Janet Kira Lessin April 7, 1999 My husband found the eulogy I wrote for my father in 1999. I was devastated by my father’s death. Even though it’s 24 years later, it still hurts. I thought it was quite ironic that my husband found this right now. My father and mother are always with me. […]
I love cats. I’ve always had cats. When I was very young I had a large Maine Coon named Fluffy Ruffle. I have no idea who named him. When I carried him he dangled and his tail dragged across the floor. He was longer than I was tall and he must have weighed a ton. […]
Trumpism Is Here to Stay, No Matter Who’s in the White HouseAnd if he’s defeated this time, Trump could even run again in 2024. Read in Bloomberg Businessweek: https://apple.news/AkrZ8e39NTCu_vAYNiylmYg As the ballot-counting drags on, President Trump’s fate is still unsettled. The fate of Trumpism, on the other hand, is clear: It isn’t going away. And Trump himself […]
Citizens of planet Earth can now clearly see that we must vote every day with our hearts, souls, bodies, and minds against cruelty, injustice, unkindness. In order to survive as a species and a planet, we must develop empathy, compassion, and learn to walk in each others’ shoes, feel what it must be like to […]
Departing Space Station Commander Provides Tour of Orbital Laboratory In her final days as Commander of the International Space Station, Sunita Williams of NASA recorded an extensive tour of the orbital laboratory and downlinked the video on Nov. 18, just hours before she, cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and Flight Engineer Aki Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace […]
Embracing that reality is crucial to the next phase of America’s pandemic response, experts say. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/05/27/coronavirus-endemic/ By William Wan and Carolyn Y. Johnson May 27, 2020 at 9:15 a.m. HST There’s a good chance the coronavirus will never go away. Even after a vaccine is discovered and deployed, the coronavirus will likely remain for decades to come, circulating among the world’s […]
Annie Jacobsen, Former Contributing Editor, Los Angeles Times Magazine; Author, Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government’s Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis; Twitter @AnnieJacobsen Barry Eisler, Novelist, Blogger, Former CIA Operative, Twitter @barryeisler—Moderator Annie Jacobsen is an investigative journalist and best-selling author who writes about war, weapons, U.S. national security and government secrecy. […]
French Doctors Find COVID-19 Case From December — A Month Before 1st Known Case There May 5, 2020 8:06 PM ET https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/05/05/851091042/french-doctors-find-covid-case-from-december-a-month-before-1st-known-case-there A nurse in the Eugenie Hospital in Ajaccio, on the French Mediterranean island of Corsica, on April 23. France appears to have had its first case of COVID-19 in December, a month earlier […]
Americans become human Guinea pigs in the GOP’s wild experiment to retain power Kerry Eleveld for Daily KosDaily Kos StaffSaturday May 02, 2020 · 8:00 AM Recommend 154 Share Tweet115 Comments 115 New In case you hadn’t heard, things are going great. The coronavirus scare is all behind us now and everything’s coming up roses, if only the media weren’t quashing this obvious good news story. […]
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/5/1/1934455/-Trump-s-Nazification-of-the-GOP-is-why-there-s-serious-discussion-of-killing-off-the-unfit?detail=emaildkre Under Donald Trump, the Republican Party is racing toward a transformation that mimics the greatest evil of the 20th century. Long before the Nazis fully engaged with genocidal murder against the Jews, there were persecutions of people deemed “unfit.” These were people whom Adolf Hitler’s extremists arbitrarily deemed insufficiently able to contribute to the greater German society. […]
