Twitter Suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene, but Allows Trump's Shill to Keep Posting His Lies (?)
In the first week of January 2021, Donald Trump was banished from Twitter due to his reckless and relentless lies about election fraud. Twitter imposed...
Jen Psaki's Scathing, Point By Point Repudiation of Joe Manchin's Betrayal on Build Back Better
On Sunday morning Sen. Joe Manchin made a fairly resolute statement of opposition to President Biden's Build Back Better bill. While it left a tiny...
Mountainous West Virginia leads the nation in crippling flash floods risk from climate change.
"No, no. There's 52 senators who don't agree, okay, and there's two that want to work something out if possible in a most rational reasonable...
Chevron, not the DOJ, prosecutes a human rights activist, successfully sentencing him to prison.
"Today's sentencing of human rights lawyer Steven Donziger should be front-page news ringing alarm bells anywhere people are concerned about democracy, abuses of corporate power,...
Ha ha ha ha – Charles M Blow Remembers Liz Cheney The Same Way I Do: As A Nasty Piece Of Work.
[note to bubba for the title copyright infringement, so sorry] It is like the G-Dubya soft focus nostalgia trip, yuk. The Good Republicans, argh, Now...
MMT Stephanie Kelton on infrastructure, & Jen Psaki, Katie Porter, Jake Tapper highlights
MMT proponent Stephanie Kelton has a message for Biden. Katie Porter wants Biden to move quickly on women’s policies. Jen Psaki & Jake Tapper highlights....
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...
Myth Busting that the $15h minimum wage would cause job losses.
A worthwhile article in the NYT Some highlights: Amazon has embarked on an advertising blitz this winter, urging Congress to follow the company’s lead and...
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...
WI-Sen: RoJo The Traitor Throws Moscow Mitch Under The Bus In The GOP Civil War
U.S. Senator Ron Johnson (R. WI) has been making headlines today for saying stupid bull shit like this: Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) in a new interview said...
Rep. Lesko (R-AZ) Thinks Hispanics Aren't Americans
Rep. Debbie Lesko of Arizona — a state which is over 30% Latino — wanted to amend the Biden administration’s plan for Covid-19 vaccinations so...
FL-Sen: EPIC FAIL! Rubio (R) Tries To Blame The Media For Marjorie Taylor Green's (QAnon) Rise
Fucking idiot: The Florida senator once again found himself in Twitter-roasting territory on Wednesday with his misguided tweet blaming the media for the rise of...
like the Trump health plan coming out in two weeks, he'll be inaugurated on 4 March 2021
We’re not even at the Silly Season yet, even as we’re reminded of the predictions of Harold Camping about the end of the world in...
Modern Slavery: The real fight QAnon are polluting with their insanity.
The modern slave trade. Forced Labour : 25,000,000 Sexually exploited: 4,800,000 [99% women] State sponsored: 4,100,000 Forced marriages: 15,400,000 [71% women] Total: 49,300,000 Women represent...
Not this time, Fox
You know what? NO. You don't get to do this. Not this time, Fox News. During the violent insurrection at the Capitol building, everyone was...
Republicans are shocked, I tell you.
Quite a few republicans are whining that the Tangerine Tyrant has damaged his legacy. Really? Trillions in tax cuts for the wealthy both corporate and...
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...
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...
Oh, nothing. Just Ivanka Trump overruling scientists at the CDC. That's all.
Whoever stuck the Tin Man funnel in my head and power-blasted a veritable Niagara of DMT into my brain, please just stop. I get it. Nothing...
“I’ve probably worked harder in the last three weeks than I ever have in my life.” -Trump
Out of 249 Congressional Republicans, only 27 acknowledge Biden’s win, measuring their fear and/or loyalty to Trump. Thus around 10% can answer truthfully, aside from Trump...
Joe Scarborough scorches GOP, COVID-afflicted star loves Canada’s Medicare for All & more
Joe Scarborough stumbles onto some truths. West Wing star tells the truth about Canada’s Medicare-for-All. Americans are suffering. Does Joe Scarborough have an inconvenient truth?...
Report: Donald Trump Jr. has the coronavirus
Schaden-Friday never lets me down! https://twitter.com/tylerpager/status/1329921685924040704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Tyler Pager is a national political reporter for Bloomberg News. Not OANN or Highlights for Children or Stormfront or...
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...
KS-Sen: New Poll Has Dr. Barbara Bollier (D) Beating Rep. Roger Marshall (R) 47-46
Some very good news out of Kansas courtesy of Dr. Barbara Bollier’s (D. KS) internal polling: x#KSsen:Bollier (D) 46% (+1)Marshall (R) 45%Buckley (L) 4%@GBAOStrategies/@BarbaraBollier (D)...
NC-Sen: New Poll Has Cal Cunningham (D) Beating Thom Tillis (R) 49-42
Some more good news today out of North Carolina: In North Carolina, Democrat challenger Cal Cunningham leads incumbent Republican Thom Tillis in the race for...
AK-Sen: Mother Jones, “The Unspoken Reason the Alaska Senate Race Is So Close”
Mother Jones has a great piece about the Alaska U.S. Senate race between incumbent U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R. AK) and Dr. Al Gross (I....
A short, perfect argument: “Originalism is invalid because no evidence the Founders believed in it.”
