Thankful For Bfitz, and Community
This is a day set aside to be thankful. To count our blessings. BfitzinAR is one of the blessings I’m most thankful for.I stumbled onto this site via Keith Olbermann’s Countdown in September of 2008....
View ArticleTop Comments: the Record Store revival edition
A one-day attempt to re-capture my mis-spent youth, 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...
View ArticleRepublican tax plan still on track to trigger $150 billion in cuts—like $25...
Republicans finally seemed to have their act together to jam through a plan to cut taxes for billionaires and corporations and raise them on millions of middle-class households. They were lining up the...
View ArticleTrump marked World AIDS Day with blank website and proclamation that omitted...
Donald Trump’s first World AIDS Day proclamation claiming to “reaffirm our ongoing commitment to end AIDS as a public health threat” completely omits groups at most risk of HIV infection, including...
View ArticleMedia Report Card: Grade the coverage of the crisis in Puerto Rico and the USVI
This week will mark the three month anniversary of Hurricane Irma hitting Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) on Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017, knocking out power for over a million people. Not...
View ArticleWhy Dreamers are front and center this week sharing their stories
Campaign ActionUndocumented immigrant youth have been rallying, organizing, and sharing their personal stories for years, winning one of the most prominent immigrant rights victories—the Deferred...
View ArticleVolunteers are making the resistance work, signing people up for Obamacare
Campaign ActionSabotaged by Donald Trump, the shortened, poorly-advertised open enrollment period for the Affordable Care Act is still going to be a success. That's thanks to the career folks at the...
View ArticleZinke says energy wasn't involved in Bears Ears decision. Nuclear company...
Secretary of Interior Ryan Zinke has made it a point to declare that energy concerns had nothing to do with his recommendation to Pr*sident Trump that Bears Ears National Monument in Utah be cut by 85...
View ArticleTHE VILLAGE RESISTANCE - TGIF 12/8/17 “TIME FOR A BREATH OF FRESH AIR” STORY...
I originally wrote this diary for a planned “Bfitz Blitz” that was to take place on Thanksgiving. Unfortunately, there was a major change in plans and it was cancelled. So, what to do with an “ok”...
View ArticlePete Seeger: 'Something the human race needs to be reminded of. Don't give up.'
Pete Seeger was always on the right side of history. Or, as The Guardian quoted Lauren Laverne in its obituary on January 28, 2014:As Lauren Laverne, the BBC6 Music DJ, succinctly put it, it was...
View ArticleHoliday Help for Vet Families
It has been a rough year… Period. Today is my anniversary and after 27 years, the only thing I want to do for my anniversary is to help about three vets who need a little help. One vet is alone this...
View ArticleAlarms Are Ringing, Whistles Are Blowing, This Is Not A Drill. Trump VS Mueller
By now everyone should know that the right wing propaganda machine, the Republican fascists in congress, and the Trump regime are all going after Mueller in a big way. It’s not clear if they’re trying...
View ArticleJoe Biden comforts Meghan McCain in moving The View segment
Here’s something that transcends politics today in our divided America. Joe Biden continues to prove that he is one of the most compassionate and empathetic politicians in modern American history. He...
View ArticleCartoon: Trump ends the War on Christmas!
x Vimeo VideoIt is the high season for fighting back against the “War on Christmas,” a war that doesn’t seem to actually exist. President Trump is determined to oppose said imaginary war with a...
View ArticleCheers and Jeers: Rum and Resistance FRIDAY!
NEW → Toys 4 Puerto Rico Link-From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE…Late Night Snark: Banjo on My Knee Edition“Roy Moore may have lost last night’s election, but we’ll never forget all the people he...
View ArticleHey all, ursulafaw is having an emergency blood transfusion because of anemia...
Everyone, our pal ursulafaw is in the hospital for an emergency blood transfusion … she almost lost it to her anemia, it’s bad enough that her nearby neighborhoods are on fire, but she will be safe...
View ArticleThe Inoculation Project 12/17/17: Special 5X match offers for science and...
This week, we're taking advantage of a rare 5X match offer to help to provide hands-on materials, including a Dot and Dash Robot to use during Family STEM Night at an elementary school in Alamo, Texas...
View ArticleGet Well Soon, elenacarlena! Cartoonist & satirist hospitalized. Thoughts &...
Our friend elenacarlena was hospitalized about a week ago and is still recovering there. She wrote me by kosmail and entrusted me with her name and hospital address. I know some of the details of her...
View ArticleNew polling finds 83 percent of Americans want Dreamers to stay. Will...
New CNN polling doesn’t look too hot for either Donald Trump or his tax scam bill, but Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients can’t relate. Americans continue to overwhelmingly back...
View Article☮Christmas Greetings ♥ Merry Christmas To You! AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR☮
☮MERRY CHRISTMAS, HAPPY KWANZAA AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR☮Christmas Symbols and Meanings Christmas Coloring Pages and Reading ActivitiesNorad Tracks Santa✰ Official Website♥☮Peace, For Israel And...
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