Posting History for main
| Title | Author | Published |  |
 |
 |
Views |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cheers and Jeers: Tuesday From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE…
Energize an Ally Tuesday
Here’s a headline that’ll get your endorphins pumping, courtesy of The Week: There is a massive wave of well-funded Democrats prepared to challenge incumbent Republicans in 2018.
The... |
Bill in Portland Maine | 10/24/2017 | 1 | 2 | - | - |
| Cartoon: 'Stop politicizing' Follow Jen on Twitter at @... |
Jen Sorensen | 10/24/2017 | 2 | 7 | - | - |
| Abbreviated pundit roundup: Attacking a Gold Star widow, tax reform lies and more We begin today’s roundup with the continued attacks on Myeshia Johnson, the widow of Sergeant La David Johnson. First up, Amy Davidson Sorkin at The New Yorker:
There were two moments during her interview on “Good Morning America” when the... |
Georgia Logothetis | 10/24/2017 | 46 | 29 | - | - |
| Daily Kos Radio is ALL-NEW at 9 AM ET! Ah, Tuesday!
Tuesday doesn’t mean anything in particular—although it is United Nations Day, according to the fabulous multicultural calendar on the KITM World Headquarters refrigerator—but it ... |
David Waldman | 10/24/2017 | - | - | - | - |
| Former Fox News anchor drops a gutsy, must-watch statement against the network and O'Reilly Former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly appeared on The Today Show to address the toxic culture of sexual harassment at her former network, and she specifically called out Bill O’Reilly for his repeated denials that anyone ever directly complained to the... |
Jen Hayden | 10/23/2017 | 325 | 244 | - | - |
| Abortion rates are down, so the GOP will try to reduce access to birth control Abortion rates in the U.S. are down for the eighth or ninth year in a row, and down a whopping 25 percent since 2008, according to a recently released study by the American Public Health ... |
Steven Andrew | 10/23/2017 | 14 | 42 | - | - |
| The NYT's curious euphemism for O'Reilly's alleged behavior: 'nonconsensual sexual relationship' The New York Times deserves credit for breaking the story of Bill O'Reilly's $32 million settlement with a former Fox analyst, but the Times' curious euphemism for the behavior that resulted in that settlement is a jaw-dropper:
Last January, six... |
Laurence Lewis | 10/23/2017 | 99 | 87 | - | - |
| Georgia legislator says she was trying to be 'provocative' with HIV 'quarantine' comments Ah, the old "I was just trying to be edgy" defense.
Betty Price, the wife of former HHS Secretary Tom Price, is defending her comment about quarantining people with HIV as an attempt to be provocative about a public health crisis. [...]
"I made a... |
Hunter | 10/23/2017 | 77 | 60 | - | - |
| Ocean acidification is on the rise, putting marine species at risk around the world Rapidly increasing ocean acidification is combining with rising water temperatures, hypoxic “dead zones,” and torrents of trash to threaten marine species around the globe, a new study has concluded.
Acidification levels are on the rise thanks to... |
Craig Hunter | 10/23/2017 | 20 | 61 | - | - |
| Trump administration bars government scientists from speaking at climate change conference Under Donald Blowhard Trump, Republican thought leaders continue implementing their lifelong dream of kicking objective reality in the shins because reasons.
