| Title | Author | Date | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| "Everyone was in the loop" ... Did Trump order the Soleimani assassination to silence Bolton Nov 20, 2019 ' Everyone Was in the Loop ' Ambassador Gordon Sondland testified that President Trump ordered a pressure campaign on Ukraine and that senior-most administration officials knew about it. |
annieli | 01/26/2020 | 1 |
| KY & ME-Sen: SNL Sends Moscow Mitch, Susan Collins (R) & Alan Dershowitz Straight To Hell Brilliant : |
poopdogcomedy | 01/26/2020 | 1 |
| Sunday night owls: Federal lobbying soared to near-record $3.47 billion in 2019 Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week Karl Evers-Hillstrom at OpenSecrets’ Center for Responsive Politics writes— Lobbying spending in 2019 nears all-time ... |
Meteor Blades | 01/26/2020 | 21 |
| My experience with an ectopic pregnancy, blighted ova, and the right wing xtian fanatics April 2002 was a time I can't erase from my memory. I experienced pain coming in waves. I had tears in my eyes. I called an OB/GYN in my network. I traveled to his office. I had an ultrasound done. I had tests done. I had to call off work that day. I... |
abluerippleinohio | 01/26/2020 | 26 |
| Like a mustache cup, Bolton's story cannot stop his testimony in the Senate trial Boom! Trump paying the price for his iniquity, malevolence, and base ineptitude. Congressional Democrats called for former national security adviser John Bolton to testify in President Trump’s impeachment trial following a new report that the president... |
annieli | 01/26/2020 | 41 |
| Kitchen Table Kibitzing January 26, 2020
Cruising Revisited
Today we are going to visit old friends, one of whom is in Hospice. She is exactly my age. We haven’t ... |
side pocket | 01/26/2020 | 42 |
| Less than 7 1/2 percent of Republican Senators appear willing to uphold their sworn oaths The Constitution specifies an oath of office only for the president. For all other officials, including members of Congress, the constitution only requires that they "shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation to support this constitution." On May 5, 1789,... |
ARodinFan | 01/26/2020 | 7 |
| Schiff responds to Bolton NY Times revelation of Trump's tawdry motives for Aid Freeze Adam Schiff has emerged as America’s champion, for his tenacious defense our Constitution against Trump’s assault. |
Lefty Coaster | 01/26/2020 | 78 |
| House impeachment managers: Bolton 'directly contradicts the heart' of Trump's defense The team of House managers presenting the case for impeachment in the Senate trial of Donald Trump have released their first statement responding to the news that John Bolton asserts Trump personally told him he was freezing congressionally-approved... |
Hunter | 01/26/2020 | 73 |
| Bolton bombshell ramps up the pressure on Senate Republicans to call impeachment witnesses The report that former national security adviser John Bolton’s book says Donald Trump told him that nearly $400 million in military aid to Ukraine was held up to pressure the country to interfere in the 2020 elections is a direct challenge to every... |
Laura Clawson | 01/26/2020 | 191 |
| John Bolton: Trump explicitly said Ukraine aid freeze was tied to investigations into Democrats Former national security adviser John Bolton has refused House demands that he testify on the events surrounding the freezing of military aid to Ukraine and the efforts by Donald Trump’s allies and administration officials to pressure the Ukrainian... |
Hunter | 01/26/2020 | 119 |
| Trump's Inner Mob Boss Emerges with Alarming New Threats to Politicians and the Press One of the most prominent and disturbing elements of Donald Trump's character (or lack thereof) is his tendency to embrace the language and behavior of mafia dons. He regards himself as an ... |
News Corpse | 01/26/2020 | 61 |
| NYT: Bolton book says Trump tied Ukraine aid to Biden investigations Whoa, wow. Well, thanks for testifying, John. The New York Times: President Trump told his national security adviser in August that he wanted to continue freezing $391 million in security assistance to Ukraine until officials there helped with... |
Aldous J Pennyfarthing | 01/26/2020 | 171 |
| Bernie or Joe? The implications considered. Recent polls show Bernie Sanders climbing into a tie for first place in Iowa, a solid lead in New Hampshire, and a strong second place nationally. Joe Biden continues to lead the race overall. Other top-tier candidates, such as Warren and Buttigieg,... |
Eric Stetson | 01/26/2020 | 111 |
| AntiCapitalist Meetup - Rifts and Riffs: "is the externality of nature irreducible" Slavoj Žižek writes an article riffing on the book by Kohei Saito, (Karl Marx's Ecosocialism, 2017) to make a point about biological-robotics as ecosystem tools, but also makes some points useful for discussing environmentalism. (Note that this doesn’t... |
annieli | 01/26/2020 | 15 |
| On the Sunday shows, Trump's Senate bootlickers show how low they can go Before this evening’s blockbuster John Bolton news, we’d already seen that the level to which Republicans will sink to defend Donald Trump on anything and, literally, everything has no bottom. There seems no cutoff point beyond which now... |
Hunter | 01/26/2020 | 26 |
| Two reasons I loved Joe Biden last week I don’t think many people can accuse me of being a Biden fan. When he says something stupid, I call him out on it. But sometimes he reminds me of just what a different league he is in compared to Donald J Trump. I was moved by two things he did last... |
SemDem | 01/26/2020 | 120 |
| MSNBC’s Joy Reid calls out Trump apologist Jack Kingston on multiple impeachment lies MSNBC host Joy Reid said enough is enough with the lies when former Rep. Jack Kingston, of Georgia, attempted to defend President Donald Trump and badmouth Democratic presidential hopefuls in Congress after claiming they weren’t tuned into the... |
Lauren Floyd | 01/26/2020 | 135 |
| Kobe Bryant & eight others have died in a helicopter crash in Calabasas-updatedX5 A helicopter crashed and burst into flames Sunday morning amid foggy conditions in the hills above Calabasas, with multiple fatalities reported. The crash occurred shortly before 10 a.m. near Las Virgenes Road, south of Agoura Road, according to a... |
MTmofo | 01/26/2020 | 133 |
| Sekrit Armee Sundai — Stresst Owt?
