Pennsylvania Bar Association Slams GOP Candidate For PA Supreme Court Over Dishonest Attack Ad
Here’s the latest news out of Pennsylvania: The TV ad is no-holds-barred. It bluntly attacks a decision of the Democratic candidate for Pennsylvania Supreme Court....
Oops! Republican Projection: Man convicted of voter fraud in PA voted for Trump & more to come
President Trump and his Republican sycophants are the masters of projection. It turns out voter fraud is from Trumpsters. It turns out the voter fraud...
Pennsylvania Democrats Launch Two New GOTV Phone Banks To Register 125K New Voters
Received this e-mail today from the Pennsylvania Democratic Party: This Saturday and next, we're teaming up with our friends from Turn PA Blue to call...
PA-Sen: Let's Celebrate 420 By Electing A Longtime Advocate For Legalizing Marijuana To The Senate
420 should be an official national holiday. Also, here’s the latest news out of Pennsylvania: https://twitter.com/JohnFetterman/status/1384548616698802176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw People who want lawmakers to legalize recreational marijuana in...
The Ammo-sexuals
As much as I would like to take credit for the fitting title of this piece, I cannot. I heard it for the first time...
PA-Sen: Toomey (R) Wants PA To Adopt GA's Jim Crow Laws Because He “Thinks Black People Do Drive”
Can’t wait to see this asshole go: https://twitter.com/Matt_Maisel/status/1379777588009271304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw In an interview with York, Pa.’s WPMT television station, U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Lehigh) was asked about the...
PA-Sen: Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (D) Rakes In $3.9 Million Q1 Fundraising Haul For U.S. Senate Bid
Here’s some big news today out of Pennsylvania: https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1377607062734131205?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Lt. Gov. John Fetterman said he raised more than $3.9 million for his U.S. Senate bid...
Gov. Kemp signed Georgia voter-suppression law under a portrait of a brutal Southern plantation
This is what you call bad optics. Like really, really bad. Oedipus seeing Jocasta bad. (Yeah, my references are really old, but I couldn’t find a...
Conservatives have some really dumb new reasons for opposing D.C. statehood
It always seemed absurd to me that hundreds of thousands of U.S. citizens have no effective representation in Congress. And I’m not just talking about...
MY COVID DAY
Tuesday morning, I had the first of my two scheduled vaccinations for the coronavirus. I was apprehensive, at first, but once I passed the first...
PA-Sen: “He’s an a**hole, damnit”
Friendly reminder: retiring U.S. Senator Pat Toomey (R. PA) is still an asshole and will not be missed: Republican Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania on...
“Their stupid is always bigger than their evil” in an ex-POTUS's hope for military coup
Banana Republic is not yet a bankrupt concept in America, although it is being sorely tested. Trump’s 1/6 coup counted on the numbers of RWNJs...
PA-Sen: The Atlantic, “The Left’s Answer to Trump Is 6 Foot 8 and Wears Shorts in February”
Have some weekend reading for you. The Atlantic has a great piece out about U.S. Senate candidate, Lt. Governor John Fetterman (D. PA), that’s worth...
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...
The End of the Beginning
I took a day to think about the death of radio personality Rush Limbaugh. My immediate thoughts were snark-provoking. Although Limbaugh spent over 30 years...
PA-Sen: John Fetterman (D) Signs Pledge Rejecting Donations From The Fossil Fuel Industry
Here’s the latest news today out of Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (D), who announced a 2022 Senate bid earlier this month, said in a statement...
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...
Pennsylvania Democrats Are Gearing Up To Stop The PA GOP From Gerrymandering The PA Supreme Court
Received this e-mail today from the Pennsylvania Democratic Party: Pennsylvania Supreme Court candidate, Superior Court Justice Maria McLaughlin (D. PA) Pennsylvania's Vote By Mail request...
Arrested insurrectionist who said she'd 'do it again' allowed to go on foreign vacation!
There’s going to be a lot of swearing in this. Let me begin: What the fucking fuck? A woman accused of participating in the Jan. 6...
PA-Sen: John Fetterman (D) Rakes In $1.1 Million In Two Weeks For Potential U.S. Senate Bid
Some big news today out of Pennsylvania: https://twitter.com/JohnFetterman/status/1353724828231094277?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Two weeks after saying he’s eyeing a run for the U.S. Senate, Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman...
Some GOP Senators Will REJECT the Latest Subversion of our Constitution [Update*3 Et tu, Lindsey?]
The focus here this weekend has been on the seditious actions being taken by at least a dozen Republican senators in spite of Moscow Mitch’s...
Race(ing) Toward 2021
Sitting down, gathering my thoughts, and staring at my half-empty elitist bottle of overpriced artesian water, which I get delivered by the case, I took...
Kitchen Table Kibitzing Friday – procrastination versus amateur-crastination
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...
Where the votes went as Trump lost the election and the electoral college
Philip Bump has the goods: it is nearly impossible for the fraud claimed by Trumpists to have occurred in 2020. No evidence has emerged to...
The Lowest Common Denominator
On March 25, 1965, eleven days after the candles were blown out on my birthday cake, Ms. Viola Liuzzo was gunned down in her car...
