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Apologies to all if someone has already covered this (I’ll remove the diary if it's redundant,) but a quick site search didn’t turn up anything about it, and I thought it might be a good idea to pass it along. Greg Palast sent this information out...

Some years ago, I joined an Artist Trading Card swap where we all had to use cocktail napkins as part of the collage.  I used most of mine as backgrounds.  Here are a few of the ones I traded.

Thank you can't even begin to express the gratitude I feel right now.  A year ago I was a union ironworker from Caledonia, WI on a job site at the local VA talking about how working people weren't being represented in Washington. Last night, thanks...

The title of this diary, You Want Nancy Pelosi Out? Find Somebody Better, is the title of an article by Charles P. Pierce in today’s issue of Esquire magazine. I believe Pierce’s point is well-taken. The reason why Pelosi is so frequently maligned by...

I fix up old buildings and lease them out for a living.  As a result I deal with asbestos a lot so I have some background on this issue.  I’ve been on sites doing remediation and spent weeks of my life reading reports from surveys so when I read laymen...

My good friend Samantha Scott, otherwise known as littlefire was traveling from Houston to Colorado, and just north of Amarillo was clipped by another car and forced off the road, where her car rolled several times. Her 13 year old daughter was lifted...

Nate Silver’s 538.com has announced that they have obtained and will be making public the most extensive known database of troll tweets from the Russian misinformation efforts. They hope that public analysis will offer insight into how these attacks...

I spent part of my clergy career as one of several professional chaplains in our county jail system. One of the things I encountered most often are folks (or juveniles) sent to jail for any number ...

American traitor Donald Trump’s shameful performance at the Surrender Summit has removed all doubt about where his allegiances lie—believing Russian President Vladimir Putin’s lies over his own intelligence agencies. His slavish performance, akin to a...

In a ritual that’s as certain as death and taxes, Republicans here in North Carolina are once again mounting their biennial jihad against Early Voting — and this year with a new weapon. NC Republicans despise the state’s generous (17 day-long) Early...