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| Open thread for night owls: Pompeo rubber-stamps U.S.-armed Saudi slaughter in Yemen Julia Conley at Common Dreams writes— 'Outrageous': Fury as Pompeo Puts US 'Rubber Stamp' of Approval on Saudi Slaughter of Civilians in Yemen :
As local journalists in Yemen reported that at ... |
Meteor Blades | 09/12/2018 | 31 | 35 | - | - |
| DC residents want Trump hotel's liquor license yanked due to Trump's poor character, criminal ties It was a bit of a long shot, but if we're not going to debate Donald Trump's flagrant corruption in the press or in Congress then the people of Washington, D.C., wanted, at the least, to take it up ... |
Hunter | 09/12/2018 | 15 | 48 | - | - |
| Planned Parenthood is making waves, naming the first doctor in 50 years to lead Planned Parenthood just announced their new president, who’ll be taking over once Cecile Richards officially steps down: Leana Wen, M.D. She’s spent four years serving as a Baltimore Health Commissioner and will be the first physician to take the role... |
Wagatwe Wanjuki | 09/12/2018 | 22 | 92 | - | - |
| Eric Trump: Woodward wrote 'sensational nonsense' about Trump 'to make 3 extra shekels' Donald Trump’s second dumbest son Eric Trump appeared on Donald’s favorite television program, Fox & Friends, to defend his father from the accusations of irrationality and stupidity that appear throughout veteran reporter Bob Woodward’s new book. ... |
Hunter | 09/12/2018 | 124 | 83 | - | - |
| Senator shows proof the Trump admin took hurricane recovery funds to pay for ICE detentions Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) has been working to reunite immigrant children with their families after being indefinitely confined to “detention camps” that are quickly becoming longtime internment camps. Daily Kos staff writer Gabe Ortiz reminds us... |
Jen Hayden | 09/12/2018 | 46 | 95 | - | - |
| Trump EPA proposes rolling back rules for monitoring potent methane gas leaks On Tuesday, the Trump administration proposed a roll back of the rules that regulated “uncontrolled release” of the greenhouse gas methane. And while this change would only save oil and gas companies a little bit of money, it would definitely hurt... |
Walter Einenkel | 09/12/2018 | 13 | 47 | - | - |
| Attorneys blast new policy making it easier to reject green card applications as 'invisible wall' When incoming director L. Francis Cissna struck “nation of immigrants” from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) mission statement, he meant it. Under newly announced policy, officials now plan to use mistakes and missing information... |
Gabe Ortiz | 09/12/2018 | 9 | 45 | - | - |
| Trump tweets about Florence and Twitter smacks him back about Puerto Rico As Hurricane Florence heads toward the U.S. mainland and evacuation orders are being issued by states on its path, the Orange Occupant of the White House decided to pretend to be presidential and exhibit concern for those folks being affected by... |
Denise Oliver Velez | 09/12/2018 | 292 | 444 | - | - |
| The Trump administration looks to chill free speech by making protesters pay for rallies There really is only one Constitutional Amendment that Republicans will vow to defend, even to the death, even if it means certain death for many in America. The rest are negotiable, based on their fluctuating values and morals (or lack thereof). Case... |
Jen Hayden | 09/12/2018 | 54 | 116 | - | - |
| NPR poll: 'Midwest Abandons Trump' It appears Donald Trump's unhinged, combative style of governance isn't going over well in the Midwest, where a new NPR/Marist poll shows support for Congressional Republicans collapsing.
In that poll, the generic ballot trended upward for... |
Kerry Eleveld | 09/12/2018 | 269 | 284 | - | - |
| Unions join fight against Kavanaugh nomination Campaign Action
The Judiciary Democrats' tough questioning of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh exposed his absolute contempt for workers' rights and immigrants' rights. Organized labor is marshaling forces to put the pressure on.
