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| Kitchen Table Kibitzing: Back to Yoga For First Time Since Covid When the news came Monday that the small quiet gym I’d been attending for the past year was closing, I decided it was time for me to move across the street to The Studio in Mill Valley and sign up ... |
boatsie | 12/07/2023 | 63 |
| 📚 Write On! The audience and the connect. Hiya, writers and friends. So, last week we were talking about the necessity of engaging readers/audience, and that it’s really pretty biological with them! Some of that has to do with the audience identifying with the characters or situation, and we... |
mettle fatigue | 12/07/2023 | 70 |
| Heading into Week 2 @COP28: US Taking Scalpel to Negotiating Text. As COP28 enters its second and final week, the hard work of determining what the participating nations are going to do about fossil fuels begins. The comments of COP President Sultan Al Jaber questioning the science correlating fossil fuels to global... |
boatsie | 12/07/2023 | 4 |
| Pioneer farming Welcome to the Street Prophets Coffee Hour cleverly hidden at the intersection of religion and politics. This is an open thread where we can share our thoughts and comments about the day. The ... |
Ojibwa | 12/07/2023 | 8 |
| Today in Congress: Johnson’s inexperience showing; Ukraine stalemate continues House and Senate negotiators reached agreement on a major defense and national security policy bill, the National Defense Authorization Act, on Wednesday. It’s likely to be the only legislative ... |
Joan McCarter | 12/07/2023 | 43 |
| Retracted Admin note: this story, originally titled "Could it be that the Hamas October 7 attack was "provoked"?," has been retracted due to multiple violations of our Rules of the Road, including disinformation and inadequate evaluation of sources. |
Frank Vyan Walton | 12/07/2023 | 151 |
| Indians 101: Northwest Coast Killer Whale crests (museum exhibit) The First Nations of the Northwest Coast have a way of life which is oriented toward the sea.� These peoples lived in permanent villages with complex social organizations. Northwest Coast art, like ... |
Ojibwa | 12/07/2023 | 4 |
| New report unsurprisingly shows that profiteers have raised prices well above the rise in costs A new report from progressive UK.-based think-tanks IPPR and Common Wealth says profiteering played a major role in jacking up prices far above the rise in costs, reinforcing a previous but narrower study showing such an impact. Among other things, the... |
Meteor Blades | 12/07/2023 | 141 |
| Caribbean Matters: Understanding Venezuela's efforts to seize two-thirds of Guyana While most U.S. media has its international news attention trained on events taking place in the Middle East and Ukraine, President Mohamed Irfaan Ali of Guyana is making Caribbean and South American headlines. I doubt that most Americans would... |
Denise Oliver Velez | 12/07/2023 | 207 |
| Bookchat: Mysteries and binge reading Welcome to Bookchat! Where you can talk about anything; books, plays, essays, and audio books. You don’t have to be reading a book to come in, sit down, and chat with us.
Last Tuesday I wrote ... |
bookgirl | 12/06/2023 | 70 |
| Kerry @ COP28 Halfway Point: "It's crunch time!" US Climate Envoy John Kerry says he is aware of a sense of urgency in Dubai as delegates from nearly 200 nations convene for COP28.
