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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I know (sadly) that I have to preface this diary by saying that I am not White, I’m Black.  And I say sadly because if I were a White man, I don’t think my opinion on this topic would be heard by many — so as a Black man, in this particular space which...
ProgressiveFirst 11/16/2018
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Oh! The Irony! Assange’s Lawyer outraged that today’s ‘confidential’ information about his client has been made public (emphasis mine): Barry J. Pollack, one of Assange’s attorneys, said, “The only thing more irresponsible than charging a...
DaisiesArePretty 11/16/2018
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James Lambert 11/16/2018
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HI, I have to talk to someone. I need to get this out there.     My husband just left for a short 2 day trip away. We have been together  for 16 years. We have been apart only three times.    As some of you know, three years ago, we watched my...
Cmae 11/16/2018
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Earlier this summer, Russian citizen Maria Butina was arrested by the United States Government and charged with being a Russian intelligence asset working to influence American politics. Butina was the head of a small Russian version of the NRA called...
Walter Einenkel 11/16/2018
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Happee Friedai!
The Marti 11/16/2018
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COMMENTARY: AFRICAN AMERICAN SCIENTISTS AND INVENTORS By Black Kos Editor,   Sephius1 African-American engineer and inventor   Lonnie George Johnson   was born in Alabama in 1949. He earned his ...
Black Kos 11/16/2018
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The existence of sealed indictments in the Trump Russia probe has been discussed for some time and one exists with respect to Julian Assange. Prosecutors in the Eastern District of Virginia made a boo boo and mentioned Julian Assange’s name in an...
ursulafaw 11/15/2018
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An Early Thanksgiving Diary (Because Thanksgiving is never  on a Friday... ever ) A couple of weeks ago, I highlighted compassion fatigue and how it adversely effects those working in ...
WYgalinCali 11/16/2018
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How do you like your schadenfreude? Cold, hot, or piping fucking hot?  Well, here you go then. From The Daily Beast: Donald Trump’s close relationship— on air   and �
Aldous J Pennyfarthing 11/15/2018
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I can honestly say that I never met a single person that did not love the classic Warner Brothers / Looney Tunes cartoons. I have asked in the past which character people enjoyed the most...and for many people that was Bugs or Daffy… so I thought...
BFSkinner 11/16/2018
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CNN and the Trump administration were in court over reporter Jim Acosta’s “hard pass” access to the White House on Friday morning, and it didn’t go so well for Team Trump. U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly has temporarily reinstated Acosta’s press pass...
Laura Clawson 11/16/2018
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I grew up in Chico, a few miles west of Paradise. I currently live in Southern California but have immediate family still living there, with both of my daughters living in the Bay Area, and I am in constant communication with them as well as many...
Doctor Jazz 11/16/2018
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From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE… Late Night Snark: Blue Wave Getting Bluer & Wavier Edition "The incoming class of freshman Democrats is being called the most diverse ever. And the Republicans have also welcomed their most diverse group ever....
Bill in Portland Maine 11/16/2018
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If all could take a moment and not just have a knee-jerk reaction that any comment or disagreement in the party is unacceptable, after all, we are not Republicans. The reason I do not want to see legacy Neo-Liberals anywhere near the leadership is...
aboutmri 11/16/2018
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     INTRODUCTION      Why did Vincent van Gogh cut off his ear? It is a unique and bloody method of self-mutilation. Theories abound. Van Gogh’s emotional state was the primary factor—major stressors were at play—as well as some form of mental...
Tortmaster 11/15/2018
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Welcome 😄 to Friday’s Roundup of Good News! Many readers know I always end my diaries with two phrases: Truth Matters. Love Matters.   These days, when Trump and his team deal in lies and hatred,
chloris creator 11/16/2018
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Well, that didn’t take long. Just one week after the midterm elections, Kristin Olsen — the vice chairperson of the California Republican Party — announced the party’s death. The California Republican Party isn’t salvageable at this time. The...
