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It is becoming easier to enjoy the benefits of clean energy in your home and community. Americans can use tax credits and consumer discounts for home upgrades, electric vehicle purchases, and other home appliances when they need to be replaced. Not a...
by jamiewertz
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on Fri Feb 16, 2024 at 09:51 AM PST
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These kinds of events below are happening all over the world every day and most of them, now, are webcast and archived, sometimes even with accurate transcripts. Would be good to have a place that helped people access them. This is a more global...
by gmoke
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on Sun Jan 28, 2024 at 03:51 PM PST
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You can make a difference to the hurt being caused by climate chaos and the great extinction event in your town or your city! �How? �Reuse, repurpose, and recycle this information. �You can push ...
by birches
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on Wed Nov 22, 2023 at 10:00 AM PST
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NOTE: This is approximately a 15-minute read. **Also, feel free to print this article up and use it as a guide!** Many of the stories that I have been reading on Daily Kos lately about climate change and shifting weather patterns have been rather...
by Miles Estrelle
15 comments
on Sat Jul 29, 2023 at 07:36 PM PDT
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House Oversight Committee chairman and Republican big dog James Comer attempted to prove on CNN last week that President Joe Biden and his children (including his late son, Beau) were a corrupt crime family. (Like the Trump family.) He did this by...
by Walter Einenkel
157 comments
on Tue Apr 25, 2023 at 01:14 PM PDT
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PLEASE DO NOT SHARE THIS TOO WIDELY, I’M STILL FEELING OUT COMING OUT TO EVERYONE IN MY LIFE Yes, I know it’s a popular public site and has a wide audience, just let me pretend I’m not leaping out of the closet so my anxiety doesn’t strangle me. This...
by Mortifyd
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on Mon Apr 24, 2023 at 09:44 PM PDT
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As incidents of violence targeting Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities continue to increase nationwide, California is among the states that have seen the highest rise. San Francisco specifically has repeatedly made headlines for the...
by Aysha Qamar
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on Wed Jun 22, 2022 at 12:05 PM PDT
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To honor diversity and encourage inclusion, Daily Kos will be celebrating diversity each month. This month Daily Kos has been celebrating LGBTQIA+ Pride Month. Pride Month is when communities across the world come together and celebrate the freedom to...
by Aysha Qamar
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on Fri Jun 17, 2022 at 02:00 PM PDT
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To honor cultural heritage, Daily Kos will be celebrating diversity each month. This month Daily Kos will celebrate Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month. Like other commemorative months, Asian Pacific American Heritage Month was...
by Aysha Qamar
6 comments
on Wed May 04, 2022 at 09:58 AM PDT
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As crimes against the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) community increase nationwide, the elderly stay most susceptible to violence. As Asian American elders are increasingly targeted, they are not only less likely to report incidents, but less...
by Aysha Qamar
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on Mon Mar 28, 2022 at 05:35 PM PDT
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Study finds 1 in 5 nurses want to quit their careers as pandemic takes extreme toll on mental health While health care workers have been providing care for thousands across the country, little to no care is available for them—especially mental health care. In the past two years, hospitals nationwide struggled with a rise in hospitalizations due to the...
by Aysha Qamar
34 comments
on Fri Dec 17, 2021 at 10:52 AM PST
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When it comes to supporting our unhoused neighbors, people can turn a cold shoulder very, very quickly. No matter the reason (or, most likely, reasons ) someone is experiencing homelessness, they ...
by Marissa Higgins
34 comments
on Sat Nov 27, 2021 at 06:00 PM PST
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Last year, minority advocates representing multiple backgrounds called for people to partake in the 2020 census. Many of them feared that if undercounted, minorities would lose or miss out on funding.
by Aysha Qamar
27 comments
on Wed Nov 03, 2021 at 06:33 AM PDT
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Bystanders chose to record a horrific incident instead of reporting it last week when a woman was raped for about eight minutes and harassed for over 40 minutes on the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) train. According to...
by Aysha Qamar
265 comments
on Wed Oct 20, 2021 at 12:43 PM PDT
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Since the withdrawal of American and NATO forces from Afghanistan in July, the Taliban has quickly taken control of large parts of Afghanistan. The government has fallen and the president has fled . ...
by Aysha Qamar
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on Fri Sep 03, 2021 at 05:00 PM PDT
with 57 Recommends
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Domestic violence is a worldwide phenomenon that has only gotten worse amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Multiple studies worldwide have found a spike in domestic abuses since the start of the pandemic, with significant increases in calls to helplines than...
by Aysha Qamar
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on Mon Sep 06, 2021 at 12:00 PM PDT
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To save the planet? The nugget is a polymetallic nodule and oceanographers have discovered trillions of them litter Earth’s ocean floors. Each is rich in manganese, nickel, cobalt and copper, some of the most important ingredients for making the...
by LaFeminista
86 comments
on Mon Aug 30, 2021 at 07:17 AM PDT
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Traveling is one thing a lot of people missed doing when the pandemic first struck. As a result of canceled flights, a lot of us ended up with miles and travel vouchers that we had no idea when it would be safe to use next. In comes Miles4Migrants, a...
by Aysha Qamar
39 comments
on Fri Aug 20, 2021 at 02:39 PM PDT
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There are myriad reasons why bottled water is problematic. Plastic containers are no good for the environment, the costs of bottled water continue to rise even though it is … water. Most importantly, the very existence of bottled water as a private...
by Walter Einenkel
183 comments
on Mon May 03, 2021 at 02:02 PM PDT
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As crimes against Asian Americans continue to rise nationwide due to misconceptions and misinformation about the COVID-19, some are taking time to spread compassion instead of hate. Volunteers have been coming together across the country in solidarity...
by Aysha Qamar
7 comments
on Tue Apr 06, 2021 at 11:22 AM PDT
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