Racism is the Connective Tissue
In 2008 when former President Obama was thrust into one of the biggest financial messes since the depression of 1929, his stated goal was to get us out of the … Read More
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Fear, Violence, and Politics
For much of the world’s history, we have been ruled by violence and its descendants. Kings won their thrones by having better fighters than their opponents. Transfers of power meant … Read More
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 uses lawfare delaying tactics with … Read More
The Bigger Lies
As much as I would like to think that the two-party system is essential to the fabric of America, one party seems intent on ripping it to shreds. One of … Read More
OH-Sen: Sen. Sherrod Brown (D) Wastes No Time Defeating Alt-Right Extremist Josh Mandel (R)
Playing some more catch up here. Received this e-mail yesterday from U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D. OH): Cleveland.com: “Former Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel announces Senate bid” Chip in $5 now … Read More
Thom Hartmann discusses his new book & insurrection. Host slams GOP: Impervious to truth.
Radio Host Thom Hartmann discusses his new book and the insurrection and more. Nicolle Wallace slams GOP, impervious to truth. Thom Hartmann tells it like it is Politics Done Right … Read More
Nicolle Wallace slams GOP: Day the GOP broke up with The Constitution. They are impervious to truth.
Nicolle Wallace did not mince words with statements that justifiably disparaged the Republican Party for the immoral body it has become. Nicolle Wallace show pity for the GOP x x … Read More
The Real Trial of the Century
From November 1994 to October 1995, the so-called trial of the century took place. It centered around murder, race, sex, athletics, and hero-worship. America was drawn to it like a … Read More
Marjorie Taylor Greene believes a laser beam from space caused the 2018 California Campfire.
When California’s deadly and worst wildfire struck the state of California, intense drought provided the fuel necessary when a PG&E Pacific Gas and Electricity sparked the catastrophe. California has a Mediterranean … Read More
Marjorie Taylor Greene believes a laser beam from space caused the 2018 California Camp Fire.
When California’s deadly and worst wildfire struck the state of California, intense drought provided the fuel necessary when a PG&E Pacific Gas and Electricity sparked the catastrophe. California has a Mediterranean … Read More
VA-Gov: Terry McAuliffe (D) Unveils Bold Plan To Build Upon Virginia's Criminal Justice Reforms
Here’s the latest news out of Virginia: Former governor Terry McAuliffe has released his plan for reforming the state’s criminal justice system, focusing on parole, marijuana legalization and the restoration … Read More
QAnon watch parties expecting violence dissolve into horror when Biden/Harris inaugurated
This was amazing. On Gab, Telegram, 8kun, and other racist, alternative media, QAnon groups were salivating over Inauguration Day. They used popcorn emojis and had watch parties to witness the … Read More
OH-11, VA-Gov, NYC & St. Louis Mayor: DFA Kicks Off 2021 Election Cycle With 4 Big Endorsements
Playing catch up here today. Received this e-mail this week from Democracy For America: As you may have noticed, DFA’s first four endorsements of the 2021 election cycle are all … Read More
Kitchen Table Kibitzing Friday – Bee art
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 throwing pies at one another. … Read More
Post-riot Quinnipiac poll: 75 percent think democracy under threat, 52 percent want Trump removed
Our last two Republican presidents were all but tarred and feathered and run out of town on a rail. I can’t imagine why anyone would want another one. It’s like … Read More
Mob Tracked Excrement Through Capital Building
http://www.nydailynews.com/… The rioting crowd who stormed the Capital Building smeared excrement on the walls and left brown footprints down the hallways of Congress to show their support for Trump. While … Read More
Mob Tracked Excrement Through Capitol Building
http://www.nydailynews.com/… The rioting crowd who stormed the Capitol Building smeared excrement on the walls and left brown footprints down the hallways of Congress to show their support for Trump. While … Read More
On Dec 19, Trump tweeted, “Wait until January 6! It's going to be wild!”