Krotor 11/16/2018
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Julia Conley at Common Dreams writes— As 'Green New Deal' Demand Grows, Democrats Have Choice: Confront and Defeat Fossil Fuel Industry or Take Credit for 'Doomed' Planet : Weeks after the UN ...
Meteor Blades 11/15/2018
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The Trump administration is not just refusing to hold Saudi Arabia’s feet to the fire over the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. It’s actively looking for ways to help Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman evade pressure and scrutiny, up...
Laura Clawson 11/16/2018
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Fresh off of “joking” about public hangings while running against a black man in Mississippi, Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith is now saying she was also joking when she suggested it should be harder for liberal people to vote—something that’s still relevant for...
Laura Clawson 11/16/2018
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The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, and Carolyn Fiddler, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, Daniel Donner, James ...
Daily Kos Elections 11/16/2018
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Yup, you heard that right. There was a blue wave that swept the U.S. Senate contests in the 2018 midterms, but you wouldn’t know it from the news coverage. Everyone has been so focused on one metric: Did Dems have a net pick up or loss of seats in...
EagleOfFreedom 11/16/2018
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There have been a few diaries since the election touting Nancy Pelosi for Speaker of the House.  The running theme in these diaries is that Nancy is good at garnering votes for the caucus and she is someone who terrifies Republicans.  I wholeheartedly...
practicalthoughts 11/16/2018
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Blowback has been fierce ever since the announcement that online mega-giant retailer Amazon would be receiving billions of dollars in subsidies to build one of two new headquarters in Long Island City, New York. Besides questions surrounding the...
Walter Einenkel 11/16/2018
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A former Alabama State Trooper has shot the district attorney for Alabama’s 17th Judicial Circuit, Greg Griggers, directly in the face, in what is being described as an ambush attack. Griggers is expected to survive. The shooter, Steven Smith, Jr., was...
xaxnar 11/16/2018
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Yesterday the White House announced majority vote loser Donald J. Trump would be going to California to harass the victims of the California wildfires. In preparation the White House has requested ...
TexDem 11/16/2018
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— According to the WNYC podcast, in the link below …     There was always one question, the Trumps were asked, by their foreign investors: “How well have the building units been selling?” every prospective client was sure to ask. The...
jamess 11/16/2018
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Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams ended her hard-fought gubernatorial bid Friday against GOP opponent Brian Kemp, but she threatened to bring a lawsuit over Kemp's "gross mismanagement" of state voting laws in his capacity as secretary of state. The Hill...
Kerry Eleveld 11/16/2018
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After completing his whirlwind transition from John McCain bestie to Donald Trump acolyte, Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina is set to assume one of the most important positions related to Trump's survival: Chair of the Senate Judiciary...
Kerry Eleveld 11/16/2018
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Long story but at 11 am I was taken via EMS to the ER. They ruled out a heart attack but am in tremendous pain in the chest and also at my wound site. You know I had hoped to be talking about ...
BFSkinner 11/16/2018
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While the position of secretary of state is directly elected in most states, in New Hampshire it’s chosen by the members of the state legislature. And with Democrats winning back both the state Senate and House in the Granite State last week, lawmakers...
Stephen Wolf 11/16/2018
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For those who don’t have time to read my story, situation etc., you can go ahead and donate here: www.paypal.com/…  I am perfectly capable of giving you something in return.  I am a damn good computer helper.  Patient and knowledgable.  If you...
AlyoshaKaramazov 11/16/2018
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It is time to bring in the harvest.
strawbale 11/15/2018
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I’d heard rumors about steelhead gutting it out, and making it way upstream in Rock Creek.  I’d hiked it for years and seen eagles nesting in its big trees, and scores of ducks in the lakes ...
6412093 11/16/2018
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The announcements usually happen on Friday afternoons, so today might have a bit more attention because of the preliminary messages from those thinking that they will be indicted, including Roger Stone and his contacts. But today may be filled...
annieli 11/16/2018
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I just started reading over Indivisible’s new guide for going on offense and of course I only got a couple sentences into Chapter 1 before my mind went off on a tangent. As is so often the case, Chapter 1 focuses on the basics, recapping the...
beerfinger 11/16/2018
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I think that one of the takeaways from last week’s election was that Trump’s victories in Pennsylvania and Michigan were as much an aberration as Obama’s unexpected win in Indiana in ‘08; those two states will revert to form in 2020, just as Indiana...
