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I don’t really celebrate thanksgiving as a holiday, but I do like the idea of giving thanks and being thankful and eating lots of turkey! I’m thankful for: My Kid’s asthma being better The folks still willing to help Haitians My friends online giving...

Rest In Peace and Power, Mrs. Viola Ford Fletcher by Chitown Kev Yesterday, it was announced that the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher, passed away. She ...

I posted this essay on my site yesterday, and the response/comments have been amazingly moving to me. I’m not sure if it works as a DK diary, but I’m going to repost it and see what you think. Here goes! ~ I read this troubling, illuminating, and...

Turn on your light Turn on your light, let your heart be seen Come on don’t be shy, the world is in need Hate’s spreading fast, the dark comes too fast Turn on your light, let’s bring back love Turn on your light, spread kindness all around Come on...

The recovery of salmon on the Klamath River above the former PacifiCorp dam sites has exceeded all expectations. Preliminary data from California Trout’s SONAR fish counting station below the former Iron Gate Dam site reveals nearly 10,000 salmon and...

60 yards and a cloud of horseshoe dust They died with their boots (and underwear) on, having left their Gatling guns behind. Scalping is associated with American Indians on the Western frontier, but white settlers also performed the gruesome practice....

In their book Abundance, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson argue the Democrats lose elections to obvious MAGA-type fascist idiots because we make government so damn complicated it becomes ineffective. In other words, voters want the things Democrats say...

I do not live in Boston. The nuance of the city’s politics is likely lost on me. The closest i came to Boston politics was working with an engineer who was Mayor Menino’s (RIP) brother in law who had some interesting insights. Like when his sister...

Black Out the System calls for a nationwide Boycott Thanksgiving/ BlackFriday week. Act! 'We're Shutting It Down': Economic Blackout Set For Nov. 25 - Dec. 2 and www.themassblackout.com (another site provided by a reader) ~~~ If you’re worried and want...

To those who don’t know who Clay Jones is: Clay Jones is a great political cartoonist whose work appears regularly here at Daily Kos. He is recovering from a stroke; and so far, has managed to ...