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More than 110 million Covid-19 vaccinations have taken place in the United States, of which about 90 million happened after Joe Biden took office. The 100 million vaccination pledge will be reached about March 20. Alaska and Mississippi are the first two states to widen eligibility to all adult residents. But...

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  • March 16, 2021

He Who Shall Not Be Named (aka Chester Cheat-oh, aka the Abominable Showman, aka Fuckface McFuckington) now feels compelled to punish everyone, including the phalanx of toadies (aka the Republican Party) who failed to bend abjectly to his will in his final days. The Wall Street Journal: President [He Who...

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  • January 20, 2021

Trump’s staff may have tricked him into thinking he has a line-item veto. Attention-seeking becomes purer for the desperate POTUS*. Trump dithered because he thinks that improves an “unpredictability” brand that shines the turd of incompetence. Trying to make indecisiveness a fashion statement only works when horseshoes are hand grenades. One...

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  • December 28, 2020

This should be grounds to take Fox News off of our airwaves for being an anti-mask promoting network that caused thousands of lives. Fox News comes clean x x YouTube Video See full episodes here. Fox News Steve Doocy seemed to have gotten an epiphany. Masks work. The network ridiculed those...

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  • December 2, 2020

Received two e-mails from former President Barack Obama. The first one is in support of Jon Ossoff’s (D. GA) U.S. Senate campaign: Jon Ossoff (D. GA) & Raphael Warnock (D. GA) If Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are going to deliver the change we need to get this pandemic under...

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  • December 1, 2020

Never has a Freudian slip been so perfect — or accurate: x “We're working on mass distribution of the virus.” — Treasury Sec. Steve Mnuchin, who we hope is working on mass distribution of the ~vaccine~ and not the virus. pic.twitter.com/DqaTC1ZTmD— The Recount (@therecount) November 20, 2020 < p class=”is-empty-p”> TREASURY...

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  • November 20, 2020

Received this e-mail today from former presidential candidate, Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D. TX), in support of Jon Ossoff (D. GA) and Rev. Raphael Warnock’s (D. GA) U.S. Senate campaigns: Jon Ossoff (D. GA) & Raphael Warnock (D. GA) I’m grateful for the responses to the “down but not out!” email...

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  • November 12, 2020

A US aircraft carrier is the first named for an enlisted sailor and first named for an African American. The 15 billion dollar carrier was announced the USS Doris Miller in January on Martin Luther King's day. Doris (Dorie) Miller is the brave sailor who took over an anti-craft machine gun shooting...

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  • September 29, 2020

A US aircraft carrier is named for an enlisted sailor and African American named Doris “Dorie” Miller. The 15 billion dollar carrier was announced the USS Doris Miller in January on Martin Luther King's day. Doris (Dorie) Miller is the brave sailor who took over an anti-craft machine gun shooting at...

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  • September 29, 2020

Donald Trump is a geyser of misinformation, and normally Facebook is only too happy to funnel that fount of fucknuttery through a fire hose and hit America in the blessed nethers with it. But finally — finally — they’re doing something about his rampant dishonesty. Facebook says it has removed a Trump-shared post...

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  • August 5, 2020

MSNBC Pundit Michael Beschloss provided the best narrative that describes the president's complicity in the COVID-19 fiasco that killed tens of thousands of Americans. Michael Beschloss puts COVID-19 blame on Trump x x YouTube Video Watch complete episodes here. MSNBC's Ayman Mohyeldin asked Presidential Historian Michael Beschloss how Presidents in...

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  • July 12, 2020

It’s always been offensive. It simply took this moment in history to get the ball rolling: x And here it is: the Redskins are undergoing a thorough review of the team’s name. And let’s be clear: There’s no review if there’s no change coming. Redskins on way out. pic.twitter.com/ZrS3cCvhMg— Adam...

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  • July 3, 2020

Facebook said it has removed 220 Facebook accounts, 95 Instagram accounts, 28 Pages and 106 groups that comprise the violent Boogaloo-affiliated network. An advertising boycott is beginning against Facebook. x The real reason big brands are joining the Facebook boycott? It could be a “handy excuse” to cut ad spend,...

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  • July 1, 2020

Like clockwork, Donald Trump has determined that John Bolton is a wacko. That’s what happens when you challenge Kaiser Cray-Cray. You get a dose of whatever medicine he snorted this morning.  x ….He didn’t want Bolton anywhere near him. Bolton’s dumbest of all statements set us back very badly with...

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  • June 18, 2020

Received this e-mail yesterday from Mike Espy’s (D. MS) U.S. Senate campaign: Thousands of people gathered across Mississippi this past weekend, demonstrating that people are ready for change. The people of Mississippi are showing that they are ready for a state that represents them — and that includes the Mississippi state...

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  • June 12, 2020

Don’t be surprised about this. Come on. Lying and finger-pointing have always been Donald Trump’s M.O. Why would anyone think he’d behave differently in an emergency? With the pressure on, his go-to defense mechanisms were bound to get even worse. Trump then suggests people are to blame if they can't...

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  • March 12, 2020

It is late for me to “decide.”   It is even later than usual for me to to vote.  I can and usually vote absentee in person on the first day possible —  I live in Virginia but work in Maryland so I have no trouble qualifying for the privilege to...

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  • February 22, 2020

Received this e-mail today from former Columbus, GA Mayor, Teresa Tomlinson’s (D. GA) U.S. Senate campaign: If you had asked me a few years ago whether we should eliminate the Senate filibuster, I would have told you, “Absolutely not.” But last August, days after 31 people were massacred in El Paso...

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  • February 14, 2020

An MTP Daily panel finally completely soured on Joe Biden. Interestingly they came to the same conclusion most of the progressive Independent media came to months ago. Biden won’t like the tone of the discussion. Biden exposed by MSM? Chuck Todd started the segment with an inconvenient truth. He pointed...

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  • February 7, 2020

Took him a while but glad he’s there: Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is wading into one of Texas’ most closely watched primary challenges, endorsing progressive candidate Jessica Cisneros who has mounted a bid to unseat U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo, one of the most conservative Democrats in Congress. “This is the...

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  • January 29, 2020

The FBI has received Spanish wiretaps from an investigation of Russian money laundering through NRA that implicates Donald Trump Jr. Then there’s the money that GOP leadership received including the transfers made during the GOP convention.  x Oligarch Len Blavatnik in 2016 gave Trumps pac $7.35 million. Marco Rubio, John...

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  • December 24, 2019

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 throwing pies at one another. Drop by to talk about music, your weather, your garden, or what you cooked for supper…. Newcomers may notice that...

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  • December 7, 2019

Remember when Gerald Ford took all the credit for America’s bicentennial? No, of course not. He just stumbled down staircases every once in a while. Man, I miss those days. While signing the Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commemorative Coin Act yesterday, Donald Trump wondered why it hadn’t been done before. I’ll...

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  • November 26, 2019

bangordailynews.com/… Republican Senator Susan Collins who is usually finding crimes by Donald Trump to be “troubling” kicked it up half a notch when she said it was “completely inappropriate” for the President to ask China to investigate Joe Biden. The Maine senator was unequivocal in her statements, which came after...

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  • October 5, 2019

A good opening to a Paul Waldman column today: A quarter-century ago, a certain New York real estate investor took an interest in negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union over nuclear weapons. Apparently he believed that if he got in a room with the Russians, he could...

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  • September 21, 2017