- What’s coming up on Sunday Kos …
- Republican losers we won’t miss in 2019, by Sher Watts Spooner
- The year of the witch hunt in tweets, by Mark E Andersen
- Russian black vote effort relied on blurred line between honest criticism and blaming both parties, by Ian Reifowitz
- Forget the left/right fight and start thinking derailment, by Egberto Willies
- Fed up: It’s time for Republicans to end their hypocrisy on interest rates, by Jon Perr
- Make a New Year's resolution not to forget Puerto Rico. Take action, by Denise Oliver Velez
- The damage done to our educational system by Betsy DeVos may be deep and long-lasting, by Frank Vyan Walton
- Just what are we teaching our children during lockdown drills, by Susan Grigsby
- Local elected officials are an underappreciated front in the resistance, by Chris Reeves
- Read about the many bullets we dodged in 2018 right here:
2018 was a year in which right-wing pundits and self-proclaimed “prophets” made a variety of predictions and proclamations that never came true. Here is a look back at some of the most egregious blunders of the year.
How to protect yourself against the Plague: Remedies from Renaissance Italy
[The plague] is caused by two things, from the heating of the blood, and its contamination so we have to take care of things which heat the blood: strong wines, the great exertion of worry and fear, mutton, old birds, all hot herbs, like mint, sage, rue, rosemary and marjoram, all citrus fruits, leeks, garlic, onions and shallots contaminate the blood, meat…, and fish, cabbage, and all fruits except pomegranate, oranges, lemons and dried plums but not too many, take care to not eat too much, sleep too much, especially during the day, take care of the wind, don’t have too much sexual contact and avoid all bad smells but when one one is infected…heat a cloth…and wrap the patient in it, and when they begin to sweat dry them with linen cloths and let them sweat.
Richard Overton, believed to have been the oldest man in the US, has died in Texas at the age of 112.
Olverton, who was also thought to have been the oldest US veteran of the second world war, had been admitted to hospital with pneumonia but was released on Christmas Eve. He died on Thursday evening, according to a family member.
- Appeals filed by convicted Boston Marathon bomber:
Lawyers for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told a federal appeals court Thursday his conviction should be overturned because the judge refused to move his trial outside of the city where the attack took place.
In a more than 1,100-page court filing, Tsarnaev's attorneys detailed what they said were several problems with the case, starting with the decision to hold the trial in a still-traumatized Boston.
On today’s Kagro in the Morning show: A new entry in the Cohen-in-Prague saga. Another look at France’s Yellow Vests movement, continued. Where will we land with this Green New Deal committee idea? Plus several other things you'll need to know for the weekend and the new year.