They're... |
Joan McCarter | 09/12/2018 | 12 | 71 | - | - |
| Hypocrisy, thy name is Susan Collins, Super PAC sweetheart Campaign Action
Republican Maine Sen. Susan Collins is rallying the right wing to push back against people-powered democracy in her home state. Mainers for Accountable Leadership, the Maine People's Alliance, and Be A Hero, founded by national health... |
Joan McCarter | 09/12/2018 | 23 | 74 | - | - |
| Sessions earns swift rebuke for telling new immigration judges to show less sympathy Numerous immigration judges blasted Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III for his remarks to dozens of new judges earlier this week, where he not only complained about immigration courts that show too much “sympathy” in decisions, but also claimed that... |
Gabe Ortiz | 09/12/2018 | 67 | 192 | - | - |
| Senate GOP forced to pour resources into saving least-liked member of its caucus: Ted Cruz “Lyin' Ted” Cruz is actually in re-election trouble in a state that should be a gimme for Republicans: Texas. And now the Republican Senate, desperate to save its majority from “shipwreck,” is being forced to devote resources to prop up one of its most... |
Kerry Eleveld | 09/12/2018 | 48 | 70 | - | - |
| 'They would've lost them anyway': Trump comforts farmers losing farms due to tariffs Campaign Action
There's just no words for how incomprehensibly out of touch Donald Trump is with the havoc he and his trade policies are wreaking on farmers. Here's what Trump told a local KELO reporter in South Dakota last week when he was asked for... |
Kerry Eleveld | 09/12/2018 | 224 | 207 | - | - |
| Democrats are making a push to stop Republican attacks on democracy in North Carolina North Carolina Republicans have so effectively gerrymandered their state that—even though the state has a Democratic governor—the hope for Democrats is not winning either chamber of the state legislature, but simply breaking the veto-proof Republican... |
Laura Clawson | 09/12/2018 | 16 | 79 | - | - |
| Trump announces new sanctions against election interference ... good thing that's never happened Donald Trump scribbled out a new executive order on Wednesday putting in place potential sanctions against any country that interferes in a U.S. election. But, since the application of those sanctions would remain “at the president’s discretion” and... |
Mark Sumner | 09/12/2018 | 19 | 70 | - | - |
| Schumer needs to be willing to play as dirty as McConnell to win back the Senate, save the judiciary Mitch McConnell has a number of tools at hand to try to divert that "shipwreck" Senate Republicans are fearing in November's election. Like this sledgehammer: keeping the Senate in session in October, and keeping the 10 Democrats running for... |
Joan McCarter | 09/12/2018 | 157 | 195 | - | - |
| Midday open thread: Tennis umpires sob, 'Serena is mean,' and Merry Christmas
Today’s comic by Matt Bors is Brett Kavanaugh, supreme umpire: |
Barbara Morrill | 09/12/2018 | 39 | 32 | - | - |
| 'Suspicious activity reports' flag transactions that may be connected to Trump Tower Russia meeting The Trump Tower meeting in which Donald Trump’s top campaign staff conspired with a group of Russian operatives to exchange information helpful to Trump in the 2016 election was followed by a series of mysterious financial transactions that may be... |
Mark Sumner | 09/12/2018 | 49 | 128 | - | - |
| Democratic women have obliterated the all-time record for number of House nominees Now that primary season has ended, the full extent of this year’s record-breaking number of women running for the House couldn’t be clearer: As you can see above, the number of Democratic women winning a place on the November ballot has exploded,... |
Daniel Donner | 09/12/2018 | 25 | 76 | - | - |
| Collins throws her own pity party, trying to change the subject on how awful Kavanaugh would be Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) can't get her story straight. Up until now, she's been insisting that she's not hearing from her constituents on the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court like she did on Affordable Care Act repeal. So why should... |
Joan McCarter | 09/12/2018 | 90 | 144 | - | - |
| Democrats have a huge lead in the race for the House, poll finds Democrats have a 14-point lead for the U.S. House, 52 percent to 38 percent, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll. That’s important news, since Republicans have gerrymandered enough of the country that Democrats are starting out in a hole.... |
Laura Clawson | 09/12/2018 | 55 | 83 | - | - |
| Trump admin's 'temporary' prison camp for migrant kids is continuing—and getting even bigger Campaign Action
The Trump administration’s “temporary” prison camp for unaccompanied migrant kids and some migrant kids kidnapped from their parents at the border isn’t just going to continue through the end of the year, it’s going to get even... |
