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Angmar 11/16/2018
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Youffraita 11/16/2018
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According to the BBC, Donald Trump says he has finished answering questions into alleged Russian meddling during the 2016 presidential campaign. According to Trump, he answered questions “very easily” and reiterated that the probe was a “witch...
maymebarth 11/16/2018
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This op-ed was originally submitted to The Garden Island on Kauai. It appears Donald Trump is doing his best to alienate every friend America ever had.  He has insulted just about everyone in attendance of the 100th Anniversary of the Armistice...
John Z 11/16/2018
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I’m angry at Mississippi Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, and probably you are too. Mike Espy “He was Secretary of Agriculture, the first black person in that position. Before that he was in Congress, the first black representative from MS since...
2thanks 11/16/2018
05:49 PM
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I decided not to sign the petition “Do not allow Trump to speak at State of the Union” simply because I want the orange one to speak. He will not stick to his prepared remarks because he can’t resist spouting whatever ill conceived notion crosses his...
Boojum2 11/16/2018
05:43 PM
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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...
Sara R 11/16/2018
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annieli 11/16/2018
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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 ...
DougDumitru 11/16/2018
05:27 PM
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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...
vbstories 11/16/2018
05:24 PM
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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...
Tanzik 11/16/2018
05:05 PM
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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 ...
Stephen Wolf 11/16/2018
04:55 PM
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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...
4democracy 11/16/2018
04:41 PM
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— 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...
jamess 11/16/2018
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SJohnson 11/16/2018
04:00 PM
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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...
mastergardener2k 11/16/2018
03:43 PM
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(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...
Lib Dem FoP 11/16/2018
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James Lambert 11/16/2018
03:17 PM
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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...
Davey1107 11/16/2018
03:01 PM
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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...
Joseph wyatt 11/16/2018
02:20 PM
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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...
Arilca Mockingbird 11/16/2018
02:19 PM
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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...
poopdogcomedy 11/16/2018
02:19 PM
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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...
Liberalisnotadirtyword 11/16/2018
02:00 PM
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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 ...
Black Kos 11/16/2018
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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...
ERdoc in PA 11/16/2018
01:43 PM
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By 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...
Independent Media Institute 11/16/2018
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It’s been noted numerous times how diverse the newly elected freshman Democratic congressional contingent is, but this really demonstrates it. Will Jordan, a researcher and pollster for GlobalStrategyGroup, put together this handy visual,...
Aldous J Pennyfarthing 11/16/2018
01:30 PM
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Greetings! It’s that time of the week again. Just a few photos to share and a bit of blather to open a space to engage in.

Marko the Werelynx 11/16/2018
01:19 PM
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Even without indictments, at least Laura Ingraham is now gone from broadcast radio, as if podcasts are a step up.  Stuff is churning however systematically for Mueller, but will Trump pardon turkeys. The next indictment should be “Assange, who...
annieli 11/16/2018
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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...
Doctor Jazz 11/16/2018
01:14 PM
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Nevada’s Catherine Cortez Masto, who in 2016 made American history as the first Latina to be elected to the United States Senate, has achieved another first in 2018, picked this week to head the Senate Democrats’ campaign arm, making her the first...
Gabe Ortiz 11/16/2018
01:14 PM
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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...
Jeff Singer 11/16/2018
01:12 PM
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Examining all 435 congressional districts by the 2016 citizen voting age population (CVAP, 2012 – 2016 American Community Survey 5 year estimates) underscores how an expanded base contributed to the ascent of a new Democratic US House majority. To...
ncec1948 11/16/2018
01:11 PM
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Republicans in Mississippi are unapologetically showing their racism this week. First, Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith made a deplorable comment about happily attending a “public hanging” that she refuses to apologize for—a racist and insensitive remark that...
Kelly Macias 11/16/2018
12:59 PM
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A groundbreaking initiative connecting immigrants facing deportation with legal assistance has had extraordinary effects all over the U.S., and now the program is seeking to expand to protect even more families. A dozen cities and counties are part...
Gabe Ortiz 11/16/2018
12:59 PM
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If lazy Republicans are to be believed, all of us liberals drive Volvos. We use them to get to our jobs as college professors and to load up groceries from Whole Foods. For the not-so-politically minded, Volvos are an icon of Swedishness, alongside...
kernals 11/16/2018
12:41 PM
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I just started reading over Indivisible’s new guide for going on offense and of course I only got a couple sentences into Chapter 1 before my mind went off on a tangent. As is so often the case, Chapter 1 focuses on the basics, recapping the...
beerfinger 11/16/2018
12:32 PM
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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...
