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Community Spotlight, formerly Diary Rescue, is dedicated to finding great writing by little-known or unknown diarists whose work hasn't gotten the visibility it deserves. We rescue and promote these diaries based on the original vision set out by Susan Gardner, Matron Saint of the Rescue Rangers, who single-handedly began our mission and has supported us vigorously over the years. We hope you enjoy our efforts.

The Kos Katalogue is a community based project designed to highlight and promote Kossak's businesses, support Kossaks in general and to promote progressive businesses. The Kos Katalogue will be published near the beginning of every month (we hope), not just on major holidays. It encourages Kossaks to support each other and progressive businesses no matter what they celebrate (religious gift giving holidays [Christmas, Hanukkah, Eid, Diwali, Soltice, etc.], Valentine's Day, birthdays, anniversar...

A place to discuss issues related to Asheville, NC-11, NC-10, and Western North Carolina. If you would like to become a member of this group, please let me know.

A group to share and explore many different genres of music: folk, classical, pop, country, oldies, world. Sometimes the selections focus on a political subject - as music often does. Mostly it's just showcasing good music of all sorts.

Kos Community Talk Radio. Of, By and For the Progressive Wing of the Blogosphere.

We are a group of individuals who follow an economic school of thought called Modern Monetary Theory or MMT for short. It's a relatively new "post-keynesian" (despite some of the ideas it's based on actually influenced Keynes's theories) economic school of thought that starts with basic facts like "government can create all the money it wants" and ends with a way we could have both stable prices(i.e. low inflation) and truly FULL employment in this country. So if that sounds like a really good ...

Criminal InJustice Kos is a weekly series devoted to exploring the myths of "crime", "criminals", and criminal justice and the intersection of race/ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, age, and disability in policing and punishment. Criminal Injustice Kos (CIK) is committed to furthering action towards reducing inequity in the US criminal justice system. Look for Criminal InJustice Kos every Wednesday at 6 CST. Criminal InJustice Kos Community also republishes related diaries of note that are n...

Specialists in Jibber Jabber and threading. Copyright Restrictions on Morning Open Thread Posts of this Group. Posts by Daily Kos staff is done under an open content license and republication is allowed without permission. By publishing on this site, non-staff community members implicitly grant rights to Daily Kos to publish on this site and republish on its affiliated outlets. Unless noted otherwise, all non-staff original content, by default, falls under an open content license. Original cont...

The weather is brutal. If it's not murderously hot, it's freezing cold, or flooding. There are tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, blizzards. Power goes out, and suddenly you're cut off. Beyond that, some of us have disabilities or illnesses that we're dealing with alone. It would be nice to know someone has our back. The Itzl Alert Network is a community where we can meet potential buddies in our geographic areas to check in on us if we aren't reporting in here, to make sure we're OK, and if s...

Greetings, my name is Randall Thompson and I live near Asheville, North Carolina. I've been asked to be the Connect, Unite, Act State Leader for North Carolina. As part of that job, I am posting a weekly North Carolina Open Thread every Sunday at 1:00 PM Eastern. Please let me know through the week if you have a story or an item you would like for me to highlight.

You can reach me through kosmail at North Carolina ...

A group for Democrats and progressives who are interested in promoting a constructive dialogue and promoting progressives candidates who discuss the issues, make effective arguments and not the talking points. We cover races for U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Governor, etc. Our coverage doesn't always indicate endorsement of candidates but we support certain candidates.

The Daily Kos Work Bank was created to give Kossacks who have work that needs to be done a way to meet up with Kossacks who need work. If you have work opportunities, it doesn't have to be a job, it can be independent contractor work or even a one-off need, post it in a weekly Daily Kos Work Bank diary. If you have a skill, desire, time, or any combination of those three, and want to do some work, look for the diaries and tell people what you can do. Let's use this to help each other where we n...

Florida was under one group but due to the layout of the state and the need to meetup more often, this area is for the North and Central Florida Kossacks to meetup and become more active. This is better than trying to gather folks from all over the state which does not seem to work very well. The state is just too big ! We need frequent and productive meetups located in North and Central Florida. Everyone is welcome ....Join us if you are in Central Florida including both coasts... Of course yo...

A group for people in pain and for people who support them. Mental, physical, and/or emotional pain and/or disability are all relevant topics for discussion. We are particularly concerned about the treatment of pain patients, which often involves treating patients like they're guilty (of drug addiction) until proven innocent. We are working on a Pain Patients' Bill of Rights, to become state and/or federal law. Meanwhile, meet here, make suggestions, share stories. Since this is a support group...

Voter registration and getting out the vote (GOTV) are critical to positive change in legislative bodies, from the very local level to the national level. Dr. Fergie Reid, Jr., and Brenda Hill started a movement in Virginia called 90 for 90, in honor of and inspired by Dr. Fergie Reid, Sr., who was the first black person elected to the Virginia legislature since Reconstruction, who served there for many years with distinction, and who recently turned 90 yea...