| Title | Author | Date | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Why Warren? She’s the One Who Can Unite the Party and Beat the DC Corruption There are a lot of reasons to be for Elizabeth Warren, but number one is this: she is the only candidate who can genuinely unite the party and not only defeat Trump, but truly change the dysfunction in DC. To some of you, that might be... |
Michael Lux | 01/27/2020 | 141 |
| Gov. Tony Evers (D. WI) Teams Up With DFA In The Fight To End GOP Gerrymandering In Wisconsin Received this e-mail yesterday from Governor Tony Evers (D. WI) on behalf of Democracy for America: I have to thank you. When I won my race for Governor of Wisconsin in 2018, I knew it was ... |
poopdogcomedy | 01/27/2020 | 2 |
| Advocates warn ICE's move lowering detention standards could have 'disastrous consequences' A top civil rights organization is condemning the Trump administration’s decision to weaken some immigrant detention standards. “ICE describes its revisions to the [National Detention Standards] as a set of ‘streamlined,’ ‘updated, modernized... |
Gabe Ortiz | 01/27/2020 | 12 |
| Conservatives far angrier about WH leakers than the corruption of their president The BIG BOLTON BOMBSHELL is the talk of the town this morning, and, of course, every last American is simply outraged that it’s now basically irrefutable that our pr*sident is a corrupt, venal maniac who bribes other countries with foreign aid in order... |
Aldous J Pennyfarthing | 01/27/2020 | 38 |
| Bolton News Just Tossed A Steaming Bag of Dog Poop On To The Senate Floor Clean up on Senate isle one. I wrote a Saturday that there was no chance for witnesses. I now have to retract that claim with the introduction of this stink bomb that just blew up the main argument made Saturday by the Trump defense team who vehemently... |
Mystic54 | 01/27/2020 | 28 |
| Some Senate Republicans going through the motions of taking Bolton bombshell seriously The John Bolton bombshell—direct first-person evidence that, yeah, Donald Trump did it—is definitely roiling the Republican Senate. At least for the purposes of looking like they're taking this seriously and really considering having Bolton testify.... |
Joan McCarter | 01/27/2020 | 119 |
| Why I left "Team Warren"... and why I am back. Early on the primary season, I wholeheartedly joined “Team Warren.” I felt that not only was the she best candidate to actually be president, but that she had the best chance of beating Trump. I was in. I was enthusiastic and I was ready to fight for... |
GoodNewsRoundup | 01/27/2020 | 257 |
| New Emails Show Trump Admin Exploited Wildfires to Help Logging Industry Earlier this month we discussed how during Australia’s devastating fires, conservatives tried to claim that it was green party forest management policies that were to blame. That is, of course, wrong. It throws us back to 2018 in the US, when Secretary... |
ClimateDenierRoundup | 01/27/2020 | 6 |
| Trump's impeachment defense resumes Monday amid fallout from Bolton bombshell What is Donald Trump’s defense team going to do during their impeachment trial arguments now that former national security adviser John Bolton has blown up one of their key contentions? They’ve insisted again and again that no witnesses had heard... |
Laura Clawson | 01/27/2020 | 71 |
| Trump plans victory lap tour after throwing Republican Senators under the bus The bombshell that John Bolton had a book coming, one which would confirm a quid-pro-quo and establish that the Trump administration defense was garbage may have surprised some Republican senators, but it came at absolutely no surprise to the person... |
Chris Reeves | 01/27/2020 | 129 |
| Can we be smart about what John Bolton is not going to say? I believe we should push very hard for the testimony of John Bolton. But can we as Democrats be honest with ourselves about one very likely and important thing? John Bolton is not going to ... |
RETIII | 01/27/2020 | 20 |
| John Bolton isn't demanding to be called as a witness, but he does want you to buy his book The bombshell report that John Bolton personally witnessed the impeached Donald Trump’s extortion of a vulnerable ally, trying to force it to attack his political rival Joe Biden, is yet more ... |
