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This group will focus on the issue of LGBT rights and the efforts to limit them by homophobes throughout the world. Initially, it will concentrate on Russian homophobia and the Winter Olympics in Sochi, but as time passes we will zero in on cases of legalized homophobia around the world (including instances in the United States as well). The keywords of this group will be LGBT Rights, free speech and homophobia.

A place for the discussion of mutual interests in the shooting sports

At Media Watch we will discuss, disparage, praise, expose, and analyze every facet of the media. From Fox News to the Barstow Bulletin. From anchors and authors to executives, consultants, and even politicians and others who seek to exploit media. From independent journalists to street artists and more. All of this will be aimed at providing information, producing reform, and promoting accountability. The corporate-dominated press is not going to willingly reshape itself into a responsible, eff...

Where Group Founders and Administrators meet to discuss issues of group management, share tips, policies, organizational choices and the like. Here is where you'll find DK4 Updates pertaining specifically to group features. While intended for group executives, Editors and Contributors are invited. Our mission is to make groups function better, improve ease of use for Followers, Contributors, and Editors and provide a meeting place where all who are involved in creating, running, and providing c...

The intersection of Gay and Politics for LGBT Kossacks and their Allies, Supporters and Others.

Monday Night Cancer Club is a monthly Daily Kos group for anyone who has cancer, has a loved one with cancer, or who has questions, issues, or information to share about cancer, including clinicians, researchers, or others who have a special interest and can help to educate our readers. Please share if you can, or just listen; there is plenty to learn just from reading our extensive catalogue of past diaries and postings. All are welcome to use this group as a resource. Volunteer diarists post ...

Specialists in Jibber Jabber and threading. Copyright Restrictions on Morning Open Thread Posts of this Group. Posts by Daily Kos staff is done under an open content license and republication is allowed without permission. By publishing on this site, non-staff community members implicitly grant rights to Daily Kos to publish on this site and republish on its affiliated outlets. Unless noted otherwise, all non-staff original content, by default, falls under an open content license. Original conte...

A geographically-based Daily Kos group intended for Kossacks residing in Southeastern Michigan, generously defined.

Dedicated to Bringing Issues and News about Patent and Copyright to the Forefront of Debate. News Stories, Legislation, Regulation, Treaties, Court Cases, Raids and Convictions.

Live video coverage from Netroots Nation

The New Diarists group republishes some (non-troll) first diaries and also posts tutorials about how to post diaries. One important New Diarists tutorial: Formatting, tagging, publishing, editing: https://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/02/09/1482008/-New-Diarists-tutorial-for-formatting-drafts-adding-tags-publishing-options-and-editing

'The Talk of the Town' because Blue City News is useful in a Purple Nation. Discuss what is in the papers and on the local blogs, the Political news and upcoming elections with elected officials and candidate spotlights. News of upcoming public hearings and reviews after. Parks and recreation events, zoos and botanical gardens. Green Market news and local farming events. Lincoln Center, on and off the Broadway stage, gallery talk and museum news. NYC movie premieres with upcoming shows and conc...

Nuts and Bolts will represent an outlook at Democratic campaigns with four main diaries a month, every Saturday on the heart of a campaign. Community Outreach, Data Services, Volunteer Training, Field Work, Staffing, Cost Sheets, Issue Management. 3 Diaries a month on the main issue, and the last Saturday of the Month: "Don't Do That!" Learn from our mistakes.

A community dedicated to bringing the news about President Obama and the 2012 campaign.

Writing about issues that affect the world's Oceans, from over-fishing, cetacean capture, watershed pollution, climate change and species extinction.

Please go to the Police Accountability Group.

This group aims to bring together those interested in the People Power Project Phase Two so we may all work together. The aim of the group is to use people power to pre-empt Democratic messaging in a nationwide campaign that actively promotes a progressive agenda.

A jotterville community where all are welcome. Offering friendship and support where discussions are light on politics and meta. A place to share ideas, perspectives, attitudes, memes, images of popular culture and history.

The police are creating more problems than they are solving. In incident after incident they escalate situations and create injury to persons in many cases persons that have done no wrong. The problem needs to be fixed but to do so light must be shined upon these incidents.

This is for all of us who have published or who want to publish on the use and misuse of political language, as a lot of us have done in the past month.

Practical Survival and Sustainable Living is a group devoted to discussing the skills and strategies one would need to survive a variety of emergency scenarios, from short-term to long-term situations in both urban and rural settings. Pull up a chair, and share your knowledge, skills, and ideas!

We advocate for social justice and equal library access for all. We support your local libraries and literacy programs. We also invite you to publish your diaries here that offer library news and support, book reviews, reviews of articles, as well as reviews of video games and other electronic media in our tech talk diaries. We ask for and offer reader guidance for the love of reading, for the love of books and for the love of everything which is your library experience. We also publish diaries...

This is the group for the pooties, woozles, and birdies people and if you don't like them and don't see the purpose of us being here, please, do not bother us. Just remember what Nurse Kelley and Kos said - "Don't f**k with the pootie people." Started by the Pootie Queen triciawyse, who sadly left us too soon, now run by the Pootie Princess: The Marti. Long live all the pooties, and the woozles, and the birdheds, and their people too.

Where readers, writers, bibliophiles, and lovers of all things literary find their favorite series and one-of-a-kind diaries, including "Bookflurries," "Write On!," and "Books So Bad They're Good." Plus newer series like "Indigo Kalliope," "Contemporary Fiction Views," "LGBT Literature," and "Books Go Boom!" We hope you'll visit Readers & Book Lovers for the same reasons you get together with a friend -- for the community of like-minded people who share your passion for the written word in all i...

