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Los Angeles Kossacks - Let's Talk

I've been sick with one thing or another for weeks, so have been almost entirely inactive here. I'm better now and am thinking we should have an open thread to discuss what's what.

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Do you live in DC?

Just a very quick notice: if you live in DC and are an unemployed reporter, I saw that TPM is looking to hire someone local.http://talkingpointsmemo.com/...

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Potluck in Los Angeles on May 31st

Everyone likes a potluck. People are relaxed, you can take off your shoes and sit in the sun and you get to bring what you like to eat. My brother and SIL have kindly offered to let us use their house...

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Second Occasional Potluck in Los Angeles June 27th

Back by popular demand, DKLA is having another potluck on June 27th in Pasadena. 714day is hosting and the address will revealed when you RSVP. Plan to arrive around 3:30 pm, after it starts to cool...

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L.A. June Meetup Reminder

Friends, it is almost time for the second occasional potluck. This time we will hang out in Pasadena, at 714day's place (contact either one of us for the address).

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Los Angeles Kossacks - Info About The Next Meetup

I am reliably informed that not everyone is sure about the start time for the potluck this Saturday.3 p.m. 3 p.m. 3 p.m.What I tell you three times - you know the rest.

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Meetup Today Los Angeles!@!11

714day and I will be waiting to welcome you this afternoon at the secret Pasadena location for the second occasional DKLA potluck. Don't have the address? Get in touch with either of us.Have a last...

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Los Angeles June Meetup Report

Following the huge success of the May potluck hosted by Kossacks cat2cate and matts2, DKLA got together on Saturday, June 27th, 2015 not far from beautiful downtown Pasadena. Many thanks to 714day and...

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Urgent help for earicicle needed in Los Angeles

Kossack earicicle has relocated to L.A. for medical treatment. She needs temporaryhousing for two weeks while looking for something permanent. I thought I had secured a place, but it looks like that's...

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Help still needed for Earicicle in Los Angeles

I wrote this a few days ago http://www.dailykos.com/...Unfortunately, nothing has changed and earicicle is out of options. She has to leave the Airbnb she is in now tomorrow and has no where to go!Some...

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Los Angeles - Potluck Time Again

Kossacks matts2 and cat2cate have again offered to host the next potluck at their house in the Valley. We have the opportunity to choose between two dates in September or wait until October. Please...

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Pink Out in Los Angeles

There will be a rally at noon tomorrow, 9/30/15, in support of Planned Parenthood, on the South Lawn of Los Angeles City Hall.I'm going. Does anyone want to meet up with me?I want to apologize for...

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Los Angeles October 2015 Meetup

Let's get together on Sunday, October 18th at 2 p.m. We will meeting in North Hills at the home of cat2cate and matts2. Please contact me for the address.

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Los Angeles Kossacks October 18th Meetup Reminder

There is not much I can add to the original diary http://www.dailykos.com/... except that there is still time to RSVP for tomorrow's meetup. Join a stellar lineup that includes:Frank Vyan Walton...

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Ducktape has died

I’ve just learned that Los Angeles Kossack Ducktape died on November 15, 2015. Laura had been diagnosed with lung cancer found a few months before, when she was hospitalized for pneumonia. Although she...

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What happened to the men?

Reading CNN online a few minutes ago, I saw this [warning: auto play video] http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/27/politics/senate-floor-women/index.htmlSenator Lisa Murkowski was speaking on the Senate floor...

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Peregrine Kate will be in Los Angeles

Peregrine Kate will be in L.A. for one day, the afternoon of March 25th to the next afternoon. Let’s show her some love!She is staying in North Hollywood and I’m thinking we can get together there....

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California Voters - this is for you

The Los Angeles Times points out today that 73% of those registered as American Independent Party (not linking to bad people when I don’t have to) didn’t mean to do that, but intended to register as...

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Hillary's First Lady

So, I’m watching Rachel Maddow tonight and at the end of the show she talked about a group of like-minded citizens, including former immigrants, who have started a campaign to Put Melania in The White...

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BREAKING: Charge dropped against Amy Goodman

A North Dakota judge has declined to prosecute Democracy Now journalist Amy Goodman on a charge of participating in a riot.bismarcktribune.com/...

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Jill Stein calls Daily Kos fake news site

Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein has called Daily Kos a “fake news site” and accused us of spreading inflammatory rumors about her.mobile.twitter.com/…

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DK shows the world what slut shaming looks like

Hey, Democrats, how’s it going? Have you done your share of slut shaming the Trump women today or are you waiting for tomorrow, ‘cause you know Republican women are fair game, right? That Kellyanne...

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On the march in Los Angeles

The world will be watching as Americans march for Women’s Rights and against the incoming not popularly elected presidential administration on Saturday, January 21, 2017. Please join Los Angeles...

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Time change for Saturday - Los Angeles March

We will be leaving Union Station at 9 a.m. sharp. In the last diary, the scheduled time for getting on the train for Pershing Square was 8:45, but we wrote that we would wait up to 20 minutes for...

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Science - Can't leave home without it

There will be a March for Science on Saturday, April 22, 2017 from 9 am — 12 pm in Los Angeles and Daily Kos will be there. Please join otoelbc and me together with professional and amateur scientists,...

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Rep. Alan Lowenthal Town Hall Today!