The Environmental Protection Agency has canceled the speaking appearance of three agency... |
Hunter | 10/23/2017 | 66 | 102 | - | - |
| Sessions' Dept. of Justice will say anything to prevent an undocumented immigrant's right to choose On Friday, a panel of the D.C. Circuit’s U.S. Court of Appeals entered an order preventing a 17-year-old undocumented woman in federal detention from exercising her constitutional right to choose. This happened despite the fact that she had already... |
Adam B | 10/23/2017 | 21 | 70 | - | - |
| Obama kicks off campaign to fight Republican gerrymandering As president, Barack Obama did not always put the most effort into building the Democratic Party. As a former president, he’s working to undo some of the losses the party has suffered at the state level in recent years. Organizing for Action, which... |
Laura Clawson | 10/23/2017 | 95 | 161 | - | - |
| Russia investigations in House and Senate likely to generate little but political statements While special counsel Robert Mueller continues to work his way up the chain of Trump-related staffers, there are three other investigations of the relationship between Russian officials and the Trump campaign supposedly still underway. However, none of... |
Mark Sumner | 10/23/2017 | 51 | 56 | - | - |
| 23 days after CHIP expired, Virginia preparing to tell families their kids will lose health coverage Campaign Action
Nearly 9 million children across the country are in the Children’s Health Insurance Program, with 65,000 of them (along with 1,100 pregnant women) in Virginia. Thanks to Republicans in Congress letting the CHIP program expire,... |
Laura Clawson | 10/23/2017 | 28 | 83 | - | - |
| 'Disturbing': Advocates slam report Trump administration may seek even more vetting for refugees It’s been more than three weeks since Stephen Paddock opened fire on concertgoers in Las Vegas, Nevada, killing nearly 60 Americans and injuring over 500 others. According to Mother Jones, more than half of all mass shootings since 1982 have been... |
Gabe Ortiz | 10/23/2017 | 16 | 38 | - | - |
| Trump regime protects corporate cronies by censoring science paid for by the American public More than two months ago, Trump’s Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke raised his very special flag to show that a study already underway on the health effects of mountaintop removal mining was being put into the freezer. The justification was that it was a... |
Mark Sumner | 10/23/2017 | 34 | 97 | - | - |
| What happened in Niger? Joint Chiefs of Staff chair briefs the press but offers little clarity Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Gen. Joseph Dunford Jr. held a press conference on Monday afternoon to update the public on the U.S. military presence in Niger (which came as a surprise to many) and ... |
Laura Clawson | 10/23/2017 | 35 | 55 | - | - |
| Sinclair Broadcasting's plan to take over local news should frighten us all With 193 television stations across the nation, Sinclair Broadcasting's influence already extends into 40 percent of American households. But the broadcast empire, which often requires its stations to air unabashed conservative content, now wants to... |
Kerry Eleveld | 10/23/2017 | 88 | 116 | - | - |
| McConnell so toxic, almost two dozen GOP Senate candidates decline to back him as leader This is absolutely stunning reporting from The Hill:
The Hill asked nearly two dozen Senate candidates this week if they would support McConnell as leader if elected. Not one campaign said outright that they would support him, although two... |
Kerry Eleveld | 10/23/2017 | 43 | 86 | - | - |
| Lifesaving 'Border Angels' leave jugs of water for migrants along the U.S./Mexico border Humanitarian group Border Angels estimates that since 1994, some 10,000 migrants have lost their lives attempting to cross the U.S./Mexico border, dying of dehydration and exposure in the searing desert sun, where temperatures can climb as high as 127... |
Gabe Ortiz | 10/23/2017 | 24 | 73 | - | - |
| Midday open thread: McCain burns Trump on 'bone spurs,' Bill O'Reilly was and is scum Today’s comic by Tom Tomorrow is State of denial:
What you missed on Sunday Kos …
Puerto Rico: Symbols and songs from the island of Boriken, by Denise Oliver Velez
Polls: Media offer fake news, but news from Trump seen as... |
Barbara Morrill | 10/23/2017 | 35 | 46 | - | - |
| U.S. troop presence in Niger comes as a surprise to some key senators The United States has troops dying in a country where a number of United States senators did not know troops were stationed to begin with. There are a lot of questions after four soldiers died in Niger, and apparently, for several of the 100 people in... |
Laura Clawson | 10/23/2017 | 91 | 110 | - | - |
| 'We don’t need a warrant': ICE agents illegally enter Oregon home to arrest man later released Campaign Action
Carlos Bolanos and his coworker George Cardenas were painting the inside of a Salem, Oregon, home when two ICE agents stepped inside, without their permission and without a warrant, to demand ID from Bolanos, with one saying that “I... |
Gabe Ortiz | 10/23/2017 | 95 | 142 | - | - |
| Democrats' early fundraising eclipsing that of GOP incumbents Republicans are stunned at both the sheer number of Democratic candidates throwing their hats in the ring for 2018 and the cash they are amassing in these early fundraising days. Politico writes:
Animated by opposition to President Donald Trump... |
Kerry Eleveld | 10/23/2017 | 40 | 60 | - | - |
| Lawyers for immigrant teen take her fight for an abortion to full appeals court in Washington, D.C. Campaign Action
On Friday, Oct. 20, an appeals court in Washington, D.C., ruled that the Trump administration cannot block a 17-year-old undocumented immigrant woman in a detention facility from getting an abortion. In case you are keeping count,... |
Kelly Macias | 10/23/2017 | 42 | 76 | - | - |
| Trump's executive order recalls pilots as Air Force returns nuclear bombers to Cold War status Last week, Donald Trump signed a new executive order that’s being widely interpreted as allowing the Air Force to pull in pilots to fill between 75 and 100 critical open seats. However, the number actually called up could be far larger.
