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So Chanukkah ended the other night, but we had a celebration and educational event at the museum Thursday, after the holiday ended.� I was surprised by the number of people there, given that the ...
by Mortifyd
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on Sat Jan 04, 2025 at 04:57 PM PST
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by PresidentOso
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on Tue Dec 31, 2024 at 03:04 PM PST
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(Oubaitori — An ancient Japanese idiom that encourages people to embrace their individuality and unique journey, and to avoid comparing themselves to others) Christmas Alone “Thank you, Ben, have a merry Christmas.” “I will have a delicious one, enjoy...
by Grey Panther
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on Tue Dec 31, 2024 at 11:07 AM PST
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Happy Friday!� Bit is off today, but we’re not going for groceries. She gets paid tomorrow and works a half day, so we’ll be going after she gets off work. Christmas was a small, comfortable ...
by FloridaSNMOM
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on Thu Dec 26, 2024 at 09:55 PM PST
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By David Glenn Cox I dunno, somehow it didn’t feel much like Christmas this year. A lot of fear and apprehension in the air. A fear of the known as well as the unknown. But the older you get the more the holiday becomes a reminder of all that time has...
by This Carbon Based Life
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on Thu Dec 26, 2024 at 08:41 AM PST
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While millions of Americans gathered with friends and family to celebrate Christmas, Donald Trump and his co-president and benefactor, Elon Musk, spent the holiday glued to social media, writing unhinged, mean-spirited, and downright bizarre posts....
by Emily Singer
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on Thu Dec 26, 2024 at 08:00 AM PST
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It's the most wonderful time of the year. Especially if you're Donald Trump and you can fill it with the glory and adulation that you feel you so richly deserve. Which is precisely what he did for most of the morning on this Christmas day. Click here...
by News Corpse
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on Wed Dec 25, 2024 at 01:08 PM PST
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Please listen and share. To expand on what Professor Wolff said, Elen Musk is spoiled entitled man who threatens our democracy. He is neither a scientist nor an engineer. He dropped out of college. His parents owned an emerald mine in South Africa and...
by Jamesleo
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on Wed Dec 25, 2024 at 12:47 PM PST
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Just like on Thanksgiving, the Grifter in Chief couldn't let Christmas pass without being the Grinch. Here's my first post to back up the factual assertions. He just had the reauthorize his attack on Panama as the Grievance in Chief. He still thinks...
by Bill Addis
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on Wed Dec 25, 2024 at 02:09 PM PST
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by xaxnar
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on Wed Dec 25, 2024 at 12:16 PM PST
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A Very Merry Christmas to One and All I expect to post at least another 15-20 editorial cartoons in the comments section and as updates to this diary. Thank you very much for supporting this diary series, one I first started in 2009 before the DK front...
by JekyllnHyde
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on Wed Dec 25, 2024 at 01:11 PM PST
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Update: Video summary on YouTube from WION, World Is One News, based in India. WION later report on YouTube. From Sky News: The possibility that a power cable between Finland and Estonia has been sabotaged is being investigated after it stopped working...
by Bill Addis
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on Wed Dec 25, 2024 at 11:43 AM PST
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Americans typically engage in a variety of activities on Christmas Day, but the most common ones include, according to Pew from 10 years ago: Opening Gifts Sharing a Holiday Meal Watching Christmas Movies Attending Church Services Baking and Eating...
by Dalbert
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on Wed Dec 25, 2024 at 09:19 AM PST
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A while ago, I came across a t-shirt that proclaimed: “Rejoice in the birth of a brown-skinned Middle Eastern undocumented immigrant.” My response was immediate and heartfelt: “Yes!” Those words carry a profound truth, more potent than the contents of...
by KirkLC
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on Wed Dec 25, 2024 at 06:07 AM PST
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It just doesn't feel like Christmas. My family, the people in my life who stood with me as I watched my father die slowly of a horrible disease. Or when my dear sister, stricken with cancer, waved me goodbye from the screen door of her home as I left...
by Auchen
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on Tue Dec 24, 2024 at 07:34 PM PST
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and �...
by Chitown Kev
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on Tue Dec 24, 2024 at 08:59 PM PST
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I'd like to wish everyone on DK a very Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays. As blessed as my holiday season has been, in large part due to many strangers, I can only pray that you all will have your spirit moved in as special a way as has happened to me...
by YoungDumbSon
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on Tue Dec 24, 2024 at 06:31 PM PST
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As you can see by Itzl's concerned look, this group gives Kossacks a safe place to check in, a daily diary where we can let people know we are ...
by Pam from Calif
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on Tue Dec 24, 2024 at 09:55 PM PST
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We all have our favorite Christmas and holiday music. Mine is Stan Freberg's Green Chri$tma$. It's not just music, it's a 7 minute comedy sketch that shows the difference between celebrating the season, the right, and the wrong ways. Stan takes a dead...
by Bill Addis
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on Tue Dec 24, 2024 at 01:09 PM PST
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Most Christians are confident they know the story of Jesus’s birth. It is a scene immortalized in crèches across America — despite the conservative propaganda slamming the non-existent, liberal ‘War on Christmas’. The facts seem straightforward. Jesus...
by TheCriticalMind
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on Tue Dec 24, 2024 at 03:00 PM PST
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