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Welcome to my Picture of the Day. I’m showcasing photographs I have taken over the past 49 years. I hope my images can give your brain a short break from the chaos. You will be able to find ...

Happy Friday! For those that missed it yesterday, my chronic wound healed up finally, no more bi-weekly wound care appointments for me. That makes it less likely that I’ll have 2 or 3 appointments ...

A user-friendly hike with old chums, 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 ...

Good evening, writers! I hope you’re doing well. We had snow here and our first real cold weather. I am curled up under a cozy blanket. I’m not really sure what to write about, but it has put me in mind of both the season, meaning the holidays, and the...

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 ...

Continuing on with our state wrapups where we’ve ended canvassing. � Hope Springs from Field PAC � [website ] came to � in our second year to organize for the Senate race and redistricting.� We ...

This was a better day for us.� The post op check with his GP went well.� He worked in the garden in the afternoon and I did a door prize DIY after meeting with Margie.� She has taken over the game ...

I’m having some arm pain from bad ergonomic choices, so open thread tonight. Rumors that�I developed tendonitis from stripping gold off the White House and replacing it with painted tinfoil, are ...

One of the things one tries to do when relating current events or news stories is to keep a distance from one’s feelings that compromise the truth. Anger can take your stories to a place of unfair or biased commentary. When I write something, a lot of...

Continuing on with our state wrapups where we’ve ended canvassing. � Hope Springs from Field PAC � [website ] basically ended the year like it began —�knocking on doors for another special ...

Welcome to Whiteness Wednesdays. One of the constant lies White people tell ourselves is that racism is a dying legacy of the past, and that we’re just about to move past it altogether. This ...

Welcome to my Picture of the Day. I’m showcasing photographs I have taken over the past 49 years. I hope my images can give your brain a short break from the chaos. You will be able to find ...

Good evening, Kibitzers! I hope everyone had a lovely holiday weekend! I was unusually organized (maybe because I’m retired now and I don’t have to cram every single thing into a few “days off”), so now I have a ton of food made from Thanksgiving...

[after reading and perhaps seeing the video links, please participate in the polls at the end of this post] Only a month ago, the premise of the #ImmediateFlipMovement would’ve been naive at best, excessively optimistic. But now we’re on the verge of a...

Just as the Cold War was beginning, China, Taiwan and the United States found themselves tangled in a military situation which threatened to go hot. "Hidden History" is a diary series that ...

UPDATE #1, 7:15 pm EST — For Analysis and Live Results Analysis — Voting Trend, begins LIVE at 7:15 pm EST — MS Now, Steve Kornacki — begins LIVE at 7:45 pm EST Live Results (Polls close in TN at 7:00 pm CST, or 8:00 pm EST) — Tennessee Secretary of...

Good morning Newdists and Quiet Friends! Grab a cuppa and join us for a bit, eh?

Note: I plan on reposting my diary daily/near-daily until next November. If you have a problem with that, you could simply, y’know, ignore the diaries. As many of you may know, for the past several election cycles I’ve been running a Democratic...

I know,�you may be getting tired of the topic of Thanksgiving. But I had enough going on in my life during the last week, that I felt the need to share it. The little dog is named Itzl.

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Mutual Aid groups have been growing since the Pandemic and the #Snap shut down really showed what they can do. So much that AP news is covering them. When formal systems stop working, neighbors turn to each other in what many call ‘mutual aid’ “One of...

Happy Moonday, Peeps!!� Hope everyone had a safe and healthy Fangsgibbing!� After a short week, this one might seem a bit longer, but….nahhhh.�� We can haz funz!� All ob uz! ...

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 ...

"The true father of our national literature." That's how H.L. Mencken described the force of nature that was Samuel Langhorne Clemens, aka Mark Twain. If ever there was a person whose bullshit detector went to 11, it was him. Also in his corner:...

Note: I plan on reposting my diary daily/near-daily until next November. If you have a problem with that, you could simply, y’know, ignore the diaries. As many of you may know, for the past several election cycles I’ve been running a Democratic...

Automobiles were first developed in Germany in the late nineteenth century. During the first decade of the twentieth century, automobile manufacturing began moving from hand-made cars to mass ...

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...

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 ...

Black Music Sunday is a weekly series highlighting all things Black music, with over 290 stories covering performers, genres, history, and more, each featuring its own vibrant soundtrack. I hope you�

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 ...