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Concealability had nothing to do with Monday’s massacre in Boulder, Colorado, but the details tell us more about the marketability of semi-automatic firearms using high-capacity magazines. Discussing open-carry regulation may have been rendered irrelevant with the death of the police officer although some details will be important: was he carrying his “patrol rifle” and...
- March 25, 2021
We remain weary about the callow stupidity of the GOP/GQP but we must not patronize or condescend about how superfluous their grievances have been and continue to be. Now that we know more about Trump’s sexual practices, fascist fantasizing seems altogether rote and boring, but certainly redolent of a banality...
- March 25, 2021
The Atlanta spree killings are unfortunately a story with structural similarity to events elsewhere. How do we know that Robert Long wasn’t on his way to Mar-a-Lago when the cops performed a PIT maneuver on him after he killed eight people. Darn hypotheticals of the culture wars. Mar-a-Lago as spa resort...
- March 19, 2021
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 music, your weather, your garden, or what you cooked for supper…. Newcomers may notice that...
- February 27, 2021
Approaching 4,000 deaths per day, Trump’s big policy win: stronger showers, faster dishwashers. Trump’s legacy will be 300,000 dead—and three-martini lunches. And apparently Trump is coming home early from Florida because he's excited about the Senate attempt to overthrow the 2020 election. x When Republicans who denied #COVID19, called it a hoax...
- December 31, 2020
< p class=”is-empty-p”> The below clip had me giggling a few times. A healing balm for the soul as the traitor is exquisitely mocked in the classic song from the Sound of Music, So long farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, goodnight. The memoir of Maria von Trapp and the Trapp family singers is one of...
- December 10, 2020
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 music, your weather, your garden, or what you cooked for supper…. Newcomers may notice that...
- December 5, 2020
and I hope to hell that someone comes up with the money to run this on both broadcast and cable in the Great Lakes State: x **BREAKING** AMERICA NEEDS MICHIGANNarrated by Jeff Daniels We need everyone in Michigan to see this video! 🔥 From @donwinslow & @Jeff_Daniels pic.twitter.com/nYJOAaSaHO— Eleven Films...
- October 27, 2020
I knew — felt in my gut — that Trump’s reign of chaos would be, well, chaotic. But sheeee-ite, I never thought it would be this bad. And I can be a pretty dark guy. But gosh, I’m not a psychopath. I don’t watch snuff films. I don’t enjoy videos of...
- October 22, 2020
“The political crass” …lies, damn lies, and Trump polling with 2 weeks remaining. Actually Bibb County, Trump’s at the middle Georgia regional airport doing more airplane hangar super-spreading. x What’s striking to me about Trump’s “85%” claim is that the CDC study is being misrepresented in some conservative media…but Trump...
- October 17, 2020
x “It's called a merge commit, Marty! It's a directed acyclic graph! We need to bisect and revert, and then use interactive rebasing possibly with a cherry-pick. What aren't you getting about this!?” pic.twitter.com/zahjHhiB33 — Gabriel Lebec (@g_lebec) October 2, 2020 Kitchen Table Kibitzing is a community series for those...
- October 10, 2020
Condescending or patronizing, how we forget until people get talked over. Tupac Shakur didn’t show up last night in Utah for the VP debate, but the truth got busted with a cap in its posterior. x Since the debate, Trump and his allies have called Kamala “unlikeable,” “this monster,” “an...
- October 8, 2020
From CNN: Former Vice President Joe Biden reassured Senate Democrats he would mount a vigorous effort in the campaign's final stretch, barnstorming through key swing states and helping crucial Senate races in the process, according to Democratic senators on a conference call Thursday. Biden, speaking for roughly 25 minutes and taking a...
- September 18, 2020
CNN: Trump said on August 18 that “the only way we're going to lose (win) this election is if this election is rigged.” (There, corrected) x No one is making this up: Mail delivery really did slow down. This @USPS chart doesn’t lie ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/kTeiu2taxb— Senator Gary Peters (@SenGaryPeters) August 21,...
- August 24, 2020
Eleven Films has done amazing work. The people in this trailer are candidates fighting, and winning, in areas they aren’t supposed to be winning. Let’s help push them over the top. BTW, Daily Kos supporters helped several win their primary, such as Pam Keith (after the 1 minute mark.) The...
- August 22, 2020
So we all know he’s an idiot: In an interview with KVUE on Tuesday, U.S. Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) said he supports the reopening of schools amid the coronavirus pandemic, but it's important to make sure students feel safe in classrooms. “I think starting slowly with online learning, but then maybe transitioning...
- August 20, 2020
The Huffington Post reports that U.S. Senator Cory Gardner (R. CO) has been boosting a new Facebook ad touting his record being Trump lapdog. But as the article points out that the only place you won’t see it popping up is in Colorado: In theory, the campaign may not have...
- August 17, 2020
Stay the course. Wear a mask. GOTV. Camera. Television. The whole world is watching. x My new video: #AmericasGreatestMistake We need 10,000 retweets in two hours. Please remember you can retweet twice. pic.twitter.com/FGgIOcdef1 — Don Winslow (@donwinslow) July 25, 2020 x A long line at #PortlandProtests of REAL patriots defending our...