President... |
Mark Sumner | 10/23/2017 | 222 | 116 | - | - |
| White House selling tax plan through use of lies, damned lies, and statistics Sarah Huckabee Sanders is mostly known for spewing BS in person from behind the podium of the White House press room, but look! She can do it on Twitter, too:
A couple of things:
Will the GOP tax plan really RAISE taxes on middle-class and... |
Laura Clawson | 10/23/2017 | 97 | 86 | - | - |
| EPA head Pruitt is spending millions on security measures worthy of a heist movie Campaign Action
If the amount of money you spend on security is related to how important you are, then Scott Pruitt, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, is a Very VERY Important Person. Pruitt’s mission to destroy the agency he heads and... |
Laura Clawson | 10/23/2017 | 84 | 90 | - | - |
| Is health insurance cheap if it doesn't pay your bills? Under Trump, a lot more people will find out Campaign Action
Thanks to Donald Trump, a lot more Americans will get to explore the question of whether cheap health coverage is really cheap if it doesn’t pay your medical bills. Trump’s recent healthcare executive order includes a push... |
Laura Clawson | 10/23/2017 | 38 | 80 | - | - |
| Myeshia Johnson 'very upset and hurt' by Trump's heartless phone call—Trump calls her a liar Myeshia Johnson, the widow of Sargent La David Johnson who was killed in Niger, tells ABC News that she didn’t reply to Donald Trump’s sympathy-free phone call.
Stephanopoulos: What did you say to the president?
Johnson: I didn’t say anything.... |
Mark Sumner | 10/23/2017 | 216 | 181 | - | - |
| Morning Digest: GOP struggles with fundraising in the race to hold a blue-leaning Florida House seat The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, and Carolyn Fiddler, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, Daniel Donner, James Lambert, David Beard, and Arjun Jaikumar.
Leading... |
Daily Kos Elections | 10/23/2017 | 5 | 36 | - | - |
| Cartoon: State of denial Support independent cartooning — join Sparky’s List! And remember, if you missed out on the sold-out Kickstarter career compilation, the ... |
Tom Tomorrow | 10/23/2017 | 27 | 114 | - | - |
| Cheers and Jeers: Monday Hispanic Federation Fund for Puerto Rico Relief Link
-
From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE…
Hot Monday Morning Brain Biscuits
If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid... |
Bill in Portland Maine | 10/23/2017 | 81 | 73 | - | - |
| Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: Politicians panic over party positioning Josh Kraushaar /National journal (free article):
House GOP Fears Wave in 2018 as Money Woes Grow
The odds of Nancy Pelosi becoming speaker again are rising as Republican donors show frustration ... |
Greg Dworkin | 10/23/2017 | 313 | 123 | - | - |
| Daily Kos Radio is ALL-NEW at 9 AM ET! Well, there’s still more work to be done in rehabbing the KITM World Headquarters. We were all set to soldier on, regardless, but then I got wind that Greg wasn’t going to be able to make it for ... |
David Waldman | 10/23/2017 | - | 5 | - | - |
| NFL's Chris Long will be donating all of his 2017 football salary to education charity While presidents and their enablers shake their impotent fists at the peaceful protests of Americans, NFL linebacker Chris Long has been doing some real patriotic work. About a month ago, Long and his wife announced that they would be donating almost... |
Walter Einenkel | 10/22/2017 | 36 | 104 | - | - |
| Introspection gives us the empathy to give those who oppose us a second chance—even the racists Like most men, I grew up being sexist and homophobic. It did not help that it was part of the culture of the Latin American country I am from. My path away from homophobia deserves a whole article ... |
Egberto Willies | 10/22/2017 | 114 | 89 | - | - |
| Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker succumbs to 'Whataboutism' At work, many of us are expected to multitask. As parents, we often have to have eyes in the back of our heads just to keep up with what the kids are doing. As human beings, we are capable of ... |
Mark E Andersen | 10/22/2017 | 68 | 79 | - | - |
| It is time to claim our human rights In my mind’s eye, I can see the last legitimate president dealing with Harvey Weinstein and other men of his ilk.
