GEEZ! Trump is STILL Obsessed With the 'Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax' that is NOT a Hoax
One of the defining personality flaws of Donald Trump is his steadfast determination to propagate lies that have been thoroughly debunked. Undeterred by reality, he...
Mats of Sargassum macroalgae overruns the Caribbean and culprit of the power outage in Puerto Rico
There are multiple species of Sargassum, a type of macroalgae common in the tropical Atlantic. For centuries blooms of the harmful seaweed have floated in...
Happy Holidays?
The latest rabbit punch thrown by the Republican party in the culture bout was to deny Texas children the truth about women’s suffrage and that...
RWNJs are workshopping the false dichotomy of 1619/1776 in advance of the mid-term elections.
These are days fraught with political battles over cultural histories abjuring complexity. Today it’s The Wall Street Journal and the reactionary path to critical race theory,...
AOC on the first 100 days: 'Biden has definitely exceeded expectations that progressives had'
I’m probably a lot closer on the political spectrum to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez than I am to Joe Biden—and not just because I prefer a Starbucks triple venti nonfat soy caramel...
Vaccinated American Tourists Will Be Allowed in Europe
Europe will start welcoming American tourists who can show they are fully vaccinated, currently 29% of the US population. The American government has provided at least...
“brushing history against the grain”… what did happen to a purse made from Nat Turner's skin
A new book suggests now the necessity of reexamining the historical materialist project of Walter Benjamin recognizing those moments of historical contact as acts of...
Kitchen Table Kibitzing Friday: prison break art and flat-earth theory
Kitchen Table Kibitzing is a community series for those who wish to share a virtual kitchen table with other readers of Daily Kos who aren’t...
Indy spree killings: were there My Little Pony reasons
Apparently the spree killer in Indianapolis was also a “Brony”, a follower of My Little Pony as reported by the Wall Street Journal. We are...
Minerva @ Midnight: has Biden already been moved leftward
Anand Giridharadas wrote a piece for The Atlantic asserting that Biden has been moving leftward. This may only be a short term impression only because...
Trump refused manatees endangered species protection; hundreds now dead; Red tide looming.
The Florida Piney Point phosphate plant in Manatee county has been releasing 202 million gallons of wastewater into Tampa Bay since the risk of collapse of...
Al Sharpton slams Republicans in a hell of an immigration gotcha clip
Al Sharpton did a piece on immigration that dispels the manner the Fox News-like manner mainstream media is covering "border crisis." Al Sharpton knocks it...
a clueless former guy wants you on his own social media platform… good luck with that
Jason “Plan B in your Smoothie” Miller tried to pimp Trump’s anticipated social media platform. Unfortunately the major social media platforms are reconsidering their ban...
PA-Sen: The Atlantic, “The Left’s Answer to Trump Is 6 Foot 8 and Wears Shorts in February”
Have some weekend reading for you. The Atlantic has a great piece out about U.S. Senate candidate, Lt. Governor John Fetterman (D. PA), that’s worth...
some suspensions are not so permanent: ex-POTUS* to eventually return to YouTube
Can’t afford to keep Trump off their channel. Trump will be back as they say, with a vengeance and a renewed grift. https://twitter.com/justinhendrix/status/1367646431625023490?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw In remarks...
Trumpists believe something, something… 19th POTUS* on March 4 because Hayes-Tilden
"Senate Joint Hearing on Jan. 6 Attack: Part II" starts at 10am ET. https://twitter.com/DanLamothe/status/1367131252348899328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw The idiots of QAnon and their Sovereign Citizens fellow travelers want...
Pandemicide: Trump's greatest crime against humanity. 40% of US COVID deaths avoidable
Laurie Garrett makes the case for the greatest crime perpetrated by Trump for which he may never be prosecuted. In March 2020, Trump said he...
The guy who called a 12 year old Chelsea Clinton a dog is dead: Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh was more of a conservative index and perhaps a reactionary icon. He claimed whenever cornered with a political lie that he was an...
Trump Plaza implosion because it's a metaphor
Rush Limbaugh was more of a conservative index and perhaps a reactionary icon. He claimed whenever cornered with a political lie that he was an...
Florida has a new enormous invasive predatory fish likely to devastate its freshwater ecosystem.
Native to the Amazon river basin, the Arapaima is likely the earth's largest freshwater predatory fish at 10 feet and 400 pounds, where they have lived...
no ifs, ands, or buts – Trump must be prosecuted ASAP. Senate Judiciary vote on Garland, March 1
One hopes that after the farce of a Trump impeachment acquittal, that criminal proceedings begin in all of the relevant venues. We have already seen how Trump...
we're also quite happy that a former POTUS* is off social media
Trump aide who slipped an abortion pill into a girlfriend’s smoothie claims Trump is happier. The reality is that there may be a Trump sockpuppet...
Ecologists warn of a lethal, ghastly future, and they insist we stop sugarcoating it.
"In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous." ~ Aristotle It is a fact that the biggest threat to our species is...
Nancy Sinatra on Trump supporters: 'I’ll never forgive the people that voted for him, ever'
“These boots are made for walking, and that’s just what they’ll do, one of these days these boots are gonna walk on orange goo.” Or...
Kitchen Table Kibitzing Friday – comparing Butte Montana and Chuqui Chile
Kitchen Table Kibitzing is a community series for those who wish to share a virtual kitchen table with other readers of Daily Kos who...
