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| Republican Senator John Barrasso gives perfect evidence of Republicans’ bad faith This is perfect. Here is Republican Senator John Barrasso on January 22nd, dismissing the House Managers’ case and opposing the call for taking additional evidence: “We’ve just come out listening to, what, six hours of testimony, and I didn’t hear... |
RETIII | 01/25/2020 | 75 |
| new Iowa poll shows Sanders lead but still plenty of volatility A Iowa General Election poll comparing Trump versus each primary challenger still doesn’t say much at this point in time considering the closeness, but here it is: Still, much here remains uncertain. Iowa voters are famous for settling on a candidate... |
annieli | 01/25/2020 | 25 |
| 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 |
| Isabel Ellie Knaggs finally gets credit for her crucial discovery, 91 years later We need to set the record straight about something. It’s now taken for granted that carbon compounds like methane have a tetrahedral structure: But I wanted you to know who first determined this extremely important fact, back in 1929. It was not the... |
skralyx | 01/25/2020 | 75 |
| Top Comments: Electronics Recycling Edition Good evening, and a happy Saturday to you! In a bid to avoid nonstop news cycle coverage of whatever outrage is today (or rather, this hour then the next hour, we measure time very quickly in these ... |
brillig | 01/25/2020 | 25 |
| On Medicare For All From a Ford Retiree While I’ve been a regular visitor here for some years, I rarely post or comment. After all, who other than me really cares what I think? That said, here’s what I think: Like the headline says, I am a Ford Motor Company retiree. I worked there for 25... |
Enoch Ro0t | 01/25/2020 | 409 |
| I phone banked for the first time today... I have never done canvassing or phone banking, ever. In fact, I have to say the past few weeks have been harrowing, but I wanted to do something that would force me to do things I am not comfortable doing. I wanted to stretch myself a bit, so when I... |
sujigu | 01/25/2020 | 63 |
| Happy flipping year of the rat ... and then there's the Parnas/Fruman audiotape of Trump "How can any Republican's head end up on a pike if it's already stuck up Trump's ass?" Happy new year, despite the fight that lies ahead for November. The impeachment trial is like soup Nazism: There’s even video of the April 2018 dinner party at... |
annieli | 01/25/2020 | 8 |
| 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 |
| Iowa's Biggest Newspaper, The Des Moines Register, Endorses Elizabeth Warren In The Dem Primary Some big news out of Iowa today courtesy of the Des Moines Register: The Des Moines Register editorial board endorses Elizabeth Warren in the 2020 Iowa Democratic caucuses as the best leader for these times. The senior U.S. senator from Massachusetts... |
poopdogcomedy | 01/25/2020 | 197 |
| What's For Dinner? v14.29 - Chicken Carbonara Dinner The Challenge Dad, in his late 80s, has lost much of his appetite and sense of taste. He is tired of the same old thing. But he never liked, and will not now try, herbs, spices, or much that is new and different! He complains of chicken breasts being... |
elenacarlena | 01/25/2020 | 125 |
| Full video of Trump calling for Yovanovitch firing—seconds after Parnas smears her with lies In an 83-minute video published by PBS Newshour on Saturday, Donald Trump appears to chat with Lev Parnas—a man Trump has repeatedly insisted he does not know—and then immediately demand that then-Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch be fired. About... |
Jessica Sutherland | 01/25/2020 | 183 |
| 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 |
| Why Sanders' insistence on seeking an economic solution to racism is built on MLK's legacy. MLK wrote “We shall eliminate slums for Negroes when we destroy ghettos and build new cities for all. We shall eliminate unemployment for Negroes when we demand full and fair employment for all. We shall produce and educated and skilled Negro mass when... |
Idontknowwhy | 01/25/2020 | 136 |
| 75 Years After D-Day, American G.I. Reunites With His Long-Lost French Love. They Were Kids Again. Mississippian KT Robbins was a 24 year-old young man when he deployed to Europe in mid-1944. He was there for the allied invasion….D Day….. and France was in the process of being liberated from Nazi subjugation. He was in a company of bakers for the... |
Tevye | 01/25/2020 | 103 |
| What Happens Next After Trump Walks? What happens after the Senate Republicans acquit Donald John Trump of all charges and apologize to him for the inconvenience? What happens after the world sees that there is nothing left in America to restrain Trump in any way? What happens after Trump... |