In my imagination, I can see him briskly approaching the podium, his stone-faced ... |
Susan Grigsby | 10/22/2017 | 23 | 103 | - | - |
| Want to increase black turnout? Make the fight for voting rights a core campaign issue If Democrats want to win elections—which is how we’ll be able to make positive changes and make America a more just place—we need to connect the dots. Two articles came out this week about black voters. One looked back to voter suppression in 2016,... |
Ian Reifowitz | 10/22/2017 | 126 | 189 | - | - |
| We now know that America is truly a racist nation We now know that America is truly a racist nation.
The question is: What can we do about it?
It really can’t be denied anymore that America is rife with racism, even though there are a great many people deeply invested in the argument that all of... |
Frank Vyan Walton | 10/22/2017 | 338 | 223 | - | - |
| Polls: Media offer fake news, but news from Trump seen as phoniest of all With conclusions that should surprise no one, a new poll reports that most people in the country admit to being duped at one time or another by a false report or conspiracy theory masquerading as ... |
Sher Watts Spooner | 10/22/2017 | 69 | 121 | - | - |
| Puerto Rico: Symbols and songs from the island of Borikén As the desperate post-Maria crisis in Puerto Rico continues and worsens, support efforts for our beleaguered fellow citizens often use the Puerto Rican flag as a logo. Wherever you find Puerto Rican ... |
Denise Oliver Velez | 10/22/2017 | 211 | 195 | - | - |
| Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: The politics of being above politics | Greg Dworkin | 10/22/2017 | 361 | 161 | - | - |
| Cartoon: Heckuva job, brownies! Trump vs. Puerto Rico |
laloalcaraz | 10/21/2017 | 66 | 131 | - | - |
| Nuts & Bolts: The DNC meets in Las Vegas Welcome back, Saturday Campaign D.I.Y.ers! For those who tune in, welcome to the Nuts & Bolts of a Democratic campaign. Each week we discuss issues that help drive successful campaigns. If you’ve ... |
Chris Reeves | 10/21/2017 | 94 | 83 | - | - |
| This week in creepy science: Halloween edition Interviews with people who were brought back from the brink of death combined with some basic neurophysiology lead to a rather macabre conclusion: in some cases it may be possible to perceive, feel, |
Steven Andrew | 10/21/2017 | 46 | 54 | - | - |
| Last week the Gulf of Mexico saw the largest oil spill since the Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010 On Wednesday, Oct. 11, the Delta House oil production facility began spilling oil into the Gulf of Mexico, about 40 miles southeast of Louisiana. While not widely reported, this may be the largest oil spill since the BP Deepwater Horizon in 2010. As... |
Walter Einenkel | 10/21/2017 | 25 | 122 | - | - |
| This week in the war on workers: Millions of women lack legal protection from the Harvey Weinsteins Sexual harassment and assault has been in the headlines, thanks/no thanks to serial offender Harvey Weinstein, and many reasons have been offered for why women wouldn’t or couldn’t come forward. ... |
Laura Clawson | 10/21/2017 | 12 | 56 | - | - |
| Leaked memo shows the Trump admin has a new birth control plan for women: the rhythm method! Crooked Media got their hands on an internal Trump administration memo that outlines the goals of the worst president in history, from the "travel ban to the budget process." But the document also revealed plans to drastically slash federal funding for... |
Jen Hayden | 10/21/2017 | 229 | 163 | - | - |
| North Carolina Republicans keep losing in the courts, now they want to change the referees No lawmakers epitomize this truth more than those in the state of North Carolina: When Republicans lose, they cheat. Ever since Tar Heel Republicans lost the state's gubernatorial race in 2016 while the rest of the country went red, GOP... |
Kerry Eleveld | 10/21/2017 | 29 | 101 | - | - |
| Air, water pollution linked to the deaths of nearly 9 million people annually worldwide A new study paints a bleak picture of the state of pollution around the globe, with poor air quality, water pollution and other environmental factors contributing to nearly one in six deaths annually worldwide.