Gabe Ortiz | 09/12/2018 | 15 | 85 | - | - |
| New questions arise about Supreme Court nominee's knowledge of sexual harassment by a federal judge In December 2017, Judge Alex Kozinski retired as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals 9th Circuit after six extremely accomplished women who clerked for him came forward to detail allegations of sexual harassment. The number of women has now... |
Jen Hayden | 09/12/2018 | 78 | 153 | - | - |
| Republicans are getting nervous about a Senate elections 'shipwreck' Could the terrible political environment and Donald Trump’s sinking approval rating put the Senate in reach for Democrats? While the entire House is up for grabs this year, the Senate has looked out of reach for Democrats because, with only a third of... |
Laura Clawson | 09/12/2018 | 99 | 134 | - | - |
| New research offers a blueprint for recruiting and electing more black women to public office 2018 marks the 50th anniversary of the election of Shirley Chisholm—the first black woman ever to serve in Congress. Since that time, the number of black women serving in elected office at the local, state and national level has increased but is not... |
Kelly Macias | 09/12/2018 | 8 | 61 | - | - |
| 48 days after a court deadline, Trump admin continues slow-walking migrant family reunification Campaign Action
Wednesday, Sept. 12, marks 48 days since Judge Dana Sabraw’s July 26 deadline, yet the Trump administration has continued to slow-walk migrant family reunification, leaving hundreds of kidnapped migrant children still separated from... |
Gabe Ortiz | 09/12/2018 | 12 | 62 | - | - |
| New polling shows there's no reason for ANY Democrat to vote for Kavanaugh Campaign Action
National polling by CNN conducted at the end of hearings for Brett Kavanaugh show that he's hardly more popular than the unindicted co-conspirator who nominated him. Just 38 percent of Americans say he should be confirmed, while 39... |
Joan McCarter | 09/12/2018 | 54 | 130 | - | - |
| Florence update: Pamlico Sound threatened by massive surge as potential turn to south spreads danger With Hurricane Florence still driving slowly toward the Carolinas, the forecast is decidedly not looking better. The latest forecasts show the storm reaching the coast of North Carolina on Friday, diverting to the south, and lingering the area for days... |
Mark Sumner | 09/12/2018 | 58 | 80 | - | - |
| Republicans cut taxes for the rich, now the deficit will reach $1 trillion ONE YEAR from now The Congressional Budget Office assessed the damage the Republican tax giveaway to the rich is doing to our national debt and found the GOP is on course to deliver, according to Axios. Instead of hitting that $1 trillion deficit by 2020, the nation... |
Kerry Eleveld | 09/12/2018 | 62 | 99 | - | - |
| Trump administration funnels $9.75 million from FEMA to pay for ICE detention centers Campaign Action
The Trump administration is making its priorities clear, funneling money into ICE detention centers from other agencies’ budgets—including, Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) highlighted Tuesday, from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. A... |
Laura Clawson | 09/12/2018 | 31 | 83 | - | - |
| Telling yet another lie, Trump says he did a 'fantastic job' responding to Hurricane Maria Millions of people are preparing for Hurricane Florence to make landfall later this week. As they brace themselves for a storm with “potential for unbelievable damage,” Donald Trump is busy congratulating himself for the great job he thinks he did in... |
Kelly Macias | 09/12/2018 | 46 | 77 | - | - |
| Tremendously big and tremendously wet—Donald Trump loves disasters Donald Trump fist-pumped his way to the 9/11 memorial service on Tuesday, then followed up with an interview in which he bragged about the “incredible, unsung success” of the hurricane assistance to Puerto Rico. He returned to his disaster montage on... |
Mark Sumner | 09/12/2018 | 95 | 107 | - | - |
| Morning Digest: Polls show Democrats in the driver's seat to reclaim Michigan governor's office The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, and Carolyn Fiddler, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, Daniel Donner, James ... |
Daily Kos Elections | 09/12/2018 | 26 | 49 | - | - |
| Cartoon: Brett Kavanaugh, supreme umpire Follow me on Twitter at @MattBors and check out the comics magazine I’ve launched at The Nib . |
Matt Bors | 09/12/2018 | 13 | 67 | - | - |
| Cheers and Jeers: Wednesday From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE…
Drunk Donald Trump
The latest edition, with bonus Democratic socialist plaid shirt guy:
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He’s in charge of our emergency hurricane operations. God help us. Again.