“People will measure who steps up and who doesn’t,” he said . |
boatsie | 12/06/2023 | 9 |
| Justice Samuel Alito isolated in tax case he refused to recuse from The Supreme Court heard what could be a radical challenge to the nation’s tax laws Tuesday, with the majority of justices—including most of the conservatives—seemingly looking for a way to rule as narrowly as possible, demonstrating restraint at a time... |
Joan McCarter | 12/06/2023 | 111 |
| To Honour Our Beloved Observerinvancouver, Giving The Gift Of Reading And Writing 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 ... |
The Marti | 12/06/2023 | 29 |
| Big Media create ads helping greenwash the fossil fuel industry and hurting reporter credibility If you’re unaware of Drilled, an award-winning website dedicated to focusing on climate accountability, you would do well to add it to your collection of substacks to read and support. It was founded six years ago by veteran climate reporter Amy... |
Meteor Blades | 12/06/2023 | 22 |
| MAGAs like to claim that Joe Biden is a doddering old fool in deep cognitive decline. MAGAs like to claim that Joe Biden is a doddering old fool in deep cognitive decline. Reposted from my Substack However, they also believe - at the same time magically - that Biden is also simultaneously a super-genius criminal mastermind who managed... |
Frank Vyan Walton | 12/06/2023 | 12 |
| Ukraine Update: Trump, Putin prevail with Republican senators UPDATE: Wednesday, Dec 6, 2023 · 5:58:23 PM +00:00 · Joan McCarter Biden just spoke, slamming Republicans for “playing chicken with our national security.” Senate Republicans stormed out of a classified briefing about Ukraine on Tuesday in a... |
Joan McCarter | 12/06/2023 | 103 |
| Kevin McCarthy to Step Down in Less than a Month From Xitter: Above, CBS Congressional Correspondent, Scott MacFarlane, writes, “House GOP majority is about to shrink further. As former Speaker Kevin McCarthy announces he’s leaving Congress at end of year.” Wow — what’s the rush, Kevdawg? Some new... |
ericlewis0 | 12/06/2023 | 133 |
| Ohio History Center: Animals with expanded ranges (museum exhibit) The natural history displays in the Ohio History Center in Columbus include animals whose ranges have expanded. According to the Museum: “Today Ohio is a different world from the Ohio Country ... |
Ojibwa | 12/06/2023 | 6 |
| Norman Lear, Value-form producer dead at 101 A media icon, how might he have treated humorously the misidentification of antisemitism with antizionism represented by H.R. 894. Writer-producer-developer Norman Lear, who revolutionized American comedy with such daring, immensely popular early-‘70s... |
annieli | 12/06/2023 | 10 |
| It’s not just Trump: It’s the oligarchy, stupid. Beyond Trump, it’a also the Republican party leadership and Republican voters. Why are they lining up behind this lawless thug? There are two main factors: racism and massive wealth inequality. Aristotle explained a long time ago that in a city... |
Phillysophy | 12/06/2023 | 116 |
| The I/P Designation is now Defunct The I/P designation was used to denote Israel and Palestine. I wrote that I was not to write about this subject anymore and that still holds. There will shortly be no Palestine to write about, only separate pockets of Palestinians. The 2 state solution... |
LaFeminista | 12/06/2023 | 84 |
| More Economic Good News- Thanks Democrats! Paul Krugman, as many of you know, writes opinion pieces primarily about the economy. In this article he talks about vairous viewpoints on inflation, and how most get it wrong. His self- profile on NYT includes: My Background I’m an economist by... |
Solarman55 | 12/05/2023 | 4 |
| Democratic Party "stuck in its addictions to neoliberal economics" - Sen. Chris Murphy Luke Goldstein of The American Prospect reports on Senator Chris Murphy’s (D-CT) recent shift to an explicit rejection of neoliberalism. I pressed Murphy about why, despite executive actions, Democrats in Congress weren’t able to move forward in the... |
NBBooks | 12/05/2023 | 407 |
| A.I. -- the Promise and the Peril — — As with most new technologies and innovations, the promise and the peril of releasing them into the economic world — is in a word: “complicated.” They usually hold untold benefits for companies, economies, and even individuals. Some of the classics... |
jamess | 12/05/2023 | 9 |
| Nonfiction Views: This week's notable new nonfiction Good evening, everyone. Forgive the hiatus I took with Nonfiction Views for a couple weeks. Just too busy. But you didn’t miss much. The publishing world was rather slow those couple weeks, and it ... |
DebtorsPrison | 12/05/2023 | 4 |
| Contemporary Fiction Views: When two wounded souls meet More than one woman has felt she has lost her voice, that she is not heard, that no one heeds her feelings or ideas. In Greek Lessons , Han Kang brings to life a woman who literally loses her voice. ... |
bookgirl | 12/05/2023 | 29 |
| Black Kos: The Montgomery Bus Boycott. They didn't have social media; they had a mimeograph machine 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 ... |
Black Kos | 12/05/2023 | 170 |
| ICYMI: Finally! The media covers Trump's radical threat Major newspapers may be leading media shift on Trump coverage For far too long, we’ve bemoaned the national media for covering Donald Trump as if he were a conventional candidate and not who he actually is: a fascist threat to our nation’s democracy.... |
kos | 12/05/2023 | 87 |
| Jack Smith Cites TFG’s “Stand Back & Stand By” Wink to Proud Boys as Evidence in Case From The New York Times: When former President Donald J. Trump goes on trial on charges of plotting to overturn the 2020 election, federal prosecutors intend to tell a sweeping story, informing the jury about everything from his support for the... |
ericlewis0 | 12/05/2023 | 36 |
| Hidden History: "The Gael" and "Last of the Mohicans" The�1992 film version of The Last of the Mohicans �has one of the best and well-known musical scores ever done for a movie.