The study, published this week in the... |
Craig Hunter | 10/21/2017 | 26 | 67 | - | - |
| View from the Left: John Kelly now just a tool of the 'deranged animal' in the White House When Donald Trump heard the words he spoke this week to a grieving pregnant widow repeated back to him, even he seemed to grasp how horrific they were.
“Didn't say what that congresswoman said— |
Kerry Eleveld | 10/21/2017 | 123 | 132 | - | - |
| The NFL dispute isn't the first time Trump has weaponized the American flag against a community When Donald Trump decided to accuse NFL players protesting police brutality of "disrespecting" the American flag, it wasn't his first turn with using nationalistic jingoism to divide a community ... |
Kerry Eleveld | 10/21/2017 | 33 | 85 | - | - |
| Ghoulish Trump hopes for four appointments to the Supreme Court Here's a thing to fuel your nightmares all the way through Halloween: Trump reshaping the Supreme Court. He's absolutely giddy at the prospect that by the end of his first term, he might have four ... |
Joan McCarter | 10/21/2017 | 129 | 76 | - | - |
| New study finds that 'waiting periods' for gun ownership could save a lot of lives A new study by a few Harvard professors found that requiring a waiting period for someone to own a gun could reduce firearm homicides by 17 percent.
Handgun waiting periods are laws that impose a delay between the initiation of a purchase and... |
Walter Einenkel | 10/21/2017 | 49 | 71 | - | - |
| ICE to open new, privately run detention facility in Texas Interstate 35 runs down through Texas like a stone version of the lower Colorado River. From north to south, the first major metropolis it runs through is ruby red — or urban blue -- Dallas-Ft. Worth, then through redneck country 200 miles or so... |
Steven Andrew | 10/21/2017 | 33 | 51 | - | - |
| Voting Rights Roundup: North Carolina Republicans continue their assault on judicial independence Leading Off
● North Carolina: Hardly a week goes by without North Carolina Republicans concocting new schemes to undermine elections and swing them their way. The GOP’s latest new law, passed over the veto of Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper, will... |
Stephen Wolf | 10/21/2017 | 12 | 45 | - | - |
| Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: Trump and Kelly dig themselves deeper into a hole It’s clear General Kelly got it wrong. That’s not in dispute. But doubling down on the inaccuracy is an awful look for the WH, and apologizing for their screw-ups (including getting the role of Rep. Wilson wrong) is beyond their ability, apparently.
... |
Greg Dworkin | 10/21/2017 | 387 | 156 | - | - |
| Detroit makes a statement: Eminem gets huge ovation while Kid Rock gets booed at Pistons game It’s been almost 40 years since the Detroit Pistons played a NBA game inside of the Detroit City limits. But last night, the Pistons faced off against the Charlotte Hornets to open the season in their new arena—inside the city of Detroit. Detroit... |
Walter Einenkel | 10/20/2017 | 227 | 278 | - | - |
| The New York Times' Maggie Haberman has been a consistent embarrassment. Now, she is despicable. Donald Trump's bedpan carrier, White House chief of staff John Kelly, stepped up to the podium once again to prove that whatever fine reputation he once had is completely gone. His soul is sold. Absent.
Kelly has chosen not to politicize his own... |
Laurence Lewis | 10/20/2017 | 241 | 350 | - | - |
| George W. Bush takes thinly veiled shots at Trump over 'bullying and prejudice' and Russia George W. Bush hasn’t done much in the public eye since leaving office, but on Thursday he gave a speech in which, without saying the name of his successor in losing the popular vote but gaining the White House, he took several clear shots at Donald... |
Laura Clawson | 10/20/2017 | 216 | 219 | - | - |
| Lawyer who defended North Carolina's voter suppression laws could end up on the federal bench Campaign Action
In a party-line vote Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved the nomination of Thomas Farr as a judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina. Who's Thomas Farr? He's the go-to lawyer for North... |
Joan McCarter | 10/20/2017 | 8 | 56 | - | - |
| Federal lawsuit challenges Betsy DeVos' campus rapist-protection guidelines Betsy DeVos’s decision to weaken campus sexual discrimination and assault response guidelines is being challenged in court. Equal Means Equal, on behalf of three plaintiffs, has filed a federal lawsuit calling the DeVos policy “unlawful, arbitrary,... |
Laura Clawson | 10/20/2017 | 46 | 54 | - | - |
| Trump interviewed US attorney candidates who would have jurisdiction in investigations of him This is not how this works. This is not at all how it works.