Here is a gentle reminder of how we do things:
Pooties are cats; Woozles are dogs. Goggies are dogs, too. Birds...are birds! Peeps are people. PWB Peeps are Pooties, Woozle, Birds ... |
FosterMomInCA | 01/26/2020 | 167 |
| Sunday snippets: Court nixes case seeking TN voting security; did Iran prez threaten to resign? Sunday snippets is a regular weekend feature at Daily Kos.
• Sixth Circuit Court says tough beans to voter rights plaintiffs in Tennessee: A unanimous three-judge panel upheld a lower court ... |
Meteor Blades | 01/26/2020 | 18 |
| Cattle Call 2020: Bernie makes his Iowa (and national) move Taking a look at the national polling aggregate, Bernie Sanders is making a move: My operating theory has been that Sanders can’t break past his core support in the high-teens. Polls aren’t real votes, but if this polling is accurate, I’m flat-out... |
kos | 01/26/2020 | 281 |
| Trump threatens NPR in wake of Pompeo outburst It’s no secret that Donald Trump hates media outlets that challenge him and his administration. In the past, he’s singled out The Washington Post and CNN, corruptly using his office to try to punish them and their parent companies. Now he appears to be... |
Aldous J Pennyfarthing | 01/26/2020 | 92 |
| All things considered, NPR should totally steal this brilliant fundraising idea This was shared by a retired public radio host. (I won’t say who, but if she wants to come forward and claim her laurels, all the better.) The graphic itself was created by Gary Huck. (Give him some loves.) It’s effing brilliant: If NPR doesn’t steal... |
Aldous J Pennyfarthing | 01/26/2020 | 67 |
| Republicans make clear they won't be modifying their aversion to facts in defending Trump On Saturday, Donald Trump’s lawyers lifted the corner a bit on what will be the Republican strategy for fighting impeachment come Monday. First the Republicans will introduce the same five lies they’ve been spouting all along at the impeachment trial... |
Meteor Blades | 01/26/2020 | 71 |
| Saturday night owls: Teacher pay relative to that of other college graduates has collapsed Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week The liberal Economic Policy Institute has published 13 charts that it says show us where our economic priorities ought to be in 2020. The one above is No. 11. Here’s the text EPI... |
Meteor Blades | 01/25/2020 | 109 |
| Tim Kaine says Obama called Trump a fascist prior to election Well, Obama is incredibly smart and observant, so … NBC News: Barack Obama called Donald Trump a "fascist" in a phone conversation with Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia during the 2016 presidential election, Kaine says in a video clip featured in an upcoming... |
Aldous J Pennyfarthing | 01/25/2020 | 30 |
| Evangelical scammers praise Trump for hastening the end of the world. Well, they're not wrong... Mother Jones reporter Stephanie Mencimer has produced a good read on the "End Times" evangelicals who support Donald Trump because they believe, truly and sincerely, that Donald Trump will bring ... |
Hunter | 01/25/2020 | 298 |
| Unions face another year of eroding membership as the war on workers continues The share of U.S. workers represented by a union ticked down slightly from 2018 to 2019, dropping from 11.7% to 11.6%; the share of U.S. workers who are union members also dropped from 10.5% to 10.3% |
Laura Clawson | 01/25/2020 | 12 |
| Spotlight on green news & views: Saying goodbye to the platypus? Davos hears from Trump This is the 628th edition of the Spotlight on Green News & Views (previously known as the Green Diary Rescue). Here is the January 18 edition . Inclusion of a story in the Spotlight does ... |
Meteor Blades | 01/25/2020 | 4 |
| Saturday snippets: Prosecutor objects to calling torture 'torture'; Trump wows 'Marchers for Life' Saturday snippets is a regular feature of Daily Kos. • Trump regime used California wildfires to push more logging: Emails show that political appointees in the Interior Department sought to estimate carbon emissions from the state’s wildfires in 2018... |
Meteor Blades | 01/25/2020 | 36 |
| Trump's defense begins opening arguments in impeachment trial: Live coverage #3 Donald Trump’s defense team previewed a very Donald Trump strategy during Tuesday’s procedural debate in the impeachment trial: lie, attack, ignore the facts. Now it’s time for a concentrated blast of that as they begin their opening arguments.... |
Laura Clawson | 01/25/2020 | 202 |
