The Uighur Genocide
What is the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the words, terrorism? 9/11? ISIS? The Taliban? While these examples are certainly just,...
In the post-insurrection US, air travel remains safe if no one storms the flight deck
One incident occurred just hours ago as a flight gets diverted to OKC because a passenger wanted to step outside. https://twitter.com/StanleyRoberts/status/1403577042088513540?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw An earlier flight wound...
Minerva @ Midnight: Big Liar's Deep State. Trump's DOJ procured Washington Post phone records
Trump's DOJ secretly obtained Washington Post reporters’ phone records "The Trump Justice Department secretly obtained Washington Post journalists' phone records and tried to obtain their...
Previous guy's “ignoration day” came after Chris Steele produced a “second” dossier for the FBI
Expect some GOP to be triggered by this new information about intelligence produced during Trump’s term as “...it was used by the US Justice Department to...
Minerva @ Midnight: another Anti-Asian attack in NYC
The New York Police Department's (NYPD) Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating after two Asian women were attacked in Manhattan on Sunday, with one being...
MAGA world rages after Ivanka gets the Fauci ouchie
Ivanka Trump has spent the past five years trying to position herself in the public’s mind as the “reasonable” Trump. Granted, that's a pretty low...
Intel Community: “Previous Guy was a tool in a long-running Russian campaign to weaken the USA.”
Truly a tool, as the Inspector General reports are coming and Previous Guy’s going to be in the barrel. Donald Trump was a tool in a...
As with life, the illustrations of it are always problematic representations
Likely the RWNJ social media site Gab was constantly under FBI surveillance even before 6 January, but for some reason it wishes to make itself...
'If masks and social distancing don’t work, then what the hell happened to the flu?'
Though my spot on the introversion spectrum lies somewhere between Kleenex box-wearing Howard Hughes and urine-collecting Howard Hughes (and as I continue to age, I’m on...
no ifs, ands, or buts – Trump must be prosecuted ASAP. Senate Judiciary vote on Garland, March 1
One hopes that after the farce of a Trump impeachment acquittal, that criminal proceedings begin in all of the relevant venues. We have already seen how Trump...
“Trump left everyone in the Capitol for dead” as mob hunted for victims like VP Pence
The impeachment managers drew a straight line from Trump to the insurrection and harm’s way for Mike Pence. The march to the Capitol seemed spontaneous but...
“Let's be careful out there” 10 days left.
Please practice greater situational awareness from January 17 to January 20. We all trust that those whose jobs it is to keep the nation safe...
Devin Nunes is the first Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient to lose lawsuit to a fake cow
Another Trump-Russia participation trophy, because Devin was so stupid he won’t get an indictment until Trump leaves office. xWhat’s the over/under thar Trump will award...
“Everybody knows who he is, but they don't know what to do with him” Ole Miss fires a professor
As with most faculty politics, there is a subtext to the story of a professor fired for specious reasons. Garrett Felber was fired for failing...
The Daily Bucket–Monkeywrenching with Paper
Edward Abbey memorialized environmental resistance to mindless development in his tome The Monkey Wrench Gang. It essentially endorsed sabotage to thwart degrading of the natural...
Scott Atlas Wants You to Have a Final Thanksgiving
Prisoners about to be executed are sometimes asked what they want for their last meal. (I used to fantasize about what I would want —...
Climate fires have tipped us into a new era – the age of embers.
Yale Environment 360 notes "just as global warming has propelled the Arctic Ocean past a tipping point which will lead to a largely ice-free Arctic...
A**hole Gives “COVID Hug” to Random Strangers
Sometimes I really wonder if we deserve to survive as a species. CNN is reporting that this guy walked into a Walmart store in Springfield,...
Trump has us 'flying blind' on flu vaccines due to his boneheaded decision to leave the WHO.
In a few months, winter will arrive, and we are woefully unprepared for the sicknesses of the flu and cold season. It may be impossible...
Another Trump Presser: without a case of the claque, Trump still wants to kill social security
Started at 547pm ET Apparently like the Germans and Pearl Harbor, for Trump, the second World War ended in 1917. x YouTube Video Trump starts...
From Great Recession to Trump Disaster, because if you're anti-mask, you're pro-surveillance.
The weird have turned pro, but the advantage of mask-wearing is the disruption of facial recognition software without having to use geometric pattern disruption makeup...
20th Amendment: Trump wants delay to drag him over the finish line, but for #President Pelosi
Fortunately, Trump has telegraphed one of his tactical options to remain in power. xFor nearly 90 years, the Constitution has contained a built-in safeguard against...
Portland protests continue not because of “professional anarchists” but because there's no justice
In his presser, Trump blamed Portland violence on “professional anarchists” because of course they carry cards noting their memberships, rather than those awful amateur anarchists....
The Daily Bucket–Save The Redwoods
I’m just an old race horse out to pasture, pawing the ground when the race track bugle sounds. I still read the local public notices...
Trump knew about #RussiaBounty, and the truth continues to emerge
Now more evidence emerges in the #RussiaBounty scandal and Trump simply looks to be even more negligent. He was briefed multiple times over the past...
