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Stephen Wolf | 11/09/2018 08:00 PM |
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Yesterday, former West Virginia congressional candidate Richard Ojeda—a Trump-voting, pro-gun Democrat—announced his bizarre candidacy for U.S. president. For some reason, some progressives cheered, as though THIS is what America needs now, as if there... |
kos | 11/13/2018 11:08 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 also a place to discuss elections, not policy.
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Daily Kos Elections | 11/13/2018 06:00 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 also a place to discuss elections, not policy.
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Daily Kos Elections | 11/12/2018 06:00 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 also a place to discuss elections, not policy.
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Daily Kos Elections | 11/14/2018 06:00 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 | 11/15/2018 06:00 AM |
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Something’s up in right-wing-noise-machineland. And beyond. See all the updates.
With the addition of Jill Stein and my familiarity with horseshoe strategy, I’m inclined to think now that the Twitter silences are somehow related to Mueller... |
KM Wehrstein | 11/12/2018 01:23 PM |
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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 06:00 AM |
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Tucker Carlson is a white supremacist troll with a platform on Fox News.
It’s no surprise that he would fabricate elements of a peaceful protest that occurred outside his house, in an effort to ... |
subir | 11/11/2018 07:31 AM |
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Was it a wave? It sure was. Dems did better now than in 2006 (that year, 31 House seats and 6 governorships) and the counting isn’t done. As of now, at least 35 House seats (on the way to ~39) and at least 7 governorships went blue. Popular vote was... |
Greg Dworkin | 11/10/2018 04:30 AM |
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In case anyone has forgotten, Nancy Pelosi has been a more effective legislator than the last three GOP House speakers combined. Her crown jewel is having passed a healthcare bill in 2010 that extended insurance coverage to 20-plus million more... |
Kerry Eleveld | 11/14/2018 07:40 PM |
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I know he’s been bad before — unhinged, rambling, ranting, incoherent — but this new interview is… unbelievable.
Full Transcript Of Trump’s Oval Office Interview With The Daily Caller
And this is The fucking Daily Caller! An outfit that couldn’t... |
Bob Johnson | 11/15/2018 05:38 AM |
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Today Donald Trump blew off honoring the Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines who gave their lives during World War One, at Belleau Wood because some intermittent rain might have mussed up his hair.
All of the other heads of state did attend the... |
Lefty Coaster | 11/10/2018 01:39 PM |
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Donald Trump is at his most dysfunctional right now, which is saying quite a bit. He couldn’t even show up at a WWI memorial ceremony, lying that his helicopter was “grounded” and he was stopped by rain, while other world leaders effortlessly gathered... |
ursulafaw | 11/11/2018 08:11 AM |
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The measure of someone’s character is best taken not in the times of success, but in times of adversity. Since Donald Trump's life took a pronounced turn for the worse after the November 6th elections, Americans have been afforded their first real... |
Dartagnan | 11/14/2018 12:00 PM |
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This is a news article, not a commentary, but I wanted to pound this topic again so I’m using it anyway.
Washington Post : On Trump’s fear that he might melt if he got wet.
President Trump ... |
Mark Sumner | 11/11/2018 04:00 AM |
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This morning featured one of the #FiveWhiteGuys Rep. Seth Mouton (D-MA) talking about diversity in an insurgency supporting Marcia Fudge (D-OH) as House Speaker.
Fascinating is the framing of #FiveWhiteGuys as an anti-Freedom Caucus, and more... |
annieli | 11/15/2018 05:08 AM |
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is showing the way forward to a more progressive House Democratic leadership, meeting with Congressional Progressive Caucus members and committing to elevate progressives to spots on key House committees. On top of... |
Laura Clawson | 11/16/2018 08:40 AM |
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Donald Trump has been noticeably, well, aloof the past few days, skipping World War I commemorations and generally Twitter-pouting like a spurned teenage boy.
Now, the Los Angeles Times has the inside scoop on Trump’s dour mood as of late.