Thinking recently about questions for nominee Amy Coney Barrett, and her Originalism theory, I thought of an interesting argument — “Originalism is not a valid judicial...
stark contrasts: Biden Presidential town hall in Pennsylvania versus Trump in Florida
Several things became clearer tonight with dueling town halls. Trump cannot disavow the support he gets from the QAnon cult even as it now consorts...
NC-Sen: Divorce Documents Highlights Thom Tillis' (R) “Cruel & Inhuman Treatment” Of Ex-Wife
With all the news that’s going on, this has resurfaced: According to court filings obtained by American Ledger, North Carolina Republican Senator Thom Tillis’ ex-wife...
AK, SC, KS-Sen, 02, 03 & NE-02: Tom Steyer's Group, NextGen America, Expands It's Target List
From The Huffington Post: x YouTube Video NextGen America, which focuses on turning out voters under age 35, is expanding its target list to include...
GA-Sen B: HuffPost, “Matt Lieberman (D) Hosted Fundraiser For Lindsey Graham (R. SC) In 2013”
Since today is a heavy Lindsey Graham (R. SC) news day on Daily Kos, I figured it was important to highlight this from The Huffington...
TX-Sen: “In Texas, Cornyn v. Hegar is epicenter of battle over coverage for preexisting conditions”
The Houston Chronicle highlights how the Supreme Court vacancy is reigniting the health care debate in the U.S. Senate race between incumbent U.S. Senator John...
This Morning's Polls Show Biden Tied in Iowa and Georgia
Seltzer & Co., an A+ rated pollster from Iowa, published a poll that shows Joe Biden and Trump are tied in that state at 47%...
'Extinction denial' is the new thing for anti-science conspiracy theorists, warn Biologists.
"'Tis the time's plague when madmen lead the blind." William Shakespeare The evil of science deniers recently has been beyond the pale. Not content with killing...
'You really drank the Kool-Aid', says greater risk to US election integrity than foreign rivals
Just another news day and at least one or two more news cycles with 54 days left. xDonald Trump is the first president in 39...
ME-Sen: Slate Magazine, “How Maine Turned on Susan Collins (R)”
Slate Magazine has a new piece out about the upcoming U.S. Senate race between incumbent U.S. Senator Susan Collins (R. ME) and Maine House Speaker...
Trump: 'We’re all safe because of law enforcement’ in Kenosha shooting man 7 times
‘We’re all safe because of law enforcement’ Trump says in Kenosha where a cop shot a Black man in the back 7 times xCan we...
Melania Wouldn't Use the Same Toilet Michelle Had Used
Seriously, there is no bottom for these people. (Pun sort of intended). Politico is reporting some of the highlights (lowlights) in Stephanie Winston Wolkoff’s new...
Congressman COVID was in the packed South Lawn with no mask
Louis Gohmert has truly earned his designation as America’s dumbest congressman. Just a few highlights: He justified an oil pipeline by saying caribou warm up...
RNC night four features another Trump speech. Prebuttals say it all
I can’t really watch the Trump speech tonight considering how much I’ve already been exposed to the same nonsense. I actually am more concerned about...
Trump is Failing His Latest Test: Hurricane Laura
Hurricane Laura is now a strong Cat 4, with winds up to 150 MPH (Cat 5 is 158 MPH, and it may get there). Storm...
Trumpian history at the Council for National Policy: “Two things don't change: walls and wheels.”
"I’m the only thing standing between the American dream and total anarchy, madness and chaos.” Trump at the Council for National Policy Recalling that Mark...
GA-Sen B: Raphael Warnock (D) Launches New Ad Explaining Why A Reverend Belongs In The U.S. Senate
Very glad to see this: x YouTube Video The debut ad, his first TV spot of his campaign, highlights his upbringing in a Savannah housing...
GA-Sen B: WaPo Highlights All The Events Giving Rev. Raphael Warnock (D) The Path To Senate Victory
Paul Kane at The Washington Post has an op-ed out where he highlights a “confluence of events” that give Rev. Raphael Warnock (D. GA) an...
Russia, Facebook, and Trump: Facebook still eased fact-checking rules for conservative pages
So much for having things both ways. Disinformation flooding continues. x“Can Trump place Facebook ads that feature Nazi symbols? Yes… Can he spread lies about mail-in...
Trump's attacks on Portland protests are also about discrediting decades of Oregon postal voting
Trump’s attempts to rationalize his future grievances resemble the excuses he’d created for an anticipated 2016 loss. He had hoped to grift for his quasi-empire...
Q poll for Florida: Biden 51 Trump 38
which is a significant change from a Poll 3 months ago, where Quinnipiac had Biden up 46-42. Details of poll available here Some other highlights...
This type of speech will win Joe Biden the presidency
If Joe Biden is to win big, he will need to leverage the sacrifices made by the COVID dead into a vision of a future...
MT, NC & CO-Sen: Democrats Call Out These Fake “China Hawks” Long Business Ties In China
Back in May, I highlighted this story from The Daily Beast about U.S. Senator Steve Daines (R. MT) running on a “tough in China” campaign:...
Fox News' Chris Wallace humiliates Trump with instant fact-check
Oh, to have seen the look on Donald Trump’s face when Fox News’ Chris Wallace shut him down with an on-the-spot fact-check of a favorite...