President Donald Trump has personally interviewed at least two potential candidates for U.S. attorney positions in New York, according to two sources familiar with the matter—a move that... |
Joan McCarter | 10/20/2017 | 29 | 101 | - | - |
| Koch group Americans for Prosperity pouring $1 million into Virginia governor's race Koch brothers affiliate Americans for Prosperity is spending big in the race for Virginia governor, targeting Democrat Ralph Northam with $1 million or more in mail and digital ads. They’re even attacking Northam for supporting a bipartisan bill under... |
Laura Clawson | 10/20/2017 | 20 | 50 | - | - |
| Cheers and Jeers: Rum and Resistance FRIDAY! Hispanic Federation Fund for Puerto Rico Relief Link
-
From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE…
Late Night Snark: The Clown Show Rolls On
“We could be reaching a whole new level of angry Trump because a report says people close to the president say... |
Bill in Portland Maine | 10/20/2017 | 131 | 69 | - | - |
| Trump voters not happy that maybe they're losing their Obamacare Campaign Action
In another in the long series, "Trump regrets," meet some voters who didn't think he was really going to take away their health care.
Tom Westerman voted for Donald Trump in last year's election but says he might not do so again... |
Joan McCarter | 10/20/2017 | 178 | 135 | - | - |
| Stars line up to remind us to 'reject NRA's radical agenda' in the wake of Las Vegas The Las Vegas massacre faded from the headlines with shocking speed even for a nation numbed to mass shootings. But Everytown for Gun Safety has rounded up a whole bunch of stars to urge action and keep the issue of gun safety on the agenda:
The... |
Laura Clawson | 10/20/2017 | 13 | 42 | - | - |
| Court rules immigrant teen can have abortion, but allows Trump administration to continue its delay After the Trump administration’s repeated attempts to block an undocumented young woman from having an abortion, on Friday, an appeals court in Washington, D.C. ruled that she must be allowed to obtain an abortion.
A D.C. appeals court has ruled... |
Kelly Macias | 10/20/2017 | 31 | 76 | - | - |
| Cartoon: Trick-or-treater defeaters Follow me on Twitter or Facebook . |
BrianMcFadden | 10/20/2017 | 7 | 42 | - | - |
| It's been 20 days since health care for children and other vulnerable populations expired Campaign Action
It's been 20 days since the Republican Congress reneged on the 9 million of the nation's children and families, allowing the spending authorization for the Children's Health Insurance Program. Because that is on its face so incredibly... |
Joan McCarter | 10/20/2017 | 14 | 63 | - | - |
| Georgia Republican: Since people with HIV don't die so fast anymore, can we quarantine them? Georgia state Rep. Betty Price is not just any old Republican state lawmaker. She’s married to disgraced former Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price and, like him, she’s a doctor. That information is by way of context to demonstrate that Betty... |
Laura Clawson | 10/20/2017 | 153 | 118 | - | - |
| Gullible Trump falls for fake news, links UK crime rise to 'spread of Islamic terror' The good news is that popular vote loser Donald Trump has sources other than Fox & Friends for keeping up with what's happening in the world. The bad news is his other source is conspiracy-theory loving One America News Network (OANN), and it's... |
Joan McCarter | 10/20/2017 | 37 | 78 | - | - |
| Obama says Gillespie's racist campaign 'trying to deliver fear...as cynical as politics gets' During a campaign stop for Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ralph Northam, former President Barack Obama ripped into Republican candidate Ed Gillespie’s Trumpian embrace of anti-immigrant smear ads, saying that what Gillespie’s “really... |
Gabe Ortiz | 10/20/2017 | 26 | 76 | - | - |
| White House: Kelly's lies unassailable, his experience of Trump's phone call outweighs soldier's mom White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and his military service are now nothing but a tool that will be overtly wielded as a weapon to shield the White House against all honest inquiries. That's exactly how Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders used... |
Kerry Eleveld | 10/20/2017 | 165 | 120 | - | - |
| Midday open thread: Chris Wallace is sad, a fake Fox 'hero' and Taiwan Jones flunked his midterm
Today’s comic by Mark Fiore is Trumptasia: |
Barbara Morrill | 10/20/2017 | 24 | 34 | - | - |
| 'Americans in every way but immigration status': Hundreds of colleges and universities urge DACA fix Campaign Action
