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The feds work in mysterious ways, and I hope they’re doing to the MAGA traitor community what they did to the marijuana legalization, grower, and hardcore environmentalist communities on the west coast a couple of decades ago. Here’s what I mean…. The...
by SteveDavis
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on Tue Jun 13, 2023 at 04:52 AM PDT
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Many movies have depicted events of the 1960s or tried to show what the era was like, among them “Woodstock,” “Hair,” “Midnight Cowboy,” “Medium Cool” and “Blow-Up.” One stands apart in having depicted both that era and, in some tragic and harrowing...
by Joseph P Griffith
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on Tue Sep 06, 2022 at 08:02 PM PDT
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Here at Top Comments we strive to nourish community by rounding up some of the site's best, funniest, most mojo'd & most informative commentary, and we depend on your help!! If you see a comment by another Kossack that deserves wider recognition,...
by gizmo59
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on Thu Aug 18, 2022 at 07:00 PM PDT
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Loud-mouthed, aggressive fascists are the public face of conspiracy theorists, and with plenty of justification. They may be “Christian” supremacists, trumpists, republicans, open racists, or all of the above. To a large degree, one suspects that they...
by senorjoel
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on Sat Dec 11, 2021 at 07:57 PM PST
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Two days ago, Tucker Carlson, the Fish Stick Prince of Bel-Air, directed one of his all-time most depraved tirades at Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. As part of conservatives’ ongoing campaign to turn Donald Trump’s Jan. 6 Bumblefuck Putsch into either...
by Aldous J Pennyfarthing
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on Sat Aug 14, 2021 at 10:20 AM PDT
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“To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” Audrey Hepburn This year I begin my second half-century, planting a garden. The passage of time shows me I have been investing in the future for most of my past. Season after season I plant, irrigate,...
by Gregg Matson
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on Tue Jun 01, 2021 at 02:00 PM PDT
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Harvard Square was empty this Commencement day, as it was last year. Except for the pandemic, it would have been mobbed with black-robed graduates and their beaming, picture-taking families. It would have been the 50th reunion of the Class of 1971....
by AliceT4
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on Sun May 30, 2021 at 09:20 AM PDT
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We’re in the process of moving from Sedona to Phoenix, Arizona. Sedona’s beautiful, but after five years of small-town life and after a prior lifetime of East Coast big city living in Philadelphia and New York , we’re bored to death with it. We’re city...
by DebtorsPrison
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on Tue May 11, 2021 at 07:00 PM PDT
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“The battle against extinction can only be a collective endeavor.” Sophie Pinkham “The Collective body” THE NATION 4/13/2020 Way back, in the midst of the Vietnam War, Watergate, energy shortages, pollution, and cities in riot, my friends and I would...
by Gregg Matson
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on Fri Apr 16, 2021 at 08:18 AM PDT
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When a vaccine freezer failure in California’s Mendocino County put a two-hour use-or-lose deadline on 830 anti-COVID-19 doses, the hospital staff went on scramble — to an elder-care facility, a county jail, firefighters, the...
by mettle fatigue
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on Mon Jan 11, 2021 at 05:30 PM PST
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(The weather here has been crappy and rainy all week, so I’ve been cooped up inside.)
In Norse mythology, Yggdrasil, the Tree of Life, was the source of everything, stretching through all of the ...
by Lenny Flank
15 comments
on Thu Jul 09, 2020 at 12:27 PM PDT
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There are three types of traditional baskets made by native peoples. One of them is the twined or wicker basket, usually made from pliable shoots like willow or from long roots like spruce. Another ...
by Lenny Flank
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on Tue Jun 16, 2020 at 12:28 PM PDT
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There are three types of traditional baskets made by native peoples. One of them is the twined or wicker basket, usually made from pliable shoots like willow or from long roots like spruce. Another ...
by Lenny Flank
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on Thu Jul 23, 2020 at 12:58 PM PDT
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Guest host Nicole Sandler with activist Jude Morford and author Stewart L. Rogers... It's NICOLE SANDLER, back again to guest host today's BradCast. It's not only a new year, but a brand new decade. So we decided to get a bit ethereal and start the...
by TheBradBlog
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on Thu Jan 02, 2020 at 04:09 PM PST
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"Turn on, tune in, drop out" said Dr. Leary, and some, maybe many, did. Many others approximated that condition to varying degrees. Hippies, and DFHs, were not a homogenous culture, and many ...
by enhydra lutris
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on Wed Oct 09, 2019 at 06:06 AM PDT
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So this happened – I get up at around 7-a.m. and head to the coffee maker while the hubs turns on MSNBC to see what trump atrocity is headline news. In two rounds of commercial breaks, I heard Let’s Groove by Earth Wind & Fire, playing in the...
by DaisiesArePretty
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on Mon Aug 26, 2019 at 05:42 PM PDT
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Another set of thoughts written in the early 1990s, harking back to the Long Ago: From 1967 through 1968, I dwelt in the Haight-Ashbury section of San Francisco, so I guess that made me a hippie (never much cared for the term, myself). Few people wore...
by rserven
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on Mon Aug 26, 2019 at 11:00 AM PDT
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The backstrap loom is probably one of the oldest machines invented by humans. Although various versions have been used by cultures around the world for thousands of years, they are usually ...
by Lenny Flank
35 comments
on Sat Feb 09, 2019 at 07:00 AM PST
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lot of politicians and public servants got in trouble for beingincidentally linked with Mumia abu Jamal
Philadelphiais now bulls-eye as reform DA Larry Krasner delays making a necessary decision on the Mumia abu Jamal reopening trial. A headline...
by RichardKanePA
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on Fri Jan 04, 2019 at 07:47 PM PST
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Mumia abu Jamal and the conspiracy against the Hippies co-staring assassinated Officer Daniel Faulkner
I dealt with Mumia abu Jamal at Community Underground Newspaper in Philadelphia.
After he was arrested he yelled while being escorted to...
by RichardKanePA
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on Fri Dec 21, 2018 at 05:16 PM PST
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