Joieau's Profile
Groups: Down Ticket Rescues, DKos Asheville, North Carolina Blue, Backyard Bird Racers, The Anarchistic Alchemists Alliance, Moral Movement Forward Together, Red State Resistance, DK Preppers
Diaries published: 194 (1522 days since last diary on Tue Oct 08, 2019 at 01:19 PM PDT)
Comments posted: 24097 (403 days since last comment on Mon Oct 31, 2022 at 11:52 AM PDT)
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Most Recommended Diary: Nuking Japan - the Ugly Truth, 310 comments, 410 recommends
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Rachel Maddow’s new book Blowout isn’t so long (at a mere 367 hardcover pages sans notes and index) that it looks daunting to the interested reader. But then again, it’s Rachel Maddow. That means it’s dense and scholarly in the good doctor’s inimitable...
by Joieau
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on Tue Oct 08, 2019 at 01:19 PM PDT
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Yesterday as I watched FBI director Christopher Wray testified to the House Oversight Committee concerning the FBI’s background investigation of White House staff secretary Rob Porter, I noticed a little tidbit Wray mentioned in passing when giving the...
by Joieau
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on Wed Feb 14, 2018 at 11:23 AM PST
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First thing I’ll say here is that I am a woman, worked at menial day-jobs (mostly in publishing, though there’s lots of other jobs in there) most of my working life. I am 66 now, happily retired from day-jobs, still working with my husband, children...
by Joieau
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on Wed Nov 15, 2017 at 06:04 PM PST
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On March 8 2017, SimplyInfo.Org published its 6th anniversary report on the nuclear disaster at Fukushima. I offer it here for those interested in keeping up with what was always going to be a 'forever' disaster -
Fukushima Daiichi 6th Anniversary...
by Joieau
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on Sat Mar 11, 2017 at 11:57 AM PST
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After half a century of lawsuits, petitions, letters, public testimony and dozens of radioactive 'oopses' at the Indian Point nuclear facility just 40 miles north of Manhattan, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, Eric Schneiderman and the environmental...
by Joieau
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on Sat Feb 25, 2017 at 02:40 PM PST
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Ongoing efforts to find what's left of the missing core of unit-2 at the Daiichi nuclear facility have been making some news this month on remote control and robotic approaches to the round inner-containment pedestal 'room' directly beneath the vessel,...
by Joieau
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on Fri Feb 17, 2017 at 03:47 PM PST
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