"Hidden History" is a diary series that explores forgotten and little-... |
Lenny Flank | 12/05/2023 | 17 |
| Tommy Tuberville raises the white flag of surrender The Senate can finally confirm the promotions of hundreds of senior military officers that have been held up for 10 months by Alabama Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville. He announced Tuesday that he was finally dropping his hold on most promotions after... |
Joan McCarter | 12/05/2023 | 289 |
| Global Stocktake @ COP28 Portends Horrific 2.5C to 2.9C. Temp Rise With 2,456 fossil fuel lobbyists attending COP28, the 24-page negotiating text circulating Tuesday represents the first time in almost 30 years of meetings that the role of fossil fuels in driving global warming is mentioned. Way too late in the... |
boatsie | 12/05/2023 | 23 |
| Ukraine Update: Zelenskyy lobbies Republicans blocking aid to Ukraine Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is providing a classified video briefing to senators Tuesday in a bid to convince them to support the supplemental funding bill coming to the floor as soon as Wednesday that includes $60 billion in aid for Ukraine.... |
Joan McCarter | 12/05/2023 | 68 |
| Conservative Supreme Court justices let Leonard Leo do their homework The Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats can add a few questions to the list for conservative Supreme Court fixer Leonard Leo, if they can get him to comply with the subpoena they approved last week. |
Joan McCarter | 12/05/2023 | 41 |
| Indians 201: An Indian victory in Eastern Washington in 1858 In the 1850s, the policy of the United States regarding the Indian nations in eastern Washington was to force Indians onto a few reservations and open up the land for the railroad, for farming and ... |
Ojibwa | 12/05/2023 | 2 |
| The Language of the Night: Murderbot is back! Before all else, thank you, Clio2 , for stepping in last week with such a great discussion of YA fantasy/romance, Jennifer L. Armentrout’s� Storm and Fury �and the Moms for Liberty professional ... |
DrLori | 12/04/2023 | 34 |
| ICYMI: Republicans reveal the smoking (cap) gun in Biden impeachment inquiry Monday’s theme? Republican weakness Republicans don’t seem to be trying very hard as we head into the December holidays. The Republican effort in the House to impeach President Joe Biden took a new step forward before quickly taking two steps back.... |
kos | 12/04/2023 | 46 |
| Supreme Court could preempt wealth taxes before they’re even enacted The Supreme Court is hearing a case Tuesday that could upend current tax law and make future tax hikes on rich people unconstitutional, while also potentially costing the treasury hundreds of ... |
Joan McCarter | 12/04/2023 | 84 |
| "Fossil Fuel Wars:" Is COP President A Climate Denier? COP28 president Sultan Al Jaber held an unscheduled press conference Monday morning claiming his comment last month that there was “no science” behind the belief that fossil fuels were a primary driver of climate change was misunderstood. “I have... |
boatsie | 12/04/2023 | 18 |
| Like a Com(m)e(n)t To write a poem Is to take One shred of your soul And arrange it Or splash it Or smear it Where passersby may see; Sometimes, but only sometimes, You know If they do. * We, the endangering species, Must, as Eiseley saw, Destroy what we don’t... |
Gaelsdottir | 12/04/2023 | 15 |
| Ohio History Center: Transportation related exhibits (photo diary) The Ohio History Center in Columbus, Ohio includes a number of transportation related exhibits. |
Ojibwa | 12/04/2023 | 4 |
