Climate Brief: China's cities begin to darken as warming enhanced rainfall floods their coal mines
… and, winter is coming. China, already in a significant energy crunch, has been experiencing energy shortages due to extreme weather, a surge in demand,...
Climate Brief: China's cities begin to darken as warming enhanced rainfall flood their coal mines
… and, winter is coming. For those just scrolling by while whistling past the graveyard, you might want to read this story and prepare yourself...
Previous guy's an alien, “…because when you're a star they let you do it”
Former President Trump ordered the Pentagon to release all of its information on "unidentified aerial phenomena" (UAP) within 18 days in his last coronavirus relief bill...
a new Fed chair… maybe but probably not.
The usual handicapping for a new Fed Chair is happening, but likely it’s too early. Lael Brainard and William Spriggs would be front-runners. Jay Powell's term...
White racist swings at kamona young, a black woman, pushes attorney lee merritt
#RacistAttacksProtesters #MarvinScottIII #JusticeForMarvin During a peaceful protest and demonstration at the intersection between the cities of Plano and Frisco in North Texas, a racist white...
Biden to Share AstraZeneca Vaccine as India Descends into Covid Chaos
The Biden Administration is preparing to send millions of doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine to other nations. The FDA has not yet approved AstraZenca’s vaccine for...
Minerva @ Midnight: GOP states want to suppress protests by deputizing civilian vehicular assault
Only Republicans would encourage running over demonstrators by indemnifying and pitting RWNJs and their vehicles against peaceful crowds. Because who knew that the “unintentional” weaponizing of personal...
Google Earth 3D timelapse of Lake Mead shows just how screwed the American west is from megadrought.
The stress test is coming for states like Arizona as water levels likely to dip below 1075 feet in June. The mega-drought in the American...
Minerva @ Midnight: don't defund police, reduce the domestic military force occupying our country
Structural change needs to happen, because in community policing, community should precede policing. The paramilitary trend should not be seen as a burgeoning conflict between...
“Your air freshener is blocking your window” driver pulled over, shot, killed.
The driver Daunte Wright was pulled over for a traffic violation by Brooklyn Center, MN police, and in the process of being arrested for an...
Trump-Jugend try for parody, but demonstrate their racist ignorance.
The sponsors of campus speakers like Ann Coulter and Milo Yiannopoulos, Young America’s Foundation took on Pete Buttigieg, thinking that they were delivering trenchant criticism. Instead, they’ve...
Minerva @ Midnight: Lando Cotton wants to lock… you up! Previous Guy returning to Facebook
https://twitter.com/donwinslow/status/1379557465830817793?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Tom Cotton thinks there aren’t enough people in prison, or perhaps like Arkansas lawmakers, thinks even more medical conditions should be criminalized. Cotton is being...
Manatee County Florida. Mandatory Evacuations ! Catastrophic Leak
No. No. We don’t need infrastructure bills in America . We are fine according to republicans. Well, that state of mind is being changed I...
AntiCapitalist MeetUp: Are carbon markets like papal indulgences
Like Martin Luther objecting to Pope Leo X selling indulgences to raise money for a variety of excesses, the environmental costs of carbon markets far...
Conservatives have some really dumb new reasons for opposing D.C. statehood
It always seemed absurd to me that hundreds of thousands of U.S. citizens have no effective representation in Congress. And I’m not just talking about...
Mitch McConnell scaring Democrats from killing filibuster with threats they'll affect anyway.
Mitch McConnell is threatening Democrats with scorched-earth GOP policies they have already done if they kill the filibuster. Mitch McConnell threatened Democrats on killing the...
The GQP Death Cult
Everything the GQP stands for, kills. The GQPs response to Covid-19 kills. The GQPs vaccine comments, kill The GQPs Climate change denial kills The GQP...
Kitchen Table Kibitzing Friday: Beef & Broccoli, Asian Blackness, and a Trappist Monk Gap
“The universe has been to them.” (Resident Alien) Kitchen Table Kibitzing is a community series for those who wish to share a virtual kitchen table...
Anti-Capitalist Meet-Up: the Climate Crisis has weak carbon markets and lagging technology
The sparse number of actual carbon capture and sequestration projects plus weak carbon markets amplify the problems of the climate crisis yet to be revisited, post-Trump. Two heartland examples in...
Mark Robert Rank, Social Scientist, discusses poverty in America in-depth.
Dr. Mark Robert Rank discussed poverty as is rare spoken about pointing out some alarming factoids few people know about. Mark Robert Rank speaks x...
Lost voice and Lost cause: there will be blood spilled by Trumpists
Violence is not the only way political voice is uttered in a democracy, but the GQP wants it to leverage their reclaiming power. https://twitter.com/MotherJones/status/1363262212597555201?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Last...
human trafficking and Comfort Women at Harvard Law – call off your old, tired ethics
Recovering memory and historical revisionism in sex work might be the sad product of many repressive regimes. What becomes worse is the complicity of academic...
Putin's Palace (the dubbed version) soon may look for its next Trump (it's not Junior)
Lots of events happening even if they’re all quite chaotic in the Russian Federation. Numerous anti-Putin demonstrations in the middle of winter. and some mysterious...
ex-POTUS* Eddie Haskell lost most demographic categories in 2020, yet still claims victory
“Trump advisers were privately reckoning with his loss even as the former president and many of his supporters engaged in a conspiracy theory-fueled effort to...
