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A new campaign against Amazon, Home Depot and Target says diversity is the best value. By Erin Aubry Kaplan for Capital & Main When it comes to struggle, � there are no holidays. But this year ...

I have mostly been getting Global Warming news from Bluesky lately, and I have been preoccupied with COP30. I find that I have a backlog of climate-related e-mails. So today I am giving you the best of what I have received in the last month, with links...

______________________________________________________ “The planet is sending warnings in the form of storms, heat, and extreme weather events. Our choice is to act or to be acted upon.” ― Victor Manan Nyambala Kenyan Supply Chain Expert...

Tonight’s selections from Television’s debut album, Marquee Moon . Originally published May 2022. They came, rewrote the book on guitar rock and then split up, leaving only a pair of seminal ...

Happy Holidays to all, Happy Chanukah! We’ll return to our regular schedule with Bernstein in January. This month we are honoring a great Jewish-Ukrainian composer whose music was suppressed during his lifetime, in particular his 1st Symphony in...

A grand jury today refused to indict New York Attorney General Letisha James on mortgage fraud. The return of a "no true bill" is historically exceptionally rare for federal grand juries, but is becoming more common in Trump's weaponized Department of...

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 ...

The Tlingit are an Alaska Native people whose aboriginal homelands stretched along the Pacific coast for more than 400 miles. The Tlingit were 18 distinct and autonomous groups. Each group felt that ...

We Dems often suck at messaging, but now we have the perfect opportunity: The Epstein class. With this simple phrase, it connects so many dots. The Epstein class means the oligarchs who are OK with kidnapping, trafficking and raping children, with...

Welcome to Morning Open Thread , a daily post with MOT hosts, who choose the topic for the daily posting. We support our community, invite and share ideas, and encourage thoughtful, respectful ...

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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Special; Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, after watching an interview with former Attorney General Eric Holder, Trump...

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! OK, maybe not THE most, but it IS time for my annual seasonally-themed diaries. It’s been a tradition �since 2010, with topics ranging from music to ...

Battery A Field Artillery Horse Barn was once an officers’ horse barn.� The building is one of two 1911�buildings original to Camp Withycomb. The Horse Barn now houses the artillery exhibit for ...

Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, River City Hash Mondays is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Ice Barbie Kristi Noem has landed in legal jeopardy after...

The Polson Flathead Lake Museum in Polson, Montana, has a collection of carriages. A carriage is a horse-drawn passenger vehicle. With regard to etymology, the word carriage entered into English in ...

We like our stories to have beginnings, middles, ends. History gives us none of these. It provides instead repetition, variations on a theme, and something we might�call entanglement. --Brandy ...

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...

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...

The mind can be a fickle monster. A chemical imbalance, some faulty wiring, and things can happen. Any recovering addict will tell you that they’re still an addict. Ask a neurodivergent person how ...

I was going to make this an open mic night (and you can still put in whatever you want—nobody’s checking sources on your selections), but then I thought about the recent news �that listening to ...