Rep. Alan Lowenthal, D-CA47, will hold a Town Hall meeting this evening at 6 p.m. at Long Beach City College, in building J. I just found out about it a few minutes ago, and I called his office and was...

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Trumpsters attempt to disrupt Rep. Lowenthal town hall

Rep. Alan Lowenthal, D-CA57, held a Town Hall last night at Long Beach City College with about 900 people attending; it was also streamed live on Facebook. Lowenthal said it was the largest he had ever...

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Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to play football

A neuropathologist has found that a large majority of the brains of deceased football players examined in this study showed evidence of CTE, Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy. Many of you have read the...

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National Parks lifetime pass price to increase

The Los Angeles Times reports today that beginning next Monday, 8/28/2017, the price of the lifetime National Parks pass for people 62 and older will increase from $10 to $80. There is a backlog as...

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Check in Los Angeles and Orange County - open thread

We haven’t met up in a while and I’m not sure who’s around these days. I see people mentioning in comments that they live in L.A. And Orange County and I know I haven’t met a lot of you. Let’s start by...

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Good evening, Los Angeles Kos!

 Inspired by Chitown Kev this morning, I thought we could talk about our origin stories, how we got to So Cal. www.dailykos.com/...My father was offered a better job in Los Angeles, in 1962, than he...

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What are your California/So Cal issues? Los Angeles Kos open thread.

Do you write and call about everything or is there that one issue that burns so brightly with you that although the other stuff is important, it will just have to wait?What are you working on and who...

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Los Angeles Kos and the Second Annual Women's March

Were you there this year on January 21st? 714day, otoelbc and I marched together and I know other Kossacks were also scattered in the huge crowd. Next year, on January 20th, let's march together....

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North Los Angeles County and Ventura County Kos Fire Check-In

Over 25,000 people have evacuated their homes in Ventura County while an extremely fast fire has burned over 45,000 acres in Ventura and 4,000 acres in north Los Angeles County. Are you there? Do you...

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Los Angeles Kos welcomes Chris Reeves

Chris Reeves will be in Long Beach January 23-27. Since I live in Long Beach, my household and I will be having a meetup with him one of those evenings (not the 23rd) and hope others can join us....

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Do not eat romaine lettuce - it is linked to a serious e-coli outbreak

The warning to avoid romaine lettuce has been expanded from bagged lettuce to all forms of the vegetable. The tainted lettuce was grown near Yuma, AZ, but it is usually not possible to determine where...

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Los Angeles Kossack BruinKid has died

A few minutes ago, Chris Reeves reported on Facebook that Bruinkid died suddenly a few days ago. We don’t yet know why, but I will update if and when I find out. Graduating from UCLA with a doctorate...

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Helping Children in Forced Detention

My brother and SIL want to take point at their large synagogue (the one the mayor belongs to) in Los Angeles to collect things (or raise money to buy the stuff) to send or take to children imprisoned...

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Los Angeles I Need Your Help

Moments ago, Rachel Maddow showed a map that she says is of locations where “migrant” children are being held. Some of them appear to be in Los Angeles. How can we find out exactly where they are and...

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A Better Way to Protest Where Kidnapped Children are Held

I’m passing on an important message on how to protest at camps/jails where children kidnapped from their parents are being held. Posted by permission from Kia Bordner at Together We Will, California, a...

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Here is where kidnapped children are in Los Angeles

www.latimes.com/…The Los Angeles Times reports today that some of the children stolen from their parents are being held in a facility in La Verne, about 30 miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles. This...

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New Day Cafe "Got Fan Fic?"

I read fan fiction while eating breakfast. I eat breakfast about an hour to an hour and a half after getting up, so that gives me time to scan the news headlines, read the [now] New Day Cafe and any...

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Good Morning Los Angeles, Got Ink?

Daily Kos Activism's Paul Hogarth is working with Vote Forward on a campaign to write and send 500,000 letters to voters, to be done by the end of the month. They have all the information we need to do...

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Hats for Chris Reeves' wife

Friends, Chris Reeves’ wife has a medical issue that has left her head feeling breezy and some knitted or crocheted hats would be useful and comforting. You can send them directly to Chris, PM me for...

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Shutdown consequences on the Wind River reservation

Our Arapaho relatives who live on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming told us this morning that because of the shutdown the Arapaho pharmacy and the mental health center have closed. The  health...

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Daily Kos Los Angeles at NN Philadelphia

Who is traveling to Philadelphia for Netroots 2019 from Los Angeles, Orange County or someplace else in Southern California? Who knows a lot about Philadelphia and wants to get together as a team for...

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Bernie Sanders rally Long Beach, CA tonight

Southern California Kossacks, I just learned that Bernie Sanders will be at the Long Beach City College Liberal Arts Campus, 4901 E. Carson St,  at 7 pm this evening. There is parking on campus, but I...

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Bernie is Bernie: a Jewish Perspective

Everyone has seen the photo of Bernie Sanders at the inauguration, appropriately dressed in a warm coat and mittens. Rabbi Marisa Elana James, director of social justice at congregation Beit Simchat...

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It has been a long time Los Angeles Kossacks, let's get together

714day, gmats and I would like to invite you to a meetup, but we need your input. In order to choose a date and location that suits the majority of a group spread out over many, many miles, we’re...

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Los Angeles Kossacks January meetup postponed

In November, 714day, gmats and I asked Southern California Kossacks if you wanted to get together this month for an in-person meetup and the sense of the community was it’s been too long, we need this....

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