Laurence Lewis | 01/27/2020 | 14 |
| What did Moscow Mitch know about Bolton bombshell and when did he know it? Senate Republicans are reportedly feeling "blindsided" by the revelation from John Bolton's upcoming book that Donald Trump personally told the former national security adviser that he was withholding aid to Ukraine until he got his investigations into... |
Joan McCarter | 01/27/2020 | 138 |
| This one on John Bolton was a big, stupid lie even by Trump standards Donald Trump responded in the most Donald Trump way to news that former national security adviser John Bolton wrote that Donald Trump personally told him that military aid to Ukraine was held up until Ukraine investigated Trump’s political opponents:... |
Laura Clawson | 01/27/2020 | 266 |
| Senate Republicans fear that if Bolton testifies, 'the floodgates are open' In a reasonable world, the bombshell report that former national security adviser John Bolton wrote that Donald Trump tied military aid to Ukraine to investigations targeting his political opponents would have immediately prompted a stream of... |
Laura Clawson | 01/27/2020 | 247 |
| The Big Dog Problem The other day my daughter came back to the house saying she and her friends had had a conversation about privilege, male privilege specifically (I know, kids these days…). In the conversation one of her white male friends asked, “What am I supposed to... |
dogsbody | 01/27/2020 | 206 |
| Morning Digest: Former GOP congressman runs bigoted ad highlighting that his top GOP rival is gay 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 ... |
Daily Kos Elections | 01/27/2020 | 27 |
| DKHive--Lauren Underwood is a rising star and Republican target Lauren Underwood flipped the 14th District of Illinois in 2018, beating a Republican incumbent who had won his previous race by almost 20 points, in a district Trump won by four points. Born in 1986, she is the youngest black woman ever elected to... |
Cecelia S | 01/27/2020 | 74 |
| Monday Good News Roundup Its not a square up, no its not. Its not a triangle up, certainly not. It is a ROUND up. Accept no substitutions or imitations. Yes friends, Monday has come once again, as it always does, and the ... |
Jessiestaf | 01/27/2020 | 151 |
| All this President’s Henchmen (and Women) These Trumpers have been convicted. Paul Manafort, Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign chairman, is currently incarcerated in a federal prison after being convicted of tax and bank fraud. Richard Gates, Trump’s deputy campaign chair, pleaded guilty to... |
Alan Singer | 01/27/2020 | 2 |
| could 53 members of the cover-up cabal be soon on a fence or a cliff ... #BoltonMustTestify The opening of the Senate trial at 1 pm ET will be more interesting if only because the WH defense team will try their hardest to avoid any mention of John Bolton. Television coverage that started at 10 am ET mentions the importance of the GOP Senator... |
annieli | 01/27/2020 | 97 |
| "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. "It doesn't matter whether you like him. It doesn't... |
annieli | 01/26/2020 | 80 |
| Overnight News Digest January 26, 2020
Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, Interceptor7, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame and jck. ... |
side pocket | 01/26/2020 | 23 |
| KY & ME-Sen: SNL Sends Moscow Mitch, Susan Collins (R) & Alan Dershowitz Straight To Hell Brilliant : |
poopdogcomedy | 01/26/2020 | 2 |
| Bill Maher Surrenders to Megyn Kelly Rather than challenging Megyn Kelly on her descent back into the cesspool of Fox News and Trump worship, Bill Maher’s Real Time interview with her turned into a joint pile-on against “wokeness,” “cancel culture” and the “crazed” left. Maybe I shouldn’t... |
Bethesda 1971 | 01/26/2020 | 78 |
| PWB Peeps Sundae Evening Diary: Music Doth Soothe... Hey all! RULES OF ENGAGEMENT — You know how this works, but as always, a gentle reminder: Pooties are cats; Woozles are dogs. Goggies are dogs, too, and moggies are cats. Birds...are ... |
Gwennedd | 01/26/2020 | 60 |