“I put this guy in office. He’s there because of me,” Trump whines 1 hour and 40 minutes on fraud
The grievances continue as Trump imagines offences that only reinforce how much he was thought of as a danger to democracy. “We will find that...
previewing Trump's Saturday Nuremberg Rally
A loser’s victory rally, what a message. In his Valdosta, Georgia speech on Saturday Trump will essentially repeat his 46 minute Facebook rant from Wednesday with a...
now 1-38 “Voters, not lawyers, choose the president,” the appeals court said.
Merit-free futility: “Voters, not lawyers, choose the president,” the appeals court said. x"Voters, not lawyers, choose the President. Ballots, not briefs, decide elections." — Third...
GOP's PA certification last stand: “bad faith, dilatory motive, prejudice, or futility”
There's a slight delay in the PA certification announcement if only because “This is not at all frivolous.” Now 1-36 in lawsuits, the Trump campaign...
Remember that Janet Yellen as Treasury secretary can address some of the Trump sweetheart deals
Former Fed Chair Janet Yellen will be nominated as Treasury Secretary. Remember that Trump though Mnuchin lifted some Russian sanctions during the Mueller investigation on...
This is an actual headline from Detroit Metro Times ( I can't put it in the headline) Banworthy.
www.metrotimes.com/…www.metrotimes.com/... Lock the MF up. Wow. The headline reads, “ Lock the motherfucker up”. Click the link and see. For all the nefarious crap Florida...
Depraved and Different
Back in April, President Trump issued a hollow order that meatpacking plants remain open, with safety restrictions to be fashioned by the plants’ owners. Even...
Black columnist calls out Republican Party as complicit to a racist Trump.
Eugene Robinson has completely lost patience with Trump and The Republican Party. They are trying to return to Jim Crow. Eugene Robinson slams Trump &...
Trump's options dwindle to Kleptocene's anti-democratic noise as GA recount favors Biden
Last gasps of biglygate: even Mitt Romney shades Trump as President-elect Biden has not ruled out legal action against the GSA, as Trump will have...
melting Rudy Giuliani explicitly says that Trump's goal is to “overturn the election”
Did Trump actually call the two Wayne County canvassers to try to reverse their reversal. Autogolpe Trump's widespread effort to delay or undermine certification includes no-take-backsies. ...
250,000 dead since “Trump's a tenant pouring cement down the toilets because his lease is expiring”
Trump doesn’t care whether he loses his security deposit. He just wants the chaos of dying meat processors, conspiracy-driven ICU trespassers, and a quarter-million dead...
LOTUS! PA Supreme Court rejects Trump campaign's claim that GOP lacked access to Philly vote count
1-22 record in legal challenges as GOP loses again, this time on the watchers of vote counting in Philadelphia. xBreaking: The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has...
GA-Sen A & B: Paul Krugman, “A Republican Senate Would Be Bad for Business”
This has been a busy post-election week for me at work and I have a lot more diaries I want to write about this past...
One of Rudy's key witnesses at 'The Four Seasons' was a sex offender, because of course he was
Loopy shrunken apple head Rudy Giuliani has been at the vanguard of Donald Trump’s farewell unreality tour — a lurid spectacle that reached its zany...
“…democracies suffer from post-electoral violence due to the delay in the publishing of results”
Discovery and disinformation are ahead as RWNJs are looking for reasons to overturn the election, but are perhaps more about grifting. The reality remains that...
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...
Red Mirage Kushner has approached Trump about conceding the election, because BBQ, Beer, Freedom
Darn crime families and their damn raccoons. Now they’re using Sharpiestm. Because concessions are where you get your Barbecue and Beer, frothy beer. xSome news — Jared...
Victory LIVEBLOG Community Live Bloggers: Biden-Harris Speeches at Wilmington Delaware
8pm ET join us as we celebrate with the victory speeches of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. x YouTube Video "Our democracy is only as...
Recount 2020: Contested states and their recount rules
So, as I’m writing this, it’s pretty clear that Biden is going to win enough states to be the next President. But that won’t be...
Philly police make arrest in potential attack on Pennsylvania vote counting center
Are we yet ready to reassure folks that DHS/FBI/BATFE are taking the election even more seriously. xHere. We. Go https://t.co/EwRQeEk7RY— Heidi Przybyla (@HeidiNBC) November 6,...
Phoenix Trumpists chant “count the vote” as Detroit Trumpists chant “stop the vote”
Unhingery abounds on the path to the bunker. MSNBC reports that angry Trumpists are demonstrating at the Phoenix vote counting center (Maricopa County Elections Dept.)...
Fortunately, Trump might not ever appear “ahead” on Tuesday night, because hoaxes and fake news
Trump’s hoaxes and fake news have become so normalized as iterated false claims, that we cannot now admit his victory is anything other than horseshoes and...
Trumpian Festivus and Dirty Grandpa Rudy: there can't be enough spoilers in 2020
The Trumpian grievance tour continues: Today in North Carolina, apparently the Trump campaign cares about whether a terrorist conspiracy gets to fly its flag. In...
Assuming some violence will occur in election week, plan to keep calm and remain aware
Assuming that there will be some violent provocations, we should encourage all deescalation efforts for election week, regardless of the vote outcomes. We’ve now seen the...
Map Shows Biden Whopping Trump in Ad Buys
We’ve all been hearing that Democrats have ad money to burn (so much that they’re running out of places to spend it) while Trump and...