- July 25, 2020
Some have suggested recent actions in Portland are a trial run for martial law, considering how badly run was the attempt at using federal forces in DC. They are DHS and feds, without identification, and refusing to identify themselves. Apparently graffiti is terrorism in the absence of statues to topple, as Trump attempts to...
- July 17, 2020
I can only assume Junior was actually trying to drag Joe Biden, but everything he says fits the ocher abomination to a T. Watch: x Don Jr. gives a damning description of his corrupt father courtesy of @MeidasTouch 🔥#ByeDonJr pic.twitter.com/8wNcUJwLOF— Eleven Films (@Eleven_Films) July 14, 2020 < p class=”is-empty-p”> I don’t...
- July 14, 2020
To be a fly on the wall on Air Force one tonight. We already had the lies tonight about the Trump Coronavirus Fest in Tulsa from Trump and his campaign. The turn out for the adoration for the great god was a bust because of those vile protesters and the the...
- June 21, 2020
I could go into a long pedagogical dissertation about allostatic loads or adverse childhood experiences but why complicate a simple premise. I will let the fear of a little girl speak for me: The above incident took place in upstate New York, in an area I lived near for three...
- June 15, 2020
A desperate Trump is trying to signal to his armed followers like the boogaloo boys that something needs to be done to free Seattle from those “anarchists”. If disinformation can be naked it’s at least nude in Foxlandia. The ground truth is much different, but Trump wants that chaos to draw...
- June 12, 2020
There were a lot of die-ins this weekend. The NY Times assembled the sequence from arrest to death of George Floyd. On May 25, Minneapolis police officers arrested George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, after a deli employee called 911, accusing him of buying cigarettes with a counterfeit $20 bill. Seventeen...
- June 1, 2020
What is wrong with these polls? Is Trump disinforming himself to make himself feel better (by reading Breitbart). Is Trump negging us by using an old poll right after doing his “first post-shutdown” mini-rally in Michigan? Today, Trump decided to cite a week-old 14 May Hannity page where a “poll conducted...
- May 22, 2020
Which film version of Mutiny on the Bounty does Trump prefer (extra points if a reporter asks this during the COVID presser). The Mel Gibson version? Or is he only doing this to divert attention from the fictional Caine Mutiny. If we assume that the president can read (which, honestly, is a...
- April 14, 2020
Got caught, evaded justice, and could get impeached again. x BREAKING: Remember America? We do.#ImpeachmentDay pic.twitter.com/tzGPwX7zBG — Eleven Films (@Eleven_Films) February 5, 2020 “[The Founders] gave you a remedy and they meant for you to use it. They gave you an oath and they meant for you to observe it. We...
- February 5, 2020
So my son took me to see the last Star Wars movie. This last trilogy started off so hopeful and ended so badly that I found myself pining for the terrible prequels. The final film of the new trilogy, The Rise of SkyWalker, really drove home the problems that have...
- December 23, 2019
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 music, your weather, your garden, or what you cooked for supper…. Newcomers may notice that...
- December 21, 2019
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 music, your weather, your garden, or what you cooked for supper…. Newcomers may notice that...
- December 7, 2019
Mother Jones has a pretty brutal piece about Governor Matt Bevin (R. KY) why being a complete asshole might cost him re-election despite being the Governor of a deep red state: For Bevin, winning a second term should be a breeze. He’s running in a state Trump won by 30...
- September 4, 2019
If you spent as much time at imdb.com looking up old Facts of Life episodes as I do, you might know that Georgia has become a popular location for numerous TV and film productions, thanks to generous tax breaks signed into law more than 10 years ago. In fact, Gov....
- May 11, 2019
Zombies have gripped American popular culture for years. In books, television shows, and films, the undead are regularly resurrected for your entertainment. (Even Jane Austen fans were treated to Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy butchering those from beyond the grave in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.) But whatever their reanimation...
- April 28, 2019
When news stories picked up that some lovely, anonymous Samaritan was able to put dozens of homeless in hotels around Chicago while the record polar vortex dropped temperatures to -39 degrees Celsius, I instantly had a picture of that person in my head. Clearly, it’s some rich dude. Hotel rooms aren’t...
- February 3, 2019
I became aware of comic books when I was not quite six years old (way back in 1969). I clearly recall my first comic book was Marvel Comics the Incredible Hulk Issue #114. It had the Incredible Hulk fighting both Sandman and the Mandarin. I also got some other Marvel...
- November 13, 2018
Here’s the latest news out of Florida courtesy of UNF’s latest poll: The Public Opinion Research Lab at the University of North Florida has a new poll of likely voters that reveals Andrew Gillum in the lead for the upcoming gubernatorial election in Florida, with Ron DeSantis close behind and...
- October 30, 2018
Many of us at this site assume that there was some sort of quid pro quo reached when Justice Anthony Kennedy bartered his SCOTUS seat away to Trump. Whatever deal was allegedly struck, it now appears that it is likely that something has gone awry between quid and quo, as...
- October 10, 2018
Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis visited Chicago to host a sold out premier showing of their new documentary film, This Changes Everything. I wasn't expecting to enjoy it. I know the issue well. I've seen plenty of climate change documentaries before. But the filmmakers won me over at the start...
- November 3, 2015
