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Groups: GOTR Get Out The Registration, Connect! Unite! Act!, New Orleans Nation, Climate Action Hub, Trump Russia Investigators
Diaries published: 1938 (27 days since last diary on Sat Nov 11, 2023 at 05:03 AM PST)
Comments posted: 60491 (2 days since last comment on Wed Dec 06, 2023 at 02:50 PM PST)
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Most Recommended Diary: The Battle's Lost. The War's Begun., 856 comments, 1048 recommends
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I wrote this piece on Veterans’ Day 2007. It was a favorite of my brother Walter, who re-posted it to his social media accounts every year. Republishing today in his memory. These are the stories of two veterans of World War II, and the link between...
by Crashing Vor
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on Sat Nov 11, 2023 at 05:03 AM PST
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I just learned that an old friend, nearly forgotten, has reappeared, in a wonderful way. From its first publication in the fall of 1968 to its last, 30 years later, The Whole Earth Catalog served as entertainment, life skills instruction, and, as its...
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The very good news of the FBI’s crime stats report and CDC gun homicide report for 2022 have already been covered here, in the Good News Roundup and elsewhere, and it’s news worth celebrating: 6% reduction in gun homicides in one year! This follows two...
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on Sun Oct 22, 2023 at 06:04 PM PDT
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Stump speech, any district, 2024 "My friends, as Americans, we have always differed in our views of how this great country should be governed.. “Some think the well-off should pay more to support those less fortunate, others feel differently. Some...
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Today is not the first day of Q4 2023. It is the first day of Q1 Election 2024. That’s right, there are four full quarters of fundraising between now and Election Day. It’s up to us to make the most of them. Last week, I was in Washington to attend the...
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The Senate’s reputation as an institution of comity and civil discourse is largely a self-serving fiction, but one I understand the members of the body must maintain to keep from devolving into a second House. Whether it’s that self-image of patient...
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