Much of history is hidden, especially for groups outside the mainstream of dominant culture. This group is devoted to the recovery of LGBT history, and it welcomes anyone interested in the subject.

A weekly forum of advice and encouragement for Kossak DIYers repairing and improving their homes.

The SciTech group is dedicated to the exploration of Science and Technology. We welcome all diaries, essays, and discussions that teach or explain the wonders of the universe.

A group created to liveblog severe weather events (tornadoes, widespread severe t'storms, remnants of hurricanes, etc.) as they happen. Diaries posted to this group should be of a liveblog nature only. Be sure to also follow Hurricane Kos for the latest on the tropics.

The San Francisco Bay Area Readers of Daily Kos. We meet regularly around the Bay Area for political activism and also, recreation. One of our hallmarks is rolling out the red carpet for out-of-town/visiting Kossacks in the form of dinners or pot lucks.

The definition of SLUT seems now to be ANY WOMAN USING BIRTH CONTROL or ANY ONE CONCERNED AND FIGHTING FOR WOMEN'S REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH (according to the GOP) FINE! We are sluts and PROUD OF IT As with "Slut Walks" we will own the word and take the power of the word away.

This group is dedicated to taking actions that inform, educate and mobilize voters in every state to increase involvement their in state and local elections. Federal elections are important but it's the elections at the state and local level that have the greatest impact on the largest number of voters, many of whom don't follow them closely enough. Join this group if you want to see major change in your state and local governments. We're doing things, not just talking about doing things.

Michelle Robinson Obama has been subjected to some of the worst racist abuse any Black woman has ever been subjected to. This group will augment the work being done by RaceGenderDiscrimiNATION by supporting the First Lady and exposing all of the attacks that have been and well be made on her by the right-wing racists of the world.

This group is for discussion of teaching and education at all levels, from elementary to university, from international to continuing education, and everything in between.

To look at television not just from a political perspective but also critical and scholarly perspectives.

A place for the global discussion of the arts, media, and politics: The arts under censorship, The arts as a way of life, The arts as a means of liberation. Performance, mediated artworks and their critical practices in all cultures and nations.

"You all look great, and the end of the republic has never looked so good." PBO at WHCD 2016 https://youtu.be/VzEe5ePdgX8

The Grieving Room is a Monday evening series for those who are experiencing grief or loss. And diaries of those going through the loss of a person or pet, whether recent or long ago. Or yet to happen. And those that come to console because they too have gone through the fire. A safe space.

The object of this group is to herd cats, umm, sorry, to motivate members [and anyone else really] into writing diaries about their work and maybe even to discuss their hopes dreams in their given fields of expertise. There will be no risk assessments, nor health and safety meetings; so wear your high viz equipment at all times [yellow vest and a white helmet with red hair I ask you, yeech]

The Santayana-Nostradamus Poll is dedicated to critiquing the problems of qualitative and quantitative use of polling as media content; Lies, damned lies, and statistics is a phrase describing the persuasive power of numbers, particularly the use of statistics to bolster weak arguments. It is also sometimes colloquially used to doubt statistics used to prove an opponent's point.

Community of Democrats gathered to find ways to block the Trump/Pence/Bannon administration and continue the progress Hillary Rodham Clinton worked for.

This Week in the War on Women provides a weekly summary of news on women's issues and information on current political actions. We welcome all who are interested to join, to write for us, and to provide relevant links and stories.

"...we may be seeing the rise of a particular strategy on the right, sometimes gripping part of the GOP, and sometimes all of it that can be traced back to that noted conservative Vladimir Lenin. I speak of "heightening the contradictions," the idea that you have to intentionally make conditions even more miserable than they are, so the people rise up and cast off the illegitimate rulers and replace them with you and your allies. Then the work of building a paradise can begin." (Paul Waldman, A...

Dedicated to the issues of transsexual, transgender and gender non-conforming people, their family and friends, and our supporters and allies.

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Welcome to the home of Linux, BSD, and all the other Free and Open Source Software here on Daily Kos! Our Group exists to offer support and help to every user, from complete noobies to old experienced hands, and to share what we know with each other! So come with us and set your computer free! Our Group Logo is "Tux", the mascot of Linux. "Tux" is copyright Larry Ewing. Mr Ewing created Tux using GIMP, the GNU Image Manipulator and Processor. We express our gratitude to Larry Ewing for permitti...

This blog is a laboratory for learning to bear witness without judgment, blame or shame. Each diary will serve as an experimental Listening space to explore dimensions of blog life and American culture that influence what we think we say and what we think we hear in posts and comment threads.

"Sometimes one has to say exactly how one feels and it is also sometimes necessary for those hearing these sentiments just to listen for a while and take note." -

smileycreek coordinates this series which publishes diaries answering questions about the site. No question is too basic, no matter how long you've been here. If you submit a question via kosmail (private message), we may publish your question, but we will NOT publish your name. Group membership is for contributing diarists only, but if you'd like to follow our series just click the heart by our name.

This group is for all things hand-made, home-made, and creative in a variety of mediums. Some of them are even edible.

A group for anti-racist activists interested in discussing and producing learning materials about white privilege.

WYFP is our community's Saturday evening gathering to talk about our problems, empathize with one another, and share advice, pootie pictures, favorite adult beverages, and anything else that we think might help. Everyone and all sorts of troubles are welcome. May we find peace and healing here.