassion to those in mourning and suffering from COVID. He is the...
by Dem
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on Fri Oct 20, 2023 at 09:25 AM PDT
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My problem with Jim Jordan starts with how he’s a moronic, right-wing insurrectionist, but it doesn’t end there. I also don’t like that he’s a former wrestler, and thus serves as a representative of the sport. And I imagine how easy it must be to...
by will cambridge
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on Thu Oct 19, 2023 at 10:35 PM PDT
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The way for many to show their rebellious streak as a child is to knock on a door or ring a doorbell and then run away. Yes, it probably results in some being disturbed from their dinner or whathaveyou, but all- in- all it’s harmless. The classic...
by Tevye
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on Sun Oct 01, 2023 at 03:39 PM PDT
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I’m WOKE!!!!!
by waldeniii
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on Fri Sep 29, 2023 at 11:58 AM PDT
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All Set To Retire, Then The Moment That Thrust Dianne Back Into Service And A Decade Of Cold Sweats. She and her husband Bertram were relieved about her impending early retirement from politics, and excited of what the future was going to bring. Bertram was a neurologist and doing very well thank you very much, and Dianne was digging deep on what the...
by Tevye
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on Fri Sep 29, 2023 at 07:39 AM PDT
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On Thursday, a Senate Special Committee on Aging took place to discuss how people with disabilities, older adults, and veterans can be ensured access to government technology. Sen. John Fetterman ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Sun Sep 24, 2023 at 09:00 AM PDT
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The abused stray didn’t have a name when he was first brought into the Antrim County Animal Shelter in Bellaire, Michigan. Someone had shot him with a pellet or BB gun, which the shelter staff could feel under his bottom lip. He also displayed other...
by Tevye
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on Sun Sep 24, 2023 at 03:28 PM PDT
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14-year-old Connor Halsa of Moorhead, Minnesota was fishing with his family on Lake of the Woods, a massive lake straddling both sides of the US/ Canadian border. “We were doing a walleye drift, so we stopped the boat, put some spinners on, and just...
by Tevye
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on Sun Sep 17, 2023 at 03:22 PM PDT
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I was reading a truly excellent diary and I felt like I wanted to add onto that: . Lindsey Graham knows that what he has been saying is false. When he started making false allegations and Hunter and Joe Biden and President Biden said something to him...
by Dem
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on Sun Sep 10, 2023 at 11:03 AM PDT
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Hi friends. I am now in Somerset, PA. I will be attending the services tomorrow, a dozen or so miles away at the Flight 93 National Memorial, for the third year in a row. Being in the presence of and offering my condolences to the families and friends...
by Tevye
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on Sun Sep 10, 2023 at 02:14 PM PDT
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I would like to remind Daily Kos readers that The Empathy Center is hosting an Empathy Summit that will bring together professional empathy trainers from across a wide variety of interests to share how they use empathy in their practice. This event...
by linkage
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on Fri Sep 01, 2023 at 07:22 AM PDT
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We know about the monk who asked whether dogs have Buddha Nature. Such a question arose at Shasta Abbey, about Richard Nixon. We offered him merit every day, but some objected. The Abbess asked, “Who needs it more?” and that was that. And so it is...
by Mokurai
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on Sat Aug 26, 2023 at 09:22 AM PDT
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Joe Schilling was known by many names in his home of West Maui. He was known by locals as Maui Joe, and Uncle Joe. He had many hobbies, and accumulated a large collection of bullet shells that he searched for on the beaches and in the forests. And...
by Tevye
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on Sat Aug 19, 2023 at 03:02 PM PDT
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