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This diary is a work in progress & I am hoping that Daily Kos readers can help me flesh out some of these ideas into a working strategy to steal a major issue from the GOP. I know some people who are nice enough folk except for the fears that drive...
by dlsamson
on Thu Feb 29, 2024 at 06:44 PM PST
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I was both excited and concerned about our plans to meet a couple we hadn’t seen in 8-ish years. About 25 years ago, the couple had instantly connected with my wife and me, because our two kids were the same age as their two kids, the kids had lots of...
by rmartin1241
on Tue Dec 12, 2023 at 08:55 PM PST
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October 12, 2023 by Netta Ahituv and Nadin Abou Laban In Haifa and Jaffa, joint Jewish and Arab patrols seek to prevent violence on both sides. In the south, Bedouin residents risk their lives to search for victims of Hamas terror. In the shadow...
by mettle fatigue
on Sat Oct 14, 2023 at 05:48 PM PDT
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“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old (ways*), but on building the new” -Socrates Artificial Intelligence (AI) is promising to be one of the most transformative technologies in history. As we stand on the brink of...
by Push4Purple
on Sat Oct 14, 2023 at 06:50 AM PDT
with 1 Recommend
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[NOTE TO READERS: I first wrote the following essay in October 2017, in the ninth month of the Demagogue’s presidency. But apparently I never published it. Another essay entirely now appears under the same title I then gave this one, namely, “Why this...
by dratler
on Mon Jul 03, 2023 at 02:41 PM PDT
with 1 Recommend
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In addition to AM talk radio, conservativism seems to own all the grocery store checkout aisles. Why is that? Are people who listen to talk radio or who go grocery shopping not an audience progressives can reach? ALL of those folks are unreachable???...
by Rob in Vermont
on Sun Apr 02, 2023 at 03:17 PM PDT
with 39 Recommends
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Welcome to Street Prophets Coffee Hour! Thermal for the warmth of a good cup of coffee or your preferred beverage, as well as the warmth of a more progressive religion and community. Or it’s ...
by elenacarlena
on Thu Sep 15, 2022 at 01:06 PM PDT
with 29 Recommends
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Welcome to Street Prophets Coffee Hour! Thermal for the warmth of a good cup of coffee or your preferred beverage, as well as the warmth of a more progressive religion and community. I’ll ...
by elenacarlena
on Thu Sep 08, 2022 at 01:06 PM PDT
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Robert Reich wrote an important thought piece in The Guardian that was well picked up by crepescule here on DK yesterday. I sympathize with my fellow Northern Californian Reich’s point of view, as well as his frustration and passion. A political party...
by rdewey
on Tue Jul 12, 2022 at 04:00 PM PDT
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How often have you heard Harry S. Truman’s phrase: “The most important job I ever held was that of precinct committeeman”? If you are involved in local and state politics, you may have heard ...
by Christopher Reeves
on Sun Jul 03, 2022 at 04:40 PM PDT
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It’s no secret that many Americans are susceptible to the many outrageous lies being spread by the Republicans. They have invested years and billions of dollars in establishing them in the minds of voters. Some of those deceptions have been bipartisan...
by psychusa
on Wed Feb 09, 2022 at 11:48 AM PST
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Politics as practiced in the United States broadly has the character of team sports in which Democratic and Republican voters show concern more for the letter that appears in parentheses after a politician’s name than about policy.This claim will shock...
by Greg Camp
on Sun May 16, 2021 at 04:33 PM PDT
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Who knew?
by Hilmbrown
on Wed May 12, 2021 at 04:42 PM PDT
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The following originally showed as my “Good News Roundup Annex,” with a few major additions here. I admit, I have been having difficulty spinning what I see going on with the Rethugs to spin it into a “Good News” content. The best I can come up with is...
by Mrmuni12
on Thu May 06, 2021 at 10:41 AM PDT
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The day after the anemic turnout at Donald Trump's inauguration in early 2017, the Women's March on Washington drew out what some researchers believe to be the largest single-day demonstration in recorded U.S. history. It marked staunch, widespread...
by Kerry Eleveld
on Tue Apr 27, 2021 at 09:14 AM PDT
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And no, I don’t mean the neo-Confederates trying to secede. I mean the civil war within the GQP. (I love that “GQP” thing!) I am not going to try to list all the signs of the growing split in the Ugly Party. You folks know them. I was chortling reading...
by thresholder
on Tue Feb 16, 2021 at 11:23 AM PST
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I know many of you aren’t interested in having a debate with Matthew McConaughey, but personally I believe it provides some opportunities to clear up a lot of misunderstandings about what we on the left believe in and to define the acceptable spectrum...
by hamez
on Tue Dec 15, 2020 at 05:03 PM PST
with 13 Recommends
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In order to save democracy, we need to consider some important concepts, so we can solve these problems. Patterns in history show us, at a minimum, what we need to do to save our democracy. We will NOT save democracy if we don’t restore the...
by greatlyconcerned
on Mon Sep 28, 2020 at 03:00 AM PDT
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I used to avoid Jennifer Rubin back in the Obama days, when she could find nothing good to say about the President and nothing bad to say about Romney, as well as the way she insisted that everything conservative was better. Since the Great Orange Slug...
by Dan K
on Mon Jul 13, 2020 at 09:29 AM PDT
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In the last decade: -Historic crowds protested racism and police brutality -Me Too stirred the hearts of the whole country -The movement for LGBTQ* rights gained enormous traction and victories These social issues moved people and created change. Much...
by KafkaWest
on Mon Jun 08, 2020 at 04:40 PM PDT
with 1 Recommend
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