Hundreds of colleges and universities have signed a letter urging Congress to “pass a long-term legislative fix as soon as possible to protect Dreamers”:
Colleges and universities have seen these remarkable people up close, in... |
Gabe Ortiz | 10/20/2017 | 7 | 41 | - | - |
| Trayvon Martin's mother calls out companies selling NRA-branded 'murder insurance' If you’re the kind of “responsible gun owner” who expects that your responsible gun ownership might leave someone dead sometime soon, the NRA has something to sell you: insurance. Carry Guard insurance will pay out if a killer is found in court to have... |
Laura Clawson | 10/20/2017 | 59 | 73 | - | - |
| John Kelly invents his own bit of fake news to support his takedown of a Florida congresswoman How exactly White House Chief of Staff John Kelly came to the conclusion that Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-FL) had claimed credit for securing $20 million for an FBI building in Florida is, to put it mildly, a total mystery. It's an accusation Kelly made... |
Kerry Eleveld | 10/20/2017 | 253 | 174 | - | - |
| For first time in three years, Gallup survey finds uptick in uninsured rate Campaign Action
Since 2008, Gallup and Sharecare have been taking quarterly surveys of the uninsured rate. In November, 2016 they recorded a record low rate, at 10.9 percent. But since then?
The percentage of U.S. adults lacking health insurance... |
Joan McCarter | 10/20/2017 | 11 | 48 | - | - |
| Disgraced former sheriff Joe Arpaio is still a guilty SOB, judge rules The racist Joe Arpaio got his precious presidential pardon but it can’t erase the fact that he intentionally violated a court order and was convicted for it, a federal judge has decided. Arpaio had petitioned the court to toss out his criminal record... |
Gabe Ortiz | 10/20/2017 | 29 | 96 | - | - |
| More questions than answers about Niger attack that left four U.S. soldiers dead While there’s no serious question that Donald Trump told the widow of Sgt. La David Johnson that “he knew what he signed up for,” there are a lot of questions remaining about the attack in which Johnson and three other soldiers were killed. What... |
Laura Clawson | 10/20/2017 | 59 | 65 | - | - |
| Wisconsin lawmakers seek to ban university doctors from providing abortions at Planned Parenthood Republicans are running the country right now—holding the White House, majorities in Congress, governorships and many state legislatures. In an ideal world, they would use that power to do good for the American people and work across the aisle to... |
Kelly Macias | 10/20/2017 | 28 | 79 | - | - |
| Trump's opioid emergency promise came as news to the officials who'd need to make it happen It’s a fire drill in the Trump administration after Donald Trump promised on Monday that “next week” he’d make an emergency declaration on the opioid crisis. His advisers and the agencies that would have to make an emergency response happen were not... |
Laura Clawson | 10/20/2017 | 33 | 55 | - | - |
| Schumer: The Senate just passed 'one of the worst budgets Congress has ever passed' Late Thursday night, Senate Republicans passed their non-binding budget resolution, a budget that recommends cutting Medicare by $473 billion and Medicaid by $1 trillion in order to give $1.5 trillion in tax cuts to the wealthy. Oh, and it adds $1.5... |
Joan McCarter | 10/20/2017 | 104 | 132 | - | - |
| Cartoon: Trumptasia
x
Vimeo Video
When President Trump isn’... |
Mark Fiore | 10/20/2017 | 4 | 37 | - | - |
| Black activists unknowingly organized events for Russia, helping effort to create divisions in U.S. While we anxiously await the results of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Trump and company’s ties to Russia during the 2016 presidential campaign, there is one thing about Russia that we know for sure: the Russian government tried to... |
Kelly Macias | 10/20/2017 | 102 | 81 | - | - |
| Trump keeps covering his 'he knew what he signed up for' lies by attacking Rep. Frederica Wilson Two days after Donald Trump insisted it was “totally fabricated” that he told a grieving widow that a soldier killed in an ambush in Niger “knew what he signed up for,” we’re still waiting for the “proof” he claimed to have that it was a fabrication by... |
Laura Clawson | 10/20/2017 | 163 | 97 | - | - |
| Morning Digest: Our massive quarterly House fundraising chart, covering 141 races, is now here The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, and Carolyn Fiddler, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, Daniel Donner, James Lambert, David Beard, and Arjun Jaikumar.
