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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
PA-Sen: Fetterman (D) Keeps On Defying PA GOP “Banned Flags” Order With Bigger Weed, LGBTQ Flags
From The Hill: https://twitter.com/JohnFetterman/status/1364601280161869824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, a Democratic Senate candidate, has replaced the pro-weed and LGBTQ rights flags hanging from his office balcony...
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...
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...
Meet Elizabeth Ann, the first endangered species in the United States to be successfully cloned.
Scientists have successfully cloned an endangered black-footed ferret from the genes of an animal named Willa that had died over thirty years ago. After Willa...
In Texas, it's mainly the failure of thermal power plants — natural gas, coal, and nuclear plants
Texas is the coalmine canary of failures in the GQP's industrial policy. The “clusterfuzzle” appears to be only in Texas: perhaps they skimmed on costs...
PA-Lt. Gov: LGBTQ Champion State Rep. Brian Sims (D) Officially Jumps Into The Race For Lt. Governor
Big news today out of Pennsylvania: xAfter 10 years in the State House, I’ve taken the lessons that my parents taught me & reinforced them...
Kitchen Table Kibitzing Friday – happy lunar new year with your instant pot and your go bag
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...
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...
AntiCapitalist MeetUp: Climate Crisis, negative emissions technologies, and financialization
As Climate Crisis returns to the new US administration agenda, negative emissions technologies (NETs) may find their implementation hindered by neoliberal financialization. An earlier...
“uber-capitalism” in a neoliberal market of revenant bears tiptoeing through tulips
https://twitter.com/jmcunning/status/1354805635787853825?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/MichaelHeide/status/1354511827607183373?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Bear Raid is not an offensive formation now at Mississippi State, but rather capital formation of a fictitious nature. Killing one bear because...
The Hague may indict Jair Bolsonaro over ecocide and crimes against humanity.
“Pena que a cavalaria brasileira não tenha sido tão eficiente quanto a americana, que exterminou os índios” “It’s a shame that the Brazilian cavalry hasn’t...
finagling a coup: the US was closer to the end of democracy than previously thought
Combined with a Capitol insurrection that would frighten more than 147 legislators to overturn the Electoral College, an acting AG replaced by a Trump crony...
Karen Finney: “This is who we are.” But her message to both Democrats & GOP was more profound.
Her closing statement could be taken figuratively and literally. Karen Finney had the most important message to Democrats & GOP today. Karen Finney nails it...
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...
The Shining City on the Hill had its' Windows Broken
After President Donald Trump ignited his riotous group of seditionists with the words “fight like hell” and ‘take our country back,’ the return shouts and...
“Marty, you're not thinking four-dimensionally”
M-i-c-k-e-y, Why because we like it. M-M-MMT. “We collectively decide just what counts as a resource, economic base, or productive work.” OTOH, it could all...
Subglacial lakes in the damaged Doomsday Glacier are draining, refilling, and draining again.
Antarctica researchers have become alarmed by a new finding that shows sub-glacial lakes under the Thwaites glacier are draining a significant amount of water to the...
AntiCapitalist MeetUp: Pascal went to the races, then gets mugged because he kept his carbon credits
The neoliberals’ “free market” is not going to sequester enough carbon to save the environment. Even Warren Buffett isn’t willing to take a bet on...
Exxon's Green Sheen and asymmetric information (and media bias)
Is the Market for Lemons like the market for lemonade or even Don Lemon. Asymmetric information is everywhere, the example of the used-car salesman synonymous...
Bwah ha ha! Fox Business host welcomed animal rights activist, thinking he was a pork company CEO
Fox Business’ Maria Bartiromo thinks Donald Trump is a great president. She also seems to think he was robbed of reelection through fraud. In other words,...
should we distinguish between Blue Dog Democrats and Red Dog Democrats
A piece in The Bulwark gives us another political neologism, as if we had enough to deal with in designated “more conservative”, “more moderate”, “less liberal”, and...
“One of the many Marx toys, have you all of them?” part 8
This post in the Anticapitalist Chat supports a group reading of Karl Marx’s Capital Vol 1. #GoodMorningMarx #WeeklyMarx Summary: Chapter 16 of volume 1 of Capital is...
The Kraken Caucus in a GOP Congress joins the sedition parade of losers
The Kraken Caucus makes itself known. GOP sedition messaging harkens back to the 19th Century, except Trump's lost cause won't rise again. This time it’s...
US Appeals Court rejects Trump's attempt to create a dead zone in the Beaufort Sea.
Donald Trump has been plotting to screw our climate and kill off the diversity of life for four years. This isn’t hyperbole; he has devasted critical...
Chuck Todd allowed GOP official to get away with the same false equivalence CNN's Ana Cabrera nipped
GOP official Gabriel Sterling did it again. Unlike Ana Cabrera, Chuck Todd allowed him to get away with the false equivalence about voter fraud. Chuck...
Native people and green activists defeat the GOP effort to seize refuge land for a bombing range.
“When this campaign began, we said ‘not one acre.’ We meant it.” Patrick Donnelly, Center for Biological Diversity In early July of 2020, GOP Utah Congressional Representative...
GA-Sen A & B: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I. VT) Helps Put An End To Moscow Mitch's Bull Sh*t
Received this e-mail from former presidential candidate, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I. VT), in support of Jon Ossoff (D. GA) and Rev. Raphael Warnock’s (D....
Gangsters hoarding vaccines. COVID-19 patients in US hospitals surpasses 100,000 for the first time
COVID-19 patients in American hospitals has surpassed 100,000 for the first time as supply networks will be attacked by gangsters hijacking supplies, and there will...
Never mind COVID: Trump is focused on bringing back firing squads
Donald Trump has frequently referred to COVID-19 as an “invisible enemy” — which may be why he’s pretending he doesn’t see it. The coronavirus outbreak...
Winking and Nod: Tony Blinken may be the Biden Secretary of State
Nearly anyone would be better than the Dominionist nutlog, Mike Pompeo. Robert Wright (New Republic) and Connor Echols wrote an article last week grading Tony Blinken,...
No, Florida is not a red state. Democrats there are just remarkably inept
As the election postmortem fight begins, Democratic leaders are consoling themselves with the narrative that Florida was already lost. It’s really a red state, Democrats...
Whitmer orders shut down of oil pipeline that threatens the fresh water of the Great Lakes.
“Most importantly, Enbridge has imposed on the people of Michigan an unacceptable risk of a catastrophic oil spill in the Great Lakes that could devastate...
GA-Sen A: Climate Denier & Hypocrite David Perdue (R) Lives In Protected Beachfront Mansion
From The Intercept: IF SEN. DAVID PERDUE wins reelection in Georgia’s runoff in January, the Republican Party will almost certainly maintain its Senate majority. Perdue,...