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I'm a former moderate conservative who is fed up with Bush and Company.
Real Name: Stephen Andrew
Location: Austin, Texas
Groups: Daily Kos, Science Matters, Geeks, Daily Kos Labor
Home Page: http://tinyurl.com/o9d66z
Diaries published: 1904 (0 days since last diary on Tue Jan 31, 2017 at 07:00 PM PST)
Comments posted: 11619 (3 days since last comment on Sun Jan 29, 2017 at 02:34 PM PST)
Diary frequency: frequent
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Most Recommended Diary: Welcome Fox Viewers!, 594 comments, 847 recommends
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Like Saturn’s moon Daphnis , NASA’s Juno spacecraft doesn’t let being an insignificant speck in a vast cosmic system deter it from its mission. That mission is to study parts of Jupiter ...
by DarkSyde
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on Tue Jan 31, 2017 at 07:00 PM PST
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It’s a story as old as democracy itself. A wealthy minority games the system through gerrymandering and other tricks, installs puppets who direct more and more taxpayer resources toward the cabal ...
by DarkSyde
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on Tue Jan 31, 2017 at 03:50 PM PST
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Many thanks to NASA Cassini for the image above and to Katie Mack, astrophysicist at large, for the wonderful message in these disturbing times. Science can do many things for our country and our species. It is through science that we easily...
by DarkSyde
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on Sun Jan 29, 2017 at 07:10 PM PST
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After last week, it should be clear to anyone with a pulse and intermittent cable or Internet access that science is now under full assault by the usual suspects. Emboldened by their slim electoral win in the form of popular vote loser Donald Trump,...
by DarkSyde
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on Sat Jan 28, 2017 at 06:45 PM PST
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A new climate and weather satellite launched late last year is now beaming back its first images and they are gorgeous. NOAA’s GOES-16 satellite was launched from the Kennedy Space Center into ...
by DarkSyde
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on Sat Jan 28, 2017 at 01:30 PM PST
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First, they’re coming for the Affordable Care Act, then they’re coming for Medicare, and they’re even coming for the VA. But regardless of how much progress they make on those fronts, or ...
by DarkSyde
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on Sat Jan 21, 2017 at 03:00 PM PST
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- Popular vote loser Donald Trump made a lot of promises during the campaign, touting his superior powers as a negotiator. He was going to make all the deals. He was going to bring big pharma to its knees, forcing it to negotiate Medicare drug prices....167 comments 163 Recs
- So I had some guys doing work around my house today and one casually asked what I was doing on the computer. Me being me, I took it as an opening to talk politics and replied “watching my country fall apart”. And then a most heartening conversation...151 comments 441 Recs
- Republican Speaker of the House Paul Ryan huddled behind closed doors on Tuesday morning to urge nervous Republicans to support popular vote loser Donald Trump’s vile Muslim ban: Ryan cautioned lawmakers that support won't be easy and warned them...117 comments 118 Recs
- (English is not my native language) Swedes are less interested in flying to the US than they have been since the leading Swedish internet site for comparing prices and ordering flight tickets (flygresor.se) started keeping track in 2007. And it all...170 comments 192 Recs
- While we hyperventilate about every tweet that Trump sends out, the real danger lies with the administration's indoctrination machine. This interview is riveting because it shows how and why his base lives in an alternate state of reality. Trump...220 comments 252 Recs
- NASCAR’s Dale Earnhardt Jr. tweeted out support the other night, as opposition to the Muslim ban. His twitter account boasts almost two million followers. Because Dale Earnhardt Jr. knows that we all come from somewhere originally, and it wasn’t here. ...91 comments 224 Recs
- After an astoundingly chaotic trainwreck of the first week Donald Trump’s net approval ratings took a tumble, dropping 8 points as he blundered straight into a constitutional crisis, as the GOP sits by in timid silence. Gallup: Trump Net Approval...331 comments 258 Recs
- On Saturday, at airports around the country, thousands gathered to protest the unconstitutional, inhumane, hate-inspired Muslim ban ordered by popular vote loser Donald Trump. And according to the White House: So, are you ready to get...116 comments 115 Recs
- Number of alt- and rogue Twitter accounts now dozens; March for Science nabs 750k followers in 1 dayAs Hair Twittler clamps down ever harder on federal agencies’ ability to communicate with the nation they serve, brave and enterprising public servants at those agencies are finding creative ways to circumvent the Blackout Wall in order that the truth...100 comments 300 Recs
- I awoke at 6:30 am from four hours of crappy sleep. Yesterday’s inauguration had made me very anxious so I stayed up watching Bridge of Spies, Jane Wants a Boyfriend and Beyond the Sea till 2:30 or so. I don’t have to explain that anxiety to anyone...58 comments 122 Recs
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