Walter Einenkel 11/16/2018
12:28 PM
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Long story but at 11 am I was taken via EMS to the ER. They ruled out a heart attack but am in tremendous pain in the chest and also at my wound site. You know I had hoped to be talking about ...
BFSkinner 11/16/2018
12:25 PM
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With the probable victories of Katie Porter and Gil Cisneros, it seems that formerly ruby red Orange County is about to field a congressional contingent which is all Democrat.  The county which former County Supervisor Tom Riley called “the great...
T C Gibian 11/16/2018
12:22 PM
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The meaning of the idiom ‘herding cats’ has come to mean, for many, the wrangling of the unmanageable.   In this case, it may be taking on a different meaning.  Democrats, as usual, have taken the job of cleaning the Washington litter box, after it...
ReasonaBill 11/16/2018
12:16 PM
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There was a brief moment on election night when FiveThirtyEight’s algorithm projected that the GOP was going to keep the House.  I stared at that number, feeling like my soul had left my body and run away.  I thought “Here we go again.  The polls were...
LordRobin 11/16/2018
12:11 PM
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And I am … I am numb… but... I remember back to when a good scandal rose my ire.. I vented my spleen and it felt good.  It felt like it meant something..  It was cathartic. When the tapes were discovered and Nixon was ousted, when Reagan was caught...
campdurning4 11/16/2018
12:04 PM
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The Trump campaign spent most of its $85 million budget on facebook ads.  My thanks to Lovejoy for providing the video.    BBC: “I mean what was Facebook, and Google, and Youtube people actually doing here? Why were they here?” Woman:...
Lefty Coaster 11/16/2018
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Scott Anderson 11/16/2018
11:55 AM
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I don’t want to miss the GoFundMe Accounts set up for the Camp Fire Kossacks’ 

survivors as I promised to help.  When will they appear here?

left of center 11/16/2018
11:22 AM
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Executive Summary: A simple model shows that we can achieve positive changes in wealth inequality by returning to a more progressive tax structure. Joseph Stiglitz has written an important article on inequality in the American economy. One of his...
dvunkannon 11/16/2018
11:20 AM
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HI, I have to talk to someone. I need to get this out there.     My husband just left for a short 2 day trip away. We have been together  for 16 years. We have been apart only three times.    As some of you know, three years ago, we watched my...
Cmae 11/16/2018
11:18 AM
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Oh! 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...
DaisiesArePretty 11/16/2018
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Happee Friedai!
The Marti 11/16/2018
10:45 AM
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For obvious reasons, when those in power misuse that power, they don’t want other people to know the truth.  Fortunately, there are a few brave souls in the world known as whistleblowers who take action to alert the public of such misdeeds. A...
Older and Wiser Now 11/16/2018
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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...
cbastian 11/16/2018
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I know (sadly) that I have to preface this diary by saying that I am not White, I’m Black.  And I say sadly because if I were a White man, I don’t think my opinion on this topic would be heard by many — so as a Black man, in this particular space which...
ProgressiveFirst 11/16/2018
10:23 AM
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There are 717 days, and some hours, until Election Day, 2020.  The Democrats are in the majority in one chamber of the Legislative Branch of the US Government. Not the Presidency, not the Supreme Court, not the Senate. We control the House of...
BC in Illinois 11/16/2018
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Blowback has been fierce ever since the announcement that online mega-giant retailer Amazon would be receiving billions of dollars in subsidies to build one of two new headquarters in Long Island City, New York. Besides questions surrounding the...
Walter Einenkel 11/16/2018
10:02 AM
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Donald Trump looooves to talk about “my military” and “my generals,” like the authoritarian leader he longs to be. And he likes military pageantry, at least when it’s convenient and the cheers are for him. But he doesn’t care enough to risk getting his...
Laura Clawson 11/16/2018
09:51 AM
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to promote the migration of Earth’s building from using fossil fuels to clean energy. BUILDINGS USE MORE THAN 37% OF GLOBAL ENERGY CONSUMPTION Fine Print Notes (Rules): I’ll transfer $1,000 from my money market to a non-profit or 501(c) (3) of...
Deep Throat 11/16/2018
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Last week, in fit of rage, Donald Trump revoked the White House pass for CNN's presidential correspondent, Jim Acosta, Subsequently, CNN filed a lawsuit to against to get Acosta's rights restored. Nearly everyone in the journalism community supported...
