New England coal plant protest
I just got back from a protest at the largest coal plant in New England, the coal plant at Brayton Point in Somerset, Massachusetts, right near Providence.Here's some backstory on the...
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Protest arrests at New England coal plant
I went to the Brayton Point coal plant protest down near Fall River in Massachusetts on Sunday and I diaried about my experience here:New England coal plant protestRugbymom also diaried here:Close Down...
View ArticleBeing green and slow
The last couple of years I have noticed a strange shift in the quality of time. I'm not sure of the cause. Maybe it's a product of middle age (I'm 47), maybe it's because my kids are older and more...
View ArticleMaybe Texas will go blue and green
Surely rural Texans will wake up and smell the coffee when they don't have water to make coffee.The Guardian: A Texan tragedy: ample oil, no waterBeverly McGuire saw the warning signs before the town...
View Articleit’s like a nature hike through the book of revelations
WaPo--Al Gore explains why he's optimisticSo true:To the broader part of your question, innovation is already playing a major role in bringing about new potential solutions to the climate crisis. The...
View ArticleThe End of Capitalism
I just finished reading The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism. It was fascinating and opened my eyes. Jeremy Rifkin, the...
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Middle-aged fat lady on a bicycle
I'm 48, I'm almost 300 pounds, and I'm riding my new bicycle every day to the commuter rail train station. Granted, I'm 5'9" so my weight isn't as much of an exercise detriment as it could be. I'm...
View ArticleOrgasms, Cancer and the Sharing Economy
I'm an author. One book and that was enough. I got a lot of accusations online when my book first came out that I was pimping my book, so I'm not going to mention the title of it in this diary. That...
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We are stardust, we are golden
pix from the 350.org Summer Heat protest last year of the Brayton Point coal plant, a dinosaur of a plant that kills dozens of New Englanders each year. It's shutting down in a few years, and some...
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crowdfunding a malaria vaccine
I don't like to post this on such a great day for fighting global warming, but I am amazed by the news that an effective malaria vaccine has been developed.Promising Malaria Vaccine Looks to Employ...
View Articlehomeless person question
This isn't a real diary, just a question about something--I'm not sure what to do. We live near a little shopping plaza and I bicycled there to get my daughter some cough drops from the drug store....
View ArticleBoycott Eden Foods (organic beans and Edensoy soy milk)
Short diary but important message. I don't do crafts so I don't shop at Hobby Lobby, but I sure do eat organic food and have bought cases of Eden Foods organic beans in my time. I will never buy...
View ArticleHelp me stop a hate crime?
I'm a wiccan treehugger, and unfortunately must eat red meat or I get anemia. For some reason, iron pills don't work for me. But I wanted to eat responsibly sourced meat, so I found a local butcher...
View ArticleBerwick's barnburner of a convention speech
This was already on here at dKos back when it happened back in June, but it cheered me up watching it this morning. It's so refreshing to see a Democratic politician be unafraid, to bring it.Here is...
View ArticleWhy federal funding of scientific research is so important
I am a scientist and like many scientists my job is completely dependent on grant money. The Republicans in Congress have taken a hatchet over the years to federal grant money for scientific research....
View ArticleAbolition, ten trillion dollars, and global warming
So I read several eye-popping climate diaries here today:V.L. Baker's Rate Of Climate Change To Soar By 2020s, With Arctic Warming 1°F Per DecadeJoe Romm at Think Progress/climate is bringing us the...
View ArticleCigarette Smoking Man killed Kennedy
A few days ago I read this article in Salon“Every president has been manipulated by national security officials”: David Talbot exposes America’s “deep state”and I immediately downloaded The Devil's...
View ArticleJeb and Prescott Bush and the CIA
I am going to keep writing about this long and fascinating book that I'm reading, The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government. It just came out a couple...
View ArticlePesticide research censorship and Big Pharma shilling
I often get lectured when I post about the reach of Big Pharma or Big Ag, that I am somehow "anti-science", even though my day job is a research scientist. My line of argument usually focuses on the...
View ArticleBill Moyers says Sullivan wrong about democracy
This isn’t much of a diary—I was expecting one of the front pagers to reblog it, but I did a search and came up with nothing. I was very disturbed to read Andrew Sullivan’s recent harangue against...
View ArticleI need town hall advice
So I got an invite to attend my Representative’s town hall on Friday. I’m in a part of Boston that has a lot of voters that sometimes vote like Republicans, and my Representative, Stephen Lynch,...
View Articledkos needs a Resist scoreboard for Congress
Yesterday I wrote a post asking for advice about my Congressional rep, Stephen Lynch, as I’m going to his town hall tomorrow. I know he’s a borderline Democrat—he’s conservative in a lot of ways,...
View ArticleIn defense of Louise Mensch
I hope Louise Mensch wins the Pulitzer this year. There are many reasons why I, a proclaimed lefty, avidly follow her. For background on those who don’t know who she is, she’s a British conservative,...
View Article3 recent Louise Mensch predictions verified by NBC
Three recent hits for Louise Mensch and Claude Taylor, all scooped well before NBC, to add to their impressive scorecard:xNBC News confirms following, reported variously by @TrueFactsStated and I.1....
View ArticleCongress investigating Sessions' Mayflower meeting with Kislyak
Haven’t seen this on dkos yet, so thought I would diary.CNN calls this “First on CNN”, but Louise Mensch has been on it for months. Maybe CNN means “first time the story has been reported on...
View ArticleLeaks have stopped....?
I’ve taken a lot of heat here for being a supporter of Louise Mensch and Claude Taylor, but I think this is good news for everyone. Their reporting has stopped, along with the reporting of other...
