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| It took months for Ahmaud Arbery's killers to be charged. Now the Justice Department may investigate After it took two changes of prosecutor and a leaked video before Gregory and Travis McMichael were arrested and charged with murder and aggravated assault, Georgia’s attorney general has asked the Department of Justice to investigate how the case was... |
Laura Clawson | 05/11/2020 | 3 |
| A U.S. company offered to ramp-up mask production by the millions—but Trump team ignored them In further news of the Trump team's blazing, no-holds-barred incompetence, The Washington Post reported Saturday on still another dropped ball in the earliest days of the pandemic: In late January, the owner of the American medical supply company... |
Hunter | 05/11/2020 | 14 |
| The Daily Bucket---Hanging with the Heron I live near 20 acre Bethany lake, west of Portland Oregon. I’m the Great Blue Heron, the State Bird! We are the biggest birds in the northern hemisphere with a six foot wing span, but we will ... |
6412093 | 05/11/2020 | 2 |
| 'It is scary to go to work,' Trump adviser says, after COVID-19 appears in the White House Donald Trump’s personal valet has tested positive for COVID-19. So has Mike Pence’s press secretary, Katie Miller, who has not only been maskless at recent White House meetings but is married to top Trump staffer Stephen Miller. “It is scary to go to... |
Laura Clawson | 05/11/2020 | 39 |
| Morning Digest: Flipping the Senate is within reach as three key race ratings shift toward Democrats 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 | 05/11/2020 | 15 |
| Cartoon: News from the Coronaverse If you enjoy this work, and if you can afford to do so, please consider helping me keep it sustainable in 2020, by joining Sparky’s List ! Also, you can pre-order my forthcoming book, Life ... |
Tom Tomorrow | 05/11/2020 | 14 |
| Cheers and Jeers: Monday Headlines You Won’t Read Today Trump Leads Biden in Crucial Swing States Senator Collins Finds Nothing Particularly Troubling Many People Saying What President Says Many People Are Saying Continued... |
Bill in Portland Maine | 05/11/2020 | 46 |
| Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: Political reality starting to sink in with Republicans Can you imagine? The political constituency you’ve carefully groomed and trained now expects you to actually do your job. The horror. WaPo: Republicans grow nervous about losing the Senate amid worries over Trump’s handling of the pandemic In recent... |
Greg Dworkin | 05/11/2020 | 286 |
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David Waldman | 05/11/2020 | 0 |
| Sunday night owls: While megacorporations get megabailouts, burden of pandemic falls on the poor Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week The Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis at Inequality.org writes— Poor People’s Campaign: We Refuse to Allow Politicians and Big ... |
Meteor Blades | 05/10/2020 | 61 |
| Nuts & Bolts: Inside a Democratic campaign, time can be your friend or enemy It’s another Sunday, so for those who tune in, welcome to a diary discussing the Nuts & Bolts of a Democratic campaign. If you’ve missed out, you can catch up anytime: Just visit our group ... |
Christopher Reeves | 05/10/2020 | 2 |
| Donald Trump is 'glum' because 80,000 dead Americans is cutting into his own popularity In important weekend news, we learn that Trump is sad because it turns out killing 80,000 Americans (and counting) through rank incompetence is making him, personally, less popular. Oh, and that Republicans are worried that killing off their own... |
Hunter | 05/10/2020 | 250 |
| Week's High Impact Stories: May 2-8, 2020 2020-05-02 00:09:54 - 2020-05-08 23:47:59 UTC; DailyKos stories = 1114; 159 per day; 6.6 per hour This week 553 Kogs posted 1114 stories of which 1082 were recommended at least once by a cadre ... |
jotter | 05/10/2020 | 3 |
| American Indian Movement leader Carter Camp recalls the Wounded Knee siege, which ended May 8, 1973 On Feb. 2, 1973, Carter Camp led the first warriors into the hamlet of Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Reservation in southwest South Dakota, home of the Oglala Lakota. He was a citizen of the Ponca nation, one of the many tribes forced at gunpoint to... |
Meteor Blades | 05/10/2020 | 56 |
| High Impact Stories: May 9, 2020 2020-05-09 00:00:08 - 2020-05-09 23:59:07 UTC; DailyKos stories = 134; 134 per day; 5.6 per hour Yesterday 111 Kogs posted 134 stories of which 132 were recommended at least once by a cadre of 1819 recommending readers; 78 stories were recommended by... |
jotter | 05/10/2020 | 2 |
| A Mother's Day poem to honor resilient immigrant mothers Mother’s Day was never a big day in my family. Outside of sharing a photo that my friends demanded to see on social media, the gifts my siblings and I would give my mother, and the burned breakfast we would attempt to make--it was a regular day. It... |
Aysha Qamar | 05/10/2020 | 2 |