Mantis 11/16/2018
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Lawmakers are headed out for a week of Thanksgiving celebration with, or avoiding, their families. Some will be licking their wounds, some will be compiling their subpoena lists, and all of them will be dreading the two weeks of work they'll face on...
Joan McCarter 11/16/2018
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If lazy Republicans are to be believed, all of us liberals drive Volvos. We use them to get to our jobs as college professors and to load up groceries from Whole Foods. For the not-so-politically minded, Volvos are an icon of Swedishness, alongside...
kernals 11/16/2018
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Welcome to Morning Open Thread, a daily post with a MOTley crew of hosts who chose the topic for the day's posting. We support our community, invite and share ideas, and encourage thoughtful, ...
Joy of Fishes 11/16/2018
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I will let you in on a little secret. I don’t really care who gets to be speaker of the new Democratic House. The horse race is way too easy to get caught up in. Those of us on the left want to take the energy that won so many seats to cut Trump off at...
John M Webb 11/15/2018
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Campaign Action Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has apparently decided to give a middle finger to Sen. Jeff Flake, the retiring Arizona Republican who says he'll vote against judicial nominees in committee and on the floor until McConnell...
Joan McCarter 11/16/2018
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Origins Who first attached the tag #fivewhiteguys to the five Democrats mounting a Pelosi opposition movement? It’s hard to say. Its use expanded rapidly following a November 13th piece on Esquire.com by liberal commentator Charlie Pierce. The...
Davey1107 11/16/2018
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On Friday, a little more than a week after she launched the briefest of campaigns to head the NRCC, California GOP Rep. Mimi Walters conceded defeat to Democrat Katie Porter in the election for the state’s 45th Congressional District. Walters’ abortive...
Jeff Singer 11/16/2018
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Some interesting and welcome news from Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez In the past I have seen a lot of condescension, ridicule, and anger in conversations here and elsewhere regarding the Fight for $15.   It looks like H.R. 15 Raise the Wage Act...
Arilca Mockingbird 11/16/2018
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Kevin McCarthy, the current House majority leader who’s about to be the minority leader, tried on Thursday to put lipstick on the pig that is Republican diversity. It was a challenge for him: “It was the year of the woman,” McCarthy said,...
Laura Clawson 11/16/2018
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Senate GOP leadership is desperate not to act on the Protect Mueller bill, co-sponsored by two GOP members, that's already cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee. So desperate, in fact, they're trying to reason Donald Trump into the swift nomination of...
Kerry Eleveld 11/16/2018
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It started with a press conference, or what passes for one under this White House. CNN’s Jim Acosta took a more assertive than usual tack in an effort to question President Donald Trump. For that, he was kicked out, and his “hard pass” for White House...
Rebecca Pilar Buckwalter Poza 11/16/2018
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Also: Democrat Gil Cisneros in CA-39 has now pulled ahead of Republican Incumbent Young Kim, by 941 votes! This is according to Politico's results page.
monster 11/15/2018
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Happy Friday! I got an email the other day offering Trumpcare policies. I have medicaid, and don’t currently need a new policy, but since that could change with this administration, I decided to ...
FloridaSNMOM 11/15/2018
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Kitchen Table Kibitzing is a community series for those who wish to share part of the evening around a virtual kitchen table with readers of Daily Kos who aren’t throwing pies at one another.Drop by and tell us about your weather, your garden, or what...
Sara R 11/16/2018
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The title of this diary comes from the title of an essay in the NYTimes Sunday Book Review in 2006. It struck me as a particularly sweet and melancholy experience. The essay refers to a book that ...
