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Avid cook and organic gardener, cat mom, insatiable reader.
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Most Recommended Diary: Infectious Updates: 12/1/2025, 31 comments, 116 recommends
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fully charged, ready for ...
by strawbale
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on Sat Dec 06, 2025 at 07:00 PM PST
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The Rivals
Mark Van Doren (1894-1972)
On a night of whirling snow
When every twig and star is dead
There is a house where I can go �
And ...
by strawbale
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on Fri Dec 05, 2025 at 07:00 PM PST
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shower ...
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dig for buried ...
by strawbale
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on Mon Dec 01, 2025 at 07:00 PM PST
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Ethiopia's death toll� From Marburg virus is rising.� The virus, in the same family as Ebola, circulates in fruit bats, occasionally jumping to humans and sparking an outbreak.� There is no vaccine ...
by strawbale
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- I sat on the floor, surrounded by unwrapped gifts. I took stock. Wrapping paper? Check. Scissors? Check. Tape? I picked up the tape and held it in the air. “Check,” I said. “Check what?” ...93 comments 156 Recs
- www.levernews.com/… Hopefully, just the beginning… Largest worker protection settlement in NYC NYC’s Department of Consumer & Worker Protection has ordered Starbucks to pay roughly $35 million to 15,000 + workers for denying workers stable work...3 comments 12 Recs
- A Strategy for the Bosses The newly released 2025 National Security Strategy (NS), far from being a sober blueprint for safeguarding American interests, reads like a corporate memo: “What can the world deliver us, and how much can we take?” Under the...14 comments 13 Recs
- With apologies in advance for almost turning this diary into a travelogue... I met Tanya on this site in 2013 when she wrote to me expressing her astonishment at our shared intimate knowledge of ...40 comments 18 Recs
- “There is no magic wand, invisible hand, or strong and brilliant leader that can save us from our folly. If we believe that there is, then Pogo was right when he said so long ago, “We have met the enemy and he is us” “Trenz Pruca (Updated from my May...10 comments 5 Recs
- Kaitlan Collins' December 5, 2025, post showcased new permanent "Oval Office" signs in the West Wing, part of President Trump's gold-themed renovations that echo his preference for opulent decor in official spaces like Mar-a-Lago. The reply targets a...41 comments 89 Recs
- Taxes The US Chamber of Commerce membership is 90% small business. They were big supporters of Trump’s 2017 tax cuts that reduced their company taxes, increased their business deductions and reduced their estate taxes. Trump made them richer. Boosters...57 comments 252 Recs
- Before I get to this week’s good news (and there was a lot!) I want to talk about why I am not sweating SCOTUS’s awful decision to let Texas Gerrymandering stand. First, this SCOTUS is terrible and I only expect terrible from it. I keep my mental...174 comments 271 Recs
- (This post is dedicated to DK user Wilderness Voice who ended his life recently ...88 comments 29 Recs
- So, now that we’ve entered the Daily Televised Nap phase of the Thousand Year Reich, I was thinking it’s probably time for that difficult talk about taking the keys to the death cult away from grandpa. No? Well, then, I suppose we may as well launch...71 comments 242 Recs
