| These are the most recent diaries filed under this tag: |
|---|
|
On Propaganda
Jessica Hysong, 10/25/18
Your President today seeks to wildly amplify and normalize the narrative he has built around turning perpetrators into victims. Do not lose sight of the fundamental fact that this is, at its core, a...
by jlhRVA
 3 comments
on Thu Oct 25, 2018 at 02:24 PM PDT
with 0 Recommends
|
|
The Resistance
Contact list - USA Congress, Governor, and State Democratic Part
Town Hall Project
Indivisible: A practical guide For resisting the Trump agenda
Sister District Project
knockeverydoor.org
United States Congress...
by SJohnson
84 comments
on Thu Oct 25, 2018 at 03:59 PM PDT
with 18 Recommends
|
|
More bombs sent to people on Donald Trump’s enemies list keep being discovered, with former Vice President Joe Biden and actor and Trump critic Robert DeNiro among the latest targets. Rep. Maxine Waters—one of Trump’s absolute favorite targets—is...
by Laura Clawson
134 comments
on Thu Oct 25, 2018 at 05:58 AM PDT
with 106 Recommends
|
|
Memphis Blues: 1000's of Rejected Registrations in TN w/ Tight U.S. Senate Race: 'BradCast' 10/24/18 Guest: Shelby County, TN Democratic Chair Corey Strong; Also: Good news for GA voters; Bad news for ExxonMobil; Pipe bombs sent to Obama, Clinton, CNN, other Dem targets of Trump's 'right-wing ire'...
It was a dark day on Wednesday, but there were a...
by TheBradBlog
4 comments
on Wed Oct 24, 2018 at 06:35 PM PDT
with 12 Recommends
|
|
Inciting violence is part and parcel of the Republican Party platform, and increasingly, it seems that will never change. After the attempted assassinations of multiple politicians, and members of a news organization on Wednesday, MAGA-heads at Donald...
by First Amendment
99 comments
on Wed Oct 24, 2018 at 07:18 PM PDT
with 62 Recommends
|
|
After a spate of explosive devices targeting progressives and Democratic lawmakers surfaced Wednesday morning, all Donald Trump could muster in the midst of the crisis was a meager three-word tweet.
"I agree wholeheartedly," he wrote, retweeting a...
by Kerry Eleveld
114 comments
on Wed Oct 24, 2018 at 10:44 AM PDT
with 123 Recommends
|
|
The story of the suspicious packages sent to the homes of former President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and to CNN’s New York offices continues to develop quickly on Wednesday, with New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announcing in...
by Laura Clawson
277 comments
on Wed Oct 24, 2018 at 10:17 AM PDT
with 165 Recommends
|
|
MSNBC is right now reporting that a package was intercepted address to former Attorney General Eric Holder. I can't find any link so far on the website but it just broke on Andrea Mitchell Reports. If this isn't an act of war against the left I don't...
by JTCA
18 comments
on Wed Oct 24, 2018 at 09:44 AM PDT
with 21 Recommends
|
|
The Campbell Soup Company is facing some heat this week after one of its lobbyists, Kelly Johnston, joined the cadre of tinfoil-hatters (including the American president) currently claiming that the left is funding a large caravan of migrants...
by Jessica Sutherland
76 comments
on Wed Oct 24, 2018 at 10:26 AM PDT
with 79 Recommends
|
|
Today dawns in chaos. Bombs were sent to former President Barack Obama and to the Clintons. CNN was evacuated after another was dispatched to the New York City’s Time Warner Center.
For all intents and purposes, it seems someone is looking to make...
by Galforc
12 comments
on Wed Oct 24, 2018 at 09:00 AM PDT
with 4 Recommends
|
|
The Resistance
Contact list - USA Congress, Governor, and State Democratic Part
Town Hall Project
Indivisible: A practical guide For resisting the Trump agenda
Sister District Project
knockeverydoor.org
United States Congress...
by SJohnson
75 comments
on Wed Oct 24, 2018 at 04:00 PM PDT
with 16 Recommends
|
|
The RNC has released an ad that tries to paint Kavanaugh protestors as an “unhinged mob”. It also engages in outright race-baiting, starting with a video of Eric Holder encouraging protests, it also features a video of Cory booker and Maxine Waters....
by subir
22 comments
on Sat Oct 13, 2018 at 06:03 AM PDT
with 22 Recommends
|
|
Received this e-mail from the former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder in support of Charlie Bailey’s (D. GA) Attorney General campaign:
Friend --
I was in Atlanta last weekend and I finally had the chance to sit down and catch up...
by poopdogcomedy
1 comments
on Fri Oct 12, 2018 at 12:21 AM PDT
with 2 Recommends
|
|
Received this e-mail today from former Attorney General Eric Holder in support of Steve Sisolak’s (D. NV) gubernatorial campaign:
Earlier this month, I joined Steve Sisolak for a roundtable ...
by poopdogcomedy
2 comments
on Sun Sep 23, 2018 at 11:36 PM PDT
with 1 Recommend
|
|
One of the most fascinating aspects of Donald Trump's dementia is how he frequently expresses something that has the effect of contradicting his intention. He did this recently in a tweet about his "...
by News Corpse
24 comments
on Tue Sep 11, 2018 at 12:26 PM PDT
with 47 Recommends
|
|
From Crooks and Liars, Jeet Heer of The New Republic rips into the political establishment which McCain was a party to that HELPED produce Trump. There is a link to Heer’s Tweets on McCain’s funeral. Now, fair warning, Obama gets criticsm too.
