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JoanMar's Profile
"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."
Groups: Black Kos community, Barriers and Bridges, House of LIGHTS, Community Fundraisers, Police Accountability Group, ObamaNightlyNews, Climate Change SOS, Shut Down the NRA, Repeal or Amend the Second Amendment (RASA), Trial Watch, Support the Dream Defenders, Prison Watch, Support Michelle Obama, Kossacks for the Homeless Person, This is Reggae Music, Obamacare Saves Lives, Bring Home our Girls, Discuss plans, Climate Action Hub, SpiritSisters, DK Fans of 90 for 90, 50 State Strategy Project, Moral Movement Forward Together, Community Transcripts Project, A Home for Wings and Aji, A Lake for Lin: Supporting an Eco-Warrior In the Fight of Her Life, SOS Puerto Rico, Kamala2020, What Would Rachel Do, Bye Don AKA Biden 2020, Covid19 support group on Daily Kos, Biden Harris Administration
Twitter: @JoanMarM
Diaries published: 397 (673 days since last diary on Thu Feb 03, 2022 at 01:41 PM PST)
Comments posted: 37924 (1 day since last comment on Thu Dec 07, 2023 at 10:24 AM PST)
Diary frequency: often
Comment frequency: frequent
Total Recommends: 28746
Total Comment Ratings: 27750
Most Recommended Diary: "If Obama is reelected..." Chris Matthews Brings Me to Tears, 241 comments, 680 recommends
People Following JoanMar: 271
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Johnny Hurley’s murder did not make it to the national news. Hurley, dubbed a hero by Denver police officials, was a “good guy with a gun” who witnessed a killing and took action. Johnny Hurley was shopping for outdoor gear at the Arvada Army Navy...
by JoanMar
 56 comments
on Thu Feb 03, 2022 at 01:41 PM PST
with 105 Recommends
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Charles Corey Castro was apparently a very bad man. Reports are that he may have been reponsible for the death of a former girlfriend and he’s been accused of domestice violence by his current partner. But the law prescribes a remedy for his behavior...
by JoanMar
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on Wed Feb 02, 2022 at 01:42 PM PST
with 19 Recommends
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The Washington Post is reporting that cops killed 13 people since the beginning year. As we have said before, TWP database is the most conservative of them all and lags far behind in its reporting. They have not updated the site since 1/13/22. That...
by JoanMar
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on Tue Feb 01, 2022 at 10:36 AM PST
with 12 Recommends
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Frankly, we should be embarrassed. We should be so ashamed. Really? You are going to kill a man because he runs at you with a metal frame? But that’s precisely how 49-year-old James Schild met his demise. The body-camera footage, which lasts 40...
by JoanMar
9 comments
on Mon Jan 31, 2022 at 11:08 AM PST
with 22 Recommends
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I‘ll stipulate that a hammer in the hand of a man intent on doing harm is indeed a deadly weapon. I also contend that members of a sophisticated police force should be able to disarm a man armed with even such a deadly weapon without resorting to...
by JoanMar
11 comments
on Sun Jan 30, 2022 at 12:39 PM PST
with 25 Recommends
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Who knows what led 37-year-old Landon Eastep to the “middle” of 1-65 in Nashville, Tennessee last Thursday, 1/28/2022? What we do know is that in almost no other country on earth would simply being on a highway result in death at the hands of people...
by JoanMar
32 comments
on Sat Jan 29, 2022 at 02:09 PM PST
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- This is really down to Maudlin, who shared the following information.� With her kind permission, I am sharing it here and hoping that all of us who knew and loved Observerinvancouver will do a bit ...29 comments 162 Recs
- Commentary by Black Kos Editor Denise Oliver-Velez Today we celebrate the history, and success of the Montgomery Bus Boycott which began December 5, 1955 with a call for a one-day boycott of buses ...170 comments 84 Recs
- On Dec.�4,�the sound of drumming�and singing will fill the air�across the Caribbean and Latin America, and in neighborhoods here in the States where there are practitioners of African diasporic ...115 comments 109 Recs
- Let me introduce myself. My name is Heather. When I was adopted my new lady was asked if she was wanting to change my name. It doesn’t really matter. I also answer to Girl, Good Girl, Good Dog, Pretty Girl, Sweetie, the sounds of my food containers...69 comments 187 Recs
- Former Rep. George Santos may be out of the House, but he’s not going�to go away quietly. On Friday, Santos was unceremoniously expectorated from Congress �for being a liar,�fraud, and likely ...261 comments 590 Recs
- Commentary: African American Scientists and Inventors� By dopper0189, Black Kos Managing Editor Benjamin T. Montgomery � (1819–1877) was an influential African-American inventor, landowner, and ...194 comments 79 Recs
- At the Costco, yesterday, doing some scouting for our move, there were a lot of samples. There were a lot of good samples. I did not eat all of them, though I thought about it. Typically, I only sample items I am legitimately interested in purchasing....259 comments 674 Recs
- Pablo “Yoruba”�Guzman, born Paul Guzman on�Aug.�17, 1950, in New York City, to�Puerto Rican and Cuban parents, joined the ancestors on Nov.�26, 2023, after suffering a heart attack. The sad news ...65 comments 122 Recs
- Unplugged Commentary by Chitown Kev It’s the last week of November�2023 with the end of the year fast approaching.� 2024 is, of course, a presidential election year. The stakes could not be ...104 comments 49 Recs