View ArticlePutinbots are everywhere online
This is a short rant about Putinbots. They are every damn place online, especially my places. I was a middling-to-early Internet adopter (Compuserve) and for the past twenty-five years have been...
View ArticleMensch comes out on top
I’m not expecting apologies from kossacks here who slammed me for supporting Mensch, but I think I can at least do a victory lap with a few Twitter retweets. Hope to do the same in the future re:...
View ArticleLouise Mensch scooped Russian donations to RNC news
After getting so much grief here for being an ardent Louise Mensch supporter, I am following up each time her reporting is confirmed (much later) by the MSM.xNBC has just validated my @Patribotics...
View ArticleLouise Mensch, not a journalist
I’ve been a strong proponent of Louise Mensch for many months now, and I’ve gotten a lot of heat for it here at dkos. I’ve written several posts supporting her.She and Claude Taylor have been way...
View ArticleLouise Mensch needs a correction
My last diary pointed out an error in Louise Mensch’s blog. Louise Mensch, not a journalistThat is not the work of a journalist. A journalist wouldn’t say “I have independently verified that these...
View ArticleWhat if a movement...Stood Still
xpic.twitter.com/jvk3jTRUMlâ Centrism Dot Biz (@centrismdotbiz) September 20, 2017www.centrism.biz/…My new favorite website!MODERATIONWe oppose extremists on the right who want to murder all...
View ArticleBLM, Putin, dailykos and Louise Mensch
I’m posting this one last diary on Louise Mensch (unless we do indeed get President Hatch). Looking at my posting history here, everyone can see that I have championed Louise Mensch here at dailykos,...
View ArticleRussian FB ads targeted Michigan and Wisconsin
It’s finally been confirmed by the MSM (CNN) that Russia specifically targeted Michigan and Wisconsin using microtargeted Facebook ads.Exclusive: Russian-linked Facebook ads targeted Michigan and...
View ArticleRussians tricked and funded some BLM protesters
Buzzfeed just published this article yesterday:These Americans Were Tricked Into Working For Russia. They Say They Had No Idea.There have been several stories here at dkos recently talking about how...
View ArticleKelly = squirrel, and Feinstein letters with 11/6 deadline
To avoid DBAD and another timeout I’m refraining from commenting in Jen Hayden’s diary on John Kelly currently at the top of the reclist. Nothing in it is untrue, all the points made in it are...
View ArticlePossible Russian infiltration of the Left in South Florida?
THIS DIARY IS ABSOLUTE BALONEY. IN THE COMMENTS SECTION I WAS DIRECTED TO PREVIOUS WRITING BY CHRIS NETHERY AND HE IS A COMPLETE LOON. THANK YOU, DKOS PEOPLE, FOR HELPING ME SEE THAT I WAS TRICKED....
View ArticleUFOs...Illuminati or aliens?
I’ve been going through a rough time lately, I just put my mom in hospice. I’m taking a break from work and visiting her every day. She seems to be rallying so may have another year in her, I’m...
View ArticleEric Garland sees the big picture with TrumpRussia
This remarkable Twitter thread from Eric Garland really struck me, especially as I’ve seen in the news myself the global spring cleaning that’s been going on. Worldwide, law enforcement has been...
View ArticleScott Dworkin vs. Claude Taylor
I agree with Bob Johnson’s reclist diary that Scott Dworkin is a grifter. But I don’t see how he jumps from that to saying Claude Taylor is one. I think Claude Taylor’s twitter feed speaks for...
View ArticlePatient advocacy groups pushed opioids after getting industry money
According to a Congressional Report released by Sen. McCaskill, patient advocacy groups pushed opioids after getting industry money . I’m glad to see that Congress is doing something about the opioid...
View ArticleDem memo vindicates Louise Mensch
I’ve taken a lot of heat here for blogging about Louise Mensch, and I did say I would wait to blog until it’s shown that the Marshal of the Supreme Court really did visit Trump on the tarmac, but this...
View ArticleSam Nunberg Katy Tur full transcript
Just a follow up to this other dkos article that had a partial transcript of Katy Tur’s interview of Sam Nunbergwww.dailykos.com/…Here is the original Twitter with the full transcript:xBecause this...
View ArticleWaPo: Mueller--Erik Prince, Seychelles and the Kremlin
Here’s the WaPo article:Mueller gathers evidence that 2017 Seychelles meeting was effort to establish back channel to KremlinSpecial counsel Robert S. Mueller III has gathered evidence that a secret...
View ArticleI had an orgasm on HBO (and Erik Prince is going down) Updated with cleavage
This is true—I was promoting my book, The Orgasmic Diet, and I was on the Real Sex show on HBO. Which was all around weird, let me tell you. I was also on Dr. Oz and Rachael Ray. I’m a nerdy...
View ArticleHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!
I tried to DM bubbanomics this tweet but I got an error message. So I figured I might as well diary it myselfx#BREAKING: Trump lawyers offer to exchange Trump interview for Mueller ending...
View ArticleIvanka's ties to today's press conference on Iran
Last March the New Yorker had an extensive article on Donald and Ivanka Trump’s involvement in the Baku Hotel in Iran:Donald Trump’s Worst Deal The President helped build a hotel in Azerbaijan that...
View ArticleBack to TrumpRussia, Mueller probe witness secretly backed UAE agenda in...
Now that the weekend, full of the sublime and the ridiculous, is behind us, I’m really hoping for 24x7 Mueller Time coverage.In APNews this morning, there was this lovely article:Mueller probe witness...
View ArticleRussian hacker extradited from Prague, also LIBOR acting weird
First off, something’s up with the LIBOR. Anybody know what the meaning of this could be? I didn’t want to post just reposting one tweet, so I’m adding this tweet to my hacker diary:xThe LIBOR...
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