There is a saying in playground basketball games, no harm, no foul. That may be fine for Sidney Deane and Billy Hoyle, but the United States’ sanctity is a different story. Saying that democracy is […]
Category: Environment
Watch Senator Sinema confronting climate activists at DC airport.
As she walked through Ronald Reagan airport, Senator Krysten Sinema of Arizona confronted climate activists and others over her ongoing obstruction of the 3.5 trillion dollars build-back better plan. The former Green Party activist who […]
Watch Senator Sinema get confronted by climate activists at DC airport.
As she walked through Ronald Reagan airport, Senator Krysten Sinema of Arizona was confronted by climate activists over her ongoing obstruction of the 3.5 trillion dollars build-back better plan. The 3.5 plan is where the majority of […]
Gnash, Rinse, Repeat
The right-wing has spent the last few weeks gnashing and grinding their teeth to the gum line, trying hard to compare the Afghan evacuation to Ho Chi Minh City, (Saigon). President Biden extricated America from […]
Has Anyone Ever Asked; Why?
Republicans swing the word freedom over the heads of their voters like the Sword of Damocles. It has become a meaningless mantra, cutting away real freedoms like affordable housing, healthcare, pay equity, and a clean […]
Progressives & Dems: Stop being scared about Election 2022. Don’t fall for the Republican poker.
A Politics Done Right viewer’s concern about McConnell’s threat to withhold Biden Supreme Court nominees forced this important rant on Election 2022. Progressives & Democrats must lean into Election 2022 See full episodes here. I […]
VA-Gov: Virginia GOP Picks Their Nominee, Trump Gives Him The Kiss Of Death
So this happened yesterday: Glenn Youngkin, a wealthy first-time candidate who walked a line between his party’s Trump-centric base and appeals to business interests, won the Republican nomination for governor of Virginia on Monday. He […]
Stephanie Ruhle gets it right. If businesses want workers, pay them more.
MSNBC Host Stephanie Ruhle did not mince her words. She pointed out that businesses should pay more if they want more workers. Full stop. Stephanie Ruhle makes a lot of sense. See full episodes here. Today’s jobs report […]
GQP claims Dems coming for your hamberders because Climate Crisis
More GQP spotted owl-isms, riffing on culture war again because Moscow Mitch claimed last year that the Democrats’ nanny-state will regulate 'how many hamburgers you can eat'. Now GOP governors are beefing with a Biden policy that […]
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 throwing pies at one another. Drop by to talk about […]
Minerva @ Midnight: prosecuting the previous guy, former FedEx employee kills 8, plus Freedom Flies
Do we really have the will to prosecute Trump for anything? Or will he escape yet again because he’ll try to bargain his way out of an indictment because he holds something, something national security […]
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 the holding reservoir became international news due to a risk of […]
Minerva @ Midnight: April Fools – Baylor U. conservatives think slavery was good
Change as a rising tide seems to be falling short as history’s stream is not as mighty. Apparently slavery is still “ordained by God for ultimate good” at Baylor University, as a RW campus group wants […]
Minerva @ Midnight: fungible space and fungible time
The stuck ship does tell us something about the fragility of global trade and the flow of capital. Fungible Space Logistics, that concept popularized by United Parcel Service is also about the spatial problems of […]
Eco-fascism and ethnic cleansing aren't strange bedfellows and it gets amplified by Fox News
Not about authoritarian horseshoes or even close hand grenades. The “environmental” claims of RWNjs or even wise use advocates is also about corporate land use, private property NIMBYism/sovereignty, and constraining minority populations via immigration. Even the New […]
with 850 wolves remaining, can humans and feral pigs be more at-risk in Montana
In the choice between wolf predation and human predation wolf culling seems more about sport than the economic threat to herds. Subsidizing trapping and killing with wolf bounties doesn’t begin to address the real ecological harms […]
Goes without saying, but must be said: all self-driving cars must be electric vehicles
As with emissions controls, California leads the nation. This is another BFD, just like federal fleets, etc. And can’t come soon enough, if only to eliminate the continuing snafu of gig workers in Uber/Lyft. Gonna […]
After explaining Medicare-For-All to Right-Winger w/o using its name, she blurted: You are so nice!
I often get scolded by my Progressive brethren because they believe I should put no effort trying to bring in those on the Right into the fold. That is not what I am attempting, and the […]
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 North Dakota and Texas show how there are several interlocking […]
PA-Sen: Fetterman (D) Keeps On Defying PA GOP “Banned Flags” Order With Bigger Weed, LGBTQ Flags
From The Hill: Spoiler: Passing laws would indeed make my flags go away. Just not that one. Let’s do the right things for Pennsylvania. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇸 — John Fetterman (@JohnFetterman) February 24, 2021 Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John […]
Crowd source request: can someone provide some better discussion on the history of the filibuster?
I’ve seen general pieces about the filibuster and its history, and so let me be specific that I am asking for commentary that is a little deeper, or granular. My question is simple — I’’m old enough […]
PA-Lt. Gov: LGBTQ Champion State Rep. Brian Sims (D) Officially Jumps Into The Race For Lt. Governor
