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An Ear for Music
A group to share and explore many different genres of music: folk, classical, pop, country, oldies, world. Sometimes the selections focus on a political subject - as music often does. Mostly it's just showcasing good music of all sorts.
 2025-12-06 11:28:45
Central Valley Kossacks
Central Valley (California) readers of Daily Kos. A forum for DK readers from Redding to Bakersfield to get to know each other virtually and in the real world.
 2025-12-06 00:45:23
Classical Music Fans
For people who like classical music and would like to occasionally post diaries and discuss about it.
2011-03-21 20:11:56
Community Spotlight
Community Spotlight is dedicated to finding great writing by little-known or unknown Community members whose work hasn't gotten the visibility it deserves. We rescue and promote their stories based on the original vision set out by Susan Gardner, who single-handedly began our mission in 2006.
 2025-12-06 15:00:07
Culinary Kos
An educational group primarily focused on discussions relating to the fundamentals of classical cooking concepts, theories, terminology and techniques. A secondary focus of the group will be the practical application of this knowledge in the production of shared recipes.
2011-09-03 20:33:28
Healthcare Reform - We've Only Just Begun
The Affordable Care Act was just step one. Join us here in fighting for more, better and real reform which will make healthcare a right, not a privilege
2025-09-29 13:52:09
Hydrant
Progressive Humor, Snarks, and Satire in the spirit of Onion, National Lampoom, Mad Magazine, Monty Python, Black Adder, Lenny Bruce, George Carlin, Kathy Giffords and many others who press the bounderies of our usual culture for the advancement of progressive causes.
2019-09-16 18:45:30
Injustice and how to fix it: Making the justice system work better.
Exploring law, rulings and policy that impact fixing police and judicial errors at state and Federal levels. The status of DNA testing, and following advocacy groups: Innocence project etc. and individual cases that illustrate the fight for more effective and uniform review.
2011-10-19 20:49:46
Kos Angelenos
Are you from LA like me? Were you from LA and are now elsewhere? From the Valley, to a Downtown Alley, from the Westside to the Eastside, from the desert to the sea to all of the Greater Los Angeles area, here's our place. Both serious discussion of LA political issues and non-serious discussion of LA "stuff."
2011-05-01 17:01:04
KosAbility
KosAbility meets the last Sunday of each month at 4pm PT / 7pm ET. We are a volunteer diarist community of, by & for people living with disabilities, who love someone with a disability, or who want to know more about the issues. Our use of "disability" includes temporary as well as permanent health and medical conditions, from small, gnawing problems to major, life-threatening ones. Our use of "love someone" extends to cherish...
 2025-12-01 00:05:07
Leitmotif
This is a group to discuss music --- musicians, performers, listeners; professionals, amateurs, beginners; instrumentalists, singers, concertgoers; composers alive and decomposing.
2011-02-13 14:14:57
Media Watch
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...
 2025-12-06 22:20:57
Mental Health Awareness
Mental Health Awareness is a group for promoting greater understanding of mental health issues. Personal stories about mental illness, research or opinion pieces related to the mental health field, information on ethical dilemmas in treatment, diaries regarding legislation that affect the field, articles of note in psychology and psychiatry, and any other perspectives which raise awareness about mental illness or demonstrate the importance of highlighting mental health concerns are all welcome....
 2023-05-12 23:16:14
Mental Illness in America
When budgets are reduced, the mentally ill are usually the first people effected, and the recent depression has had a particularly severe effect on the mentally ill. If you'd like to know how they are being effected, or want to understand what someone you know is going with, please feel free to follow or join us.
2013-08-27 01:56:59
Personal Storytellers
Personal Storytellers is a group dedicated to learning more about fellow kossacks via the art of sharing personal stories. Every life is an adventure, and through sharing those adventures I hope to bring kossacks closer together.
2016-07-10 02:21:09
Right Wing Rhetoric
A group dedicated to tracking and deconstructing right wing rhetorical strategies, and suggesting strategies for addressing them in public forums.
2011-03-13 13:30:21
Single Payer California
Single Payer legislation has passed twice in California and been vetoed both times by Governor Schwartzenegger. Join us in organizing for the passage of California OneCare under Governor Jerry Brown. We will also republish diaries about Single Payer efforts thoughout the U.S.
2023-05-17 19:56:23
Single Payer: The Fight for Medicare for All
Making single payer a reality in Vermont and California is a national priority. It's the camel's nose under the for-profit insurance industry tent. These two states are poised to become the first to enact Single Payer healthcare. The insurance corporations will use all their resources to stop these efforts in their tracks. Join us here to fight for California and Vermont. This battle is for all Americans.
2025-09-29 13:52:02
Sunday Bread And Other Food
A place at Kos for folks who to like to talk about food, read about food or eat food. Built around Sunday Bread, but hopefully being much, much more than that!
2012-06-24 13:53:02
Trolls
Troll diaries are great fun and do a great service to our community. The best should be preserved and the latest promoted for the greater lolz, TROLL HUNTERS WANTED: please message for membership.
2022-01-16 15:50:20
What's for Dinner
A Saturday evening get-together where friends share recipes, talk about good food and help others answer culinary questions. Group founded by Cordelia Lear.
 2025-12-07 00:30:23
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