Gulf Watchers Sunday - Bickering Delayed Testing of BOP - BP Catastrophe AUV...
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View ArticleGulf Watchers Sunday - New Charges Against BP; Barton Eyes Energy Chair - BP...
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View ArticleGulf Watchers Sunday - More Agencies Point Fingers at BP - BP Catastrophe AUV...
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View ArticleGulf Watchers Wednesday - 1990 Act of Congress Should Have Prevented Spill -...
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View ArticleGulf Watchers Sunday - WikiLeaks to Target BP - BP Catastrophe AUV #436
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View ArticleGulf Watchers Block Party: Johnny Clegg: The White Zulu
'Evening, Watchers. Hope the week wasn't too hard on you, and that the weekend offers some pleasures. Sorry I'm late -- I was desperately trying to find some now-invisible blogs on African migrant...
View ArticleGulf Watchers Sunday - BP's Destruction of Gulf Coast Continues - BP...
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View ArticleGulf Watchers Sunday - Near-Identical Accident by BP in Azerbaijan, 2008 - BP...
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View ArticleGulf Watchers Sunday - New Evidence BP Aided Release of Lockerbie Bomber - BP...
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View ArticleGulf Watchers New Year's Eve Block Party
We'll get to the festivities in a moment. But first, I have a tiny rant.This has been the Year of the Spill. Spill. What an inadequate word. It was a gush, a cascade...It was a torrent.And what we...
View ArticleGulf Watchers Sunday - BP Sued as "Known Felon" - BP Catastrophe AUV #449
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View ArticleGulf Watchers Sunday - U.K. Recommends Stronger Measures Than U.S. - BP...
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View ArticleGulf Watchers Block Party - A Spontaneous Search
It was one of those weird nights. I don't even remember how I got around to entering the word "spontaneous" into the youtube search bar.It led me first to a metronomic phenomenon... and from there I...
View ArticleGulf Watchers - Arctic Blast: BP's Deal With Russia - BP Catastrophe AUV #457
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View ArticleGulf Watchers - Legality of Claims Process Challenged - BP Catastrophe AUV #461
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View ArticleGulf Watchers - Where BP Goes, Disaster Follows - BP Catastrophe AUV #465
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View ArticleGulf Watchers Block Party - A Little Pride is Not Uncalled For
Yo! All you winners! Congratulations on our Koscars win. It's time for a celebration.Because, while the crisis in the Gulf continues, for tonight I just want to celebrate.So sit back, stop hunting...
View ArticleGulf Watchers Sunday - Justice and Interior Bear Down on BP - BP Catastrophe...
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View ArticleGulf Watchers Monday/Tuesday - “He preys on the poor and the helpless” - BP...
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View ArticleGulf Watchers Sunday - Feinberg Can't Catch a Break - BP Catastrophe AUV #476
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View ArticleGulf Watchers Sunday - Feinberg (Finally) Meets with Louisana Tribes - BP...
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View ArticleProcession
It was late August, when leaves have turned their darkest green and hang heavy from the trees, spent, dusty, all but lifeless. Each year this island swells with oppressive salt air humidity and summer...
View ArticleMojo Friday - Broken News Edition
During the Vietnam war, my mother spotted a headline that proclaimed: General Suicide at Pentagon. Imagine her disappointment when it turned out to be only one general. Like my mother, I often find...
View ArticleGulf Watchers Sunday - Tony's Testy Testimony - BP Catastrophe AUV #534
Topics: Feds question former BP chief Hayward about financial records, Gulf oil flow; BP Holds Gulf Spill Assessment ‘Financially Captive’; Oil Company Who Profited In The Deepwater Horizon Spill Tries...
View ArticleGulf Watchers Sunday - Judge Rejects RICO Charges Against BP - BP Catastrophe...
Barbier rules out RICO charges, turns back Anadarko; Strange vows continued pursuit of BP; Kent Wells' deceptive graphics; NA archeological finds revealed and threatened by spill clean-up; Capping...
View ArticleGulf Watchers Sunday - Breaking: BP Lies, Cheats, Scores Huge in Iraq - BP...
BP secretly renegotiates contract, secures "stranglehold" over Iraq oilfields; Hayward oversees "environment, health and safety" (fox, henhouse, carnage) for Glencore in MN; Impatience on both sides of...
View ArticleGulf Watchers Monday - BP Aghast: Stronger Damage Assessment Demanded - BP...
BP Wants U.S. Probes Barred from Oil Spill Suits; Study: Change method to assess gulf oil spill; Researchers examine health effects of BP spill on cleanup workers; Luther Strange on BP spill;...
View ArticleGulf Watchers Monday - Macondo Still Leaks - BP Catastrophe AUV #570
Environmental attorney says oil still leaking; UK secretly helping Canada push its oil sands project; U.S. Judge Denies BP's Bid to Access $750 Million of Insurance Coverage; U.S. District Judge Carl...
