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Odds & Ends: News/Humor (with a "Who Lost the Week?" poll)
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View ArticleStories from actual voters and their experiences! Blue tsunami in progress?
There’s been a lot of doom and gloom here, and I get it. We have PTSD from 2016. The MSM is pushing a horse race, and maybe they’re right (although there are horse races where a particular horse wins...
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Odds & Ends: News/Humor (with a "Who Lost the Week?" poll)
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Top Comments: Election Open Thread edition
The floor is yours, with any election stories you have ...But first: Top Comments appears nightly, as a round-up of the best comments on Daily Kos. Surely ... you come across comments daily that are...
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Odds & Ends: News/Humor (with a "Who Lost the Week?" poll)
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View Article98 y/o Dick Van Dyke endorses Kamala ... 60 years after speaking at an MLK rally
Dick Van Dyke endorses Kamala ... referencing a statement (that was written by Rod Serling) that Van Dyke delivered at a Martin Luther King rally sixty years ago ... in 1964.In a YouTube video, the...
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Street Prophets Friday: Kerry Way, Ireland (photo diary, open thread)
Greetings, and welcome to a bit of fluff.I was seriously considering using my usual Friday post to vent. The idea of posting more fluffy photos seems not quite right, but I think it's maybe all that I...
View ArticleWhat I Said Online to a MAGA Gloater
A piece I posed here earlier this week — SOME MEN CLAIMING A RIGHT TO CONTROL WOMEN — ran this weekend in the newspaper, and it prompted one MAGA reader to come forward with some comment whose spirit I...
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Top Comments: the Golden Wedding anniversary surprise edition
A family gathering that I feared … yet was therapeutic, 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)
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View ArticleA Week Without Immigrants
I know this is a pipe dream and most people could not afford it, but it would be interesting to see what would happen if everyone who is an immigrant, documented or undocumented, went on strike for one...
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Top Comments: November Just So Stories edition
Some random happy stories or tributes, 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 daily that are...
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Odds & Ends: News/Humor (with a "Who Lost the Week?" poll)
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Street Prophets Friday: Muckross House (photo diary/open thread)
Greetings! I suppose that most of you are still stuffed and a bit groggy. I spent Thanksgiving making a bucketful of stuffing, a small pot of turkey broth and four pumpkin pies. I added a crumbled cup...
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Cahir Castle
Welcome to the Street Prophets Coffee Hour cleverly hidden at the intersection of religion, art, science, food, and politics. This is an open thread where we can share our thoughts and comments about...
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Republicans are going to wind up regretting Trump's deportation scheme
Whether immigration played a significant role in Donald Trump’s presidential victory this November, he and his nascent administration have certainly read the election results as a mandate to deliver on...
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Top Comments: Thanksgiving trip/Open Thread edition
The floor is yours tonight, 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 daily that are perceptive,...
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Odds & Ends: News/Humor (with a "Who Lost the Fortnight?" poll)
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