kos's Profile
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Markos "kos" Moulitsas is the founder and publisher of Daily Kos.
Real Name: Markos Moulitsas
DOB: 9/11/1971
Gender: Male
Location: Berkeley, CA, United States
Occupation: Writer
Groups: Daily Kos Elections, Daily Kos, Feature Box, Meatless Advocates Meetup, Velocipede Vanguard, LatinoKos, Comics, Daily Kos Labor
Hobbies: Piano, Cycling, Aquascaping
Home Page: http://www.dailykos.com
Twitter: markos
Diaries published: 14142 (0 days since last diary on Mon Jan 30, 2017 at 06:50 AM PST)
Comments posted: 18273 (1 day since last comment on Sat Jan 28, 2017 at 04:20 PM PST)
Diary frequency: frequent
Comment frequency: frequent
Total Recommends: 233426
Total Comment Ratings: 42317
Most Recommended Diary: Thanks, 782 comments, 1452 recommends
People Following kos: 2500
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The following Democrats are, per rumor and insider gossip, running for president: Sen. Corey Booker, Gov. Mario Cuomo, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, Sen. Kamala Harris, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, and Gov. Terry McAuliffe. Thus, it bears taking particular note of...
by kos
 366 comments
on Mon Jan 30, 2017 at 06:50 AM PST
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The signs have been there, all along. We haven’t been blind to them, but afraid to go Godwin, we haven’t called it for what it is. But we can’t ignore it anymore.
1. “White nationalist” in the White House. Whether you want to call Steve Bannon a...
by kos
 393 comments
on Sun Jan 29, 2017 at 10:28 AM PST
with 435 Recommends
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Popular vote loser Donald Trump is every bit the monster we thought he was, no matter how many people tried to shrug him off as a showman.
I don’t know how many ways I can say “do not normalize this monster by approving anything he requests.”
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by kos
395 comments
on Sat Jan 28, 2017 at 02:40 PM PST
with 343 Recommends
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There’s this long-running debate about what the Democratic Party “message” should be. It then manifests with stuff like this:
“We need to remember that one of the reasons young voters, especially, were uninspired is you can’t have a message of,...
by kos
458 comments
on Thu Jan 26, 2017 at 10:08 AM PST
with 283 Recommends
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Unbelievable.
[David] Brock’s Florida conference outlined some of the philosophical fault lines. In one closed-door session, Chicago mayor and former Barack Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel advocated a measured approach to Trump opposition, one...
by kos
204 comments
on Thu Jan 26, 2017 at 09:28 AM PST
with 136 Recommends
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren explains why she will be voting to confirm Ben Carson as head of HUD:
Yes, I have serious, deep, profound concerns about Dr. Carson’s inexperience to lead the Department of ...
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677 comments
on Thu Jan 26, 2017 at 08:10 AM PST
with 198 Recommends
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- Senate Democrats are vowing to introduce legislation blocking the President Steve Bannon's popular vote loser Donald Trump's Muslim ban, led by Connecticut's Chris Murphy. So far, only a handful of Republican members of congress have denounced...107 comments 166 Recs
- Governor Jay Inslee’s comments to King 5 News about Donald Trump’s plans for a border wall were short, sweet and Grade-A trolling. Donald Trump is not going to take this insult lightly. WATCH: We’re sorry for all of our friends in...411 comments 501 Recs
- A little over a week ago, one lone person in Holland, Michigan was fed up enough about the Betsy DeVos nomination for Secretary of Education that she decided to organize a protest. She put together a private Facebook page for a march through downtown....71 comments 357 Recs
- Congressional Democrats aren’t going to do what Republicans did in 2009, and what many progressives have called for. They’re not going to oppose everything. That’s true of progressive leaders like Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Sherrod Brown, who have...358 comments 144 Recs
- I’ve been publishing these diaries since December 12. They’ve helped a lot to clarify my own thinking about the actions I need to take, and I’ve heard that these diaries are useful for others, too. So they will continue, but I’m going to make a few...6 comments 15 Recs
- Republican men, many of them elected officials responsible for representing 100% of their constituents (including the 50% who are women), unleashed a barrage of vitriolic comments, many of them talking about women’s bodies. Here’s mustached Indiana...241 comments 194 Recs
- Is it that they are that blind that they do not see their own hypocrisy or they just do not care? Of course much of the hate that came in 08 did so because of the historic nature of the election, that we-gasp-elected a non-white president. Or...204 comments 352 Recs
- The small size of Donald Trump's inauguration crowd presents an opportunity: Could the Women’s March equal or outdo it? There’s no question that the D.C. march plus the more than 600 planned sister marches will dwarf the inauguration crowd, but what...148 comments 139 Recs
- The picture on the left here? That is not Donald Trump’s crowd. That is Barack Obama’s crowd. The white space on the right, on the other hand, is all Trump’s. It wasn’t even close: Also: Friday morning’s Metro ridership was the lowest...202 comments 157 Recs
- On Monday evening, two potentially Category 5 stories broke concerning Donald Trump and his many ties to Russia. At 5:36 PM, Slate was up with an analysis of a server in Trump Tower that seemed to be directly, and exclusively, connected to an...390 comments 353 Recs