| Trump's defense begins opening arguments in impeachment trial: Live coverage #2 Donald Trump’s defense team previewed a very Donald Trump strategy during Tuesday’s procedural debate in the impeachment trial: lie, attack, ignore the facts. Now it’s time for a concentrated blast of that as they begin their opening arguments.... |
Laura Clawson | 01/25/2020 | 225 |
| Trump's defense begins opening arguments in impeachment trial: Live coverage #1 Donald Trump’s defense team previewed a very Donald Trump strategy during Tuesday’s procedural debate in the impeachment trial: lie, attack, ignore the facts. Now it’s time for a concentrated blast of that as they begin their opening arguments. |
Laura Clawson | 01/25/2020 | 272 |
| Friday night owls: SF DA Chesa Boudin eliminates cash bail, proving elections have consequences John Nichols at The Nation writes— How Much Did Chesa Boudin’s Election Matter? He Just Eliminated Cash Bail : T he simple fact that Chesa Boudin got elected San Francisco’s district ... |
Meteor Blades | 01/24/2020 | 58 |
| George Takei weighs in on new Star Trek-esque Space Force logo You probably heard that Evil Fat Kirk from the “Mirror, Mirror” universe unveiled the new Space Force logo today, and you’ve likely noticed that it looks somewhat — let’s just say “familiar.” Hmm, might those “military leaders” be Admiral Kirk and... |
Aldous J Pennyfarthing | 01/24/2020 | 231 |
| House managers wrap up their opening argument for impeachment: Live coverage #5 It’s the final day of the House managers’ opening arguments in the impeachment trial of Donald Trump. House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff delivered a closing argument for the ages on Thursday night, and now we get to find out what he left... |
Laura Clawson | 01/24/2020 | 146 |
| NPR host: Pompeo 'screamed' and 'swore' at interviewer following tense exchange Daily Kos’ Jen Hayden has a more complete rundown of Mike Pompeo’s interview with Mary Louise Kelly, in which the secretary of state got his arse handed to him on the air. But this seemed, well, pertinent, to say the least: Well, to be fair to Pompeo,... |
Aldous J Pennyfarthing | 01/24/2020 | 170 |
| House managers wrap up their opening argument for impeachment: Live coverage #4 It’s the final day of the House managers’ opening arguments in the impeachment trial of Donald Trump. House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff delivered a closing argument for the ages on Thursday night, and now we get to find out what he left... |
Laura Clawson | 01/24/2020 | 148 |
| House managers wrap up their opening argument for impeachment: Live coverage #3 It’s the final day of the House managers’ opening arguments in the impeachment trial of Donald Trump. House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff delivered a closing argument for the ages on Thursday night, and now we get to find out what he left... |
Laura Clawson | 01/24/2020 | 81 |
| House managers wrap up their opening argument for impeachment: Live coverage #2 It’s the final day of the House managers’ opening arguments in the impeachment trial of Donald Trump. House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff delivered a closing argument for the ages on Thursday night, and now we get to find out what he left... |
Laura Clawson | 01/24/2020 | 133 |
| House managers wrap up their opening argument for impeachment: Live coverage #1 It’s the final day of the House managers’ opening arguments in the impeachment trial of Donald Trump. House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff delivered a closing argument for the ages on Thursday night, and now we get to find out what he left... |
Laura Clawson | 01/24/2020 | 72 |
| Mr. 'Grab 'em by the pussy' spouts off about 'the majesty of God's creation' at anti-abortion rally Donald Trump’s speechwriters really pulled out all the rhetorical flourishes for his remarks at the March for Life in Washington, D.C., on Friday. Mr. “Grab ‘em by the pussy” was spouting line after line about “the majesty of God’s creation” and “the... |
Laura Clawson | 01/24/2020 | 245 |
| Trump administration takes aim at California abortion-coverage requirement Pandering to anti-abortion zealots with a side of California bashing? For Donald Trump and his lackeys, the answer is an eager “Yes, please!” Trump’s Health and Human Services Department is planning to go after California’s requirement for health... |
Laura Clawson | 01/24/2020 | 13 |