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Markos "kos" Moulitsas is the founder and publisher of Daily Kos.
Real Name: Markos Moulitsas
DOB: 9/11/1971
Gender: Male
Location: Berkeley, CA, United States
Occupation: Writer
Groups: Daily Kos Elections, Daily Kos, Feature Box, Meatless Advocates Meetup, Velocipede Vanguard, LatinoKos, Comics, Daily Kos Labor
Hobbies: Piano, Cycling, Aquascaping
Home Page: http://www.dailykos.com
Twitter: markos
Diaries published: 14168 (4 days since last diary on Fri Jun 02, 2017 at 08:34 AM PDT)
Comments posted: 18469 (4 days since last comment on Fri Jun 02, 2017 at 12:17 PM PDT)
Diary frequency: frequent
Comment frequency: frequent
Total Recommends: 233471
Total Comment Ratings: 42317
Most Recommended Diary: Thanks, 782 comments, 1452 recommends
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On June 13, Newt Gingrich will release his new shit book about Donald Trump:
UNDERSTANDING TRUMP explains the president's actions so far and lays out a vision for what Americans can do to help make President Trump's agenda a success.
A...
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207 comments on Fri Jun 02, 2017 at 08:34 AM PDT with 205 Recommends |
Exactly 15 years ago, at 12:57 pm PT, Daily Kos went live with the lamest first post ever . Well, maybe it wasn’t lame, in context. But had I known Daily Kos would become what it is today, I might��
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326 comments on Fri May 26, 2017 at 09:01 AM PDT with 403 Recommends |
It’s a story as old as … Donald Trump’s first forays into the Republican primary, and it goes like this: the popular-vote loser lies. His staff and surrogates rise up to defend him. A couple of hours later, Trump changes his story, leaving his...
by kos
208 comments on Fri May 12, 2017 at 10:31 AM PDT with 165 Recommends |
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) is running for president in 2020. She thinks that Obama-style “let’s all get along and find common ground” thinking will get her the nod. So yes, she’s obviously ...
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455 comments on Fri May 12, 2017 at 09:30 AM PDT with 289 Recommends |
Popular vote loser Donald Trump is an idiot. If we had to have a Republican president, who better than this raging moron?
I mean, the day after he blatantly obstructs justice by firing FBI Director James Comey, he decides to hang out with the...
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88 comments on Wed May 10, 2017 at 02:14 PM PDT with 152 Recommends |
This is a great start:
Now take it further, and further and further.
How much further? Shut the Senate’s “business as usual” until Republicans agree to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate this whole sordid Russia mess. And by denying...
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348 comments on Wed May 10, 2017 at 11:26 AM PDT with 444 Recommends |
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- There is no "Trump infrastructure plan." There never was, and anyone who believed otherwise was not paying attention. As a businessman, he was continually proven a crook, and he does not have "plans," he merely says whatever the person in front of him...79 comments 128 Recs
- 45 is exactly the idiotic, selfish, and thoughtless leader that we all knew him to be and his withdrawal from the Paris agreement just confirms that. However, all is not lost and indeed history will show this to be another straw that destroys the GOP...158 comments 224 Recs
- In 2015, as the United Kingdom decided whether their prime minister would be David Cameron or Ed Miliband, no one could have imagined what the next two years would bring to British politics. The rise of Jeremy Corbyn, the Brexit vote to leave the...125 comments 166 Recs
- Donald Trump’s openly anti-Hispanic rhetoric – for which he has never apologized -- has only fueled anti-Latino sentiment and racist acts in the country. Take for instance, the verbal abuse of Hispanics who speak Spanish in public. In one recent...90 comments 66 Recs
- Guess What? Financial Study Shows Single Payer for California Would Save $400 BILLION Over 10 years.The long-awaiting financial study accompanying SB 562, California's single payer legislation about to be voted on by the Senate, is out! A press conference was held this morning, May 31st, in Sacramento detailing the study. Based on the notes I took...404 comments 275 Recs
- Once again, the Trump Administration is looking to overturn the birth control mandate under the Affordable Care Act. Surrounded by conservative Catholic nuns, he assured them, “With this executive order, we are ending the attacks on your religious...9 comments 46 Recs
- This piece originally ran Jan. 23, 2017. While most state legislatures aren’t up for election until 2018, all 100 members of Virginia’s House of Delegates will go before voters ...22 comments 72 Recs
- Hope is to a Resistance as Oxygen is to a Fire Wow! Another day with story after story that shows that we are well on our way to protecting our democracy and the America we know and love. First, my favorite story — an analysis from the brilliant...39 comments 93 Recs
- When the Supreme Court knocked down GOP electoral maps in two North Carolina congressional districts Monday, the ruling joined a string of court opinions from Virginia, Texas, Alabama, and Wisconsin that have mainly gone against Republican lawmakers. ...14 comments 70 Recs
- There was a lot of outrage yesterday based on a complete misquote in an article published by The Nation. And not only did The Nation botch the quote, they misrepresented the message and intent. It was twisted beyond recognition. We’ve seen this...725 comments 367 Recs