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We had a very pleasant reunion of Los Angeles Kossacks (those who were able to attend). 10 of us collected in Pasadena on Saturday to reaffirm our fealty to the company of progressive allies in the ...
by 714day
on Wed Dec 13, 2023 at 05:00 PM PST
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We have some Daily Kos people in Tennessee and I know we can’t reach some of them as a major tornado has hit the area about two or three hours ago. Can’t find anything on the news yet but here it is on Twitter. Stupid news can’t stop covering Trump and...
by Vetwife
on Sat Dec 09, 2023 at 05:32 PM PST
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The Threads app now has over 150 million registered users�
according to Business Insider [ https://www.businessinsider.com/threads-150-million-downloads-100-million-active-users-engagement-2023-7 ].�
by Angela Marx
on Sat Jul 15, 2023 at 01:00 PM PDT
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What a great SOTU, probably one of the best in US history! We all watched in awestruck admiration as a supposedly gaffe-prone, ‘too old’ Hill veteran verbally sparred with and tricked his opponents into supporting our major social programs, on video in...
by Tippy and Dad
on Fri Feb 10, 2023 at 06:00 PM PST
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Old Kossacks may remember a lovely woman who used to post here under the alias of “Mnemosyne". I just found out that Marie-Grace (her real name) passed away from cancer-related issues on October 11 at age 82. She had come to visit and stay with us here...
by Lupin
on Sat Dec 03, 2022 at 03:05 AM PST
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Timothy Snyder’s latest Thinking About covers Russia’s Crimea Disconnect. On 7 October, an explosion destroyed some of the Kerch Bridge, which connects Russia to Crimea. It is a new construction. When Russia invaded Ukraine the first time, in 2014,...
by xaxnar
on Mon Oct 10, 2022 at 11:27 AM PDT
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We need all the Floridians who are able to stay online to check in periodically . This Ian hurricane is a monster. Some of us will be able to stay online and some of us won’t but we will check in as best we can. We are hunkered down and waiting for the...
by Vetwife
on Wed Sep 28, 2022 at 07:13 AM PDT
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714day, gmats and I would like to invite you to a meetup, but we need your input. In order to choose a date and location that suits the majority of a group spread out over many, many miles, we’re ...
by susans
on Sun Nov 21, 2021 at 10:00 AM PST
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Good morning, Comrades. Today is my sixteenth Kossack anniversary. Boy howdy, it feels like it, too. Remember how much younger we all were 16 years ago? I can barely recognize the girl I was that fateful Election day so long ago. So...
by sockpuppet
on Tue Nov 03, 2020 at 06:41 AM PST
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It has been a long while since us Motor City Kossacks has had a meet up A few months ago I wrote a diary to see if people were interested in meeting up and there was some interest. I thought that I ...
by BFSkinner
on Thu Aug 08, 2019 at 02:10 PM PDT
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I have great respect for Markos. This community has been a literal life saver for me in the past and I’m more grateful than I can ever express for your help.
I have long appreciated this community’s advocacy for expanding voting days and hours to...
by scamperdo
on Tue Jul 02, 2019 at 06:32 PM PDT
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Way, way back in the early to mid 1990s (Before some of you were born ;)) I went to a small school in NE Alabama for my Masters. The school was Jacksonville State University and it was (And still is, unless someone moved it) half-way between Birmingham...
by BFSkinner
on Wed May 08, 2019 at 06:06 PM PDT
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Idlemoments usually writes these meetup followup diaries, but since he (too bad) couldn’t be with us today, I will be writing it. I wish you could have been there, Idlemoments. Turnout was great, as was morale.
We met at Turtle Bread in South...
by Rosebuddear
on Sat Nov 17, 2018 at 01:19 PM PST
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I don’t want to miss the GoFundMe Accounts set up for the Camp Fire Kossacks’
survivors as I promised to help. When will they appear here?
by left of center
on Fri Nov 16, 2018 at 11:22 AM PST
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On February 6, 2017, my friend Katie Rohrer was rushed to the hospital in a state of total shock suffering from acute fulminant liver failure, a rare condition that came on suddenly, even though ...
by SKEPTICINFORMED
on Tue May 08, 2018 at 05:00 AM PDT
with 13 Recommends
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I know I tend to pitch for folks to support my work at ACASignups.net fairly frequently, but today I want to pass the hat a bit for my friend (and long-time Kossack) Chris Savage, aka Eclectablog (and yes, there's even a healthcare angle here).
From...
by Brainwrap
on Tue Apr 24, 2018 at 09:29 AM PDT
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Last weekend we had a great gathering of the Seattle & Puget Sound Kossacks, bringing together a handful of folks from across the region to discuss our political plans for 2018. For a rainy Saturday afternoon, we had quite a good turnout, and...
by EagleOfFreedom
on Tue Jan 30, 2018 at 06:27 PM PST
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Here’s an update on my ongoing foot health situation:
First, I should be going home later today or tomorrow.
I had an MRI yesterday which showed no major infection in the bones of my foot. The oozing wound on my foot is more of a surface/skin...
by jtg
on Fri Jan 05, 2018 at 01:11 PM PST
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WARNING: Graphic TMI Ahead
My foot got much worse overnight.
There is a big hole oozing puss on my heal near the foot pad. It appears that there had been a puss packet under the skin there that burst.
There is less pain, but now I’ve got an...
by jtg
on Wed Jan 03, 2018 at 10:19 AM PST
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My Foot Update:
I am no stranger to pain.
I have experienced pain so intense that simple life functioning activities were impossible and my mind experienced hallucinations, such as in the days after my cancer surgery when I...
by jtg
on Tue Jan 02, 2018 at 12:15 PM PST
with 16 Recommends
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