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As millions of Americans were out protesting the administration, The Young Turk’s Michael Tracey managed to get into — according to him — a shoving match with 78 year old Maxine Waters. There is one problem with this supposed exchange. When Tracey put...
by Chris Reeves
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on Sun Jun 04, 2017 at 12:38 AM PDT
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Yo, hello. I am not happy with these diaries about sexism and Hillary Clinton that have been floating around on the rec list for several days now. I have read them, but have not commented, and that was pretty deliberate.
Because I have a fucking lot...
by Colorado is the Shiznit
 582 comments
on Sat Jun 03, 2017 at 01:36 PM PDT
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Maybe I should put a caveat up that this is a “personal diary.” I have never posted anything before other than a comment that was strictly my take on things. Until tonight when I see the top two spots on the exalted and revered “rec list” taken by two...
by ursulafaw
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on Fri Jun 02, 2017 at 11:50 PM PDT
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Hi I’m Joshua Brown, I’m 13 years old. My corrupt Congressman is Republican Doug LaMalfa in (CA-01). His rude assistant, Brenda Lee Haynes was very rude to me on Facebook.
I was talking with my Democratic friend, Kendra Sills about how we both...
by joshuabrownforpresident2040
11 comments
on Fri Jun 02, 2017 at 01:49 PM PDT
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Big news out of California on single payer healthcare. Long ways to go, but it’s passed a chamber in the legislature, at least.
I personally don’t think that, conceptually and realistically, single payer is the best way forward for the US....
by GoGoGoEverton
78 comments
on Fri Jun 02, 2017 at 12:08 PM PDT
with 6 Recommends
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Standard disclaimer: Leave your loathing of meta, World of Warcraft, or community diaries outside. If you think we should be playing your MMO instead, start a guild and write a recruitment diary. Don't leave a comment here and then get all hurtful when...
by Moody Loner
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on Thu Jun 01, 2017 at 10:14 AM PDT
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I had a friend named Bob twenty years ago, he was born and raised in Oregon, but had moved to Alaska after graduating college and spent 20 years there.
When I first met him, all he talked about was his past in Alaska and a woman whom he had had a...
by Angela Marx
30 comments
on Wed May 31, 2017 at 10:24 AM PDT
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As I write this, the top of the rec list is a diary titled “Something very big may just have happened”. That diary speculates on the possibility that Russia may have hacked the vote tallies, based on the fact that James Clapper on CNN said he didn’t...
by homunq
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on Tue May 30, 2017 at 12:03 PM PDT
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There seems to have been an escalation in the reach and significance of BS in recent years. We have a variety of contemporary names for aspects of this: spin, fake news, alternative facts, as well as good old fashioned propaganda and disinformation. ...
by Frederick Clarkson
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on Sun May 28, 2017 at 08:41 PM PDT
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Exactly 15 years ago, at 12:57 pm PT, Daily Kos went live with the lamest first post ever . Well, maybe it wasn’t lame, in context. But had I known Daily Kos would become what it is today, I might��
by kos
326 comments
on Fri May 26, 2017 at 09:01 AM PDT
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Standard disclaimer: Leave your loathing of meta, World of Warcraft, or community diaries outside. If you think we should be playing your MMO instead, start a guild and write a recruitment diary. Don't leave a comment here and then get all hurtful when...
by Moody Loner
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on Thu May 25, 2017 at 10:01 AM PDT
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Standard disclaimer: Leave your loathing of meta, World of Warcraft, or community diaries outside. If you think we should be playing your MMO instead, start a guild and write a recruitment diary. Don't leave a comment here and then get all hurtful when...
by Moody Loner
3 comments
on Thu May 18, 2017 at 10:17 AM PDT
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Some here have chided us for being over-focused on #TrumpRussia with the implication that it takes away from other activism.
Speaking for myself, it is true that the current arc of stupidity has made this particular historical watershed seem to...
by annieli
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on Tue May 16, 2017 at 07:18 PM PDT
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No, of course I am not the real B.F. Skinner nor one of his children or grandchildren… both of which I have been asked. ;)
But I am an experimental psychologist and have always been partial to B.F., so when it came to picking a unique handle way,...
by BFSkinner
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on Mon May 15, 2017 at 06:21 PM PDT
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on Mon May 15, 2017 at 05:21 PM PDT
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Apparently this needs to be freaking said, bloody fecking hell. Said, again, that is. Subir already done fucking told some of y’all but in that instance he chose to be far more polite than perhaps he should have been.
So I’ll say it again: Louise...
by terrypinder
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on Fri May 12, 2017 at 05:03 PM PDT
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In our latest pie fight, Kos has waxed indignant about priorities. Personally, I think it’s a dishonest disagreement to begin with. It’s not whether we prioritize one or the other — fighting bigotry ad discrimination or trying to level the economic...
by FischFry
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on Tue May 09, 2017 at 08:36 AM PDT
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Hi all. I’m a longtime mostly-lurker around here, but I have been reading the Daily Kos on a daily basis since the mid-aughts. I find the mix of news and commentary to be invaluable. I read columns like the Abbreviated Pundit Round-up and Midday Open...
by 2manychefs
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on Tue May 09, 2017 at 07:40 AM PDT
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Senior officials involved in #TrumpRussia probe are 'all potential witnesses or even targets'
Mark Sumner has raised some questions about the importance of Sally Yates’s testimony. Unlike Scooter-gate/Fitzmas, the stakes are higher and...
by annieli
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on Tue May 09, 2017 at 07:20 AM PDT
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I voted in the primary for Bernie. I voted in the election for Clinton, and happily so.
I think racial justice and economic justice are intimately intertwined, and you can’t solve one without the simultaneously solving the other.
I don’t...
by Battloid Kouji
684 comments
on Tue May 09, 2017 at 04:19 AM PDT
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