... |
Aldous J Pennyfarthing | 11/13/2018 02:34 PM |
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Chaboard posted a link to this twitter thread in the comments of the recently published Ocasio-Cortez Protesting Pelosi diary. I thought this deserved to be highlighted in a diary of it’s own.
So with a hat tip to Chaboard, Catte Nappe, & Angry... |
Arilca Mockingbird | 11/14/2018 06:20 PM |
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Man, I knew that after the midterms things were going to be different, but they must be climbing the rafters and swinging from the chandeliers at the White House. Everybody is eyeing the exits. Now Sarah Hucky Boo Boo Sanders is supposedly leaving the... |
ursulafaw | 11/13/2018 06:00 PM |
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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 failed Republican candidate for office has sued a newly elected Democratic state legislator, claiming without any evidence that U.S.-born Latina Raquel Terán, who won her seat to the Arizona House of Representatives last week, isn’t a U.S. citizen. ... |
Gabe Ortiz | 11/12/2018 01:15 PM |
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We have come a loooooong way since Jack and Jackie Kennedy took Paris by storm and all of France became enthralled to the Sorbonne-educated First Lady, who acted as translator for her husband and Charles DeGaulle. (By the by, Melania Trump claims to be... |
ursulafaw | 11/13/2018 10:10 AM |
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Daily Beast:
A photo posted on social media appears to show dozens of high-school students giving the Nazi salute. In the image, a group of about 50 students from Baraboo High School in Baraboo, Wisconsin, are seen smiling and posing while doing... |
lishaoyun | 11/12/2018 08:44 AM |
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Democrats are coming off their biggest House victory since Watergate, having been led by Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee raised $250 million , ... |
kos | 11/16/2018 12:30 PM |
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The AP/Fox exit polls can be found here . Check out your state, the country, or an interesting race.
Elaine Godfrey /Atlantic:
House Progressives Celebrate a ‘New Kind of Centrism’ |
Greg Dworkin | 11/14/2018 04:30 AM |
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We begin today’s roundup with the The Washington Pos t and its editorial on the need to protect special counsel Robert Mueller:
Now more than ever, the president must get the message: Hands ... |
Georgia Logothetis | 11/16/2018 04:30 AM |
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Donald Trump currently is in France with First Lady Melania Trump, on a visit where he’s behaving in ways sure to offend Europeans and Americans alike. Again.
Despite his excitement about celebrating the end of a war, Trump abruptly changed his... |
Jessica Sutherland | 11/10/2018 10:45 AM |
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Donald Trump crowed at one point that the White House on his watch was, “a finely tuned machine.” Yeah, and so’s a nuclear reactor until you pull the rods out too far. Mira Ricardel, deputy to National Security Adviser John Bolton, evidently got into a... |
ursulafaw | 11/13/2018 02:10 PM |
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Forget the “caravan” and forget Beto O’Rourke. There’s a new object of completely unhinged and unbridled (and unfounded) obsession in the dark right-wing fantasy land that is Fox News, and she’s a 28-year-old Congresswoman-elect.
With Hillary... |
Jessica Sutherland | 11/14/2018 12:17 PM |
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Campaign Action
Vanity Fair’s Gabriel Sherman is out with a rundown of increasingly off-the-rails Trump tidbits as relayed by White House insiders and a Republican briefed on the decision to cancel Trump’s attendance at an event commemorating the... |
Jen Hayden | 11/15/2018 12:31 PM |
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Tick. Boom. Bah. Cue the tiny cannons and stopwatches, because it looks like it is Mueller Time again. According to multiple sources, news crews are gathering around the federal court house in Washington, DC, in anticipation that today is going to... |
Mark Sumner | 11/13/2018 08:24 AM |
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So the French Army was... lets say… pas impressionnée...with drumpf’s aversion to a few raindrops on Saturday and they let it be known by Tweet early this morning…
Translation — "It's raining, but it's not serious (no big deal). We're still... |
durrati | 11/12/2018 04:20 AM |
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A few days ago the NRA made one of it’s notoriously poor announcements. Remember, this was on the heels of yet another week of mass shootings.