John M Webb 11/15/2018
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SJohnson 11/16/2018
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Mojo Friday’s Weekly Open Thread This is a diary for those who continue to participate in the Mojo Friday diary throughout the week. You are welcome to join ...
bsegel 11/16/2018
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There was a brief moment on election night when FiveThirtyEight’s algorithm projected that the GOP was going to keep the House.  I stared at that number, feeling like my soul had left my body and run away.  I thought “Here we go again.  The polls were...
LordRobin 11/16/2018
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CNN just updated this story: Broward County recounted hundreds of thousands of votes for nothing But where talking Florida here, so of course, votes and recounts are wasted: Broward County: Recount rejected for being two minutes late ...
benmajor2005 11/15/2018
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From the Washington Post: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been charged under seal, prosecutors inadvertently revealed in a recently unsealed court filing — a development that could significantly advance the probe into Russian interference in...
Hawaiiexpat 11/15/2018
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Everyone please remember what would happen if the shoe were on the other foot.  If, for example, a democratic president was elected, but only after colluding with an enemy foreign power via direct payments via an outfit like — say — Planned parenthood...
4democracy 11/16/2018
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Sure, American’s teachers often have to work two or even three jobs just to make ends meet while education budgets nationwide are under attack from Republican legislatures. But when it comes to security for Betsy DeVos, no expense is spared, even as...
Jen Hayden 11/16/2018
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Friday was supposed to be the deadline for officials in Georgia to certify the state’s election results, but who knows when that will actually happen. This week, a series of legal decisions have required counties to delay certifying their totals until...
Kelly Macias 11/16/2018
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Today’s comic by Mark Fiore is  Fight the victims :  What’s coming up on Sunday Kos …
Meteor Blades 11/16/2018
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With the probable victories of Katie Porter and Gil Cisneros, it seems that formerly ruby red Orange County is about to field a congressional contingent which is all Democrat.  The county which former County Supervisor Tom Riley called “the great...
T C Gibian 11/16/2018
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Greetings! It’s that time of the week again. Just a few photos to share and a bit of blather to open a space to engage in.

Marko the Werelynx 11/16/2018
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 Let’s all join hands and hope the friggen idiot BREATHES DEEP. I can’t wait to see what he brings to the victims of this inferno….probably trump fans. ASS. I live 2 hours away and you can’t even go outside, just smoke. Can’t imagine what it is like...
Miss Sally 11/16/2018
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The Trump campaign spent most of its $85 million budget on facebook ads.  My thanks to Lovejoy for providing the video.    BBC: “I mean what was Facebook, and Google, and Youtube people actually doing here? Why were they here?” Woman:...
Lefty Coaster 11/16/2018
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Republicans in Mississippi are unapologetically showing their racism this week. First, Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith made a deplorable comment about happily attending a “public hanging” that she refuses to apologize for—a racist and insensitive remark that...
Kelly Macias 11/16/2018
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TJ Cox is only 1983 votes behind incumbent Republican Congressman David Valado in California’s 21st Congressional District as the mail ballots continue to be counted. Rob Pyers‏ @ #CA21 update: Democrat TJ Cox overperforms in...
mastergardener2k 11/16/2018
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Magnifico 11/15/2018
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Remember that Assange is also being reported now again in conjunction with the anticipated indictments of Roger Stone, among others, even as much of the public information is about numerous attempts at disinformation related to the 2016 election and...
annieli 11/16/2018
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Donald Trump looooves to talk about “my military” and “my generals,” like the authoritarian leader he longs to be. And he likes military pageantry, at least when it’s convenient and the cheers are for him. But he doesn’t care enough to risk getting his...
Laura Clawson 11/16/2018
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I was happy to see the support CNN got from other news outlets and relieved to see that the judge ruled that the White House had to restore Jim Acosta’s White House press credentials. But you remember what they did when they ostracized Helen Thomas for...
Liberalisnotadirtyword 11/16/2018
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Even without indictments, at least Laura Ingraham is now gone from broadcast radio, as if podcasts are a step up.  Stuff is churning however systematically for Mueller, but will Trump pardon turkeys. The next indictment should be “Assange, who...
annieli 11/16/2018
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While Georgia was disappointing in 2018, we still made great strides.  Our statewide candidates all did really well, each getting the highest percentages we’ve seen for statewide Democrats in nearly two decades.  We also made huge progress in the...
