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One of the most important aspects of GOTV (Get Out The Vote) is canvassing. This can take the form of setting up a table at the local farmers market, walking door to door, open house events, phone banking, zoom meet ups, and social media. This outreach...
by linkage
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Welcome to Morning Open Thread, a daily post with a MOTley crew of hosts who choose the topic for the day's posting. We support our community, invite and share ideas, and encourage thoughtful,
by officebss
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Have you ever found yourself in the future, wondering what heck happened? Seattle is swathed in tropical forest and there you are trying to remember the good old days when banana slugs were ...
by matching mole
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Coral reef ecosystems have a vast diversity of creatures, which means many more niches than you might expect so species aren’t directly competing with each other. The many different strategies for finding food make that possible. As I swim around the...
by OceanDiver
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on Mon May 16, 2016 at 07:30 AM PDT
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A market in anarchist Catalonia. From the 1983 BBC television series "The Spanish Civil War"
Ackerman proposes a market socialist system and claims it will eliminate profit to which I disagree ...
by Jeff Moniker
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Plant color pervades our consciousness. We live in a green world (in fact a historically famous paper in ecology addresses the question of why the world is green). Green refers to a political party,
by matching mole
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We tend to think of evolution as a march through time, a climb out of the primeval ooze. In reality evolution is more like an 87 dimensional game of Snakes and Ladders (also called, as I am told by ...
by matching mole
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All the wailing and gnashing of teeth right now over the "financial crisis" stems from one particular problem that no one except nutballs like me is willing to face: there is nothing, ...
by Stephen
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- Burn, baby, burn. Ukraine hit this same refinery two months ago. Oh look! Lots of new job opportunities in Russia. I wonder if they have a good health plan. It has been anticipated for a while now that Russia would attempt an offensive near Kharkiv....24 comments 140 Recs
- CNN has published a deeply troubling report on the torture that Israel is committing on Gazan detainees at the Sde Teiman prison in Israel’s Negev desert. The Israeli whistleblower revealed that detainees, some of whom are innocent surgeons and...292 comments 415 Recs
- Stormy Daniels is standing strong after spending more than seven hours over two days testifying about what happened one night in a Lake Tahoe hotel room with Donald Trump. And Trump attorney Susan Necheles’ attempt at “slut-shaming” the adult film star...56 comments 129 Recs
- Last winter, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) lost all nine of her congressional staffers. On November 1, 2023, she fired her chief of staff, Dan Hanlon. In the next three months, the other eight quit. The reviews were not good. Mace earned a reputation as an...41 comments 102 Recs
- I thought it was a joke and then I read Yahoo News. Let us not forget Trump had and may still have classified information but ah ha, then I thought, how many copies did he make of the classified docs? I mean the article said his mobile human printer...32 comments 58 Recs
- I know that the GOP believes a lot of ridiculous nonsense. It’s their stock-in-trade. But hearing this nutty theory espoused by the current Speaker of the House is more than a little jarring. In a clear attack on the executive branch, the judicial...189 comments 251 Recs
- A Severe G4 Geomagnetic Storm is expected to lash at earth around 03:00 — 09:00 UTC Saturday morning (11 p.m. EDT Friday night to 5 a.m. EDT Saturday morning). A series of strong solar flares and Coronal Mass Ejections took place Wednesday and...65 comments 245 Recs
- Primum non nocere (first, or above all, do no harm) is a Latin expression generally applied to the medical profession. However, I viewed it as equally applicable to the practice of law and often reminded myself of it in my own practice. Trump’s...415 comments 917 Recs
- UPDATE: Friday, May 10, 2024 · 2:15:25 PM +00:00 · distraught Over 2 months ago, Biden nominated someone to fill 1 of 2 vacancies on the Postal Board. Walsh would be the fourth Democrat to sit on the board, joining three Republicans and one...181 comments 291 Recs
- Early this morning a Russian oil refinery in Kaluga Oblast had a full 30 minutes warning that a Ukrainian drone was headed their way. The drone arrived right on time to hit the facility …. unmolested and with devastating effect. What air defense doing?...48 comments 133 Recs
- Commentary by Black Kos editor JoanMar One hundred years ago, some wise man wrote, “Justice must not only be done, but must also be seen to be done.” Whatever the legal complexities, the notion of someone facing 40 years in federal prison for “lying on...111 comments 31 Recs
- A lot has changed since I first wrote about E-bikes back in 2020. Today sales of E-bikes are vastly outpacing sales of electric cars. Seems like they’re everywhere now. In 2023 roughly 40 million E-bikes were sold worldwide. I was just at the local...116 comments 216 Recs
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- Commentary by Black Kos editor JoanMar One hundred years ago, some wise man wrote, “Justice must not only be done, but must also be seen to be done.” Whatever the legal complexities, the notion of someone facing 40 years in federal prison for “lying on...111 comments 31 Recs
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- I thought it was a joke and then I read Yahoo News. Let us not forget Trump had and may still have classified information but ah ha, then I thought, how many copies did he make of the classified docs? I mean the article said his mobile human printer...32 comments 58 Recs
- I wanted to offer a follow up to my last diary in which I supported Joe Biden’s decision to withhold 2,000 pound bombs and related unguided destructive offensive weapons from Netanyahu. It’s been a while coming, too. I want to talk about the remarkable...15 comments 6 Recs
- At 70 years old, I was raised though the battles of the 1960’s. That decade was full of protests of the Vietnam War, a war that many people of my generation, including myself, considered an immoral war. Students rallied along with many of the adults in...4 comments 3 Recs
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- ...until someone called. I’m feeling a bit good about myself today. Because I was the person who called. And then called another number and a couple more numbers. And then sent some emails. And then made another call or two. A couple of days ago, I...11 comments 33 Recs
- The high #InterestRates that we are paying is nothing more than legalized theft by the titans of the private sector against the working class. Here is an economic system, Modern Monetary Theory (#MMT), that will work. Why? Math. It is time for Modern...4 comments 2 Recs
- 'The Daily Show' takes on Kristi Noem's puppy problem and RFK Jr.'s brain worm We’ve finally learned what is too much for the MAGA crowd. Watch Hillary Clinton's chilling warning about 'determined demagogue' Trump Clinton has been speaking out about...2 comments 6 Recs
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- That's right, tomorrow is the second Saturday in May, which can only mean... The National Association of Letter Carriers Food Drive* is here, that special day when your friendly, helpful, union letter carrier will pick up non-perishable items at your...9 comments 21 Recs
- Last winter, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) lost all nine of her congressional staffers. On November 1, 2023, she fired her chief of staff, Dan Hanlon. In the next three months, the other eight quit. The reviews were not good. Mace earned a reputation as an...41 comments 102 Recs
- Burn, baby, burn. Ukraine hit this same refinery two months ago. Oh look! Lots of new job opportunities in Russia. I wonder if they have a good health plan. It has been anticipated for a while now that Russia would attempt an offensive near Kharkiv....24 comments 140 Recs