...
by Merlin1963
13 comments
on Mon Sep 03, 2018 at 06:48 PM PDT
with 12 Recommends
|
|
A moment of utter beauty, humanity and humility
Not much to say, Just watch at least until 53 seconds, when President Obama quickly rises to right the footstool for Aretha Franklin. This was at Holder’s retirement event.
by hester
37 comments
on Thu Aug 16, 2018 at 07:58 PM PDT
with 87 Recommends
|
|
Many Congressional Republicans were shocked —SHOCKED!—this week at Donald Trump’s humiliation in Helsinki. Like the rest of the world, they watched in real time as an American president ...
by Jon Perr
77 comments
on Sun Jul 22, 2018 at 10:00 AM PDT
with 118 Recommends
|
|
What should be the role of our president?
Is that not the essential question thinking Americans have to ask and answer in light of the election of an arrogant, self-absorbed character like Donald J. Trump?
Thinking about the election of Trump to...
by DavyZJones
3 comments
on Thu Jun 14, 2018 at 10:05 AM PDT
with 0 Recommends
|
|
When it comes to the culpability for the dismal state of American politics and the accelerating erosion of our governing institutions, failure has a thousand fathers. At the top of the list of the ...
by Jon Perr
31 comments
on Sun Jun 03, 2018 at 01:00 PM PDT
with 86 Recommends
|
Recommended
- I grew up in Chico, a few miles west of Paradise. I currently live in Southern California but have immediate family still living there, with both of my daughters living in the Bay Area, and I am in constant communication with them as well as many...101 comments 192 Recs
- Earlier this summer, Russian citizen Maria Butina was arrested by the United States Government and charged with being a Russian intelligence asset working to influence American politics. Butina was the head of a small Russian version of the NRA called...122 comments 220 Recs
- Been reading a great deal about the issues around who will be the next Speaker of the House. About Nancy Pelosi and those who oppose her. What is blatantly obvious is that Trump and the GOP do NOT want her back as Speaker. What has become equally...404 comments 401 Recs
- LOL! Assange’s Lawyer outraged that ‘confidential’ information about his client has been made publicOh! The Irony! Assange’s Lawyer outraged that today’s ‘confidential’ information about his client has been made public (emphasis mine): Barry J. Pollack, one of Assange’s attorneys, said, “The only thing more irresponsible than charging a...147 comments 203 Recs
- On Friday, a little more than a week after she launched the briefest of campaigns to head the NRCC, California GOP Rep. Mimi Walters conceded defeat to Democrat Katie Porter in the election for the state’s 45th Congressional District. Walters’ abortive...35 comments 110 Recs
- The Hill President Trump has privately asked aides about his vice president Mike Pence's loyalty, the New York Times reported Friday. Trump reportedly questioned Pence's allegiance so many times that many of his advisers are alarmed, as those...269 comments 165 Recs
- A former Alabama State Trooper has shot the district attorney for Alabama’s 17th Judicial Circuit, Greg Griggers, directly in the face, in what is being described as an ambush attack. Griggers is expected to survive. The shooter, Steven Smith, Jr., was...76 comments 225 Recs
- Yup, you heard that right. There was a blue wave that swept the U.S. Senate contests in the 2018 midterms, but you wouldn’t know it from the news coverage. Everyone has been so focused on one metric: Did Dems have a net pick up or loss of seats in...83 comments 206 Recs
- — According to the WNYC podcast, in the link below … There was always one question, the Trumps were asked, by their foreign investors: “How well have the building units been selling?” every prospective client was sure to ask. The...67 comments 148 Recs
- While the position of secretary of state is directly elected in most states, in New Hampshire it’s chosen by the members of the state legislature. And with Democrats winning back both the state Senate and House in the Granite State last week, lawmakers...61 comments 154 Recs
- Everyone please remember what would happen if the shoe were on the other foot. If, for example, a democratic president was elected, but only after colluding with an enemy foreign power via direct payments via an outfit like — say — Planned parenthood...12 comments 17 Recs
- In the wave of wordwash and nervous spew contained in his “freewheeling” interview with the right wing sludge generator known as the Daily Caller, Donald Trump reminds us that if he keeps talking, eventually he’ll say something that reveals what he’s...191 comments 275 Recs
Hot Tags
- Recommended (121)
- DonaldTrump (111)
- Democrats (39)
- 2018 (35)
- Elections (35)
- Republicans (33)
- Community (29)
