Woman Angry at People Not Wearing Masks Films Her Own Meltdown

Some people don’t have the luxury of not wearing a mask. Consider this a PSA!

the previous guy said, “I like taking the guns early”

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 … Read More

Minerva @ Midnight: “it works” a pragmatics of lived experience

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 … Read More

the Grand Hotel Abyss defunded and canceled by Trump's GQP culture war on massage spas

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 … Read More

Kitchen Table Kibitzing Friday “she's warm, like a giant ham”

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

Administration fails at planning and executing vaccine distribution: Total Loser Trump.

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 … Read More

Kitchen Table Kibitzing Friday – Lady Death, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Woody Guthrie

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

Columbia study says at least 130,000 avoidable COVID deaths are due to Trump's incompetence

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 … Read More

Trump crosses the Macon County Line: “I am so proud for exposing these people for what they are.”

“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 … Read More

Kitchen Table Kibitzing Friday: Forward to the Past

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 … Read More

mixed messaging: “unlikable communist monster” versus the fly on the lying guy

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 … Read More

Joe Biden Vows Aggressive Campaign Schedule To Help Dem Senate Candidates In Battleground States

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 … Read More

DeJoy: “The (mail)trucks leave on time” because who really wants surprises every night

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 … Read More

TX-Sen: Cornyn (R) Busted Using Stock Footage Of Estonia School In Ad About Reopening Texas Schools

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 … Read More

CO-Sen: HuffPost, “Cory Gardner Runs Pro-Trump Facebook Ad Being Seen Everywhere — Except In CO”

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 … Read More

#AmericasGreatestMistake can be corrected in 100 days.

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 … Read More

“A peaceful protester in Portland was shot in the head by Donald Trump’s secret police” Now what?

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, … Read More

Don Jr. excoriates his dad in new MeidasTouch ad

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 … Read More

Safe Bets About Trump's Twitter Rampage Tomorrow.

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 … Read More

Our Lives Matter

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 … Read More

unhingery continues in the White House aided by OAN and FoxNews

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 … Read More

George Floyd died in 8 Minutes and 46 Seconds

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 … Read More

Polls, Damned Polls, and Probabilities because Trump's negging us with strange polling

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 … Read More

Trump loves him some Captain Bligh or hydroxychloroqueeg

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 … Read More

It's IMPOTUS* acquittal day, it's midnight in America

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 … Read More

Homosexuality in the latest 'Star Wars' film angers conservatives, and me, but for different reasons

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 … Read More

Kitchen Table Kibitzing Friday – James Bond's Skyfall: the DB5 and battleship island

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

Kitchen Table Kibitzing Friday – Season Four of Rick & Morty… finally

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

KY-Gov: Mother Jones, “He’s Scott Walker’s politics with Paul LePage’s mouth.”

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 … Read More

Filmmakers and stars are refusing to work in Georgia following state's abortion ban

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 … Read More

The four zombies of the supply-side apocalypse

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 … Read More

My wrong assumptions about the person who gave 100+ homeless people hotel rooms during Polar Vortex

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 … Read More

FL-Gov: New UNF Poll Has Andrew Gillum (D) Beating Racist Ron DeSantis (R) 49-43

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 … Read More

What Did Trump Say to Anthony Kennedy After the Swearing In That Stopped Him Dead in His Tracks?

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 … Read More

“This Changes Everything” Moves Focus to Communities on Fossil Fuel Frontlines

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 … Read More