Trump advisor who promised to eat his shoe if Biden won is now refusing to do it
Trumpies put their feet in their mouths on the regular (or should, anyway; I suppose doing so actually requires some measure of self-reflection and shame),...
Trump’s trashing of the climate is more severe than previously thought, says Biden climate team.
A senior Biden climate team transition official alerted E&E News that the damage Trump and his fossil fuel grifters (that have held power over the agencies...
Stacey Abrams laid waste to a silly question the host asked comparing her election to Trump’s
A prepared Stacey Abrams did not allow This Week host to create a false equivalence between her Georgia election and Trump's. Stacey Abrams sets the...
Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf is undergoing extensive melting from above; Marine life threatened.
The Independent writes on the intensification of melting on the Antarctic peninsula. Last year's melt season was the highest in forty years of satellite records. Antarctica’s Larsen...
2020 one of the 3 warmest years on record despite a La Niña typically producing lower temperatures.
We will remember 2020 as the good old days as the climate continues to overheat due to our failure to rein in heat-trapping fossil fuel emissions....
Trump declares Twitter a national security threat because it's more important than Iran for 53 days
Trump’s doing nothing about the continuing rise in Covid cases, and is spending his time at golf and continuing to sow chaos on the path...
John Kerry declared war on climate change deniers in an effort named World War Zero.
In 2019 John Kerry was awarded and accepted the Arctic Circle Prize in a speech to an assembly of climate scientists and other Arctic stakeholders in Reykjavik,...
Siberia's Laptev and Kara sub-sea methane activated.
“It’s gotten so out of whack that we are now looking at survival for our children, not survival of our grandchildren.”, Peter Carter, M.D., – reviewer for...
Laptev and East Siberian sub-sea methane activated.
“It’s gotten so out of whack that we are now looking at survival for our children, not survival of our grandchildren.”, Peter Carter, M.D., – reviewer for...
Obama on Trump: 'complaining, lying, doesn’t-take-responsibility-for-anything type of figure'
One thing I’ll never understand until the day I die is how so many people ascribe “toughness” and “manliness” to Donald Trump. (I’ll also never...
Trump cognitive dissonance continues with highest COVID case numbers as disinformation turns corner
“Increase in cases is accelerating with no signs of abating. Hospitalizations already increasing. Reasonable conclusion - deaths too will follow.” If Trump wins and continues...
Kitchen Table Kibitzing Friday – Living close to the 50%
Kitchen Table Kibitzing is a community series for those who wish to share a virtual kitchen table with other readers of Daily Kos who aren’t...
Arctic sea ice nursery in the Laptev Sea has not frozen. Buttigieg: “There's no do-over on climate.”
If we lose the Arctic, we lose the whole world. President Niinistö of Finland There is a record open ocean in the Arctic as a delayed freeze...
KO: a “terrorist” Trump could smear Biden, declare him “unfit to take office” and retain power
Keith Olbermann has been doing daily YouTube reports on various miscreants, but mainly on IMPOTUS, and it now seems like the Trumpian narrative now developing...
The Atlantic: In private, Trump says all evangelical preachers are 'hustlers'
It doesn’t take preternatural insight to see Donald Trump isn’t a religious guy. “Two Corinthians” was a big tip-off, as is the fact that he’s...
Climate fires have tipped us into a new era – the age of embers.
Yale Environment 360 notes "just as global warming has propelled the Arctic Ocean past a tipping point which will lead to a largely ice-free Arctic...
Is Louisville an “anarchist jurisdiction” because Rule of Law failed by not indicting killer cops
In revisionist history, perhaps the Union troops hunting down John Wilkes Booth were only interested in him because of some ‘wanton endangerment’. We do know...
Not So Fast On That Trump EC Coup
There’s a diary on top of the rec list right now that’s based on a story in the Atlantic, that Trump might try to take...
Antarctica's Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers are tearing themselves apart, and it is horrifying.
It is no surprise to those who follow the deglaciation process in Antarctica and are aware of the real threat posed by these glacial behemoths to...
SC-Sen: Protestors Show Up At Two-Faced Coward's House Over Supreme Court Hypocrisy
Love it: Over the past several years Republican Lindsey Graham has acquired the reputation of a flip-flopper. Once a detractor of Donald J. Trump, the senator...
30-50 feral pigs are the Donald Trumps of coronaviruses
Feral pigs are the crying-wolf excuse for some firearm owners, as though the average hunter needed a modern sporting rifle (semi-auto long gun with large...
David Frum: Don't assume McConnell has the votes to confirm
Last night and this morning, I felt like crawling into a hole for the next 40 days or so. And not a deep hole. I...
KY-Sen: “The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next SCOTUS Justice.”
Just going to leave this here: xThe American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. #Scalia https://t.co/QXHfOpEY6G— Leader...
'Extinction denial' is the new thing for anti-science conspiracy theorists, warn Biologists.
"'Tis the time's plague when madmen lead the blind." William Shakespeare The evil of science deniers recently has been beyond the pale. Not content with killing...
Jaime Harrison strips the bark off Trump and his woebegone ventriloquist dummy, Lindsey Graham
What’s the old saying? When you live in Donald Trump’s sigmoid colon, you shouldn’t throw stones? Something like that. Lindsey Graham insisted that his Democratic...