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Nerd. Occupier. Activist. My email is massar@alum.mit.edu
Location: , CA
Occupation: speaker for the dead
Groups: Single Payer California, Dailykos Kossacks For Action, The Democratic Wing of the Democratic Party, Healthcare Reform - We've Only Just Begun, Single Payer: The Fight for Medicare for All, Milk Men And Women, Progressive Policy Zone, SciTech, SFKossacks, California politics, ClassWarfare Newsletter: WallStreet VS Working Class Global Occupy movement, Occupy Wall Street, Police Accountability Group, Kossacks for Marriage Equality, Kossacks for the Homeless Person
Diaries published: 1635 (1348 days since last diary on Mon Mar 30, 2020 at 10:07 AM PDT)
Comments posted: 28071 (24 days since last comment on Tue Nov 14, 2023 at 01:44 PM PST)
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Most Recommended Diary: Warren Tells It Like it Is: "No One in This Country Got Rich on his Own", 338 comments, 629 recommends
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What follows are excerpts from four report backs by Andrea Henson, of Where Do We Go Berkeley, (@WhereDoWeGoBerk, Facebook) whom I first spotlighted in October, 2019. She has been on the front lines, fighting for and with local homeless people to...
by jpmassar
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on Mon Mar 30, 2020 at 10:07 AM PDT
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Abbott Labs announced a five minute positive and thirteen minute negative test bed for COVID-19 virus genetic material, dated yesterday. Seems like it can be used in doctors offices or even potentially in the field. Seems like an incredible...
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on Sat Mar 28, 2020 at 10:40 PM PDT
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From the preview article in the SF Chronicle Six Bay Area counties are expected to announce a “shelter in place” order for all residents on Monday, directing everyone to stay inside their homes and away from others as much as possible for the next...
by jpmassar
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on Mon Mar 16, 2020 at 01:33 PM PDT
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The question of whether the Individual Mandate can be separated from the rest of the ACA (or some parts of the ACA), and therefore whether the entire ACA is unconstitutional, parts of the ACA beyond the individual mandate are also constitutional, or...
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on Wed Dec 18, 2019 at 02:12 PM PST
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An Intersecting Tale: Berkeley's #WhereDoWeGo Movement Stays Fast. Homeless Sweeps Crew Go Elsewhere Hell no, they did not go anywhere. It worked! Unhoused residents stuck together and refused to move, and housed people stood in solidarity. And CHP and Caltrans left. I 80 at University in Berkeley, CA is one of the busiest stretches of highway in the...
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on Fri Oct 11, 2019 at 10:48 AM PDT
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We did it! Signed, sealed and delivered, letters were received in these last weeks by more than 700 Bay Area residents informing them that ... you no longer owe the balance on the debt referenced above to the above provider. You no longer have any...
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on Mon Oct 07, 2019 at 10:06 AM PDT
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