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Assorted serious and (mostly) humorous items, after-the-jump.
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by Ed Tracey
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crackin’ jokes, that is.
by strawbale
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Wiping out tribal economies has been a colonial tactic that remains in place today to undermine the first people of America. Native American reservations are overwhelmingly poverty stricken because of disproportionate oversite and regulations. Federal...
by Charles Micheaux
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Please go read thecriticalmind story on MTG and space lasers she wants to place on the southern border. As I live less than 30 miles from the southern border I thought I would put my insights on the border and how Customs and Border Protection and the...
by triumph110
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Today at Columbia University the NYPD was called to execute a fascist raid against college students…exercising their right to protest…. www.nytimes.com/… I haven’t seen anything about this here..,.but this is a police state type action. These young...
by meowmeowmeow
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I decided to celebrate my�birthday Monday by returning to Bolinas. It may have been�two years since I� drove over Mount Tamalpais to visit my old�home. A friend accompanied me for the afternoon. We ...
by boatsie
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The horse race isn’t really relevant right now. For one thing it can change, for another swing states are what matter, but there’s a lot more to polling that is of interest. Last week Kerry Eleveld, a DK staffer here made a post showing how polling...
by Somchai
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ALICE — Acronym for Assist Limited, Income Compromised, Employed. Hopefully ALICE becomes a “thing”. Here’s why; many people make just over poverty levels of income but just enough which eliminates them from receiving any government assistance. That is...
by Little Big Zebra
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Hi, fellow scribes! At the request of mettle fatigue, who excels in diligence and ubiquity, but whose superpowers should never be taken for granted, I'm for once stepping in to host this evening. The downside, for you: I'm not qualified to teach, guide...
by Clio2
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The Daily Brooklyn Bugler’s editors have so far been pleased with the courtroom sketches I’ve supplied for Donald Trump’s Hush Money Trial. In case you didn’t know, this trial is actually about Trump fraudulently altering financial reports in order to...
by EdFlynn
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Zog Marano: a modern Yiddish poet's Passover questions to Marranos centuries before.
Welcome to A Song of Zion , our weekly check-in and virtual minyan for Jews on Daily Kos. This is an ...
by mettle fatigue
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Back in 1954, when Republican Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s anticommunist campaign was at its peak, the Wisconsin senator picked a fight with the U.S. Army, claiming there was lax security at a top-secret army facility. The U.S. Army hired Boston lawyer...
by Charles Jay
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I hope you’re sitting down for this. Take a deep breath. OK, ready for this shocking news? It looks like a senior director at Turning Nazi Point USA and an Arizona state representative has resigned for his “job” at TPUSA and ended his reelection...
by satanicpanic
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Today, the state of Louisiana managed to do something I didn’t think possible — they found a new low. Once Jeff Landry, a far-right acolyte, was elected governor I knew the place was going to be in rough shape. The state legislature is hopeless, with...
by bilboteach
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Palestinian paramedics said Israel gave them safe passage to save a 6-year-old girl in Gaza. They were all killed. Nick Kristof: “One of the most heartbreaking stories from Gaza was of 6-year-old Hind who was sole survivor when her vehicle was hit. Her...
by DebbySc
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� All of these people, should they desire, can indicate events and details they remember differently. But there is one unfortunate exception. In 1958, Rosalind Franklin died at the early age of ...
by dkosdan
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Jewish Space Lasers redux The Republican House is trying to pass a bill giving supplemental aid to Israel for the rest of fiscal 2024. Rep. MT Greene (R-GA) has problems with it. And has offered an amendment, the sole purpose of which is to throw sand...
by TheCriticalMind
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The second time was a charm. After the disastrous death of 830,000 Chinook salmon fry after the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) released them into the river above Iron Gate Dam in March, the agency this month successfully released...
by Dan Bacher
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Today’s Financial Times’ Election Countdown had an interesting write-up about the presidential race comparing Biden and Trump’s latest fundraising figures, with some nice graphics. Biden ...
by snowbored
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GET OUT THE VOTE BIG TIME! HERE ARE THE RESOURCES YOU NEED TO DO THAT! Hope Springs from Field PAC (background in this DKos story). Voters of Tomorrow (younger voters) led by Santiago Mayer Leaders We Deserve (younger voters) led by David Hogg The...
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