Cheers and Jeers starts below the... |
Bill in Portland Maine | 09/12/2018 | 98 | 80 | - | - |
| Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: Brett Kavanaugh, partisan hack; the coming Blue wave; shhh impeach As we continue through Woodward week, the portrait of a president who knows he's going to be impeached (and parallel to that, political demands that no one say that except Rs) is a bizarre ... |
Greg Dworkin | 09/12/2018 | 284 | 151 | - | - |
| Daily Kos Radio is LIVE at 9 AM ET! Here we are: Wednesday.
Wednesday!
The Kavanaugh hearings are over, with still more drama to come. But with the spectacle behind us, we might get a chance to check in with Joan McCarter on the hot ... |
David Waldman | 09/12/2018 | - | 3 | - | - |
| Open thread for night owls: Seven California Democrats could be a big part of flipping the House John Nichols at The Nation writes— Can California Democrats Flip the House in November? Seven first-time candidates in swing districts could spell the difference:
By almost any measure, the ... |
Meteor Blades | 09/11/2018 | 83 | 95 | - | - |
| Betsy DeVos is intentionally trying reduce the chances of a student rapist getting punished There’s a new report out by The New York Times about the Education Department’s own analysis about the impact of the new guidelines the agency will likely implement around sexual violence in education under Title IX. They found that rolling back... |
Wagatwe Wanjuki | 09/11/2018 | 34 | 57 | - | - |
| Trump's biggest Democratic ally in Congress raises money for vulnerable Texas Republican If there's one thing we can always count on, it's Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar making life difficult for his fellow Democrats. Politico reports that Cuellar attended and invited his supporters to a fundraiser for Republican Rep. John Carter, who faces a... |
Jeff Singer | 09/11/2018 | 50 | 78 | - | - |
| Rep. Marsha Blackburn, who promoted notorious anti-abortion hoax, falls silent about that The New York Times points out that virulent abortion foe and far-right conspiracy theorist Tennessee Rep. Marsha Blackburn is lying low, when it comes to abortion rhetoric, in her new Senate bid—... |
Hunter | 09/11/2018 | 41 | 96 | - | - |
| Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse again muses on eventually standing up to his party—maybe. Someday. Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse continues his campaign to be considered a Trump resister despite not actually resisting very much. Appearing on the Sunday morning show State of the Union , Sasse groused to ... |
Hunter | 09/11/2018 | 56 | 59 | - | - |
| Trump brags about his tariffs, but Ford politely shoots him down Donald Trump is having problems with cause, effect, and how corporations operate. Again. This time, the issue is Ford’s decision not to market the Chinese-manufactured Focus Active in the United States because of tariffs. Says Trump: “This is just the... |
Laura Clawson | 09/11/2018 | 31 | 66 | - | - |
| NASA looks into selling naming rights on rockets, spacecraft, and missions The latest artificial furor on the right concerns how an apparently excellent new film about the Apollo program shows the American flag on the Moon multiple times, but doesn’t actually include a scene of that flag being awkwardly driven into the lunar... |
Mark Sumner | 09/11/2018 | 87 | 57 | - | - |
| Seventeen years after Sept. 11, the number of victims continues to grow Although the Sept. 11 attacks are now 17 years distant, the victim count continues to rise. Most are rescue workers and others who labored in the toxic smoke of Ground Zero .
Twenty-three NYPD ... |
Hunter | 09/11/2018 | 11 | 64 | - | - |
| NRA TV puts KKK hoods on Thomas and Friends as a 'joke' in protest of new Kenyan female character What do you do when you are an organization known for supporting mass murder of children and a white supremacist politician, and maybe having involved yourself with possibly treasonous money laundering? You attack children’s television! The National... |
Walter Einenkel | 09/11/2018 | 100 | 126 | - | - |
| Four things people who support the troops should be upset about (that aren't Nike) This post was written and reported by freelance contributor A. Rochaun Meadows-Fernandez through our new Daily Kos freelance program.
The United States has faced a lot of polarizing issues in its history, but few have been as significant as the... |
Daily Kos Correspondent | 09/11/2018 | 8 | 73 | - | - |
| Democrat asks Kavanaugh how he got $200,000 in debt buying baseball tickets—and how he paid it off Campaign Action
There were so many issues involving stolen emails and perjury and torture and war crimes going on in Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation hearings last week that senators didn't have an opportunity to get around to a major... |
Joan McCarter | 09/11/2018 | 146 | 276 | - | - |
| Human rights activists: John Bolton's trashing of the Int'l Criminal Court harms their mission National security adviser John Bolton delivered a ferocious speech Monday about the International Criminal Court titled “Protecting American Constitutionalism and Sovereignty from International Threats.”
