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Karen Lee
Greece National Vice Chair, DPCA Voting Rep, DAGR Comm Chair, GSC Member-at-Large, GSC Steering, Ohio Team Co-Lead
Writer, parent, volunteer, gardener
LATEST BY Karen Lee
4th of July: What’s It to Ya?
4th of July: What’s It to Ya? What says “Fourth Of July!” to you? That’s not a rhetorical question. As I struggled to write something new and fresh about the ...
DAGR Weekly Reader W1-JUL
DAGR Weekly Reader W1-JUL "When you take a vacation while your constituents drown, that's called a Ted Cruise." ~ Seen on Bluesky SB 1 and Effects on American People Journalist ...
DAGR Weekly Reader W4-JUN
DAGR Weekly Reader W4-JUN “Once this bill votes, and this debt ceiling goes through, the debt is owned by the GOP, and there is no more campaigning and saying 'This ...
DAGR Weekly Reader W3-JUN
DAGR Weekly Reader W3-JUN “I feel sorry for him. He craves Lindsay Lohan and he gets Lindsey Graham.” ~ Joy Behar, re Trump getting booed at Kennedy Center. Are the ...
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DAGR Follow-Up: PRIDE and NoKings!
Celebrating Pride, Denouncing Kings By Eliana Klathis On Saturday, June 14th, Claire Marchand, in Athens on a graduation trip with her mom, found a No Kings poster and wanted to ...
HELADA's TakeBackTheFlag - 2005
TAKEBACKTHEFLAG Project for Flag Day, 2005 HELADA (Hellenic American Democratic Association), Athens, Greece HELADA was, and though napping still is, an informal group of progressive Americans, Greeks and 3rd country ...
DAGR Weekly Reader W1-JUN
Ukraine Drone Strikes on Russian Airbases The audacious attacks exploited holes that exist in everyone’s airspace management and revealed that any country is vulnerable to the same kind of attack. ...
DAGR Weekly Reader W4-MAY
DAGR Weekly Reader W4-MAY Anti-environmentalism is on the rise but it’s full of contradictions A UK geology professor looks at why traditional conservatism, which once valued preserving natural beauty and ...
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Student Life in the Trump Era
Student Life in the Trump Era By Waleed Hazbun Professor of Political Science Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Many older Americans still view the presidency of Donald Trump as an aberration, ...
DAGR Weekly Reader W3-MAY
DAGR Weekly Reader W3-MAY “The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.” ~ attributed to President James A. Garfield The Talented Mr. Vance J. D. ...
Correcting "NO KINGS" Day
Placeholder Kings we like Kings we have no use for Kings that do their best in the in-between
DAGR Weekly Reader W2-MAY
DAGR Weekly Reader W2-MAY Photo - congress in session? “The America that I’ve sung to you about for 50 years is real and, regardless of its faults, is a great ...
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Hometown: Stay in Touch!
Are you in touch with your hometown? Or the town and state you vote in? Do you follow the hometown newspaper? Or one of the major dailies in your state? ...
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DAGR Weekly Reader W1-MAY
DAGR Weekly Reader W1-MAY “He’s the President of the United States! Doing funny things that make people mad isn’t his job. It’s my job!” ~ Jimmy Kimmel re Trump’s AI ...
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Our Voice in the Party
So You Wanna Be a Democrat? Our Voice in the Party Unless we had an activist parent or some teacher who pushed us toward poli-sci, International relations, public management etc, ...
DAGR Weekly Reader W4-APR
DAGR Weekly Reader W4-APR “Climate change, after all, doesn’t discriminate between species—it’s coming for all of us.” ~ Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Mother Jones Two to close out Earth Month: Rare ...
DAGR Weekly Reader W3-APR
DAGR Weekly Reader W3-APR Palantir: The New Deep-State A former Palantir employee is sounding the alarm. The tech company, founded by Peter Thiel, claims they can revolutionize government systems with ...