TheUnknown285 11/16/2018
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The meaning of the idiom ‘herding cats’ has come to mean, for many, the wrangling of the unmanageable.   In this case, it may be taking on a different meaning.  Democrats, as usual, have taken the job of cleaning the Washington litter box, after it...
ReasonaBill 11/16/2018
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I don’t know about you, but I’m exhausted. After writing loads of VoteForward letters, doing in-person canvassing, and phone banking for the midterms — I’m spent, and I’m sure we all feel the same way.  We did so much for this election, and look at the...
ERdoc in PA 11/16/2018
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Karl Marx began his Communist Manifesto with the words "A Spector is haunting Europe" as, indeed, was the case. Well, I believe that these words could equally apply to ourselves, albeit for a different reason. The Spector haunting us at present is the...
riannello 11/15/2018
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To absolutely nobody’s surprise, Donald Trump announced Friday that he is nominating the acting chief of the Environmental Protection Agency to become its administrator. Three things can be expected from this replacement of the disgraced grifter...
Meteor Blades 11/16/2018
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— You know how people say the president is just “projecting” again?  What if it is happening WAY more often than anyone realizes … What it was happening ALL.THE.TIME!!?   ZOMG! Psychological projection is a defense mechanism people...
jamess 11/16/2018
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x Vimeo Video With the deadly fires in ...
Mark Fiore 11/16/2018
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At a special exhibit at the Portland Art Museum called The Shape of Speed: Streamlined Automobiles and Motorcycles, 1930-1942 several unique, one-of-a-kind automobiles were displayed.
Ojibwa 11/16/2018
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I don’t want to miss the GoFundMe Accounts set up for the Camp Fire Kossacks’ 

survivors as I promised to help.  When will they appear here?

left of center 11/16/2018
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By Steven Rosenfeld This article was produced by Voting Booth, a project of the Independent Media Institute. Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams said the former Republican Secretary of State will be the next governor, but...
Independent Media Institute 11/16/2018
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The ever-increasing blue wave from last Tuesday’s midterms is a remarkable rebuke to Trumpism and a necessary victory for Democrats and the country. Because of the enormity of that victory, however, it is easy to overlook just how brutal some of the...
m2c4 11/16/2018
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And I am … I am numb… but... I remember back to when a good scandal rose my ire.. I vented my spleen and it felt good.  It felt like it meant something..  It was cathartic. When the tapes were discovered and Nixon was ousted, when Reagan was caught...
campdurning4 11/16/2018
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Nevada’s Catherine Cortez Masto, who in 2016 made American history as the first Latina to be elected to the United States Senate, has achieved another first in 2018, picked this week to head the Senate Democrats’ campaign arm, making her the first...
Gabe Ortiz 11/16/2018
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Today, Daily Kos congratulated newly elected Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs. Daily Kos was pleased to endorse her and other Democrats for key posts in August, and the Daily Kos community contributed over $360,000 to Democrats in those races....
Carolyn Fiddler 11/16/2018
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Just saw this on CNN. Link Not any detail yet but it says that the Judge granted the requested preliminary injunction.  The merits will be decided in the upcoming trial.
RenMin 11/16/2018
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Indiana’s Republican attorney general, Curtis Hill, has been elected vice chair of the national Republican Attorneys General Association. This comes about three weeks after the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office announced that it would not...
Walter Einenkel 11/16/2018
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  Seventeen lives were lost in the Washita Flood of 1934, that brought about the flood prevention system for the surrounding area. Little known is this flood with its impact and death toll. Less known than that, is the Cheyenne and Arapaho band that...
Winter Rabbit 11/16/2018
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to promote the migration of Earth’s building from using fossil fuels to clean energy. BUILDINGS USE MORE THAN 37% OF GLOBAL ENERGY CONSUMPTION Fine Print Notes (Rules): I’ll transfer $1,000 from my money market to a non-profit or 501(c) (3) of...
Deep Throat 11/16/2018
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