xaxnar | 01/25/2020 | 40 |
| Book Review and Endorsement for: Prius or Pickup? A few years ago, I found Prius or Pickup in an airport book stand. What a find! Marc Hetherington’s and Jonathan Weiler’s work is made for electability debates. And it can really inform campaign strategy. Both these reasons have had me reflecting upon... |
Fffflats | 01/25/2020 | 5 |
| Graham On Calling Witnesses: “I Really Don’t Want To Turn The Trial Into A Circus” Now that Trump’s lawyers have begun offering up their arguments against impeachment, many Democrats are saying they just made a great case for calling witnesses. Trump’s defense team began this morning’s Senate session arguing that no one has testified... |
dailynooze | 01/25/2020 | 29 |
| Shooting Down the Dershowitz Argument Alan Dershowitz will be a Republican defense witness testifying that the impeachment charges against Trump are Constitutionally invalid. He says that abuse of power and obstruction of Congress are not crimes, as they violate no statutes. Since the... |
voidstuff | 01/25/2020 | 8 |
| Time Soon to Shift the Spotlight from Trump's Evil to that of His Republican Accomplices The Democrats should understand that this impeachment battle is part of a larger war. They are up against not only this Trump presidency, they are also up against this Trump Party. The Party whose rot enabled Trump to become President. And whose rot is... |
AndySchmookler | 01/25/2020 | 8 |
| 2020 will see American astronauts launched on American rockets, but it's been a rough flight already On December 20, an Atlas V rocket carried Boeing’s new Starliner capsule into the Florida sky on its way to the International Space Station. But Starliner never arrived. A timing error left the capsule in the wrong orbit, and the necessary adjustments... |
Mark Sumner | 01/25/2020 | 132 |
| Bernie didn't leave the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party left Bernie. A rebuttal to a front page diary I had the pleasure of reading this morning. I am a young (30, so maybe not that young :[ ), enthusiastic Bernie Sanders supporter. I want ya’ll to understand how I see this political moment and other like minded Bernie... |
Gh3ngisTr0n | 01/25/2020 | 736 |
| Trump would've complied with House subpoenas if they held an unnecessary formal impeachment vote? The nonsense continues because the facts aren’t as important as the imagined process in the WH defense of IMPOTUS*. Nothing but weak counterfactual arguments to distract from Trump spiking the ‘exoneration’ ball at the Super Bowl. “Trump would have... |
annieli | 01/25/2020 | 15 |
| Trump pitches fossil fuels in Davos, as report puts climate crisis as world's No. 1 risk The World Economic Forum’s annual conference in Davos, Switzerland, opened this week with the 15th edition of its Global Risks Report. The top 2 risks on the list are the climate crisis and biodiversity loss, two matters inextricably bound up with each... |
Meteor Blades | 01/22/2020 | 79 |
| Republicans swoon with fake outrage after Nadler calls a cover-up a cover-up It looks like the accurate characterization of Republican plans for the impeachment trial of Donald Trump as a cover-up is getting under some Republican skin. After Rep. Jerry Nadler dared to call a cover-up a cover-up on the Senate floor late Tuesday... |
Laura Clawson | 01/22/2020 | 71 |
| Opening arguments begin in impeachment trial of Donald Trump: Live coverage #1 Donald Trump has been impeached for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, with overwhelming evidence despite his obstruction that has blocked investigators from access to key witnesses and documents. But now it’s in Mitch McConnell’s Senate, and... |
Laura Clawson | 01/22/2020 | 128 |
| They face their own tough races, but these House Democrats are working to flip more red districts Swing-district House Democrats with military and national security backgrounds are teaming up to help flip some more congressional districts in 2020. Reps. Mikie Sherrill, Chrissy Houlahan, Jason Crow, and Max Rose will co-chair the “Second Service... |
Laura Clawson | 01/22/2020 | 5 |
| Through seven-layer word salad, Trump appears to say he'd go after Social Security, Medicare Honestly, I don’t totally comprehend Trump-ese. No one does. Not even him. Everything he says seems to have been Google translated from English to Cantonese to Zapf Dingbats and back to English. But, hey, it sure sounds like Donald Trump just stated... |
Aldous J Pennyfarthing | 01/22/2020 | 31 |
