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Political Director of Daily Kos. Publisher of Daily Kos Elections. Life-long New Yorker & Democrat. Former attorney. Email: davidnir [at] dailykos [dot] com.
Gender: M
Location: New York, NY, United States
Groups: Daily Kos Elections, Daily Kos, DKE Ticker
Home Page: http://elections.dailykos.com/
Twitter: DKElections
Diaries published: 4037 (0 days since last diary on Tue Jan 31, 2017 at 07:00 PM PST)
Comments posted: 24100 (1 day since last comment on Tue Jan 31, 2017 at 12:02 PM PST)
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Most Recommended Diary: 'In her dreams, she was diabetic': Please help me honor the memory of my wife, Mary Nir (1979-2014), 174 comments, 725 recommends
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A number of Senate Democrats have already said that they won’t support Trump’s Supreme Court pick, Scalia clone Neil Gorsuch, but that’s really not the approach that’s called for here—or that fired-up progressives are looking for. Republicans, led by...
by David Nir
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on Tue Jan 31, 2017 at 07:00 PM PST
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We’ve always known nothing good could emerge from Capitol Hill as long as Republicans remain in charge, but with the congressional GOP rapidly transforming itself into a horde of willing henchmen eager to do Trump’s bidding, Washington has reached a...
by David Nir
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on Tue Jan 31, 2017 at 12:02 PM PST
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On Saturday, good-hearted Americans across the country flooded to our nation’s airports to protest Donald Trump’s cruel and inhuman ban on refugees and Muslim immigrants. One of them was investigative filmmaker Jon Ossoff, pictured above, who sped to...
by David Nir
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on Sun Jan 29, 2017 at 04:22 PM PST
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Amazing. Check out the statement put out by the White House on the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day—the same day, by the way, that Trump issued his cruel ban on refugees fleeing the devastation in Syria. Notice something missing? Any...
by David Nir
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on Sat Jan 28, 2017 at 07:25 PM PST
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Today, we’re all feeling sick, sad, and enraged over the abuse and chaos Trump is dealing out toward refugees and immigrants. If you’re like me, you’re literally vibrating with a desire to do something more, something right now.
Well, here’s...
by David Nir
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on Sat Jan 28, 2017 at 03:34 PM PST
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Democrats are going at Trump with guns fully ablaze over the president’s new executive order blocking all refugees from entering the U.S., but where are Republicans? Aside from Paul Ryan, who’s desperate to keep Trump happy so that he can secure the...
by David Nir
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on Sat Jan 28, 2017 at 12:01 PM PST
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- Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day and activist Russel Neiss, a Jewish educator and technologist, has put together a Twitter feed that is making a profound impact on social media. The backstory: On May 13, 1939, the German transatlantic liner St....82 comments 134 Recs
- My parents have always been among the most patriotic people that I’ve ever met in my life. In fact, the earliest memory I can conjure up clearly in my mind is one of my mother, who had just finished thoroughly dressing down a family friend who was...54 comments 172 Recs
- While the media has been focusing much of its attention over the past few weeks on the inauguration, protests to the aforementioned inauguration, and a slew of alternative facts, Chamber Watch did not fail to tune into U.S. Chamber of Commerce...2 comments 5 Recs
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- Virginia's House is the most important legislature up this year, and Clinton won a majority of seatsWhile most state legislatures aren’t up for election until 2018, all 100 members of Virginia’s House of Delegates will go before voters this November. Here at Daily Kos Elections, we’ve been hard at work calculating the results of the 2016 presidential...88 comments 82 Recs
- When Donald Trump named Rick Perry to head the Department of Energy, it seemed like a capstone to a series of worst-possible selections. Hire the guy who has eight open lawsuits against the EPA to run the EPA. Get the woman who wants to replace public...115 comments 154 Recs
- The number of Democrats planning to boycott the inauguration of a president who lost the popular vote despite a foreign government interfering on his behalf just keeps growing. It's now at more than 60. Announcing his decision not to attend, Rep....140 comments 84 Recs
- Today, Allied Progress Action, Progressive Change Campaign Committee, and Demand Progress Action are jointly launching a TV ad featuring Lisa Fraser, a widow whose home was foreclosed on by Trump Treasury Secretary nominee Steven Mnuchin’s bank,...4 comments 12 Recs
- Of all the terrible nominees for Trump’s Swampy Cabinet, the one that the Senate should feel most comfortable rejecting is Scott Pruitt for EPA administrator. The list of disqualifying activities is fertile ground for opposition. The list starts...1 comments 9 Recs
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