As you might imagine, opposition to this nonsense was swift and ruthless. Yelling at the medical... |
Sidof79 | 11/11/2018 08:52 AM |
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Marco Rubio, noted Bible verse tweeting phony and loyal Trump minion, uses a Bible verse to try and bolster his conspiracy theory about the Florida recount.
Bill Nelson’s Florida recount attorney, Marc Elias, responded right away.
I have no... |
First Amendment | 11/14/2018 05:22 AM |
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Tal Kopan and Sarah Ravani write:
President Trump will visit California on Saturday to meet with people who have suffered losses in the state’s wildfires, the White House said Thursday.
“The president will travel to California this Saturday to... |
Meteor Blades | 11/15/2018 06:24 PM |
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Donald Trump didn’t have the stamina, the will, the dignity or the class to attend a World War I memorial ceremony in France with world leaders over the weekend. Citing “rain” as an excuse, Donald Trump opted not to attend numerous, high visibility... |
Jen Hayden | 11/13/2018 06:57 AM |
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The most destructive wildfire in California history incinerated the bucolic Sierra foothill town of Paradise, California and only the Pacific ocean could stop the Woolsey fire that exploded across ... |
FishOutofWater | 11/10/2018 03:45 AM |
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The general consensus seems to be that opposition within the Democratic caucus to re-electing Nancy Pelosi is hardening, making her quest to regain her position as Speaker of the House more difficult. According to reports, there are at least 10 members... |
m2c4 | 11/12/2018 11:31 AM |
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As the election count continues, Kristen Sinema, the next Senator from Arizona, leads at this writing by 30K. In the House, the Democrats will flip between 36-39 seats. At state level, D’s won 7 ... |
Greg Dworkin | 11/12/2018 04:30 AM |
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Poor Donald Trump. He keeps looking for the second coming of Roy Cohn. “Where are my killers? I need a killer,” he has been heard to bemoan. Jeff Sessions absolutely was not his killer. Sessions was a vast disappointment. Then Trump was going to hire... |
ursulafaw | 11/12/2018 07:25 PM |
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I’ll keep this short, because this is unfolding faster than I can type. Theresa May, PM of the UK presented her new Brexit deal to her cabinet. Their response was to resign en masse. While many are pro-Brexit, others clearly are not, per the BBC’s... |
Otto the Mild | 11/15/2018 07:02 AM |
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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 07:30 AM |
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French President Emmanuel Macron took the opportunity of the ceremonies commemorating the end of World War I to speak to the problem of nationalism.
Macron: Nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism. By putting our own interests first, with no... |
Mark Sumner | 11/13/2018 05:40 AM |
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In perhaps a somewhat fairly slow news cycle, while we anxiously await Mueller indictments, and closure to the midterm elections,… I would like to discuss the potential of some presidential candidates. But first I would like to say, I was wrong about... |
ohbaby | 11/14/2018 06:21 AM |
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Apparently the orange buffoon in the White House doesn’t like what he’s heard from (acting) attorney general and hot tub grifter Matt Whitaker about the status of the Mueller investigation, because on Thursday morning, he had a mini-meltdown on... |
Barbara Morrill | 11/15/2018 05:49 AM |
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Good morning, fellow gardeners and all others, and be welcome! I’m warned by Flickr that I have to pay them money or they’ll take all but 1,000 photos of mine away. I have had a Flickr backup app on my phone for several years and so I tended to... |
Merry Light | 11/10/2018 06:00 AM |
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Donald Trump’s weekend in a Paris hotel, spent hunched over Twitter and recordings of his favorite Fox shows while the rest of the world tried to carry on the business of preserving civilization, was even worse than it seemed. Because Trump was even... |
Mark Sumner | 11/14/2018 09:29 AM |
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At least nine people are known dead and over a quarter million have been evacuated as the combination of gale-force winds and microscopic humidity drive walls of flames across both ends of California. Whole communities have been burned down, residents... |
Mark Sumner | 11/10/2018 05:40 AM |
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It’s getting to be that time of year...Thanksgiving gatherings and holiday parties are fast approaching. If you’re like me and have been looking for some inspiration for different party foods, ... |
Chrislove | 11/11/2018 07:30 AM |
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Campaign Action
Stand back, everybody! There’s some new news coming down the news-pipe: The sitting president of the United States is cancelling appearances, lashing out at aides, and "has retreated into a cocoon of bitterness and resentment,... |
Hunter | 11/14/2018 08:57 AM |
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Several weeks ago, a GOP strategist told SiriusXM's Michelangelo Signorile that Donald Trump's hold on his followers is a Ponzi scheme.
