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Gemina13's Profile
Fortysomething feminist progressive, bisexual woman. I believe in self-determination, free will, love, and hope--and that Dick Cheney and his cadre of anti-American goons can fuck right off.
DOB: 09/24/1970
Groups: Readers and Book Lovers, The Grieving Room, Personal Storytellers, ClassWarfare Newsletter: WallStreet VS Working Class Global Occupy movement, Cooking With Kos, Pagan and Wiccan Kossacks, LGBTQI Literature, LGBTQ Kos Community, Kossacks for Marriage Equality, Consumer Watchdog is Neither, Seattle & Puget Sound Kos, The Political Revolution, Fighting and Defeating the Neo Nazis, War 21
Hobbies: writing, music (vocal & harp), drawing, reading, ancient history, cooking, painting
Twitter: NWMagpie (Stonekettle's Bastard Horde)
Diaries published: 78 (58 days since last diary on Sat Mar 14, 2020 at 12:28 PM PDT)
Comments posted: 5114 (1 day since last comment on Sun May 10, 2020 at 03:58 PM PDT)
Diary frequency: often
Comment frequency: frequent
Total Recommends: 22171
Total Comment Ratings: 18966
Most Recommended Diary: A writer's strike on Kos? Are you sh*tting me?!, 422 comments, 576 recommends
People Following Gemina13: 43
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With COVID-19 leading to many people being self-quarantined or laid off work, and workers who are self-employed or contracted to losing wages, there’s been a rising outcry against the Trump Administration’s refusal to turn away from the SNAP rule...
by Gemina13
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on Sat Mar 14, 2020 at 12:28 PM PDT
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I follow a myriad of people on Facebook, ranging from local novelists and artists (Seanan McGuire & the fantastic Kat Richardson) to far-flung activists and professionals. I have no idea who Rob Hansen is, but his Facebook post got tangled in my...
by Gemina13
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on Sat Aug 31, 2019 at 11:32 AM PDT
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This is going to be a short diary; it’s more of a tribute to one of my favorite fantasy novels. Barry Hughart died on August 1, 2019, at the age of 85. Hughart was the author of three novels set in “an ancient China that never was”: Bridge of Birds,...
by Gemina13
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on Fri Aug 16, 2019 at 10:26 PM PDT
with 20 Recommends
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This morning, the Dow Jones took investors on a roller-coaster drop, as reported by outlets such as ABC News: The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted more than 700 points on Wednesday as new concerns arose over data on global economic growth. By 1...
by Gemina13
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on Wed Aug 14, 2019 at 11:37 AM PDT
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My nephew Ryan was born in 1995. Although his parents’ relationship had grown acrimonious and would soon come to an end, Ryan was a happy, alert baby. Gorgeous, too, with wispy ringlets, big dark eyes, and caramel-colored skin — although when he was...
by Gemina13
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on Tue Oct 02, 2018 at 10:33 PM PDT
with 115 Recommends
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has come to an agreement with the Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to fast-track the confirmation hearings of candidates up for federal judicial seats across the country. Knowing the quality of...
by Gemina13
57 comments
on Wed Aug 29, 2018 at 08:37 PM PDT
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- “Pence will not self-quarantine and plans to be at the White House Monday ” because that’s what leadership looks like.190 comments 140 Recs
- The White House is now a chunky COVID cluster, chock-full of nuts, cotton-candy hair, and curdled brain nougat. Katie Miller, Mike Pence’s press secretary and wife of bleach-damaged gimp costume Stephen Miller, has the ‘rona. So does one of Donald...26 comments 74 Recs
- Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week The Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis at Inequality.org writes— Poor People’s Campaign: We Refuse to Allow Politicians and Big ...61 comments 111 Recs
- On Feb. 2, 1973, Carter Camp led the first warriors into the hamlet of Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Reservation in southwest South Dakota, home of the Oglala Lakota. He was a citizen of the Ponca nation, one of the many tribes forced at gunpoint to...56 comments 223 Recs
- Sorry for the rant, I’ll keep it brief, but I’m beyond sick of seeing about 50% of people out in public business spaces not wearing a damn mask! My husband and I just made a grocery store and wine store run in metro-Atlanta, Georgia and the number of...408 comments 433 Recs
- Trump, speaking about Pence's aide who just tested positive: To repeat, Trump said: This is why the whole concept of tests aren’t necessarily great..." The obvious interpretation is that is another of his stupid, bass-ackward, off-the-cuff,...207 comments 272 Recs
- In important weekend news, we learn that Trump is sad because it turns out killing 80,000 Americans (and counting) through rank incompetence is making him, personally, less popular. Oh, and that Republicans are worried that killing off their own...250 comments 332 Recs
- Democrats have been making gains in Georgia over the last few years, and Stacey Abrams’ narrow 50-49 loss to Republican Brian Kemp in the tainted 2018 election for governor suggests Team Blue has a path to win statewide. However, our new data, which...16 comments 67 Recs
- by Nidia Bautista “Lina” hasn’t seen her 17-year-old son since March 6 when she last visited him in Central Juvenile Hall in Los Angeles, just a week before the probation department ended family visits in the county because of the coronavirus pandemic....5 comments 54 Recs
- Sort of a local story. Local ramifications anyway. After Elon Musk sued local authorities in California and threatened to move Tesla’s HQ to Texas or Nevada over attempts to contain the coronavirus outbreak, one Democratic state politician had a blunt...66 comments 41 Recs