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 will capitalize on his version of the “Office of the Former President”
“Office of the Former POTUS” (F-POTUS) has a longer shelf-life than Office of the President-Elect or POTUS*-in-Exile and isn’t Trump a branding genius. https://twitter.com/BettyBowers/status/1353853233790332928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw "Office...
Minnesota governor on botched vaccine rollout: 'Who's going to be prosecuted for this?'
There’s a huge, grim, sprawling crisis unfolding right now in the U.S. And by that I mean, Donald Trump may not get the warm sendoff he’d hoped...
not a lot of time but plenty of evidence, just like the last impeachment if 45 gets “more unstable”?
Impeachment and insurrection part deux on deck for next week, even as there’s now mixed messaging on the part of Pence invoking the 25th Amendment....
GA-Sen B: Kelly Loeffler (R) Becomes The 12th GOP Traitor In The Senate To Vote Against Democracy
From The Huffington Post: Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler, one day before her closely watched Georgia Senate runoff, announced Monday she’s joining the coalition of GOP...
Health Care Workers flee small towns that need them the most due to GOP masking denial.
The Trump crazies are now, metaphorically speaking, slitting their own throats as uncontrolled Covid infections rage through their communities. These simpletons have turned their very lives...
pre-emptive violence, interpretation, and policing
The haze of preemptive violence “to save” rather than take lives is a common rationalization for police dynamic entry or sneak attacks in war. The...
Kooky pro-GOP pollster Trafalgar actually has Warnock and Ossoff ahead
I haven’t been paying real close attention to the Georgia runoff polling. For one thing, pollsters and aggregation sites like FiveThirtyEight put me on a...
Trump's fascist facade declaration that Biden can undo with a stroke of his pen.
We’re now at the end of the road where Trump imagines that he can affect future architectural style in federal buildings. And of course he...
A symbol for the mistreatment of the Navajo Nation has been toppled; earthlings rejoice.
Blessings to all the activists, particularly Tó Nizhóní Án, whose 40-year grassroots efforts help heal our damaged planet and potentially protect us from a cataclysmic future for...
Guilty plea for Boojahideen… from Red Dawn to Orange jumpsuits
“A 22-year-old self-proclaimed member of the “Boogaloo Bois” movement pleaded guilty on Wednesday to trying to sell weapon parts to Hamas after traveling to Minneapolis...
Where the votes went as Trump lost the election and the electoral college
Philip Bump has the goods: it is nearly impossible for the fraud claimed by Trumpists to have occurred in 2020. No evidence has emerged to...
To beat Trumpism requires a different take on handling the real issue of racism.
One can defeat Trumpism if we recognize racism as a defective tool whose use we must rid ourselves of as we develop the real effective...
Side Effects
With the ever-climbing coronavirus death rate, families reliant on technology to say goodbye to loved ones, and most of America shopping in disguise, yesterday was...
previewing Trump's Saturday Nuremberg Rally
A loser’s victory rally, what a message. In his Valdosta, Georgia speech on Saturday Trump will essentially repeat his 46 minute Facebook rant from Wednesday with a...
now 1-38 “Voters, not lawyers, choose the president,” the appeals court said.
Merit-free futility: “Voters, not lawyers, choose the president,” the appeals court said. x"Voters, not lawyers, choose the President. Ballots, not briefs, decide elections." — Third...
Boycott Florida. PLEASE ! DeSantis is trying to kill us all for a dollar.
Ron Desantis makes Rick Scott look like a saint. Seriously, who would have thought such a thing. He hasn’t done squat over Hurricane damage and...
This is an actual headline from Detroit Metro Times ( I can't put it in the headline) Banworthy.
www.metrotimes.com/…www.metrotimes.com/... Lock the MF up. Wow. The headline reads, “ Lock the motherfucker up”. Click the link and see. For all the nefarious crap Florida...
Black columnist calls out Republican Party as complicit to a racist Trump.
Eugene Robinson has completely lost patience with Trump and The Republican Party. They are trying to return to Jim Crow. Eugene Robinson slams Trump &...
Watch Michigan Democrat shred 2 GOP racists who tried to certify votes everywhere 'but Detroit'
I’ve seen a lot of epic rants, but this one was particularly potent. Ned Staebler viciously and correctly called out the blatant racism of two Republican who...
GA-Sen A & B: Joe Biden Is Coming Back To Georgia To Get His Senate Majority
I’m all in for this: President-elect Joe Biden will join the lineup of influential Democrats involved in Georgia's ongoing senatorial campaigns, according to his recently-named...
Trump again ignored the order of succession in firing Mark Esper and replacing him with Chris Miller
Angry baby strikes again, ignoring the rules to exact revenge on those who did their duty. Mark Esper will probably not be the last firing,...
This was a sprawl election
Accidental IMPOTUS declares 'total landscaping'. Video killed the radio star as he tucked in his shirt. "The term "urban sprawl" was first used in an...
Celebrations break out in cities across the world!
Typically, nations around the world watch but don’t celebrate the selection of our leaders. This year is a big difference. People all around the world...
#ByeDon From hate to healing. The networks call the campaign over. Cities erupt in celebration.
The road back will be long. What is troubling are the 70 million people who voted for hate and cruelty. It is time for healing, as America...
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...