"It only works as long as it appears to work," Signorile observes. "A few major losses can bring the whole... |
Kerry Eleveld | 11/13/2018 12:06 PM |
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What a dumba**. |
durrati | 11/10/2018 05:38 AM |
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As with other international visits, Trump can’t handle that the world really can do without him as the Paris Peace Forum begins tomorrow and Trump will slink away, as if he could ignore the event, having made no indication he would attend for many... |
annieli | 11/10/2018 10:59 PM |
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The non-profit news site Trace, an organization that focuses on gun control and gun safety news, reports that NRA officials have begun implementing an “austerity campaign,” spearheaded by executive director for general operations Josh Powell. The news... |
Walter Einenkel | 11/15/2018 08:48 AM |
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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 10:38 AM |
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OK, so lately I have been reading a good bit about Nancy Pelosi and her status as the “boogey-woman” of the right and her supposed causing of garment rending on the left due to her “baggage” and I wanted to get this on the record.
Nancy Pelosi is... |
apotropaic | 11/14/2018 05:40 PM |
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If there were a God, Mitch McConnell would have been reduced to a pile of smoldering ash years ago. After this op-ed at, where else, Fox News, God would sweep up those ashes, reshape and reanimate the remains, just for the pleasure of sending another... |
Joan McCarter | 11/14/2018 06:56 AM |
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Donald Trump has been extraordinarily petulant the past several days. Sure, even on a good day the guy is basically a spastic colon getting a Sriracha enema from a firehose, but even casual observers have noticed a crescendo of pique overwhelming the... |
Aldous J Pennyfarthing | 11/15/2018 02:05 PM |
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Snowflakes melt in the rain, apparently.
Don’t misinterpret this, haters. It’s not that he doesn’t know how to use an umbrella (which he doesn’t, apparently), or even that his bone spurs were acting up due to low barometric pressure.
It’s that if... |
Aldous J Pennyfarthing | 11/10/2018 09:03 AM |
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The orange buffoon currently occupying the White House has declared that votes shouldn’t be counted. (And please note, in Florida, military ballots have until November 16 to arrive … but maybe they were sent in the rain and don’t count. Happy Veterans... |
Barbara Morrill | 11/12/2018 06:40 AM |
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We begin today’s roundup with Republican attacks on the right to vote and democracy itself. First up, John Nichols at The Nation:
The second is structural. When Trump creates confusion about recounts, and seeks to discredit or derail them, he... |
Georgia Logothetis | 11/13/2018 04:25 AM |
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“I will not allow the light of my life to be determined by the darkness around me.” Sojourner Truth
“If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution .” — Emma Goldman
... |
GoodNewsRoundup | 11/10/2018 04:00 AM |
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Welcome, welcome, welcome! |
The Marti | 11/10/2018 07:30 AM |
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Campaign Action
The sitting president of the United States is out of his mind. In an interview with the Daily Caller, he was reduced to ranting like a talk radio caller: you can practically hear the tinfoil crackling on his head as he adds a third... |
Hunter | 11/14/2018 11:58 AM |
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There is a flurry of articles in the major news media along the lines of “What will Democrats do now they have taken the House?” and “What will the Democratic agenda be?” After I read as ... |
Denise Oliver Velez | 11/11/2018 06:00 AM |
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Our law enforcement sources say Avenatti was arrested Wednesday after his estranged wife filed a felony DV report. We're told her face was "swollen and bruised."