News Corpse 11/16/2018
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The ever-increasing blue wave from last Tuesday’s midterms is a remarkable rebuke to Trumpism and a necessary victory for Democrats and the country. Because of the enormity of that victory, however, it is easy to overlook just how brutal some of the...
m2c4 11/16/2018
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In his victory speech on election night, U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb said he would always remember the union members who helped him defeat two Republican incumbents in one year. “Side by side with us at each step of the way were men and women of organized...
Leo W Gerard 11/16/2018
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— 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...
jamess 11/16/2018
09:34 AM
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It’s Friday. Kossacks have done good work this month. Maybe you need a laugh? Here’s hoping this does the trick.  I wrote book of humorous music essays. The publisher suggested I turn a mini-play that appears in the book into a video. It is not...
soapbox kid 11/16/2018
09:27 AM
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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...
Stephen Wolf 11/16/2018
09:19 AM
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2018-11-15 00:04:51 - 2018-11-15 23:51:51 UTC; DailyKos stories = 169;  169 per day;  7.0 per hour Yesterday 137 Kogs posted 169 stories of which 166 were recommended at least once by a cadre of 2318 recommending readers; 117 stories were...
jotter 11/16/2018
09:11 AM
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 Let’s all join hands and hope the friggen idiot BREATHES DEEP. I can’t wait to see what he brings to the victims of this inferno….probably trump fans. ASS. I live 2 hours away and you can’t even go outside, just smoke. Can’t imagine what it is like...
Miss Sally 11/16/2018
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Well, that didn’t take long. Just one week after the midterm elections, Kristin Olsen — the vice chairperson of the California Republican Party — announced the party’s death. The California Republican Party isn’t salvageable at this time. The...
Krotor 11/16/2018
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  Seventeen lives were lost in the Washita Flood of 1934, that brought about the flood prevention system for the surrounding area. Little known is this flood with its impact and death toll. Less known than that, is the Cheyenne and Arapaho band that...
Winter Rabbit 11/16/2018
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HOW STEM CELL RESEARCH SAVED MY—CAR? By Don C. Reed Everything seemed normal that Saturday,4:30 AM, November 10th,  2018. I stepped out of the shower into my gym’s locker room. Dry, dressed, and comfortable, I took out my gymbag,...
diverdonreed 11/16/2018
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At a special exhibit at the Portland Art Museum called The Shape of Speed: Streamlined Automobiles and Motorcycles, 1930-1942 several unique, one-of-a-kind automobiles were displayed.
Ojibwa 11/16/2018
08:30 AM
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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...
Onomastic 11/16/2018
08:25 AM
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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...
xaxnar 11/16/2018
08:16 AM
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Indiana’s Republican attorney general, Curtis Hill, has been elected vice chair of the national Republican Attorneys General Association. This comes about three weeks after the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office announced that it would not...
Walter Einenkel 11/16/2018
08:09 AM
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There have been a few diaries since the election touting Nancy Pelosi for Speaker of the House.  The running theme in these diaries is that Nancy is good at garnering votes for the caucus and she is someone who terrifies Republicans.  I wholeheartedly...
practicalthoughts 11/16/2018
07:59 AM
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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; Blue Moon Spirits Fridays! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Facebook is facing an ‘Upton Sinclair’ moment. Then, on the...
justiceputnam 11/16/2018
07:50 AM
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Just saw this on CNN. Link Not any detail yet but it says that the Judge granted the requested preliminary injunction.  The merits will be decided in the upcoming trial.
RenMin 11/16/2018
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The following is from my wife, April Moore, who in 2015 was the Democratic nominee for the Virginia State Senate seat now held by Republican Mark Obenshain, who came within a whisker in 2013 of winning the race for Attorney General of Virginia. Because...
AndySchmookler 11/16/2018
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Yesterday the White House announced majority vote loser Donald J. Trump would be going to California to harass the victims of the California wildfires. In preparation the White House has requested ...
TexDem 11/16/2018
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Welcome, welcome, welcome! All are welcome to join the fun, the silliness, the conversations.  If you don’t know...just ask!  Some things really   do   require a bit of explanation. There ...
The Marti 11/16/2018
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On Tuesday, an Alabama grand jury indicted Trey Glenn, the man Trump chose to lead the Southeast region’s EPA office, on charges of violating state ethics laws concerning public officials taking gifts from lobbyists.  Glenn is charged with breaking...
ClimateDenierRoundup 11/16/2018
06:54 AM
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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...
EagleOfFreedom 11/16/2018
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That’s the question.  Trump’s Hot Air might have helped him with his base.  But boy oh boy, he just might have turned off the voters in the middle.  Democrats should encourage  Trump out there on the election rally trail in 2020.