The speech comes on the heels of the ICC’s... |
Meteor Blades | 09/11/2018 | 29 | 78 | - | - |
| Cartoon: R.W.B. www.patreon.com/... |
keefknight | 09/11/2018 | 20 | 51 | - | - |
| Gretchen Whitmer told her rape survival story. Now those images are in a Republican ad attacking her Gretchen Whitmer gained national prominence in 2013 when, as a Michigan state senator, she stood up and testified against a Republican “rape insurance” bill by telling her own story of sexual assault. Five years later, she’s Michigan’s Democratic... |
Laura Clawson | 09/11/2018 | 37 | 108 | - | - |
| Republicans talking out of both sides of their mouths on Obamacare repeal The White House is making sure Affordable Care Act repeal remains a thing Republicans are running on in the last eight weeks of the 2018 campaign, leaving the Republicans actually running in an impossible spot. They can't chance further freaking out... |
Joan McCarter | 09/11/2018 | 11 | 46 | - | - |
| All-bark, no-bite Trump takes a powder on the lady lawsuits dogging him Legal challenges from women Donald Trump has slandered and sought to silence show just how tough Trump really is when he's backed into a corner. And more than anything, he's a craven wimp. At the moment, Trump is being hounded by two lawsuits in... |
Kerry Eleveld | 09/11/2018 | 39 | 113 | - | - |
| One kidnapped migrant child languished in a Chicago facility for more than a year, documents reveal Confidential records of migrant children kidnapped from the arms of parents at the border—some as far back as a year ago—and sent to detention facilities in the Chicago area reveal kids “agonized over missing their parents and acted on their anguish by... |
Gabe Ortiz | 09/11/2018 | 17 | 95 | - | - |
| Facebook's 'fact-checking' lets right-wing magazine censor news it doesn't like A conservative media outlet has fact-checking power at Facebook and—guess what—it’s using that to censor liberal media outlets. The Weekly Standard, which is one of just five outlets that Facebook allows to “fact check” other publications, flagged a... |
Laura Clawson | 09/11/2018 | 92 | 139 | - | - |
| While worrying about Sessions being fired, don't forget: He's in this conspiracy up to his eyeballs The attorney of the attorney general testified on Monday that his client denies being enthusiastic about conspiring with a foreign power to interfere in a US election. It’s not that Jefferson Sessions denies hearing one of Donald Trump’s advisers... |
Mark Sumner | 09/11/2018 | 67 | 122 | - | - |
| Midday open thread: Repatriated profits used to repurchase shares; officials scrub 'climate change' If he survives in office for his full term, Donald Trump has 861 DAYS left in the White House
Today’s comic by Jen Sorensen is Kavanaugh suddenly speaks the truth!
• Meet the beautiful tree that first responders rescued... |
Meteor Blades | 09/11/2018 | 46 | 53 | - | - |
| Republican judges are already setting Kavanaugh up to overturn Roe v. Wade Three Republican judges go into a St. Louis courtroom in March; an anti-abortion opinion-flouting Supreme Court precedent walks out in September. Is it any surprise, as emails surface in which Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh circulated articles... |
Rebecca Pilar Buckwalter Poza | 09/11/2018 | 27 | 66 | - | - |
| For 17 years, Donald Trump has attempted to show decency on 9/11. For 17 years, he has failed. For 17 years, Donald Trump has attempted to curb his narcissistic sociopathies long enough to blurt out the rough equivalent of human feelings on 9/11 and its anniversaries. For 17 years, he's failed.