It’s not the Bastille. Trump did incite a riotous mob to disrupt the legislative branch. People died. Trump got excited about the chaos he’d caused. The last day of Trumpstock. … Read More
Armed standoff at House Chamber because Trumpists think storming the Capitol will overturn election
Not unlike the armed Michigan state house protest, RWNJs think taking over the Capitol chambers makes American great. CNN calls this seditious conduct. One person has been shot on the … Read More
Take a Little Time to Avoid the View
During her second appearance on the leader of the genre in daytime talk, The View (1/5/21), following her maternity leave, Meghan McCain was told in no uncertain terms by one … Read More
Race(ing) Toward 2021
Sitting down, gathering my thoughts, and staring at my half-empty elitist bottle of overpriced artesian water, which I get delivered by the case, I took a moment to be thankful. … Read More
We HAVE to take the Senate back. We need Lion replacements.
Georgia is our opportunity to take the majority in the Senate. Ted Kennedy is gone. He WAS the lion of the senate. Byrd is gone. Tom Harkin is no longer … Read More
The Daily Bucket: Rubies in the Sky with Diamonds, and Gold amid the tannin-stained Waters
The hummingbirds dash around my back yard, as hard to track as a feathered 3-card monte game; are there 2 or 3 or 4 hummers? Any hummer that sits in … Read More
Ron Johnson won't rule out challenging Electoral College results; Romney calls it 'madness'
I’m from Wisconsin, and I lived there for most of my life. I’ve occasionally joked that my fellow Wisconsinites’ choosing Ron Johnson over Russ Feingold (twice!) felt a little like your … Read More
GA-Sen A & B: These Grassroots Groups Need Help Boosting Black & Latino Voter Turnout
Received a few e-mails for upcoming GOTV event to help Jon Ossoff (D. GA) and Rev. Raphael Warnock (D. GA) win their runoff elections. Received this e-mail last night from … Read More
Tiffany Cross points out an inconvenient truth about the incompetent Trump presidency
Want straight talk on cable TV? Listen to Tiffany Cross. She perfectly describes the ills that led to the ascendency of an incompetent president. Tiffany Cross strikes again See full … Read More
still dodging a bullet: the near death experience of Trumpist calls for martial law
We were closer than one thinks to what can still happen without stronger Congressional action, namely an anti-democratic authoritarian regime that resembles a republic in name only. There were seven new … Read More
John Brown's Body lies a-moldering in the grave
Old John Brown’s body lies moldering in the grave, While weep the sons of bondage whom he ventured all to save; But tho he lost his life while struggling for the slave, His soul is marching on. Abolitionist … Read More
Trusting the Science…
In the first week of April this year, the first quantifiable effects of the Covid-19 virus on people of color were released in the press. April 17, 2020, Donald Trump … Read More
Ron Johnson 'knows that Joe Biden won a free and fair election. He is refusing to admit it publicly'
Ron Johnson is easily the dumbest man in Washington whenever Louie Gohmert is off dry-humping the animatronic Eve at the Creation Museum in Kentucky. But he’s not dumb enough to … Read More
Trump reportedly concerned his lawyers are 'fools that are making him look bad'
Noooooooooooo! That is some prodigious perspicacity on the part of BLOATUS. (Sorry, alliteration aficionados. I prefer “BLOATUS” to “POTUS.” So suck a sack of silly string.) NBC News: The president … Read More
GA-Sen A & B: Sen. Sherrod Brown (D. OH) Helps Put An End To Moscow Mitch's Obstruction
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D. OH) in support of Jon Ossoff (D. GA) & Rev. Raphael Warnock’s (D. GA) U.S. Senate campaigns: Jon Ossoff (D. … Read More
The Daily Bucket– The Creek's Roaring and Billy's Watching
Hard rains just swept across NW Oregon and vicinity. The creeks climbed their banks. I watch Rock Creek, and its tributaries that flow through Bethany Lake, ten miles west of … Read More
Jim Jordan just got the scorching of a lifetime on Twitter
I live in Oregon. My Thanksgiving is likely to be just my wife and me eating either a vegan roast or, if we’re too lazy to turn the oven on … Read More
Blue States, Red States, oh yeah, Black States?