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The List: DKos and My Two Years in Purgatory
From the Daily Kos Community QuiltTwo years ago next month, I was given a drug called Levaquin (surely a product of The Devil himself) that left me disabled for... well, pretty much 'til now -- but in...
View ArticleGulf Watchers Monday - FDA OKs 10k x Safe Limit on Contaminated Seafood - BP...
BP Solar abandons solar power; Snark Alert: Milwaukee to sell naming rights for bridge to BP; Why are Britain's great art houses in bed with BP?; BP resumes charm offensive on Gulf Spill with more ads;...
View ArticleLINsanity and the Politics of Racial Profiling
First there was the ESPN headline, "A Chink in the Armor." Then the phrase was repeated on air by sportscaster Max Bretos.In a statement, ESPN says that Bretos has suspended for 30 days for his...
View ArticleAlliances, Coalitions, and the Naivete of Privilege
We live in the United States of America.The nation that killed protesters at Jackson and Kent State Universities. The nation that executed Fred Hampton in his bed, without so much as a warrant. The...
View ArticleKos Katalogue: Shop Local. Shop Kos!
I live on a tinyisland. Population: 0.222% that of Daily Kos. No traffic lights... which, come to think of it, is a lot like here at dkos. No chain stores. Gosh -- none of those here, either. Most...
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Fukushima: Tepco, Destroyer of Worlds
On July 18, the residents of Fukushima prefecture posted a statement:From the residents of Fukushima Prefecture Please be noted that we, residents of Fukushima Shirakawa district (southern part of...
View ArticleDocumentary on Syrian Refugees' Impact on Jordanians Needs Funding
Full disclosure: this is a pitch.Not for me, but for a stranger, documentary filmmaker Richard Nield.Nield has shot footage for a film that now needs funding for completion, and has only a scant few...
View ArticleUrgent: NYC Voters: Check Your Polling Place! Enormous Changes at the Last...
According to The Daily News -- and a friend who lives on the Upper West Side -- the Board of Elections has made last-minute changes to polling places covering 31 voting districts in Washington Heights,...
View ArticleUPDATED: Issues with DK5. Big ones.
UPDATE: elfling has pointed out that, unlike DK4 which most of us saw when it had been wrecked and rebuilt a few times, this is a very early iteration of DK5. They let the whole bunch of us...
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Dear Markos: It Didn't Have to Be This Way
"One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say."— Bryant H. McGillI appreciate you having the staff’s back. I truly do. As a union member, a sometime...
View ArticleRegister a Voter, Save a Life
From the look of things, especially during midterm elections, we (Democrats) tend to be a pretty cavalier and careless lot. Maybe not here on DKos so much, but the records are clear: many voters just...
View ArticleDon't Believe the Lie: ALL are Welcome at Moral Mondays March
There is a post widely shared here stating that Sanders supporters are not welcome at today’s Moral Mondays march. This is a lie.The march is organized by Reverend William Barber’s Moral Mondays...
View ArticleY'all Did Good
Last night we got to see, yet again, that this community is so much more than politics. Someone on the site was in crisis, and you all rose up to do something — even if all you could do was offer...
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(UPDATED - 6x) For Aji and Wings: A Place to Lay Your Head ($500 Match...
For dear friends of mine — and of yours — what has passed for “home” has been a metal box filled with toxic vapors, and dangerous wiring that has already caught fire twice. A metal box that is...
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Updated 12x -- Aji & Wings: MATCH MET! We're done -- for now. Thank you all!
Touching Update: Just want to share a story with you guys that touched my heart last night. A Kossack who wishes to remain anonymous made a large contribution on that first match: s/he had lived...
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HAPPIEST UPDATE: Aji & Wings $1000 Match to Bring Warmth for the Winter,...
REALLY HAPPY UPDATE:Aji and Wings will sleep in their new home tonight.By Tuesday, the should be completely in the house, and out of the RV.You all are AMAZING.ADDENDUM:Aji says they are “profoundly...
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Updated 4x (!!!!!) : Aji & Wings: Scary News, Joyous News, Winter Closing...
First of all, Aji’s words about this post were, and I’m quoting her directly:I WANT IT KNOWN THAT THIS WAS COERCED.So… there you have it. All that follows was coerced. She didn’t want us to do it,...
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Aji & Wings: Overwhelmed* (Updated 7x -- matches met)
Wings and Aji are finally safe in their beautiful new home. And newly married. But things never are that happily ever after. This country, if you’re not part of the privileged few, can grind you...
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Updated 5x: Goal Met! Urgent: Onomastic in the hospital; needs our help to...
Onomastic suddenly collapsed in a train station on her way home from a visit here, and was rushed to a hospital where she’s now in ICU. I only have the roughest of details, but it appears her heart...
View ArticleMF Daily for Saturday May 29, 2021
Welcome to MF Daily(Formerly know as Mojo Friday’s Weekly Open Thread — MFWOT)All are welcome to hang out and share what is happening in your life today
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