For Donald Trump, 9/11 is about Donald Trump.... |
Hunter | 09/11/2018 | 92 | 124 | - | - |
| New U.N. human rights chief condemns U.S. for continuing to keep migrant families separated The U.S. was among the nations singled out for human rights abuses in the first major speech from new U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet. The former Chilean president, herself a former political detainee under the brutal... |
Gabe Ortiz | 09/11/2018 | 11 | 70 | - | - |
| 'The House is already lost' Don't take it from me. A Republican strategist with clients on the ballot this November told Vanity Fair:
“At this stage of the game, losing the House is the most likely proposition. It’s just a matter of how bad it gets,”
Still, Vanity... |
Kerry Eleveld | 09/11/2018 | 177 | 156 | - | - |
| Brett Kavanaugh could end abortion rights with any one of 13 cases in the pipeline Campaign Action
The right to have an abortion in the United States could either be overturned entirely or whittled down enough to be meaningless by next summer, if Trump nominee Brett Kavanaugh becomes a Supreme Court Justice. Planned Parenthood has... |
Joan McCarter | 09/11/2018 | 47 | 97 | - | - |
| 'Not bluffing' Republicans continue freaking out over 'serious threat' that Ted Cruz could lose The Republican freakout over the prospect of Texas Sen. Ted Cruz losing his re-election bid just keeps getting bigger and better. Over the weekend, Trump budget director Mick Mulvaney told GOP insiders that Cruz could lose and Politico reported... |
Laura Clawson | 09/11/2018 | 243 | 258 | - | - |
| Will Susan Collins sacrifice what's left of her dignity for Trump's Supreme Court nominee? Campaign Action
Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) is apparently so afraid of getting a primary challenge from the right in 2020 that she's willing to lose all of the moderates, the independents, and the Democratic women who have supported her in the past. In... |
Joan McCarter | 09/11/2018 | 122 | 112 | - | - |
| Investigators are following the money—from the Trump Organization The investigation that began with looking into the actions of Donald Trump’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen, is expanding. It will now look across the Trump Organization to see if others there took actions that violated campaign financing laws to... |
Mark Sumner | 09/11/2018 | 78 | 155 | - | - |
| 47 days after a court deadline, Trump admin continues slow-walking migrant family reunification Campaign Action
Tuesday, Sept. 11, marks 47 days since Judge Dana Sabraw’s July 26 deadline, yet the Trump administration has continued to slow-walk migrant family reunification, leaving hundreds of kidnapped migrant children still separated from... |
Gabe Ortiz | 09/11/2018 | 5 | 58 | - | - |
| Top Trump aide: If only Trump weren't Trump, the midterms would be ours Donald Trump's favorite aide of no expertise but many positions, Mick Mulvaney, let an actual truism escape his mouth during a private GOP fundraiser over the weekend, as reported by the New York Times.
“You may hate the president, and there’s a lot... |
Kerry Eleveld | 09/11/2018 | 73 | 83 | - | - |
| Trump is extremely unpopular. And it's dragging down his Republican enablers Bad news for Donald Trump and bad news for Republicans: Trump’s already low poll numbers are drop, drop, dropping. Trump has 54 percent disapproval in the newest Quinnipiac poll, which is unchanged from the previous month—but his approval has dropped... |
Laura Clawson | 09/11/2018 | 54 | 120 | - | - |
| To get Collins and Murkowski against Kavanaugh, Schumer has to whip Democrats into united opposition Campaign Action
The only two even remotely likely Republican senators to oppose Brett Kavanaugh are Susan Collins (ME) and Lisa Murkowski (AK), and their opposition is less likely than you may think. Both are feeling pressure at home, Collins from... |
Joan McCarter | 09/11/2018 | 71 | 99 | - | - |
| Trump spends 9/11 tweeting the latest Fox conspiracy theory, and stumbles upon the truth It’s 9/11, so Donald Trump obviously started the morning by tweeting a blow-by-blow of the Lou Dobbs program he recorded the night before. More and more, Trump’s twitter feed is like a Twitch channel for a Fox News fanboy … who watches the game twelve... |
Mark Sumner | 09/11/2018 | 250 | 254 | - | - |
| Morning Digest: Florida GOP nominee for governor a regular speaker at racist conference The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, and Carolyn Fiddler, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, Daniel Donner, James Lambert, David Beard, and Arjun Jaikumar.