| Trump dismisses troop injuries in Iran airstrikes as 'headaches and a couple of other things' He avoided Vietnam thanks to bone spurs and later said that trying to avoid sexually transmitted diseases was “my personal Vietnam,” but Donald Trump knows about war injuries. He says. Trump on Wednesday morning dismissed the injuries to 11 U.S. troops... |
Laura Clawson | 01/22/2020 | 128 |
| Some Democrats reportedly open to boosting Republican talking points with impeachment witness trade Behind the scenes of the impeachment trial of Donald Trump, some Democrats are reportedly pondering a deal that could go wrong in about a dozen ways. With Republicans blocking witnesses while yelling about Hunter Biden, these Democrats are considering... |
Laura Clawson | 01/22/2020 | 95 |
| Impeachment trial opening arguments kick off Wednesday after marathon Tuesday debate Opening arguments in the impeachment trial of Donald Trump begin at 1 PM ET on Wednesday, after a brutal nearly 13-hour day of procedural debate on Tuesday that ended at nearly 2 AM. Democrats offered a series of amendments to Senate Majority Leader... |
Laura Clawson | 01/22/2020 | 14 |
| Impeachment trial concludes debate on McConnell's cover-up plan: Live coverage #10 The impeachment trial of Donald Trump started on Tuesday with debate on trial procedures—namely, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's carefully planned cover-up. The debate has been conducted by the House impeachment managers and Trump’s defense... |
Laura Clawson | 01/21/2020 | 221 |
| Impeachment trial opens with debate of McConnell's cover-up plan: Live coverage #9 The impeachment trial of Donald Trump started on Tuesday with debate on trial procedures—namely, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's carefully planned cover-up. The debate has been conducted by the House impeachment managers and Trump’s defense... |
Laura Clawson | 01/21/2020 | 117 |
| Fox News at its most fair and balanced Remember the days of consensus reality, before everyone right of Mitt Romney’s dog simultaneously took the brown acid, hurtled headlong through an Einstein-Rosen bridge, and found themselves piled up like cordwood inside Donald Trump’s commodious clown... |
Aldous J Pennyfarthing | 01/21/2020 | 9 |
| Hillary tweets, 'I will do whatever I can to support our nominee' For the record, Hillary Clinton is committing to support our 2020 candidate, whoever that may be: Can we put the pie down now? “Blue no matter who” also applies to Hillary — and I think she knows that. Personally, I’d vote for a giant plexiglas hamster... |
Aldous J Pennyfarthing | 01/21/2020 | 55 |
| Impeachment trial opens with debate of McConnell's cover-up plan: Live coverage #6 The impeachment trial of Donald Trump starts Tuesday with debate on trial procedures—namely, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's carefully planned cover-up. The debate will be conducted by the House impeachment managers and Trump’s defense team.... |
Laura Clawson | 01/21/2020 | 160 |
| Impeachment managers are ready to present our case, says Schiff. But 'Will the Senate let us?' Aside from the brazen lying and their own co-conspirator status, one of the reasons the Trump defense team's rhetoric has seemed to fall flat during today's Senate impeachment opening moves, is that they seem to have been prewritten with little care... |
Hunter | 01/21/2020 | 26 |
| Impeachment trial opens with debate of McConnell's cover-up plan: Live coverage #5 The impeachment trial of Donald Trump starts Tuesday with debate on trial procedures—namely, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's carefully planned cover-up. The debate will be conducted by the House impeachment managers and Trump’s defense team.... |
Laura Clawson | 01/21/2020 | 97 |
| Impeachment trial opens with debate of McConnell's cover-up plan: Live coverage #4 The impeachment trial of Donald Trump starts Tuesday with debate on trial procedures—namely, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's carefully planned cover-up. The debate will be conducted by the House impeachment managers and Trump’s defense team.... |
Laura Clawson | 01/21/2020 | 97 |
| Impeachment trial opens with debate of McConnell's cover-up plan: Live coverage #3 The impeachment trial of Donald Trump starts Tuesday with debate on trial procedures—namely, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's carefully planned cover-up. The debate will be conducted by the House impeachment managers and Trump’s defense team.... |
Laura Clawson | 01/21/2020 | 186 |