| The COVID-19 pandemic is heading to rural America—and rural America needs to get ready As Donald Trump declares victory , pushing for an end to pandemic control measures even while acknowledging it will cause many more Americans to die, and Republican governors declare ... |
Hunter | 05/10/2020 | 284 |
| ME, IA & AZ-Sen: These GOPers Brag About Defending Obamacare But Vote For Judges To Kill It The Daily Beast has been on a roll with terrific pieces about the upcoming U.S. Senate races and Eleanor Clifft’s latest piece highlights three Senate GOPers hypocrisy on their claims to their ... |
poopdogcomedy | 05/10/2020 | 2 |
| Three Minnesota teens arrested for kicking Asian woman after viral video identifies suspects Crimes against Asian Americans continue to rise in the U.S. amid the novel coronavirus pandemic. Many Asian Americans fear not only contracting COVID-19 but being subject to hate crimes when leaving their homes for necessary items, CNN reported. Within... |
Aysha Qamar | 05/10/2020 | 97 |
| DACA students, Warren for (maybe) VP, and more you might have missed Happy Sunday friends. It sure has been a pretty wild news week, but I hope all of you are taking exhaustive care of yourselves and finding ways to not be productive during the weekend. Lots of big ... |
Cara Zelaya | 05/10/2020 | 47 |
| Dr. Anthony Fauci now self-quarantining after Trump White House becomes new COVID-19 hotspot The Trump White House is now a coronavirus hotspot. With the news of Mike Pence press secretary Katie Miller (wife of white nationalist Stephen Miller) and Donald Trump's military-provided personal valet (read: Diet Coke deliverer) testing positive, as... |
Hunter | 05/10/2020 | 99 |
| Sunday is a day of rest, so rest your eyes here this day among curios and beauty: Kos Art Salon 4 Sometimes our eyes, hearts, and minds need rest from worlds too much with us, worlds of politics, incompetencies, brutalities, and -isms. We offer this diary, which you can visit once briefly or longer, or revisit many times for respite. Perhaps the... |
2thanks | 05/10/2020 | 102 |
| Cluster of COVID-19 cases traced to birthday party of friends, extended family in California After California issued a safer-at-home order in March, a “large number” of extended family and friends met up in Pasadena to hold a birthday party in mid-April. That birthday party, held at a private residence, according to the Pasadena Public Health... |
Marissa Higgins | 05/10/2020 | 59 |
| The Daily Bucket - Mississippi wildlife videos Hay seed has been busy because there are more birds at his house this year than ever before. I thought we would keep it simple and just provide the videos. There will be a brief description and ... |
CaptBLI | 05/10/2020 | 23 |
| Black folk musicians created the soundtrack for a movement—and helped Bob Dylan find his sound I had a conversation about music recently with a white friend, a “folkie” who annually attends the folk music festivals that take place frequently here in the northeastern part of the United ... |
Denise Oliver Velez | 05/10/2020 | 313 |
| AZ, CO, IA, ME, MT & NC-Sen: Poll Shows Biden & Dems Leading In Senate Battleground States This poll came out yesterday and wanted to pass it along : Former Vice President Joe Biden has opened up a 9-point lead over President Trump in six states where Republican senators ... |
poopdogcomedy | 05/09/2020 | 30 |
| Saturday night owls: Sikh docs reluctantly shaved their faith-mandated beards to fight coronavirus Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week From the Tribune of India : Montreal physician Sanjeet Singh-Saluja and his brother Rajeet, a neurosurgeon at the McGill ... |
Meteor Blades | 05/09/2020 | 114 |
| Books So Bad They're Good: Seven Women + Thirty-Five Feet of Hair = Profit! (migraine rewind) It’s been a rough couple of days here at the Last Homely Shack; between four awful days temping at a place that claimed to want an office manager even though they actually wanted a billing clerk, ... |
Ellid | 05/09/2020 | 19 |
| Unemployment insurance boost is tiny next to tax cuts for the rich, this week in the war on workers Republicans are doing their best to push people off of unemployment, with governors reopening states so that the most vulnerable workers are forced back into unsafe workplaces. But the Economic ... |
Laura Clawson | 05/09/2020 | 11 |
| Spotlight on Green News & Views: New renewables outpace gas; 'murder hornet' hype This is the 642nd edition of the Spotlight on Green News & Views (previously known as the Green Diary Rescue). Here is the May 2 edition . Inclusion of a story in the Spotlight does not ... |
Meteor Blades | 05/09/2020 | 30 |
| 'An absolute chaotic disaster': Obama accurately describes Trump's COVID-19 response in private call Since leaving office in January 2017, America’s favorite president has been remarkably diplomatic when speaking about the orange monster who took his place after losing the 2016 popular vote but gaming the Electoral College. A living embodiment of the... |
Jessica Sutherland | 05/09/2020 | 156 |
| Saturday Snippets: Mayors say no return to 'business as usual'; plus gorilla and elephant news Saturday Snippets is a regular Daily Kos weekend feature.