For all the naysayers, and denier(s) who think that Black Lives Matter is an abominable allegory, I point you to the states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Georgia. I have a … Read More
The Georgia Flip?
For a period in history, there existed something called the Whig Party. A group of disaffected Nationalist Republicans and Democrats who saw a need to unify the country after the … Read More
Meet us halfway.
I have republican family members and I know right-wing fellow workers.I researched for the unions in the South for a decade. I’ve done collective bargaining to protect the health … Read More
Kitchen Table Kibitzing Friday – Is the latest long national nightmare over yet?
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 throwing pies at one another. … Read More
Glass Half Full
If you could afford it and your kid was smart enough, I hope they went to law school. Over the next few months, the number of lawsuits filed and billable … Read More
ME, IA & KS: GOP PACs Busted For Using The Same “Voter” In Ads For 3 Different Senate Races
From The Huffington Post: x YouTube Video Two Republican super PACs used the same supposed voter in newly released ads for at least three different Senate races, including those in … Read More
Ah . . . too late I guess and I should have written this before about Nominee Amy Coney Barrett.
I have written two posts about suggested questions for Nominee Barrett — here and here. But watching a good deal of today’s confirmation hearing, and listening to her dodge way too … Read More
AZ, CO, GA, MI, NC, SC, TX-Sen: Morning Consult Poll Has Dems Winning 4 Seats, 3 Remain Competitive
Some very encouraging news today courtesy of Morning Consult’s latest poll: x #NCsen:Cunningham (D) 47% (+6)Tillis (R-inc) 41%.#AZsen:Kelly (D) 49% (+8)McSally (R-inc) 41%.#MIsen:Peters (D-inc) 49% (+9)James (R) 40%.#COsen:Hickenlooper (D) 50% … Read More
It makes me sick that Barrett and Republicans keep invoking RBG's rule .
Lee is ridiculous and the only people talking about religion and the late Ginsburg are the republicans. Not the democrats. Hypocrisy runs deep in this hearing and people have to … Read More
Biden ad takes Trump out of context, and it's brilliant
You may have seen the ad where Donald Trump uses a quote from Dr. Anthony Fauci to “prove” what a great job his administration has done with the COVID pandemic. In … Read More
Übermensch Trump, Taliban's favorite son, planned a James Brown bit with a Superman t-shirt
Trump couldn’t last but 18 minutes for a scheduled 30 minute speech Saturday, but he’s now the Taliban’s favorite son in the 2020 election. Trump trying to appeal to a Clark Kent … Read More
GA-Sen B: HuffPost, “Matt Lieberman (D) Hosted Fundraiser For Lindsey Graham (R. SC) In 2013”
Since today is a heavy Lindsey Graham (R. SC) news day on Daily Kos, I figured it was important to highlight this from The Huffington Post: Democrat Matt Lieberman hosted … Read More
pre-symptomatic 'President Trump's debate performance was degrading and sinister in equal measure.'
Did Trump truly believe that he could avoid catching the virus, as so much contact tracing must be done for the several days of exposure to a symptomatic Hope HIcks. … Read More
pre-symptomatic 'Trump's debate performance was degrading and sinister in equal measure.'
Did Trump truly believe that he could avoid catching the virus, as so much contact tracing must be done for the several days of exposure to a symptomatic Hope HIcks. … Read More
CNN commentator boils debate down to three simple (closely related) points
Oh, hey, guys! I just woke up. Say, is tonight the night Donald Trump finally became president? No? Okay, just joshing. I watched it. And nothing I can say about … Read More
The Panic does not Fall far from the Trump
George Washington shepherded the United States through the War for Independence and presided, literally, over the birth of the nation, without panic. Abraham Lincoln guided the United States through the … Read More