Leading... |
Daily Kos Elections | 09/11/2018 | 15 | 52 | - | - |
| Cartoon: Kavanaugh suddenly speaks the truth! In his response to Kamala Harris's question about whether he thought "both sides" were to blame for the deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Kavanaugh demurred, saying "the principle of the independence of the judiciary means I can’t... |
Jen Sorensen | 09/11/2018 | 18 | 110 | - | - |
| Cheers and Jeers: Tuesday From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE…
Energize An Ally Tuesday
Today's the big day: the day I finally stick a crowbar in my wallet and make a contribution to the campaign of the candidate poised to knock a most unlikable senator---a Republican creep who... |
Bill in Portland Maine | 09/11/2018 | 97 | 79 | - | - |
| Abbreviated pundit roundup: Remembering September 11th, Trump's devastating policies and more
We begin today’s roundup with a powerful op-ed by Army veteran Joe Quinn , who writes in The New York Times about losing his brother on September 11th, his fight for justice and the war in ... |
Georgia Logothetis | 09/11/2018 | 252 | 117 | - | - |
| Daily Kos Radio is LIVE at 9 AM ET! Did anything happen yesterday? I was busy reading some ancient scrolls.
I’ll tell you this, the scrolls seemed more believable than the news has been. I guess it’s time to catch up and test my ... |
David Waldman | 09/11/2018 | - | 1 | - | - |
| Open thread for night owls: Will Obama's support for 'Medicare for All' shift views of leading Dems? Dr. Margaret Flowers at Health Over Profit writes— Obama’s support for “Medicare for All” is a turning point:
On September 7, 2018, speaking at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, � |
Meteor Blades | 09/10/2018 | 73 | 93 | - | - |
| Serena Williams gets into an argument at the U.S. Open, and what it means is a matter of perspective Officiating in sports has been the source of much debate and many rants from drunken fans over the years. Before kneeling for the national anthem became an argument about the nature of patriotism , ... |
Doctor RJ | 09/10/2018 | 96 | 36 | - | - |
| Turns out covering up rape is expensive: Baylor University's legal costs quadrupled in one year In spite of what Betsy DeVos may say, campus sexual assault is a serious problem that has been swept under the rug for far too long. Baylor University is learning that not taking victims’ trauma seriously and siding with abusers come with a... |
Wagatwe Wanjuki | 09/10/2018 | 29 | 73 | - | - |
| ABC News got their hands on emails between alleged Russian agent and top NRA officials Maria Butina is the alleged Russian agent and “gun activist” arrested earlier this summer in connection to the 2016 election of Donald Trump. The 29-year-old was arrested a day after 12 other “Russian intelligence officers” were indicted in connection... |
Walter Einenkel | 09/10/2018 | 231 | 417 | - | - |
| Water shut-offs in Detroit, seen by UN as human rights scourge, take heavy toll on city's poor
This post was written and reported by freelance contributor Dawn R. Wolfe through our new Daily Kos freelance program.
Imagine being unable to flush your toilet. Or bathe your children. Or even grab a cool drink of water from your tap when the... |
Daily Kos Correspondent | 09/10/2018 | 12 | 61 | - | - |
| Because one dark money group isn't enough to elect Republicans, Koch bros. create another In a sign of just how dire things look right now for GOP control of Congress after the midterms, the billionaire Koch brothers have resorted to creating yet another dark money group to flood the airwaves this fall on behalf of beleaguered Republicans.... |
Joan McCarter | 09/10/2018 | 11 | 53 | - | - |
| Trump piles a lie about President Obama on top of a lie about the economy “How exactly are you going to do that?” President Barack Obama mocked Donald Trump’s promises about bringing jobs back to the United States back in June 2016: “He just says, 'Well, I’m going to negotiate a better deal.' Well, what, how exactly are you... |
Laura Clawson | 09/10/2018 | 37 | 74 | - | - |
| Based on these videos, it seems conservatives forgot to invite people to the pro-Trump rally in D.C. Progressives have had their fair share of massive rallies on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., and turnabout is fair play, right? Over the weekend, conservatives held a pro-Trump rally called the “Mother of All Rallies” (seriously, that’s what... |
Jen Hayden | 09/10/2018 | 405 | 308 | - | - |
| In Canada, Trump's bluster on trade meets with public, political backlash
This post was written and reported by contributor Bryant Telfer through our new Daily Kos freelance program.
