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Groups: Top Comments, Pro Choice, Readers and Book Lovers, PacNW Kossacks, The Grieving Room, Unemployment Chronicles, Sluts, Sexism and Patriarchy, Salt Lake City Kossacks, The First and The Fourth, Speak Your Mind, DK Fans of 90 for 90, DKos Personal Health and Wellness, Sego Lily: Elections, News and Views, New Day Cafe, Covid19 State by State
Diaries published: 137 (8 days since last diary on Sun May 03, 2020 at 02:50 PM PDT)
Comments posted: 32469 (3 days since last comment on Fri May 08, 2020 at 06:40 AM PDT)
Diary frequency: often
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Most Recommended Diary: "...but you're my daughter, and I love you.", 278 comments, 637 recommends
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I don’t know if this has been posted here yet, but my wife just showed it to me and I set my deep cynicism aside for a moment and felt hopeful for a minute. It’s called The Great Realisation, and I just feel in love with its optimism. (Transcript...
by BoiseBlue
 10 comments
on Sun May 03, 2020 at 02:50 PM PDT
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On this day in 1936, my grandmother was born. She was an amazing woman, as I’ve written before, and probably the most singular force in my life for the first two decades of it. She had a really rough upbringing that I don’t want to dwell on now, but...
by BoiseBlue
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on Fri Apr 24, 2020 at 11:16 AM PDT
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My title pretty much says it all. The last few days, everything and anything makes me cry and it doesn’t matter what it is. Tears of joy? Had them. Tears of sadness? Check. Tears of disbelief? Strolled down these cheeks. I’ve even started crying...
by BoiseBlue
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on Thu Apr 23, 2020 at 06:54 PM PDT
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We just had an earthquake, and last I checked the news still hadn't reported on it. Trying to get details now, but through secondhand info the epicenter was north of me at 6.8; but people from North of Boise all the way up to salmon felt it, which...
by BoiseBlue
326 comments
on Tue Mar 31, 2020 at 05:18 PM PDT
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One thing that hasn’t changed since the first coronavirus cases were confirmed in Idaho is that Blaine County has consistently been home to about half of all cases. I predicted this a couple months ago, but it didn’t take a lot of intuition or...
by BoiseBlue
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on Tue Mar 31, 2020 at 09:02 AM PDT
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LOCAL ELECTIONS MATTER! Sanders dropping out doesn't mitigate the problem of voting during a crisis. Look, I am not a fan of Senator Sanders and I do think he should concede sooner rather than later. I’m really not interested in debating the pros and cons of that; as far as I’m concerned the presidential primary is over and we can all move on. But THE...
by BoiseBlue
38 comments
on Thu Mar 19, 2020 at 11:31 AM PDT
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- In WAYR? , I note what I’m reading and comment...you note what you are reading and comment. Occasionally, I may add a section or a link related to books… hopefully, I’m ready to get ...51 comments 20 Recs
- Many of you know that Packrat and I raised our niece, Kali, from age 14 to adulthood. Last week Kali’s mother died of COVID-19. My sister-in-law was a warm, funny, kind person. She was such an optimist that she got married four times. Even when she...209 comments 388 Recs
- “just come on home come on home no you don’t have to be alone...” Walked around the old cemetery and then the new one, too, the new one, the one where my first wife and my only father lie close together in their final resting places, and I walk and...23 comments 50 Recs
- One of the more stunning features of this pandemic is the sheer speed with which corporate America reacted with slick marketing strategies to try to mitigate the economic damage it knew was coming. We were barely a week into social distancing before...87 comments 144 Recs
- I live in a nation that has a mature and non-judgmental open mind about sex — in other words, I don’t live in the United States. This morning, Argentina’s Ministry of Health made its usual video presentation of news and advice related to the nation’s...4 comments 11 Recs
- I have not seen any posts about this news yet. The Bay Area Reporter (San Francisco’s LGBT weekly paper, just reported the passing of Phyllis Lyon, a pioneer for LGBT rights. Rather than link their story (the BAR’s website is somewhat problematic due...11 comments 35 Recs
- Hey everyone, I rarely do this but I have to call out a diary that is currently called Sebellius Regrets The ACA. By the way, her last name only has one L in it. It’s Kathleen Sebelius. The author took a quote and edited a certain part out of the...124 comments 208 Recs
- President Trump sent a letter to the governors wherein he sticks to his plan of opening businesses in a hurry. He’ll do so by classifying counties differently, from “high risk” to “low risk.” This strategy is an absolute disaster for our nation. Rural...315 comments 389 Recs
- Dear fellow DKos people, I am a long time lurker and have only written one or two posts, so I am really kind of a newbie and please be gentle. My group and I are stranded in Peru with no end in sight as of now. The following is a letter we wrote to our...126 comments 250 Recs
- My kids and my more adept friends laugh at my one-finger texting. But now I have less motivation to improve my texting speed than to take advantage of another built-in feature of my cell phone: the ability to speak to people. Given the urgency of...19 comments 15 Recs