ML MARTIN 11/16/2018
06:25 AM
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I’d heard rumors about steelhead gutting it out, and making it way upstream in Rock Creek.  I’d hiked it for years and seen eagles nesting in its big trees, and scores of ducks in the lakes ...
6412093 11/16/2018
06:01 AM
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Welcome to the Daily Kos Elections Live Digest, your liveblog of all of today's campaign news. Please note: The Live Digest is a 2016 and 2020 Democratic presidential primary-free space. It’s ...
Daily Kos Elections 11/16/2018
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It was one year ago today that “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” profiled Shannon Grove, who was first elected to the California State Assembly in… you guessed it, the 2010 Tea Party Wave. And, for three terms, Shannon Grove tried her damnedest...
republicinsanity 11/16/2018
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An Early Thanksgiving Diary (Because Thanksgiving is never  on a Friday... ever ) A couple of weeks ago, I highlighted compassion fatigue and how it adversely effects those working in ...
WYgalinCali 11/16/2018
05:00 AM
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The announcements usually happen on Friday afternoons, so today might have a bit more attention because of the preliminary messages from those thinking that they will be indicted, including Roger Stone and his contacts. But today may be filled...
annieli 11/16/2018
04:58 AM
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Just now saw this trenchant critique of the disgraceful behavior of what we laughingly call “the free press” or “fourth estate”.   More like “the Trump megaphone”. Really and truly, we need to be focusing critical attention on what the MSM is...
boblite 11/16/2018
04:57 AM
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While Georgia was disappointing in 2018, we still made great strides.  Our statewide candidates all did really well, each getting the highest percentages we’ve seen for statewide Democrats in nearly two decades.  We also made huge progress in the...
TheUnknown285 11/16/2018
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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...
Dartagnan 11/16/2018
04:31 AM
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I can honestly say that I never met a single person that did not love the classic Warner Brothers / Looney Tunes cartoons. I have asked in the past which character people enjoyed the most...and for many people that was Bugs or Daffy… so I thought...
BFSkinner 11/16/2018
04:30 AM
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For those who don’t have time to read my story, situation etc., you can go ahead and donate here: www.paypal.com/…  I am perfectly capable of giving you something in return.  I am a damn good computer helper.  Patient and knowledgable.  If you...
AlyoshaKaramazov 11/16/2018
04:24 AM
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If all could take a moment and not just have a knee-jerk reaction that any comment or disagreement in the party is unacceptable, after all, we are not Republicans. The reason I do not want to see legacy Neo-Liberals anywhere near the leadership is...
aboutmri 11/16/2018
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Welcome 😄 to Friday’s Roundup of Good News! Many readers know I always end my diaries with two phrases: Truth Matters. Love Matters.   These days, when Trump and his team deal in lies and hatred,
chloris creator 11/16/2018
04:00 AM
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Welcome to Morning Open Thread, a daily post with a MOTley crew of hosts who chose the topic for the day's posting. We support our community, invite and share ideas, and encourage thoughtful, ...
Joy of Fishes 11/16/2018
03:30 AM
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I think that one of the takeaways from last week’s election was that Trump’s victories in Pennsylvania and Michigan were as much an aberration as Obama’s unexpected win in Indiana in ‘08; those two states will revert to form in 2020, just as Indiana...
Mantis 11/16/2018
03:00 AM
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Remember that Assange is also being reported now again in conjunction with the anticipated indictments of Roger Stone, among others, even as much of the public information is about numerous attempts at disinformation related to the 2016 election and...
annieli 11/16/2018
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Mojo Friday’s Weekly Open Thread This is a diary for those who continue to participate in the Mojo Friday diary throughout the week. You are welcome to join ...
bsegel 11/16/2018
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I will let you in on a little secret. I don’t really care who gets to be speaker of the new Democratic House. The horse race is way too easy to get caught up in. Those of us on the left want to take the energy that won so many seats to cut Trump off at...
John M Webb 11/15/2018
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The existence of sealed indictments in the Trump Russia probe has been discussed for some time and one exists with respect to Julian Assange. Prosecutors in the Eastern District of Virginia made a boo boo and mentioned Julian Assange’s name in an...
ursulafaw 11/15/2018
11:40 PM
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Happy Friday! I got an email the other day offering Trumpcare policies. I have medicaid, and don’t currently need a new policy, but since that could change with this administration, I decided to ...
FloridaSNMOM 11/15/2018
09:55 PM
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