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I came out as bisexual in 2009. It was hard, having been raised to believe that being queer was the worst thing you could be, worse than a murderer, a rapist or a pedophile, as gay people were automatically all 3. It was, I thought, the hardest thing I...

Sound up Holy Shit! This is where my story ends. Anything between this and the comments has nothing to do with me. ZT

Russia has been selling off some of its gold reserves to finance the war, but even that desperate move won’t work forever. Russia’s central bank has about 2,330 tons of gold in its reserves (worth about $300 billion) and the National Wealth Fund held...

I want to help, but Countless people around the globe want to help those facing hard times so they say. But the number of obstacles people seem to place on their own path towards helping others has me baffled most of the time. That’s one of the major...

Hunger did not end with the Government opening and #SNAP benefits being paid. As I wrote earlier this month www.dailykos.com/... ABC reporting here. Benefits may have returned but people could rely on assistance from food pantries as they catch up on...

conditioning As this administration violates norms nearly every day, what matters most is its consistency. Each new transgression adds to a body of anti-democratic moves that condition us to accept aberrance and become inured to it. What was once...

How do oligarchies and their crony capitalists manage to dominate our lives: Five points on the current treachery First, the WSJ story highlights all of the downsides to Trump’s brand of start-up diplomacy. Both Witkoff and the Russians had little...

The second part and sequel to the Talk about "go"! My 50th anniversary in model rocketry this time from the ‘90s on…. I find myself on a weekend deep in the middle of sunniest June 1994 on a daylight savings evening. I’m down in the basement of Mom’s...

Politics usually turns into shouting past each other. But sometimes, the clearest way to understand power is not in a debate hall or a think-tank — it’s in a walk through Central Park. This dialogue is between Eli, a working-class New Yorker excited...

Good morning, Newdists! Last week, I gave you beanspiration . This week, I’m asking you to give me beanspiration. In my quest to eat more beans—and thanks to some nudging from members of this ...

Exactly 80 years ago today German U-Boat Commander Heinz Wilhelm Eck was executed by firing squad, along with two other officers under his command. In 1944, Eck’s submarine torpedoed the Greek merchant ship Peleus. Eck ordered the U-852 to surface....

The Trump Administration has launched a website claiming to debunk/disprove biased media reports on it's actions. It doubles down on the claim that the American military veterans and intelligence service members who created the now famous "refuse...

Humans— Homo sapiens —first evolved in Africa and were biologically adapted to life in a warm climate. When humans left Africa and began their migrations north into Europe and Asia, they had to ...

Introduction Here is another month showing the changes in how we generate electricity in the US of A. I have made some changes to the charts that I hope will make the information more clear. The ...

This week, we’re helping a kindergarten in a Texas border town get some computer-based learning games, and a 6th grade on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana get supplies for science projects. We hope that readers who support quality public school...

Seriously, what have they got to lose?

Why Trumpism Makes Obsolete Psychological Terms Trend Again Indiana State Senator Mike Bohacek (R) recently took to Facebook to warn that “words have consequences” after the president hurled a slur during a late-night immigration rant, branding a...

When we last left our intrepid hero, he was crossing the Nefud Desert of Saudi Arabia. However, unlike his pseudo-namesake, Lawrence of Arabia, who crossed the Nefud on a camel (at least according to the movie), our hero did it on Saudia Airlines…and...

UPDATE: Sunday, Nov 30, 2025 · 3:50:32 PM Eastern Standard Time · RandomNeuron Mission accomplished. No toes run over. Gifts found, cards purchased . Curious kid s seen. last gift purchased today. A coffee cup for a staff person who help care for him....

This is an important story published by the WSJ of the story behind the Ukraine/Russia “peace deal” and how it is driven by the self-dealing grifters in the White House and its extended group of megadonors working to maximize their spoils of war....