Leading... |
Daily Kos Elections | 10/20/2017 | 9 | 33 | - | - |
| Daily Kos Radio is LIVE at 9 AM ET! At least it’s Friday. Again.
Again.
More work on the World HQ today, as well. Maybe a little hammering. Maybe a little sawing. Maybe a wrecking ball or two. Who knows?
We’ll do our best to ... |
David Waldman | 10/20/2017 | 1 | 4 | - | - |
| Abbreviated pundit roundup: The emoluments case against Trump, the enabling GOP, and more We begin today’s roundup with an editorial at The New York Times on President Trump’s “self-dealing” presidency:
If Donald Trump thinks there’s nothing wrong with exploiting the presidency for his personal profit, he should read the Constitution. ... |
Georgia Logothetis | 10/20/2017 | 165 | 140 | - | - |
| Bernie Sanders crushing Ted Cruz on tax reform is so much fun to watch! It’s easy to forget that one of the main reasons Donald Trump is president is that he won the Republican Party’s nomination—handily. If you go back in that fantasy time machine where President Obama is still in office and Donald Trump is smacking... |
Walter Einenkel | 10/19/2017 | 238 | 295 | - | - |
| NFL owner says Trump's bashing of the league is calculated revenge because he was denied a team In March, Donald Trump publicly needled Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder at an event because Snyder did not endorse him. As others tried to laugh it off, Trump added "I never forget." And he seemed deadly serious.
Jacksonville Jaguars owner Shad Khan... |
Jen Hayden | 10/19/2017 | 56 | 91 | - | - |
| Michigan congressman tells constituents to 'get a life' after town hall complaints about Trump Thanks to Michigan political blog Eclectablog from bringing this story to our attention. Rep. Tim Walberg (MI-07) held a town hall in his district and although he had several crotchety supporters in the audience, he did take a few questions from... |
Jen Hayden | 10/19/2017 | 159 | 210 | - | - |
| Ryan won't meet with Wisconsin Dreamers, so they went to New York to protest his speech Paul Ryan has said that DACA recipients have nothing to worry about, so why does he refuse to meet with them? Wisconsin Dreamers have gone on a hunger strike outside his Racine office to demand the DREAM Act, yet he refused to sit with them. They’ve... |
Gabe Ortiz | 10/19/2017 | 8 | 60 | - | - |
| Former CIA officers step up to run for Congress as Democrats Well, this should convince Donald Trump that the Deep State really is out to get him: Democratic congressional candidates for 2018 include some former CIA officers and others with intelligence backgrounds.
Abigail Spanberger spent eight years as... |
Laura Clawson | 10/19/2017 | 31 | 110 | - | - |
| The nation's 'top lawyer' has no idea how executive privilege works Attorney General Jeff Sessions didn't want to answer a lot of questions during his Wednesday testimony and he used a claim of "executive privilege" to dodge many of the toughest ones. Why did Trump fire Comey? Sorry.
“Until such time as the... |
Kerry Eleveld | 10/19/2017 | 86 | 117 | - | - |
| After questions from the Washington Post, Trump finally sent a promised payment to grieving father After 22-year-old Army Cpl. Dillon Baldridge was killed in Afghanistan, Donald Trump called his father, Chris Baldridge and made an offer to send him $25,000. The conversation happened nearly five months ago and Baldridge said he was initially stunned... |
Jen Hayden | 10/19/2017 | 61 | 75 | - | - |
| After college LGBTQ center opens, someone spread flyers telling LGBTQ students to kill themselves Haters reportedly marked the opening of Cleveland State University’s LGBTQ student center last week by posting flyers on campus encouraging LGBTQ students to kill themselves. The graphic shows a person with a rainbow heart and a rope around their neck... |
Gabe Ortiz | 10/19/2017 | 24 | 54 | - | - |
Related Diaries
- No current results.
main's Tags
- No current results.
main's Blogroll
- No current results.
