Minerva @ Midnight: no let up in Russian disinformation
Not very much has changed with the disinformation being generated by the usual external players. https://twitter.com/JenGriffinFNC/status/1373110380499722241? For decades now, Russian security services have studied a concept...
Minerva @ Midnight: has Biden already been moved leftward
Anand Giridharadas wrote a piece for The Atlantic asserting that Biden has been moving leftward. This may only be a short term impression only because...
Minerva @ Midnight: another US spree shooting
Still early and a far too familiar pattern has been repeated today in Boulder, Colorado. 10 are dead including one first responding police officer. More...
Pandemicide: Trump's greatest crime(s) against humanity
Laurie Garrett makes the case for the greatest crime perpetrated by Trump for which he may never be prosecuted. In March 2020, Trump said he...
Pandemicide: Trump's greatest crime against humanity. 40% of US COVID deaths avoidable
Laurie Garrett makes the case for the greatest crime perpetrated by Trump for which he may never be prosecuted. In March 2020, Trump said he...
Ted Cruz more embarrassed being caught in Mexico than facilitating an insurrection
Ted Cruz tried to slither around the coverage of his holiday in Cancun, including an interview on Hannity to offset a series of lies once...
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...
Ecologists warn of a lethal, ghastly future, and they insist we stop sugarcoating it.
"In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous." ~ Aristotle It is a fact that the biggest threat to our species is...
whether QAnon-Altamont or scumbag Woodstock, the 1/6 insurrectionists must give up their organizers
How closely associated were elements of the insurrection remains an open question as 300 suspects have been identified so far, with members of Congress possible persons...
corrosion and catastrophes: James Fallows on what Biden should do with the warlock hunt
Stories do have consequences, and following Trump’s American Carnage, truth will out in the larger American narrative. This James Fallows essay is worth reading, made important...
Unhingery: “No candidate has ever won both Florida and Ohio and lost. I won them both, by a lot!”
Why bother counting the votes after Dixville Notch weighs in. Dick Nixon won both Ohio and Florida in 1960 and lost to Kennedy. But you do you Donald,...
…the Trump campaign valorizes violence unlike any other since the George Wallace campaigns.
Desperate Trumpists might be a bit late to obstruct the polls, assuming that law enforcement actually does their constitutional duty. “...the most effective modern disinformation...
Trump cognitive dissonance continues with highest COVID case numbers as disinformation turns corner
“Increase in cases is accelerating with no signs of abating. Hospitalizations already increasing. Reasonable conclusion - deaths too will follow.” If Trump wins and continues...
Trump says fuggetabout pandemic. In Montana he's so far ahead we “shouldn't even have the election”
Like a cartoon dog in a burning room or a river in Egypt, we know Trump will spend his post-presidency looking for the real reasons...
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 last debate tonight: inevitable pandemic death and taxes
The second actual debate could be three too many as we expect more of the same stunts despite a mute switch for the two-minute responses...
'Every species of boodle corrupt politics known in any campaign' now virtual front-porch campaigns
The Trump campaign goes virtual and now may attempt a national address to get more free media even after spreading the Trump virus at a fundraiser...
Biden Express goes through Ohio and Pennsylvania; Trump's call to RW militias continues
It does seem old-fashioned but the Biden post-debate train tour seems better than Trump’s promises to never return to (insert state) if he loses, which...
“I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit.” No. We still vote, GOTV, for democracy.
More Trump attention-seeking shtick has happened. He’s threatened to refuse to transfer power. That could really happen because he’s nuts and even if he only represents an...
Is Louisville an “anarchist jurisdiction” because Rule of Law failed by not indicting killer cops
In revisionist history, perhaps the Union troops hunting down John Wilkes Booth were only interested in him because of some ‘wanton endangerment’. We do know...
Biden leads by 10% nationally (Q-Poll)
Biden continues to lead with no slippage nationally, and is apparently perceived by 13% as more intelligent than Trump (sic). xNew Quinnipiac national poll:Biden 52%Trump...
Not So Fast On That Trump EC Coup
There’s a diary on top of the rec list right now that’s based on a story in the Atlantic, that Trump might try to take...
30-50 feral pigs are the Donald Trumps of coronaviruses
Feral pigs are the crying-wolf excuse for some firearm owners, as though the average hunter needed a modern sporting rifle (semi-auto long gun with large...
“And I will tell you something, that’s the way it has to be. There has to be retribution.”
In an interview yesterday, Trump went all in on sanctioning extralegal political killing, because death squads seem right for his presidency, shooting people on the...
it may be too late to stop election interference
We’re now past the point in 2016 where PBO got derailed by McConnell on election interference from Russia. We can see why Trump has undermined...
Lincoln Project weighs in on Trump's disrespect for the troops
in a new video which you can see below I think it is fair to say that what started last evening with the piece in ...
