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So where to begin this week? Well, the TL;DR is I had a pretty good week. Here at Top Comments we welcome longtime as well as brand new Daily Kos readers to join us at 10pm Eastern. We strive to nourish community by rounding up some of the site's best,...
by zenbassoon
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on Sat Mar 02, 2024 at 07:00 PM PST
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Hi’. If you don’t know what I, a foreigner, am talking about, that’s normal. You’re not reading the NYT, where this article showed up. After Russia invaded, Ukrainians rushed to enlist and defend their homeland. Now, the government acknowledges, many...
by Vuld Edone
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on Fri Dec 15, 2023 at 03:45 PM PST
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Minorities were the object of scorn and the military was desegregated and Eisenhower took Truman’s order and made it happen. And there were those that were violently opposed. But Eisenhower was no friend to gay people. And yet there is the story of...
by iarnstein
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on Fri May 05, 2023 at 12:20 PM PDT
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“The differences had always been there. The whites conceptualized and froze them. The extremists turned them into a political program. This was the fatal mechanism in which our country had embarked.” —André Sibomana1 About two weeks ago, the Washington...
by novapsyche
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on Thu Mar 02, 2023 at 09:00 AM PST
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Daily Kos is a mix of the highly informed and the highly opinionated, with a variable overlap between the two. I keep seeing posts about contesting every election at every level, a goal I agree with. But far too many of them ignore the difficulty of...
by KMc
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on Wed May 10, 2023 at 07:10 AM PDT
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This week, both Slate and The Atlantic came out with articles featuring analysis performed by Robert Pape and his research team at the University of Chicago. (Both articles reference the same research.) The data, collected and scrutinized last year,...
by novapsyche
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on Thu Jan 06, 2022 at 07:22 PM PST
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I was recently elected to be the new County Chairperson of our local Democratic Party in a bright red area of PA. We’re the red stumbling block on the outskirts of the Lehigh Valley. I’m writing this to document how we are trying to rebuild our local...
by Tria MacLeod
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on Thu Jul 22, 2021 at 10:01 PM PDT
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Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas mostly spends his days saying foolish and easily debunked things out loud and then tweeting out similar witless things. It’s not a unique stance for a Republican to take these days. In fact, it seems to be the GOP’s concept of a...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Thu May 20, 2021 at 10:36 AM PDT
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You may know me from Twitter as "Politidope" or at least you know someone who does. If you lived in Downtown Richmond, VA around 2012, you remember me as the tall black guy with braces asking folks, "are you registered to vote at your current address"...
by VirginiaWave
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on Mon Aug 03, 2020 at 05:16 PM PDT
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I work in a conservative office in a conservative industry. I want to share a Stan Mack’s Real Life (Un)Funnies from this morning.
When I got into work this morning, Fox News was on in the lobby, as it always is unless I’ve changed it, and there...
by Casey and Miranda
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on Thu Oct 25, 2018 at 10:57 AM PDT
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As the Russia scandal unfolds, we increasingly learn the depth and long-term approach the Russians have taken in planning this attack on our democracy. We should give some thought to their approach and why they took it.
Donald Trump didn’t fall...
by lyleoross
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on Thu Jun 07, 2018 at 11:56 AM PDT
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On Sunday, actors and celebrities and luminaries of all stripes will don their finest duds and traipse along a long scarlet rug before settling in to their seats at the Oscars. All that finery will then spend several hours scrunched up in theater seats...
by Carolyn Fiddler
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on Thu Mar 01, 2018 at 03:02 PM PST
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February’s just over halfway done, but it already feels longer than a Folsom Prison sentence.
Partly because so much hurt keeps happening.
But also because 44 state legislatures are actively ...
by Carolyn Fiddler
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on Thu Feb 15, 2018 at 03:20 PM PST
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George Papadopoulos
has been getting a lot of attention since it was revealed he was under indictment for lying to the FBI about Trump campaign contacts with Russia — and has been cooperating for some time now. (Video at link). The reaction of...
by xaxnar
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on Sat Nov 04, 2017 at 12:25 PM PDT
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Welcome back, Saturday Campaign D-I-Y’ers! For those who tune in, welcome to the Nuts & Bolts of a Democratic campaign. Each week, we discuss issues that help drive successful campaigns. If you’...
by Christopher Reeves
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on Sat Nov 19, 2016 at 02:00 PM PST
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Kansas Moderate Republicans have been a continuous target of the conservative wing of the Kansas GOP. Sometimes, they have success. In many cases, they fail. While the nomination of Trump appears to be good news for Democrats, polling data and...
by Christopher Reeves
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on Wed May 04, 2016 at 05:39 AM PDT
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Background on the Crowdsourcing project:
DKos Community Power to Crowdsource the Rebuilding of the 50 State Strategy by evcoren
by Christopher Reeves
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on Sun Jan 31, 2016 at 09:15 AM PST
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A tad peeved at the GOP? Yeah, you might say that.
by Raging Pencils
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on Thu Jan 28, 2016 at 02:24 PM PST
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We all remember this dramatic moment from the last Democratic debate, Hillary said that Trump was ISIS’s best recruiter and they used videos of him to recruit.
Well, she was correct. Do not mess
by First Amendment
164 comments
on Fri Jan 01, 2016 at 09:35 PM PST
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The Difference 2015 Makes:
With just a few days under a year to go until next year’s General Election, It seems rather quiet on the candidate front here in Georgia. By this time in 2013 the Demo
by thejaz982
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on Thu Nov 12, 2015 at 03:09 PM PST
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- This is the best news of the day. As Dark Brandon might say, trashing an over-the-horizon radar is a big fucking deal. Is that the silhouette of Ammo Dump Jesus in the ball of flame blessing the bavovna? Run away! Run away! Russians try an assault with...63 comments 265 Recs
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- Ever since Russia invaded Ukraine, my heart has been heavy at the suffering of so many innocent people in Ukraine. War is always a tragedy, but this war is particularly touching to me because of its David vs. Goliath, good vs evil quality. The bravery...150 comments 306 Recs
- GET OUT THE VOTE BIG TIME! HERE ARE THE RESOURCES YOU NEED TO DO THAT! Hope Springs from Field PAC (background in this DKos story). Voters of Tomorrow (younger voters) led by Santiago Mayer Leaders We Deserve (younger voters) led by David Hogg The...19 comments 135 Recs
- I’m hoping Mark Sumner will be up with a live blog but there’s a load of stuff already happening: All from WaPo Liveblog: Justice Juan Merchan dismissed Juror No. 2, a nurse who said she had concerns after people she knew identified her as a juror and...376 comments 342 Recs
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- Fed Chair Jerome Powell reveals the cause of persistent inflation - economy is becoming uninsurable.Jerome Powell, chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, was nominated by Donald Trump in 2018 and confirmed by the US Senate. President Joe Biden renominated him when he entered office in January of 2021. The job of the Fed...193 comments 499 Recs
- I am no fan of religion but will acknowledge there are some benefits to churchlife. My Mom loved church music and looked forward to choir practice and Sunday mornings I was always taken to Sunday school. Dad prefered the Church of the 18 holes when...198 comments 126 Recs
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