- BlueWave (27)
- Media (25)
- Senate (24)
- NancyPelosi (23)
- Immigration (20)
- Florida (19)
- House (19)
- Georgia (18)
- Election2018 (18)
- RobertMueller (18)
- ClimateChange (18)
- Election (17)
- WhiteHouse (16)
Recent Diaries
- Kitchen Table Kibitzing is a community series for those who wish to share part of the evening around a virtual kitchen table with readers of Daily Kos who aren’t throwing pies at one another.Drop by and tell us about your weather, your garden, or what...2 comments 3 Recs
- 1 comments 0 Recs
- OC continue to count ballots. Next update is tomorrow at 5pm. Thr 11/15 Fri 11/16 38th Sanchez (D) 2,516 52.6% 2,675 52.9% + 45 +0.3% Downing (R) 2,265 47.4% 2,379 47.1% 39th Cisneros ...1 comments 0 Recs
- There’s been some coverage on the Daily Kos in the last year documenting the Republican affiliations of the Chairwoman of the Virginia Beach Democratic Committee, Carla Hesseltine. Long story short, she supported Republicans as recently as 2016 and has...1 comments 1 Recs
- We’ve now got the 2018 midterms mostly in the rearview mirror, which allows us to concentrate all our political nerd/addict energy on the upcoming race for the Democratic (and Republican?) nomination(s?) in 2020! No point in waiting, let’s get the...2 comments 0 Recs
- Leading Off ● Georgia : On Friday, Democrat Stacey Abrams ended her campaign for governor against Republican Brian Kemp, yet she refused to concede and argued his voter suppression efforts had ...1 comments 2 Recs
- Everyone please remember what would happen if the shoe were on the other foot. If, for example, a democratic president was elected, but only after colluding with an enemy foreign power via direct payments via an outfit like — say — Planned parenthood...12 comments 17 Recs
- — You know how people say the president is just “projecting” again? What if it is happening WAY more often than anyone realizes … What it was happening ALL.THE.TIME!!? ZOMG! Psychological projection is a defense mechanism people...12 comments 8 Recs
- 31 comments 7 Recs
- TJ Cox is only 1983 votes behind incumbent Republican Congressman David Valado in California’s 21st Congressional District as the mail ballots continue to be counted. Rob Pyers @ #CA21 update: Democrat TJ Cox overperforms in...18 comments 15 Recs
- (Warning video heavy) Sometimes television advertisements show more about the country they were made for than the makers might think. Compare this advertisement (apparently genuine) shown on Fox. I should add a further warning that this shows some...9 comments 1 Recs
- x ...127 comments 1 Recs
- Origins Who first attached the tag #fivewhiteguys to the five Democrats mounting a Pelosi opposition movement? It’s hard to say. Its use expanded rapidly following a November 13th piece on Esquire.com by liberal commentator Charlie Pierce. The...34 comments 19 Recs
- As if to whistle up courage while walking past a graveyard at midnight, our President announced that the blue wave election was a victory for him. Democrats picked up more than 30 House seats,seven governorships and gained seats in 62 of 99 state...1 comments 2 Recs
- Some interesting and welcome news from Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez In the past I have seen a lot of condescension, ridicule, and anger in conversations here and elsewhere regarding the Fight for $15. It looks like H.R. 15 Raise the Wage Act...38 comments 35 Recs
- Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D. MA): The midterm election is not over – not in these make-or-break House races. Right now, just a handful of votes separate these three Democratic House candidates from...3 comments 7 Recs
- I was happy to see the support CNN got from other news outlets and relieved to see that the judge ruled that the White House had to restore Jim Acosta’s White House press credentials. But you remember what they did when they ostracized Helen Thomas for...17 comments 23 Recs
- COMMENTARY: AFRICAN AMERICAN SCIENTISTS AND INVENTORS By Black Kos Editor, Sephius1 African-American engineer and inventor Lonnie George Johnson was born in Alabama in 1949. He earned his ...134 comments 46 Recs
- I don’t know about you, but I’m exhausted. After writing loads of VoteForward letters, doing in-person canvassing, and phone banking for the midterms — I’m spent, and I’m sure we all feel the same way. We did so much for this election, and look at the...14 comments 22 Recs
- Stacey Abrams Says GOP Stole GA Governorship, While FL Recounts Are Nearly Done, by Steven RosenfeldBy Steven Rosenfeld This article was produced by Voting Booth, a project of the Independent Media Institute. Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams said the former Republican Secretary of State will be the next governor, but...12 comments 11 Recs