Our sources say the alleged incident occurred Tuesday, but there was a confrontation... |
MTmofo | 11/14/2018 02:56 PM |
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UPDATE: Sandberg responds. NYT exposes FACEBOOK's role in the dark cloud we're in and it's a doozy!! I’m surprised Facebook isn’t being talked about on here yet. So much that I decided to write my own diary about it, which will be my first! Yay me! And, I guess that just reveals to you how much I dislike Facebook. The unfortunate part is I got off... |
spiritnerd | 11/15/2018 03:29 PM |
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(If this diary is helpful, please rec it. I don’t ask when it’s an opinion piece, but it takes a LONG time to track down all these numbers, so if it can stay up for a day that’d be nice.)
Welcome to issue numero uno of a biweekly update on the... |
Davey1107 | 11/10/2018 07:00 AM |
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My view of life today, after seven days of evacuation living, is vastly altered. One week ago on Wednesday, I griped about PG&E advisories that “Out of an abundance of caution we may proactively turn off the electricity in your area due to a Red... |
Besame | 11/14/2018 09:51 AM |
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The White House has offered conflicting explanations for why Donald Trump canceled a planned visit to honor America’s fallen World War I soldiers over the weekend. Either the Secret Service told him he couldn’t go (until he finished his creamed... |
Aldous J Pennyfarthing | 11/14/2018 03:41 PM |
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You might want to put some champagne on ice, just in case. Today could get very interesting.
Let me say that if any investigation is leak proof, it is Robert Mueller’s. However, it’s common knowledge that he had done lots of work and that he was... |
ursulafaw | 11/13/2018 07:16 AM |
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The United States has a clear and present danger facing us: white supremacists are on the attack and they are on a murderous rampage that must be stopped. A plot by two D.C.-area brothers to commit mass murder unraveled when 23-year-old Edward William... |
Jen Hayden | 11/14/2018 08:26 AM |
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Egxistenchial Queschons Part da One.
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 birds! Peeps are... |
Crimson Quillfeather | 11/15/2018 10:45 AM |
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I’ve long since realized there’s no point in fighting Trump supporters online. It’s sort of like playing tetherball with your dog. You’ll win every round, but your dog will think he’s winning and will never, ever, ever give up.
But it can still be... |
Aldous J Pennyfarthing | 11/11/2018 07:27 PM |
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Jemel Roberson was protecting a bar, Manny’s Blue Room, in the Chicago suburb of Midlothian, from an angry drunken customer.
Jemel Roberson, 26, was working early Sunday at Manny’s Blue Room ― a bar in the predominantly black Chicago suburb of... |
barskin | 11/12/2018 10:20 AM |
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What could it be that progressives have against House Leader Nancy Pelosi?
Is it that she took Impeachment off the table for Trump before the House election result of 2018 were even in?
"I don't think there's any impeachment unless it's... |
Tool | 11/15/2018 04:42 AM |
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Democrat Kyrsten Sinema’s lead in Arizona’s Senate race continues to grow as the votes are counted. Republican Martha McSally led in the early counting, but Sinema took the lead Thursday night and hasn't looked back. As of Sunday evening, Sinema’s lead... |
Laura Clawson | 11/11/2018 06:56 PM |
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At Sacred Mountain Monastery near Idaho City, a tiny faith community prays for the entire world. This is their prayer, and they work to have it said at least once for every person on earth, which ... |
strawbale | 11/13/2018 07:00 PM |
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Long ago, when time had barely began and the old Goddesses ruled, the Three Fates determined the time on earth for all beings.
“The Golden Thread,” by John Strudwick.
Clotho “The ... |
6412093 | 11/10/2018 06:02 AM |
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Not much to add, except the uncounted votes are going down and Sinema’s margin is going up. Looking better and better. For those who want to see for themselves — AZ SoS web page |
Denver11 | 11/10/2018 04:13 PM |
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Campaign Action
White House "counselor" Kellyanne Conway was on television again on Sunday, because of course she was. This time her job was to lie to Fox host Chris Wallace about the videotape released by the White House, apparently via... |
Hunter | 11/12/2018 12:03 PM |
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Jerome Corsi, he of the swift-boat attack on John Kerry fame, expects to be indicted by Mueller
Couldn’t happen to a nicer human, eh?
