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Dems Are Failing Majority of Democrats Who Want #MedicareForAll

Perhaps you've heard of Blue Nation Review. It claimed to be the:

[M]edia platform Democrats trust. With a community over one million strong, we challenge conventional wisdom, cut through talking points, and provide actionable analysis of pivotal social and political events.

In August, 2016 it morphed into ShareBlue Media. Here's how its wikipedia page describes it:

The Weekly Watch

Gifts and giving

When we get there we'll discover all the gifts we've been given to share
have been with us since life's beginning and we never noticed they were there.
From Swimming to the Other Side · Pat Humphries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpvwXEHD2Bc (4 min)

It is a gift to recognize gifts...in yourself, in others, in our world. I hope that, like me, you see this site, this community, as a gift. A gift to free expression, an opportunity for honest fact based conversation, a forum for learning, and basically a nice group of folks trying to understand an insane world.

Those that use their talents to help others, they are the saints and angels among us. They are the ones that give rise to myths of Santa Claus, Saint Wenceslas, and the like. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_King_Wenceslas ) But there are people who 'guide from the side' without much interjection. Consider JtC and his approach to running C99... with one of his rare essays recently urging us toward more meaningful, kinder conversation and interaction. You are a gift, Brother. Those who have the where with all might consider sending JtC (and the C99 site) a holiday gift. Mine is in the mail (really it is). Regardless of our abilities to make financial donations, let's all drink a cup of kindness together for the holidays and into the New Year.

Sunday Open Thread: December 24 is Xmas Eve + How to Wear a Man Bun

World History this day

1777 -- Captain Cook "discovered" Kiritimati roughly 240 years after Hernando de Grijalva did. It wasn't nuked until the 1950s
1914 -- The "Christmas truce" began
1941 -- Benghazi was conquered by British troops
1943 -- Ike was named Supreme Allied Commander for Normandy
1951 -- Libya became independent

What would Joseph say? And what did Jesus think about Joseph?

Oh you folks, all this talk about imperialism, Bernie Sanders being too much of an imperialist according to Big Al. Big Al being a whimp according to Orlbucfan and Ta-Nehisi Coates too much of a white supremacy fetishizer according to Dr. Cornel West and a neoliberal apologist according to Meteor Man and Dr.

I’d like to take this opportunity to wish JtC and all the Moderators

a very Merry Christmas, Kwanza, and for thosethat simply celebrate the spirit of the season, Happy Holidays. May the coming year be one of the best for you and yours.

Thank you for all you do to keep this place up and running. Herding true Progressives seems to me to be comparable to herding cats, and you ALL do a fantastic job. And I think it’s a safe bet that everyone here feels the same way.

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