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Odds & Ends: News/Humor (with a "Who Lost the Week?" poll)

I post a weekly diary of historical notes, arts & science items, foreign news (often receiving little notice in the US) and whimsical pieces from the outside world that I often feature in "Cheers...

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Open thread for night owls: Shallow media transform net neutrality struggle...

John O’Day at Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting writes—Net Neutrality Reduced to Mogul vs. Mogul in Corporate Media’s Shallow Coverage: A common refrain in popular news media is that net neutrality...

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I Love Boston Today

I love Boston so much right now. I love Antifa, I love Black Lives Matter, I love all the random peaceniks and fighters for justice who showed up today, I love the Boston Police Department.Just got...

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Odds & Ends: News/Humor (with a "Who Lost the Week?" poll)

I post a weekly diary of historical notes, arts & science items, foreign news (often receiving little notice in the US) and whimsical pieces from the outside world that I often feature in "Cheers...

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Total Solar Eclipses in History and Prehistory

Monday’s Total Eclipse is likely to be the most recorded event in human history.  Millions of people arrayed along the shadow path from Oregon to South Carolina will watch and photograph the amazing...

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Billy Joel wears big Star of David onstage at Madison Square Garden to...

Last night, at Madison Square Garden (MSG), local kid Billy Joel performed a concert for fans. During his encore set, Joel came out wearing a very prominent Star of David. x And on the day of the Solar...

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A Message to Donald Trump from an Angry Veteran

Mr. Trump:I am a Veteran with ten years of Honorable service, which included combat service in Vietnam with the U. S. Army’s 25th Infantry Division.  While you were concocting reasons why you should be...

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Top Comments: the Keene, New Hampshire edition

A look at my place of residence the past four years, after the jump …... But first: Top Comments appears nightly, as a round-up of the best comments on Daily Kos. Surely ... you come across comments...

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Odds & Ends: News/Humor (with a "Who Lost the Week?" poll)

I post a weekly diary of historical notes, arts & science items, foreign news (often receiving little notice in the US) and whimsical pieces from the outside world that I often feature in "Cheers...

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Appalachia-Mountaintop Removal (MTR), One Of America’s Worst Environmental...

There is No coal. Estimated from 110 to 150 years worth. Not a long time.No, clean coal.No, dirty coal. Not enough coal, left on the planet. Especially; not enough in the US, to justify tearing up any...

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Trump Admin Releases Report Trying to Justify Bailing Out Dirty, Expensive...

Late Wednesday, Trump’s Secretary of Energy Rick Perry released a controversial grid report in an effort to pressure market operators, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), and utilities to...

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Street Prophets Community Fundraisers Helping Humpday 8/30/2017

Send Good Energy by whatever method you choose to those endangered by Hurricane Harvey.========================================Kossacks taking care of our own — helping by sharing/donating money or...

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Houston schoolkids are in for a good year of learning

From the New York Times   www.nytimes.com/...The Houston Independent School District announced that classes would not resume until Sept. 11. Superintendent Richard Carranza said that more than 10...

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ICE orders undocumented grandmother of 10 to leave the country by October

An unshackled Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has ordered Genoveva Ramirez, a 67-year-old local leader and undocumented grandmother of ten children, to leave the United States by the end of...

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♥Stand Up, For Standing Rock♥ #NoDAPL-Judge Says, "Approval Of Dakota Access...

Victory For Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. Court Finds That Approval of Dakota Access Pipeline Violated The Law.A Federal Judge has ruled that permits to complete the Dakota Access Pipeline must be...

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Odds & Ends: News/Humor (with a "Who Lost the Week?" poll)

I post a weekly diary of historical notes, arts & science items, foreign news (often receiving little notice in the US) and whimsical pieces from the outside world that I often feature in "Cheers...

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Museums 101: Old-Time Education (Photo Diary)

There are a lot of people today who bemoan the idea that today’s children are not getting the same education and school experience that their elders received in the mythical past. Most small town...

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Rant: Can We Eliminate The Tip Jar Or At Least Get Some Clear Voting...

This is a rant. The tip jar is utterly useless and nobody even knows its purpose unless they have been on Daily Kos since its inception. Now I have been informed that the tip jar serves the purpose of...

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'On this and every Labor Day, we should thank' America's immigrant workers

Donald Trump vilified undocumented immigrants while riding white supremacy all the way to the White House, but the fact of the matter is that entire sectors of the U.S. economy would collapse without...

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Six out of 10 Americans approve of labor unions. So why is membership dwindling?

For 18 years, Gallup has been asking people this question:Would you personally like to see labor unions in the United States — have more influence than they have today, the same amount as they have...

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