UPDATE: more detailed link at NBC News:
www.nbcnews.com/... |
svc72 | 11/12/2018 02:15 PM |
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Unfriggin’believable. |
durrati | 11/11/2018 10:04 AM |
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The thrill is gone baby, the thrill is gone away BB King
Just because I haven’t been writing for the last three days doesn’t mean that I have been idle. Far from it. I’ve been laying on the sofa, kicking my feet in the air, giggling like a two... |
Murfster35 | 11/10/2018 10:33 AM |
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11-11-18 Ypres: "All that was left" Were Burned Trees. My Grandfather's Journal and Photos From WWI. My grandfather was a son of privilege. He grew up, the third of six children (all four boys graduated from Ivy League colleges, both girls from Vassar) in a big house on a large lot that ran from a wide New York suburban boulevard all the way down to... |
noweasels | 11/11/2018 04:25 PM |
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From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE…
Monday Margaret and Helen Midterm Blogging
Bloggerdom's feistiest octogenarians ("best friends for 60 years and counting") always get a place of honor in C&J on the rare occasions when they roll the presses.... |
Bill in Portland Maine | 11/12/2018 04:48 AM |
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Democrat Kyrsten Sinema has been declared the winner in the race to replace Arizona Republican Sen. Jeff Flake, beating out Martha McSally. McSally has conceded.
This is big news in that it flips a red senate seat to blue and will allow Jeff Flake... |
Barbara Morrill | 11/12/2018 04:56 PM |
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UPDATED with image of the original tweet that Eddie Scarry has since taken down.
A conservative news writer is getting a lot of well-deserved blowback after posting an image of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, taken from behind as she walked down a... |
Walter Einenkel | 11/15/2018 03:24 PM |
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Every election, the same photos surface: voters standing in hours-long lines to cast a vote that they have the constitutional right to cast. It's usually the same counties, from one year to the next. |
Hunter | 11/10/2018 07:00 AM |
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The in-fighting in the Trump White House continues as new firings and resignations are rumored to be imminent. Donald Trump is reportedly on the verge of firing Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Sec. Kirstjen Nielsen, no doubt sending someone to do... |
Jen Hayden | 11/13/2018 09:51 AM |
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Obama DOJ Concluded: Prosecution of Assange for Publishing Docs Poses Grave Threats to Press Freedom 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 10:41 AM |
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So much for that effort by the unindicted co-conspirator to get his guy in at the helm of the much diminished House Republicans. Trump's guy, Freedom Caucus founder and child molestation enabler Rep. Jim Jordan is not going to be minority leader.
... |
Joan McCarter | 11/14/2018 11:12 AM |
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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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Yet another video of a black person being harassed while simply trying to live their life has gone viral. In this case, a white biology professor at the San Antonio campus of the University of Texas called campus police on a black student in her class... |
Marissa Higgins | 11/14/2018 12:46 PM |
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Twenty five people have been killed by the most destructive wildfires in California history. Firefighters, law enforcement and search and rescue teams are continuing to search for the missing and assess the destruction, while firefighters are valiantly... |
FishOutofWater | 11/11/2018 08:45 AM |
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As most everyone is aware, three members of our community — Besame and smileycreek and paradise50 — lost their homes in the Camp Fire. As we go to press tonight, GoFundMe pages are being established to support them in rebuilding. (Be on the lookout for... |
boatsie | 11/15/2018 05:30 PM |
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Last week's Democratic rout is starting to settle in among some Republicans. Even with the structural disadvantages of GOP gerrymandering, Democrats are now poised to pick up anywhere between 35 and 40 seats. And Democrat Kyrsten Sinema's win in... |
Kerry Eleveld | 11/14/2018 10:58 AM |
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Tremendous news! Late on Saturday night, after the latest batch of votes to be counted extended his lead, the Associated Press called the race in California’s 48th Congressional District for Democrat Harley Rouda. With this win, Rouda has defeated none... |
David Nir | 11/10/2018 06:10 PM |
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