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Still time to renew that passport! And if you’re in the DC area, there’s a Legal Gender Marker Clinic on Jan. 3

Just a quick reminder that you can still renew your U.S. passport and ask for it to be expedited and you miiight get it back before the inauguration. Here's the…

Greg December 29, 2024

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Please call CO governor to ask for pardon for mom jailed for refusing to send sons to family therapy with ex-cop charged with raping her daughter

This story is one of the worst things I've read in a while. The lead boils it down to its essence: A retired Aurora police sergeant faces criminal charges for…

Greg September 2, 2024

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BonaFideMasks is now selling cheap Genabio COVID tests!

PSA: BonaFideMasks, the place I order my KN-95s from, now carries really cheap Genabio COVID tests! And if you use the code TRUST25 at checkout through August 31, you get…

Greg August 25, 2024

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Friends in NYC! Use these handy forms to tell the mayor not to cut library budgets!

Friends in New York City, the mayor is talking about cutting library budgets again. But our amazing public libraries aren't going down without a fight. They've put up forms through…

Greg March 12, 2024

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Today is the last day to get free COVID tests via the USPS

Apparently today, March 8, is the last day to get free COVID tests from the government via the United States Post Office. I'm not sure of the exact time they'll…

Greg March 8, 2024

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Three Good Things: This Camera, Asking Scary Questions, and Celery

In the wake of 9/11 over 20 years ago, I started a blog called Three Good Things in which each post was — you guessed it — a list of…

Greg February 24, 2024

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Get free COVID tests from the USPS!

In case you missed it, starting on September 25, the US government restarted its program to send free COVID tests to US residents via the USPS. There's a limit of…

Greg October 4, 2023

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Where to get free COVID tests in NYC and LA

We're still trucking along in this pandemic, so I was happy to see that both New York City and Los Angeles are still distributing free COVID tests. Click here for…

Greg August 8, 2023