• City leaders around the world say there can be no post-virus return to “business as usual”: Mayors of megacities that are ... |
Meteor Blades | 05/09/2020 | 31 |
| High Impact Stories: May 8, 2020 2020-05-08 00:00:06 - 2020-05-08 23:47:59 UTC; DailyKos stories = 165; 165 per day; 6.9 per hour Yesterday 141 Kogs posted 165 stories of which 164 were recommended at least once by a cadre of 2062 recommending readers; 113 stories were recommended by... |
jotter | 05/09/2020 | 4 |
| Republished: The Year of the Hornet Today I am posting a Daily Bucket to discuss the recent hype about murder hornets. In the summer of 2013, I experienced a population explosion of hornets while doing forestry field work in Idaho. It was a scary time, but even in a situation where the... |
foresterbob | 05/09/2020 | 63 |
| The Daily Bucket - Hysterical Hornet Hype If you believe the headlines, we are living through an age of extremes. Conservatives told us that President Obama was worse than Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, and Idi Amin put together. Liberals ... |
foresterbob | 05/09/2020 | 143 |
| COVID-19 news: Trump and Pence to be tested daily as another White House aide tests positive The day after news broke that a military aide who serves as a personal valet to Donald Trump had tested positive for coronavirus, Trump announced that he and Mike Pence would be getting daily ... |
Laura Clawson | 05/08/2020 | 60 |
| Of course chief vulture McConnell would jam a Trump Supreme Court nominee through, Republicans say The Grim Reaper of everything good in Congress, Mitch McConnell, has donned his cloak and picked up his scythe, slathering over the news that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was hospitalized this week with gallbladder problems. Is there any... |
Joan McCarter | 05/08/2020 | 134 |
| High Impact Stories: May 7, 2020 2020-05-07 00:00:04 - 2020-05-07 23:52:33 UTC; DailyKos stories = 207; 207 per day; 8.6 per hour Yesterday 155 Kogs posted 207 stories of which 194 were recommended at least once by a cadre of 2065 recommending readers; 116 stories were recommended by... |
jotter | 05/08/2020 | 3 |
| Doctors enraged at Trump administration's botched, opaque distribution of COVID-19 treatment The experimental anti-viral drug remdesivir has shown such great promise for treating COVID-19 that it received emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration so it could be distributed to hospitals as fast as it can be produced.... |
Joan McCarter | 05/08/2020 | 42 |
| Trump claims 'Project Airbridge' is a big COVID-19 success, so why is he hiding its results? Donald Trump and Mike Pence have done a lot of bragging about “Project Airbridge,” the effort—supposedly led by First Son-in-Law Jared Kushner and his merry band of inexperienced "volunteers"—to quickly bring in personal protective equipment (PPE)... |
Laura Clawson | 05/08/2020 | 44 |
| In public comments that weren't 'intended to be made public,' McSally trashes hurting cities As Arizona's cities are laying off and furloughing workers because of cratering revenues as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, their Republican senator is telling them to toughen up. She isn't going to help them by voting for any financial support... |
Joan McCarter | 05/08/2020 | 95 |
| Republicans threaten low-wage workers with fraud charges if they're too scared to go back to work Republicans were really not happy about passing a $600 per week increase in unemployment benefits, and Republican governors are moving to make it impossible for many people to collect it. As Republican governors reopen their states quickly—more quickly... |
Laura Clawson | 05/08/2020 | 87 |
| Senate Democrats join Pelosi in calling for direct, ongoing cash payments to (almost) everyone House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has support in the Senate for her push to include recurring monthly payments of $2,000 to individual Americans for the duration of the coronavirus crisis. Three Senate Democrats have jumped on board that plan with their own... |
Joan McCarter | 05/08/2020 | 175 |
| Trump and Pence to get daily coronavirus tests after valet diagnosed with COVID-19 Testing shortages have been one of the big stories of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States, with legitimately sick people unable to get tested. But now that a personal valet to Donald Trump has tested positive for COVID-19, Trump and Mike... |
Laura Clawson | 05/08/2020 | 97 |