Belleau Wood Is Coming to Dunsinane!
In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the three witches promised Macbeth that he could not lose until “Birnam Wood shall come to Dunsinane” (that being Macbeth’s castle). Since...
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...
disloyal rage: Trump helps Woodward because Bob's got the Kim Jong-un love letters
Trump never read Bob Woodward’s first book on Trump, Fear, and yet, Trump does believe that there’s no such thing as bad publicity, what? Why...
Killing the US Postal Service is unconstitutional even if a quarter-million pandemic deaths isn't
Trump just said, and I quote: “absentee good, mail-in very very bad.” (Orange man… bad) President Donald Trump said the quiet part out loud, admitting he’s...
Trump Presser: live from 19th tee at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster (play 'Hail to the Chief')
There’s a presser from the Trump golf club, because optics matter: "Congress needs to stay in Washington and work this out. Now watch this tee shot."...
THIS IS IMPORTANT: Ed Yong's Atlantic article is an absolute MUST READ!!
Yes I am SHOUTING. That’s because this is about the most important thing you can read today. The piece is titled How the Pandemic Defeated...
Announcing a vaccine in October will not be surprising – surviving Trump after November will be
Peter Nicholas throws cold water on the gaslight that is building up, anticipating stunts galore before November’s election day. Jobless numbers, 151,000 dead, and basic incompetence...
after Trump's 145 retweets: Trust the plan. Enjoy the show. Expect more mischief
Fortunately Twitter decided to rein in QAnon, one of many cults projecting both the main tenets of Trumpism but also serving as a channel for...
Pew Pew … #TrumpsGestapo point their guns at photographer during #PortlandProtests
Trump's cosplay paramilitary uses repression stunts to reinforce GOP's voter suppression message, pointing their tiny mushrooms. x"I can't turn my back. But I fear for...
Trump and his “state of exception” in DC: the desire for a failed state in Portland dress rehearsal
Trump’s incompetence is not simply inaction, it has a theory for his brand of failure, namely “’executive underreach’ as a species of leadership failure that’s as...
“Trump's behavior (with COVID) is intentional. He is malevolent. He is a 1st degree mass-murderer”
“He's not just delusional. He is not just narcissistic. Trump's behavior with the coronavirus pandemic is intentional. He is malevolent. He is a first-degree mass...
Trump tries to save the confederacy using QAnon because it fits his dominionist pandering
Trump wants Confederate spectacles, why else try to attack NASCAR because of its flag ban. The ultimate Confederate spectacle is the resilience of the lost cause...
Petraeus: Rename the Rebel Forts
In this new post at The Atlantic, the former 4-Star General and Director of Central Intelligence forcefully gives his support to renaming those US military...
Vichy GOP collaboration: why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles for #BunkerBoy
It’s worth reading Anne Applebaum’s Atlantic article “History Will Judge the Complicit”, or does the GOP wish to reveal the truth of conservative principles as oxymoron....
Late Night Trump worries about his masculinity because his fee-fees are hurt
Trump tweeting at 11pm last night probably got around to reading Tom Nichols’s article in The Atlantic and will probably wake up trying to figure out...
“Donald Trump, the Most Unmanly President”
That is how Tom Nichols describes him in this powerful piece in The Atlantic. I might note the phrase “the Most Unmanly President” has been...
“Presidency is about a lot more than tweeting from your golf cart” as Trump says “much very good”
“As the death toll in the coronavirus pandemic neared 100,000 Americans this Memorial Day weekend, President Trump derided & insulted perceived enemies & promoted a...
This might be the most important piece to read on Covid-19
Ed Yong of The Atlantic hs a strong track record as a writer on medical issues. He has a new piece up, titled America’s Patchwork...
Commander in Chief: “I call it the super duper missile.” branding Space Force … pew, pew
Pew pew pew and the operation warp speed…. xPresident Trump compared the accelerated effort to develop a coronavirus vaccine by January 2021 to the Manhattan...
stan / standing behind the IMPOTUS*
They also serve who only stand in shadows cast by gaslight. https://twitter.com/pppatrickford/status/1254437713467580416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Donald Trump loves attention, and people can’t help but give it to him....
Trump continues bogus claim of economic shutdown being more fatal than COVID-19
Trump persists in claiming that the “shutdown” will kill more people. It won’t, despite the logical fallacy of associating the current death rate with curtailing...
Live Blog: COVID Taskforce Briefing, “the ratings for the WH Press Briefings are 'through the roof'”
Live Blog below (Trump rarely starts on time, today it has been announced to begin at 6pm EDT) Members of the Coronavirus Task Force Hold...
“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...
Pyrrhic-time battle for the 'wartime president' The Senate Relief bill is also a heist
This is a robbery in progress," wrote David Dayen, executive editor at The American Prospect. "And it's not a bailout for the coronavirus. It's a...
