If congress fails on climate action, it would be like Trump pulling us out of the Paris accord again
Democratic voters are depressed, demoralized, and tuning out — and there's no use in denying it. Amanda Marcotte In a couple of weeks, the world will...
Previous guy's an alien, “…because when you're a star they let you do it”
Former President Trump ordered the Pentagon to release all of its information on "unidentified aerial phenomena" (UAP) within 18 days in his last coronavirus relief bill...
WYFP? don't call tankies Cheugy, it's the new “neat” or “nifty”
MFP is neologisms that get sticky. Cheugy is the latest, being a term that Generation Z calls Millennials, perhaps it’s the revival of more postmodernism....
Big Liar demands personal loyalty for that Big Lie
Fear of a Red Hat: as much as Liz Cheney is toast, more troubling is Elise Stefanik’s Führereid, because Trump is too stupid to see that...
Kitchen Table Kibitzing Friday: 432 Park and the Other Guys' parody as meta-criticism
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...
CO2 data from Mauna Loa above 421.21 ppm up from 415.6 a year ago and 393.88 just 10 years ago.
Saturday was the first day that CO2 measured in the atmosphere was above 420 ppm since measurements began in the 1950s. This moment in time has...
Ted and Greta more like 'Son of JFK Killer' versus TEDtalks Climate
There’s really only one Ted that’s applicable to an unconfirmed source trying to connect Greta Thunberg with the Unabomber and that’s Ted “Zodiac Killer” Cruz....
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...
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...
Ohio GOP wants to declare a 14 June state holiday because it's 'Trump's Birthday'
And he’s not even dead yet, or even a son of Ohio, but there remains Trumpist delusions. Then again shouldn’t James Buchanan get his national...
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...
Cool, science advisor is elevated to a cabinet position; the first woman will lead FEMA.
Elevating (the science adviser) role to member in the President's Cabinet clearly signals the administration's intent to involve scientific expertise in every policy discussion. Sudip Parikh,...
Cool, the Science advisor is elevated to a cabinet position; the first woman will lead FEMA.
Elevating (the science adviser) role to member in the President's Cabinet clearly signals the administration's intent to involve scientific expertise in every policy discussion. Sudip Parikh,...
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...
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...
2020 one of the 3 warmest years on record despite a La Niña typically producing lower temperatures.
We will remember 2020 as the good old days as the climate continues to overheat due to our failure to rein in heat-trapping fossil fuel emissions....
Biden may pull the Amazon back from the tipping point; Hague considers climate crimes at the ICC.
“Until now, Donald Trump served as a support for the Brazilian president to act irresponsibly. Now with the U.S. adding to Europe’s pressure, Brazil is...
John Kerry declared war on climate change deniers in an effort named World War Zero.
In 2019 John Kerry was awarded and accepted the Arctic Circle Prize in a speech to an assembly of climate scientists and other Arctic stakeholders in Reykjavik,...
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,...
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,...
Despite McConnell and a hostile Supreme Court, Joe Biden will be known as the climate president.
The crises facing the country are severe — from a pandemic to an economic recession, climate change to racial injustice — and the transition team...
Celebrations break out in cities across the world!
Typically, nations around the world watch but don’t celebrate the selection of our leaders. This year is a big difference. People all around the world...
#ByeDon From hate to healing. The networks call the campaign over. Cities erupt in celebration.
The road back will be long. What is troubling are the 70 million people who voted for hate and cruelty. It is time for healing, as America...
Kitchen Table Kibitzing Friday – Living close to the 50%
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...
The Biden/Harris climate plan just may buy us time to prevent the worst impacts.
If you give a climate arsonist four more years in the White House, why would anyone be surprised if we have more of America ablaze...
Here's what Trump did on his France trip instead of honoring our fallen soldiers
If you said “turning someone else into a sucker,” you’re a winner. Come pick up your complimentary case of Zima and two Alvin Styczynski tickets. The...
Trump's Aides Defend Him by Calling Him an “A$$hole” [Update: GOP Not Defending Him This Time]
The Daily Beast actually starts its story with this headline: Trump’s Defenders: He Doesn’t Hate the Troops, He Just ‘Sounds Like an Asshole’ In The...
another Trump presser/campaign speech, claims he's got 11 witnesses to his not disrespecting troops
Trump’s doing more law and order bafflegab among other idiocy, as Trump is whining about not getting credit for stuff. We’ll see whether he takes questions...
Fox News Correspondent Quotes Aides Who Confirm Trump Disparaged Military Veterans
twitter.com/… National Security Correspondent for Fox News, Jennifer Griffin, has posted a string of tweets quoting former staffers saying that Trump often said things that were...
