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Groups: Daily Kos, Overnight News Digest, Pink Clubhouse, Readers and Book Lovers, Seriously Seeking Cinema, Protest Music, Electronic America: Progressives Film, music & Arts Group, Mental Health Awareness, Community Contributors Team
Diaries published: 1908 (40 days since last diary on Sat Mar 27, 2021 at 07:59 AM PDT)
Comments posted: 17988 (40 days since last comment on Sat Mar 27, 2021 at 07:59 AM PDT)
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Most Recommended Diary: Anti-Vaccine Idiocy, 1182 comments, 630 recommends
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Everyone makes mistakes. However, some mistakes have lasting implications that can redefine a public image, particularly when it comes to politics. The extent to which politics is a dynamic between ...
by Doctor RJ
 68 comments
on Sat Mar 27, 2021 at 07:59 AM PDT
with 86 Recommends
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The polarization of American life and the growing divide between red and blue over the past half-century were driven by identity. Rather than differing politics being akin to fans of two rival ...
by Doctor RJ
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on Sat Feb 13, 2021 at 09:15 AM PST
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Why can’t we get some people to believe in universal healthcare, a Green New Deal, or the power of communities working together to effect change? We can’t even a good number of the population to ...
by Doctor RJ
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on Sun Feb 07, 2021 at 07:29 AM PST
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In thinking about how to describe 2020, I’m reminded of a TV show that� compared all of the events over the course of an awful year in an effort to make sense of it. History books tell us the year ...
by Doctor RJ
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on Sun Dec 27, 2020 at 08:59 AM PST
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In 2016,�I was working at a small pediatric clinic during the holiday season.�There, the paycheck before Christmas was always the one where a bonus was added. That year, the powers that be decided ...
by Doctor RJ
108 comments
on Sun Dec 20, 2020 at 08:59 AM PST
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The Atlantic was recently forced to retract a story about adolescent athletics after it was found aspects of it were fiction and there was a deliberate attempt to deceive readers. The 6,000-word ...
by Doctor RJ
19 comments
on Wed Dec 02, 2020 at 08:29 AM PST
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- Yesterday George Washington University associate professor David Karpf called New York Times climate denier Bret Stephens a bedbug on Twitter. It passed by without much notice until Karpf revealed he had gotten an email from Stephens—copied to his...104 comments 167 Recs
- NY Times continued on its inability to cop to reporting on Individual-1’s racism, pretending that his call for unity means anything since he’s done this several times in his tenure, only to return to divisive rhetoric immediately. This is what passes...113 comments 177 Recs
- The impeachment resolution from Texas Democrat Rep. Al Green is likely coming to the floor Wednesday evening, but is equally likely to be set aside. Democratic members who spoke with Roll Call said that a final decision hadn't been made as to how to...111 comments 61 Recs
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