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The non-impeachment bombshell of the week was NPR reporter Mary Louise Kelly's interview with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the interview in which he blustered and lied to the unflappable Kelly; the interview that so enraged him that he followed up...

Good morning, Newdists. Caturday is here. Diary Bird — White Cockatoo — Cacatua alba . The white cockatoo is considered Endangered by the IUCN.[1] Its numbers in the wild have declined owing to capture for the cage bird trade and habitat loss.[4] It is...

No Democrat unequivocally opposed Trump’s assassination of Soleimani in terms as strong as Bernie used. They all condemned the recklessness of the attack but they all qualified their statements with neocon spin about Soleimani being “a terrorist” or...

Daniel, my brother in ministry: Praise the name of Jesus Christ this song is MAGNIFICENT. I have been waiting quite a long time for for someone like you to write a song like this. I'm not ...

Background:  1958 ranch style house.  I bought in 2017.  Mapped the electrical circuits myself.   The problem:  the dining room light was working some days, some days not.  I decided to test ...

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Since Mike Pompeo thinks this is a great challenge, worthy of stumping a Cambridge and Harvard-educated journalist specializing in national security, I thought I would make a guide for we plebeians not so enlightened as he. Here is Europe: Now remember...

The Nation has a great piece out right now in which Steve Phillips lists 12 states that he believes that Democrats have a great shot at flipping in this year’s election to give them a Senate Majority: The impeachment trial in the US Senate is clearly a...

He’s had a role in this business from the beginning, you know. He was napping outside the room where it happened. And oh yeah — he testified. So it’s only proper that he take part in the Senate trial.

We can only hope. If there is a single, overriding driver for everything that Senate Republicans are bringing to the Impeachment trial, it is the commitment to get it all over with as fast as possible. Mitch McConnell, at first, wanted to compress...

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...

Daniel Deitrich is a Christian worship leader in South Bend, Indiana. As discussed in this article for Religious News Service, such worship leaders are among the 81% of evangelical Christians who voted for Donald Trump in 2016. Four years ago Dietrich...

Earlier, Daily Kos’ Jen Hayden wrote about Trump’s Secretary of State Mike Pompeo getting backed into a corner during an interview with NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly on Morning Edition. Pompeo lost his cool after Kelly asked him to speak about the lack of...

Bernie Sanders has all the momentum to win this primary and then beat Donald Trump. CNN: Bernie Sanders is climbing everywhere Analysis by Harry Enten, CNN With only 10 days until Iowans caucus, Sanders is seeing his poll numbers climb nationally and...

Donald Trump has been impeached for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress—and in case there was any doubt he’s guilty, he’s bragging about obstruction. But that’s not enough for Senate Republicans determined to protect him at all cost. On day one...

Smack dab in the middle of his impeachment trial for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, Donald Trump is shamelessly grifting off the taxpayer, spiking room rates at his Doral Resort just ahead of a Republican National Committee meeting there,...

“Now, with me, there's no lying,” Donald Trump said Wednesday about impeachment. You know what happened next, right? Yup, Trump unleashed a barrage of lies about impeachment. Trump made 14 false claims Wednesday spread out between the press conference...

The first statements from Donald Trump’s defense team in the impeachment trial in the Senate on Tuesday included multiple big, instantly refutable lies, such as White House counsel Pat Cipollone’s claim that no Republicans were allowed into the “secret...

On the first full day of the presentation to the Senate in the impeachment trial against Donald Trump, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff and the House management team delivered the evidence against Trump in three different ways: in a...

The Abbreviated Pundit Round-up is a daily feature at Daily Kos. Juan Cole at Informed Comment writes—Did Saudi prince Bin Salman personally Hack Jeff Bezos’s Phone, Vacuuming up Secrets? What about Jared Kushner? We’ve long known that Amazon CEO Jeff...

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...

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...

Rep. Adam Schiff, in his role as impeachment manager, both distilled the import of this trial and put Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell under a harsh light, without ever mentioning McConnell's name. In his opening argument, as prepared and...

The D.C. press corps is filling in where the cameras that Mitch McConnell refused to allow into the impeachment trial are absent. So we know just what a farce Republicans consider this exercise to be. And precisely why McConnell made sure the American...

Susan Collins is damned if she does stick with Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump on impeachment and damned if she doesn't. The filing deadline for the primary for her Senate seat is March 16, and while she's got the backing of the state's rabid...

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...

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...

Hanging out with all the international obscenely rich at Davos this week most have rubbed off on Donald Trump, making him think he's invincible. Trump told CNBC's Joe Kernen that cutting social insurance programs (entitlements, in CNBC-speak) is...

As Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer made multiple attempts to subpoena documents and witnesses during the opening day of the Senate impeachment trial of Donald Trump, both Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Trump’s legal team sang the same...

Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Bob Casey, Jr. (D. PA) in support of Sara Gideon (D. ME), Theresa Greenfield (D. IA), MJ Hegar (D. TX) and Amy McGrath’s (D. KY) U.S. Senate campaigns:

Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D. NY) in support of Sara Gideon (D. ME), Theresa Greenfield (D. IA), MJ Hegar (D. TX) and Amy McGrath’s (D. KY) U.S. Senate campaigns: Democrats need to net just four Senate seats in...

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Received this e-mail from Dr. Eliz Markowitz’s (D. TX-HD28) campaign for the upcoming special election: Earlier this week, Governor Greg Abbott sent an urgent memo to Republicans that once again shows the lengths that Republicans are willing to go to...

Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Bob Casey, Jr. (D. PA) in support of Attorney General Josh Shapiro’s (D. PA) re-election bid: This morning, my friend, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, announced he's running for re-election --...

Maria Fernandes was a good-hearted American with a family, ambitions and a rock-solid work ethic. She also juggled three part-time jobs to make ends meet and grabbed much-needed sleep in her SUV between shifts. She left the engine running during one of...

The Trump Labor Department is taking action to protect massive corporations from their low-wage workers seeking justice in court, because the Trump Labor Department, currently headed by Eugene Scalia, is all about putting a boot on the neck of workers....

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Here’s the latest news out of North Carolina courtesy of PPP’s latest poll: In the Democratic primary for US Senate Cal Cunningham now has a double digit lead with 22% to 12% for Erica Smith with Atul Goel at 3%, Trevor Fuller at 2%, and Steve Swenson...

Following the 2008 elections, the Swing State Project (the predecessor site to Daily Kos Elections) began calculating the results of that year’s presidential race for all 435 congressional ...

The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, Carolyn Fiddler, and Matt Booker, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, Daniel ...

On Monday, Vermont Lt. Gov. David Zuckerman announced that he would   seek the Democratic nomination   to take on GOP Gov. Phil Scott. Zuckerman will face former state Education Secretary ...