Now sh*t's serious: Fox News confirms key details from The Atlantic's SuckerLoser-gate story
Jennifer Griffin is the national security correspondent for Fox News and … oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy! Schaden-Friday is particularly schaden-riffic...
Trump prefers live murderers over dead “losers and suckers”
After all the stupidity and incompetence, Trump really does sound like he says things with no filter. And even as he says he said no...
The Atlantic: Trump referred to fallen American soldiers as 'suckers' and 'losers'
The Military Times recently ran a poll that showed Trump running behind Joe Biden among U.S. service members. It was particularly eye-opening considering that military personnel typically...
Anti-Capitalist MeetUp: Post-COVID's post-capitalism may create an International Green New Deal
“(T)erminating labour and share markets, along with the type of commercial banking taken for granted today, is a prerequisite for a post-capitalist society with functioning...
Greenland ice cap melt has reached the point of no return.
Devastating and scary news from the Arctic as Greenland has reached the tipping point. The melting of our northern freezer which allows our civilization to...
Activism help persuades Deutsche Bank to promptly end the financing of tar sand and Arctic projects.
Good news for the Arctic, and the entire planet, as Deutsche Bank announced that they were ending financing fossil fuel projects at the tar sands in...
Our climate destiny is grim after 25 top climate scientists rule out best case scenarios.
I keep vigil. I wish I knew how to get people to care, but we seem determined to kill ourselves and ignore all of the code...
‘What I thought was right’
In a meeting with a group of children and their parents, held more than nine years ago, a little girl asked Congressman John Lewis what...
New record high in US COVID cases, Trump administration tries to divert CDC data
Trump continues to ignore the COVID-19 crisis, trying pathetically to divert attention with cranes, weights reminding us of the Python 16 tons, and trucks. because this...
Another Trump campaign speech, this time in Georgia because it's infrastructure week again in 1952
Trump went to another COVID "hotspot" and gave an infrastructure speech because it's that week again. CNN and MSNBC had the good taste not to...
The Atlantic is rocket fuel for hurricanes; Heatwaves intensify across the World; 1.5C breach looms.
Most of us have been experiencing warm to hot temperatures. It doesn’t appear that the misery will go away any time soon. There is a...
Trudeau Declines to Die for a Trump Photo-Op [Update: Mex Pres Wanted Trudeau There with Him]
Canadian Primer Minister Justin Trudeau has quite wisely declined to risk sickness and death just so Trump can have a photo-op “celebrating” the new agreement...
CHAZ/CHOP is dead, long may it live
CHAZ/CHOP is over but not gone, even if it lasted not as long as the Paris Commune. Ultimately it remains about power and autonomy. Basta...
“domestic terrorists run by 'radical left Democrats' have taken over Seattle”, STOOP THEM!
Trump claims that domestic terrorists run by “radical left Democrats” have taken over Seattle. #CHAZ is not exactly Paris 1968 or even 1871. Imagine Occupy as a...
It’s Showtime!
A lot was made of our commander-in-show holding up a Bible, a little over a week ago, with the St. John’s Episcopal Church as a...
Hannity: Trump is as much a victim as George Floyd … just like candles are IEDs in Seattle
So many police agencies need more signs of violent intent, whether it’s votive candles, water bottles, or claiming protesters are using lethal weapons. In Seattle the...
What came first the COVID-19 or the Scrambled Egghead?
Republicans were not always Neanderthals when it came to science and climate. In 1901, the Theodore Roosevelt administration established the USFS, the United States Forestry...
Joe Biden Vows To Rescind Trump's Permit Allowing The Keystone XL Pipeline To Cross Into The U.S.
Good: Joe Biden would rescind President Donald Trump’s permit allowing the Keystone XL oil pipeline to cross the border into the U.S., a move that...
New York Magazine, “Joe Biden Is Planning An FDR-Size Presidency”
New York Magazine has a must-read piece out right now: When fourth-term senator Joe Biden built his Wilmington, Delaware, home in 1996, he had no plans...
League Of Conservation Voters Go All In To Help Joe Biden Take Down The Climate Denier-In-Chief
Received this e-mail last night from the League of Conservation Voters in support of Joe Biden’s presidential campaign: I have some big news to share...
Trump's the worst POTUS* since Buchanan, but better in the original gibberish
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/446461592029630464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw With his catastrophic mishandling of the coronavirus, Trump has established himself as the worst president in U.S. history. Far worse is the human carnage....