| Shakespeare's Shadow: Twelve Days of Shakespeare Part 11 On November 8th, 1623, publisher Edward Blount registered 18 previously unpublished plays by the author William Shakespeare with the Stationer’s Guild in London. Printing the 36 plays of the folio, over 900 pages of material, had taken almost two years... |
Economaniac | 12/04/2023 | 22 |
| Morning Open Thread: It Has an Inner Light … and Changes Us ________________________ “It is the responsibility, yet the individual choice, of each of us to use the light we have to dispel the work of darkness, because if we do not, then the power of falsehood rises.” — John Lewis, Across That Bridge... |
officebss | 12/04/2023 | 80 |
| Sweet Swan of Avon / Thy Stratford Moniment : Twelve Days of Shakespeare Part 10 This is the last of four posts in the series that attempts to make sense of the Jonson elegy To the Memory of my Beloved, The Author William Shakespeare and what he hath left us from the preface materials of the folio. As Wells says, this is the most... |
Economaniac | 12/03/2023 | 12 |
| America's Car Museum: Cars from the 1910s (photo diary) During the decade of the 1910s, the automobile began to enter into American life and begin its� evolution from a frivolous plaything to one of life’s necessities. Cars became mass produced and ... |
Ojibwa | 12/03/2023 | 7 |
| The Simplest Koan “Where does the path to awakening begin?”—“Right here.” In different versions of this koan, the master draws a line on the ground or in the air. Never mind that. It is obviously right ... |
Mokurai | 12/03/2023 | 18 |
| Ancient Europe: The Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age) In the early nineteenth century, museum curators began organizing their prehistoric collections by classifying cutting tools according to the material used to make them: stone, bronze, and iron. ... |
Ojibwa | 12/03/2023 | 78 |
| Black Music Sunday: Kabiosile (all hail) Chango! 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 ... |
Denise Oliver Velez | 12/03/2023 | 115 |
| WOW2: December 2023 Women Trailblazers and Activists – 12-1 thru 12-8 “You don’t know you’re making history when it’s happening. I just wanted to do my job.” – � Charity Adams Earley , |
officebss | 12/02/2023 | 19 |
| Mississippi Republican party files suit over judge holding Hinds County polls open on election night by Geoff Pender � Mississippi Today The Mississippi Republican Party is asking the state Supreme Court to dissolve an emergency order a judge issued on election night keeping polls open in Hinds ... |
Mississippi Today | 12/02/2023 | 59 |
| When the Church Woke John Wesley, founder of Methodism, fiercely denounced slavery and required Methodists to fight against it. But many American Methodists came to approve of slavery, then Jim Crow, then continued segregation, and completely segregated their churches.... |
Mokurai | 12/02/2023 | 11 |
| Museums 401: Shoes (photo diary) As a part of their clothing ensemble, modern humans wear coverings on their feet known as shoes. When did humans first start wearing shoes? One of the important clues comes from biological ... |
Ojibwa | 12/02/2023 | 17 |
| Shakespeare was a Woman: Twelve Days of Shakespeare Part 9 This is the 9th post in a series. I have been working the last few years on a book about Shakespeare and the 1623 first folio edition of plays with a particular focus on Ben Jonson and the other figures who played a role with Shakespeare in the writing... |
Economaniac | 12/02/2023 | 54 |
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