| Impeachment trial opens with debate of McConnell's cover-up plan: Live coverage #2 The impeachment trial of Donald Trump starts Tuesday with debate on trial procedures—namely, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's carefully planned cover-up. The debate will be conducted by the House impeachment managers and Trump’s defense team.... |
Laura Clawson | 01/21/2020 | 199 |
| Impeachment trial opens with debate of McConnell's cover-up plan: Live coverage #1 The impeachment trial of Donald Trump starts Tuesday with debate on trial procedures—namely, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's carefully planned cover-up. The debate will be conducted by the House impeachment managers and Trump’s defense team.... |
Laura Clawson | 01/21/2020 | 139 |
| With impeachment trial in progress, Trump struggles to get through prepared remarks in Davos While Sen. Mitch McConnell puts the finishing touches on his plan to assist Donald Trump in covering up a year of White House crime, the extortionist himself is in Davos, where his handlers let him give another not-particularly-coherent speech about,... |
Hunter | 01/21/2020 | 308 |
| Bernie should argue for party unity. He needs all Democrats just as all Democrats need him Oh boy, did Hillary Clinton create a shitshow today. Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, she said, “I will say, however, that it's not only [Bernie Sanders], it's the culture around him. It's his leadership team. It's his prominent supporters. It's his... |
kos | 01/21/2020 | 687 |
| Trump: U.S. is 'now NUMBER ONE in the Universe, by FAR!!' And yet we still haven’t mastered appropriate capitalization and economy of punctuation. No doubt Trump’s fave leaders Emperor Palpatine and Gowron, chancellor of the Klingon Empire, told him this. Still, the universe is a pretty big place. No doubt... |
Aldous J Pennyfarthing | 01/21/2020 | 14 |
| Justice Department, again acting as Trump's personal lawyers, blessed impeachment obstruction The Justice Department is once again acting as Donald Trump’s personal law firm rather than doing what the Justice Department is supposed to do. The department’s mission statement is “To enforce the law and defend the interests of the United States... |
Laura Clawson | 01/21/2020 | 4 |
| Mitch McConnell's impeachment trial cover-up is starting. How will it play out? Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has developed an elaborate procedural plan for an impeachment trial cover-up. Assuming that McConnell has his 53 Republicans in line to vote for the broad strokes of the cover-up and set it in motion, how will it... |
Laura Clawson | 01/21/2020 | 83 |
| Pelosi blasts McConnell's planned 'dark of night impeachment trial' cover-up Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s “plan for a dark of night impeachment trial confirms what the American people have seen since Day One: the Senate GOP Leader has chosen a cover-up for the President, rather than honor his oath to the... |
Laura Clawson | 01/21/2020 | 126 |
| Monday night owls: New Texas fossil-fuel projects could add hugely to greenhouse gas emissions Justin Miller at the Texas Observer writes—As Fossil Fuel Industry Invests Billions in New Texas Facilities, it Could Unleash a Huge Emissions Bomb: A hulking new $10 billion ethane cracker near Corpus Christi set for completion by 2022. A trio of... |
Meteor Blades | 01/20/2020 | 46 |
| I write these words with great sadness and trepidation I have read about and listened to commentary on McConnell’s proposed rules for the Senate impeachment trial beginning tomorrow. It is for me the final straw. Perhaps I can provide some context with a tweet I posted after reading them. I wrote: simply... |
teacherken | 01/20/2020 | 334 |
| Trump makes MLK Jr. Day about him, because of course he does Sigh. It’s “appropriate” that we’re celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day on the anniversary of the inauguration of a racist shitheel? Ah, no. Try again. No, actually, don’t. This is depressing enough as it is. When I think of Martin Luther King Jr.,... |
Aldous J Pennyfarthing | 01/20/2020 | 15 |
| Marriott's 'green choice' isn't so green, and it's hurting workers Why would environmental organizations like the Sierra Club, the Union of Concerned Scientists, and 350.org have signed a pledge that they wouldn’t use a hotel chain’s environmental program? ... |
Laura Clawson | 01/20/2020 | 70 |
| Year over year, inflation-adjusted wages rose 0% in 2019. 51% of workers got no raises Unemployment is the lowest it has been in 50 years. Economic expansion since the Great Recession ended has been going on for 126 consecutive months, and net gains in job growth have been going on ... |
Meteor Blades | 01/20/2020 | 42 |