GA-Sen A & B: Sen. Bob Casey, Jr. (D. PA) Refuses To Let The GOP Steal Both These Seats
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Bob Casey, Jr. (D. PA) in support of Jon Ossoff (D. GA) and Rev. Raphael Warnock’s (D. GA)...
GA-Sen A: Jon Ossoff (D) Rips David Perdue (R) A New One Over GOP Lawsuit To Kill Obamacare
Received this e-mail yesterday from Jon Ossoff’s (D. GA) U.S. Senate campaign: In the midst of an out-of-control pandemic, insurance industry-backed GOP officials just filed...
KS-Sen: Turns Out That Kris Kobach (R) Is The Farthest Thing From A “Responsible Gun Owner”
From the Leavenworth Times editorial board today: Guns should be kept safely and securely. The news that U.S. Senate candidate Kris Kobach had four guns...
Hottest day ever recorded north of the Arctic Circle; reached 100.4 F; 80 years faster than expected
Even if a small fraction of the Arctic seafloor carbon is released to the atmosphere, we’re fucked. Climatologist Jason Box, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland...
Georgia officers held 5 black young teenagers going through a neighborhood at gunpoint.
Here we go again. Police officers decided to hold young teenagers at gunpoint as they walk through a Georgia neighborhood. https://youtube.com/watch?v=EwPucoNjUGA See the entire episode here....
Imagining a Trump speech on race relations will be a pushover
Trump delivering a White House speech on race relations written by Stephen Miller is like faking a concussion because you’re supposed to be a hard-core...
speaking 'the language of the unheard'
#BunkerBoy remains in the White House today hiding behind his #Babygate. xMany people say there are more people on the DC streets today than there...
The Daily Bucket– The Innocence Project Appeals to Frog Court.
I reached for the grimy tumbler. It was empty. Not even any ice. I reached for the whiskey bottle. It was empty too. This was...
KY-Sen: Moscow Mitch Has A Sad Over Obama Trashing Trump's Abysmal Coronavirus Response
Boo. Fucking. Hoo. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said on Monday that former President Obama should have held back from criticizing President Trump's handling of the coronavirus...
Rubin Blames the Whole GOP
I never liked Jennifer Rubin’s columns during the Obama era. She came across as automatically opposed to everything President Obama did, and in 2012 she...
Trump ignored the smoke detector and waited until the (white) house was on fire
Aside from sinophobia rather than russophobia, The NY Times has documented more of the details for the 70-days of denial/delay/dysfunction in the Trump White House. ...
Kitchen Table Kibitzing Friday: “The great artist of tomorrow will have to go underground”
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...
“I’m not a doctor but I’m a person with common sense” says Mister 'Ripe for Fraud'
Today’s Trump presser had a couple of lies today, which seems normal as he’s become rehearsed with his excuses and his usual projection. However he’s...
Briefing Fact check: Trump claims he “inherited” the faulty COVID test. It was developed this year.
COVID-19 is not like the seasonal flu, among other things. The above chart should end all comments about it being "just like the flu". Remember that...
“one million eight hundred and seventy thousand million tests.”
Today’s COVID presser approached a high point in propaganda content: x"That's one million eight hundred and seventy thousand million tests." pic.twitter.com/AKxe9h3vVI— Matt Rogers (@Politidope) April...
Trump's planning a Venezuela invasion like the one he wanted in August 2017, because Manuel Noriega
Today Trump tried bait and switch, doing a briefing on the indictments and increased military operations against Venezuela. He used the pretext of a COVID-19...
Could the USAID Predict program, which ended under Trump, have prevented the COVID-19 outbreak?
As snarky as I like to get vis-à-vis the ocher abomination, I really can’t say I know the answer to this. But now that The...
Trump remains part of the problem of US COVID-19 testing failure.
The usual “anti-government” dismantling of the state preached by Trumpists rationalized their inability to contingency plan for testing failure. It started even before they took...
ME-Sen: The New Republic, “How the Media Created the 'Moderate' Susan Collins (R)”
The New Republic has a new piece out about how the media is responsible for creating the myth that U.S. Senator Susan Collins (R. ME) is...
Trumpublican operatives infiltrated liberal groups to subvert campaigns since 2016
The NY Times has a new article describing the dirty trick campaigns in this election cycle designed to subvert Democratic party supporters. The Erik Prince...
Do more Days/Daze of Disinformation remain as RWNJs float a Bloomberg-Clinton ticket
This cannot be the government that America deserves in 2020, but there will be a repeat of 2016 if only because Trumpists lack the intelligence...
Waves washing over a Pacific Atoll spells catastrophe for 'premier' ballistic missile defense site.
If you're asking when climate change is going to "happen," you're really asking when's it going to happen to "me," because it's already happened to...
DoJ Inspector General report available: Russia Probe justified and not politically motivated
Did we really want a criminal in the WH. The DoJ IG report is available. https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1204098500285345796? Inspector general found that political bias did not taint...
Trump “Routinely” Violates Phone Security
About a year and a half ago, Politico posted this story — ‘Too inconvenient’: Trump goes rogue on phone security — which reported how his...
Top 5 Political Books Of October 2019
Here is The Politicus Top 5 Political Books of October 2019: An unprecedented behind-the-scenes portrait of the Trump presidency from the anonymous senior official whose...
