Free Chat Friday
Free Chat Friday, Week 45 (ugh)
Good morning, News Views friends. As you can see, it’s Friday. How did we get here? To Friday, I mean? I’ve experienced a few days of “real life” interruptions, days and nights turned on end, MORE
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Pro-Democracy
Moments of Truth
Happy Election Day, friends! It’s here — the day we’ve been waiting for, the day we’ve lost sleep over, the day we hopefully remove the embarrassing stain on our nation. News Views is hosting a MORE
Free Chat Friday
Free Chat Friday, Week 44
Good morning, News Viewers, hope you all are coping well with your Halloween sugar hangovers as we head into another Friday, and one last weekend filled with hair-raising, terrifying creatures on the last leg of MORE
Free Chat Friday
Free Chat Friday: Week 43
Good morning, News Viewers, and welcome to Freaky Friday! It’s getting scary out there, whether you’re counting down to Halloween, in six days, or Election Day, in ten. In either case, as President Obama has MORE
Free Chat Friday
Free Chat Friday, Week 41
Good morning, News Viewers, another week has passed, or so they say…. It’s been a whirlwind, and that’s almost an insulting understatement when the perfect storm of nasty GOP politics meets natural disaster along the MORE
Free Chat Friday
Free Chat Friday, Week 40
Good morning, News Viewers, welcome to the 40th week of the year, where we are 31 days out from the 2024 Election. My, where have the last nine years gone? It feels like nine years MORE
Free Chat Friday
Free Chat Friday, Week 38
Good Friday morning, News Viewers, on this 38th week of the year, a week that seemingly went to the dogs (and the cats, the pets… of the people). We’re watching the Republican Limbo, how low MORE
Free Chat Friday
Free Chat Friday Week 36
Good morning Free Chatters, it’s another week without our free chat goddess Rachel, and believe me, we miss her as much as anyone. Today we’re looking back at Week 36, can you believe it? This MORE
The Lounge
Happy Labor Day: September 02, 2024
Today, we celebrate labor and all present, past, and future workers. However you celebrate the holiday, be safe and enjoy the day and each others company!
Talk o Tuesday
Talko Tuesday: November 28, 2023
Good morning, News Viewers, and welcome to a freezing day (yes, literally) in sunny California. Damn, I hope we get rain to get rid of this freaking butt-ass cold snap we’re having. I know, I MORE
The Lounge
Happy Thanksgiving: November 23, 2023
I just wanted to wish everyone in our News Views Community and our moderators a Happy Thanksgiving. Whatever is on your agenda today, be safe. Enjoy the day, ignore the MAGAts that you might have MORE
Talk o Tuesday
Talko Tuesday: November 14, 2023
Good morning, News Viewers! So how is it going in your world? I’m watching my local news, mainly for the weather forecast; their ‘bright and sunny’ attitude is a bit too much to deal with MORE
Coffee Talk
Coffee Talk
Good Thursday morning, Coffee Talkers! Welcome to today’s Free Chat! After several unusual days of 80+° temps in October, this is our transition day. By the weekend, highs in the low- to mid-50s are going MORE
Talk o Tuesday
Talko Tuesday: October 04, 2023
Good morning everyone and Happy Tuesday. What’s going on in your world? I was enjoying a nice taste of fall the last several days but summer returns by the end of the week and we MORE
Coffee Talk
Coffee Talk
Wakey-wakey, eggs and bakey — to heck with carrot juice, where’s the coffee?? I had too much fun watching the kids’ table, food-fight debate last night, and had a hard time falling asleep. Like Nikki MORE
Coffee Talk
Coffee Talk
So here we are, back at Coffee Talk already. It’s another Thursday free chat at the News Views cafe, where we can chat about anything and everything. It’s all good, as long as there’s coffee. MORE
Coffee Talk
Coffee Talk
Good morning, free chatters of Coffee Talk. It’s Thursday, and we’ve got things to discuss. Here at Coffee Talk, it’s your space to play with as you choose, but today our alternative topic was inspired MORE
Coffee Talk
Coffee Talk
Good Thursday morning! Coming to you *live* from Thursday’s free chat forum, Coffee Talk — the place where anything and everything you want to share is up for discussion… or maybe a few chuckles, guffaws, MORE
Coffee Talk
Coffee Talk
Good morning, News Viewers, is it sleep-in Thursday everywhere? Or just at my house? Can you believe we’re on the doorstep of Labor Day Weekend? I’ve dug out some sweatshirts this week, but Manic Mother MORE
Coffee Talk
Coffee Talk
Good morning, Coffee Talkers! We’ve got you covered for today’s free chat session, and hoo-boy, do we expect some chatting today. Today’s Topic Is there enough coffee in the world to cure the GQP debate MORE
Coffee Talk
Coffee Talk
Good morning my friends — from moldy Michigan on another wet drizzly Thursday. Seriously, I’ve got mushrooms growing all over my lawn in August, when typically it’s like straw from heat and drought. Another climate MORE
Coffee Talk
Coffee Talk
Good morning friends, Coffee Talkers, and free chatters. It’s another Thursday with a lot to talk about — within reason. For example: Today’s Topic Watch the conversation below as a sitting congresswoman responded to a MORE
Coffee Talk
Coffee Talk
Good Thursday morning, peeps, and Happy Arraignment Day to one and all! I’m still on Chapter 5 or so of the 45-page indictment that dropped like a nuclear bomb a couple days ago, and I’m MORE
Coffee Talk
Coffee Talk
Good Thursday morning from my muggy midwestern mitten state, where I’m here to welcome you to today’s free chat session. Storms brought rain and wind throughout the state yesterday, and this morning I’m noticing mushrooms MORE
Talk o Tuesday
Talko Tuesday: July 18, 2023
Good morning, News Viewers, and Happy Tuesday! Anyone doing tacos tonight for dinner? Yeah, my stove, by my choice, only works in the morning. No way in hell will I turn it on to cook MORE