President Trump evoked backlash in Canada last week after first calling the new U.S. trade deal with Mexico a substitute for NAFTA, and... |
Daily Kos Correspondent | 09/10/2018 | 96 | 100 | - | - |
| Republicans try to stoke generational warfare with Medicare lies, as usual "The Democrats are coming for your Medicare," Republicans are screaming at old people. They want to turn it into "socialism," yell both Florida Gov. Rick Scott and Donald Trump, demonstrating either how little they understand the program, or how... |
Joan McCarter | 09/10/2018 | 39 | 80 | - | - |
| Top Republican says anonymous op-ed proves Trump's 'deep state' conspiracy theory The heir apparent to be leader of the GOP caucus, Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California, told Fox News on Sunday that the anonymous New York Times op-ed is proof positive of the "deep state" Donald Trump has been carping about ever since he set foot in the... |
Kerry Eleveld | 09/10/2018 | 68 | 52 | - | - |
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Nick Anderson | 09/10/2018 | 2 | 68 | - | - |
| With country still split on his confirmation, hearings didn't help Supreme Court nominee Kavanaugh If anything, the Senate hearings for Trump Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh hurt his support, with the country still deeply divided about his confirmation. A new Quinnipiac poll released Monday found 42 percent of voters say he shouldn't be... |
Kerry Eleveld | 09/10/2018 | 50 | 78 | - | - |
| House Republicans plan a fake new tax bill, since not enough voters were fooled by the first one House Republican leaders are pushing for a vote on a second tax bill—one that they know has no chance of becoming law in 2018—but some of their most vulnerable members aren’t happy. The oh-so-sneaky Republican plan is that, since voters realized that... |
Laura Clawson | 09/10/2018 | 20 | 56 | - | - |
| Trump admin implementing 'a systematic dismantling' of refugee resettlement in U.S., agencies say Throughout the past two years, resettlement agencies contracted by the federal government to help place newly-arrived refugees in their new homes and lives across the country have been forced to trim down their number of employees, shutter entire... |
Gabe Ortiz | 09/10/2018 | 17 | 69 | - | - |
| When it comes to Kavanaugh nomination, Susan Collins has a self-defined 'major problem' Campaign Action
Maine Sen. Susan Collins has made a career of late out of being willfully dumb about Republicans' true intent. She did it for months on the Affordable Care Act and taxes, and she's been doing it for weeks on Brett Kavanaugh, the... |
Joan McCarter | 09/10/2018 | 62 | 144 | - | - |
| Trump is running scared from Stormy Daniels Former Trump personal lawyer and newly convicted felon Michael Cohen has backed away—far away—from taking Stormy Daniels on in federal court in California over the non-disclosure agreement he arranged just before the 2016 election to keep Daniels from... |
Rebecca Pilar Buckwalter Poza | 09/10/2018 | 71 | 137 | - | - |
| Traitor Trump can't trust anyone as the world crumbles around him Campaign Action
The Russian puppet in the White House, Donald Trump, is not in good shape. We’ve been treated to story after story about his paranoia and dysfunction—traits that will only worsen in the wake of the Anonymous op-ed in the New York... |
kos | 09/10/2018 | 435 | 373 | - | - |
| Midday open thread: Hurricane Florence, defamation, cancer, and California's 100% renewables
Today’s comic by Tom Tomorrow is Confirmation hearing highlights: |
Barbara Morrill | 09/10/2018 | 19 | 33 | - | - |
| Detained asylum seeker still separated from son: 'It’s almost like I was an animal' Last month, a detained asylum seeker named Ascension, prevented by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from meeting with MSNBC correspondent Jacob Soboroff, penned a desperate letter begging to be reunited with his son, who was kidnapped from his... |
Gabe Ortiz | 09/10/2018 | 5 | 65 | - | - |
| This is it, folks—the final push toward restoring sanity to our government in November With primaries officially wrapping up this week, we are entering the red zone of a midterm election that will determine nothing short of the future direction of this country. Democrats taking a majority of either chamber of Congress should put enough... |
Kerry Eleveld | 09/10/2018 | 26 | 78 | - | - |
| There have been only 13 White House press briefings in the last three months. Where'd Sarah go? Thirteen days. In the past three months, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders has given on-camera White House press briefings on only 13 days. That's a grand new level of pathetic.
Five briefings were held in June, three in July and five in... |
Hunter | 09/10/2018 | 76 | 110 | - | - |
| Kavanaugh would be Trump's SCOTUS get-out-of-jail-free card, just as the Republican Senate intends Campaign Action
The very fact of Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court remains a problem for the nation. It's entirely likely Kavanaugh ended up sitting before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week for one reason and one reason only:... |
Joan McCarter | 09/10/2018 | 90 | 160 | - | - |
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