| Trump campaign teases upcoming attack ads with widely mocked 'Death Star' brag The coronavirus pandemic has prevented the Trump campaign from unleashing the full force of its massive bank account and bottomless dishonesty against former Vice President Joe Biden so far, but that’s about to end. It just wouldn’t have looked... |
Laura Clawson | 05/08/2020 | 105 |
| 'History is written by the winner': Barr and Trump do victory lap after dropping Flynn case Attorney General William Barr claimed he was “doing the law’s bidding,” and not Donald Trump’s bidding, when he had the Justice Department move to dismiss charges against former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn, who had pleaded guilty to... |
Laura Clawson | 05/08/2020 | 278 |
| House Intelligence Committee Releases 57 Russiagate Witness Transcripts - Collusion Rampant From the website of the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee: In 2017 and 2018, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) undertook an investigation into Russia’s interference campaign targeting the 2016 U.S. election. The... |
ericlewis0 | 05/07/2020 | 187 |
| The COVID-19 small business loan program isn't doing the job. Congress needs another plan The Paycheck Protection Program, the small business loan program created by Republican Sens. Marco Rubio and Susan Collins as part of the CARES Act, appears to be too bogged down in problems to be worth re-upping for a third round in the next version... |
Joan McCarter | 05/07/2020 | 40 |
| Pentagon says COVID-19 infection disqualifies recruits, precedent for insurers in an ACA-free market Here's a harbinger for what's to come should the Trump administration prevail in its efforts to get the Supreme Court to throw out the entirety of the Affordable Care Act: The Pentagon has decided that coronavirus is a preexisting condition and will... |
Joan McCarter | 05/07/2020 | 62 |
| Essential workers speak out on the unsafe conditions they face For all the talk about how they’re heroes, too many essential workers still aren’t feeling valued in the ways that matter: protections for their health and safety. A new study of essential workers in western Massachusetts—a region with two cities among... |
Laura Clawson | 05/07/2020 | 17 |
| High Impact Stories: May 6, 2020 2020-05-06 00:00:23 - 2020-05-06 23:52:34 UTC; DailyKos stories = 174; 174 per day; 7.2 per hour Yesterday 142 Kogs posted 174 stories of which 168 were recommended at least once by a cadre of 2164 recommending readers; 108 stories were recommended by... |
jotter | 05/07/2020 | 2 |
| Pelosi endorses $2,000 every month to everybody in next $2 trillion COVID-19 response bill The elements of CARES 2, the next big coronavirus response bill, are finally emerging from the Democratic Congress, where at least the horrendous scope and urgency of the emergency seems to be recognized even if it's not accompanied by urgency. It is... |
Joan McCarter | 05/07/2020 | 180 |
| Trump taps big Republican donor to head the Postal Service during coronavirus crisis Donald Trump loves big donors and hates the U.S. Postal Service, and now he’s putting one of the former in charge of the latter. Trump has tapped Louis DeJoy—who has given more than $2 million to the Trump campaign and other Republican causes since... |
Laura Clawson | 05/07/2020 | 61 |
| The chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee seems to be a big blabbermouth, and corrupt to boot Sen. Richard Burr, Republican of North Carolina and the No. 1 guy in the Senate for hearing sensitive, classified information about the health and safety of the nation, seemingly can't keep a secret. At least not one that has the potential to make him... |
Joan McCarter | 05/07/2020 | 69 |
| Meatpacking plants are epicenters of coronavirus. The Trump administration is blaming workers The Trump administration is determined to keep meatpacking plants open and running fast even as they become epicenters of coronavirus—and administration officials are trying to distract from that by blaming the workers for getting sick. Health and... |
Laura Clawson | 05/07/2020 | 130 |
| Payroll Tax Cuts the First Step in Dismantling Social Security President Trump set off alarm bells for America’s seniors on a Sunday FOX town hall by insisting once again on eliminating Social Security payroll taxes – both employer and worker contributions. The President even threatened to block the next phase of... |
NCPSSM | 05/07/2020 | 8 |
| The first round of small business loans didn't go where the need was greatest A couple of weeks ago the geographical distribution of the small business loans in the Paycheck Protection Program under the COVID-19 response bill, the CARES Act, raised a lot of eyebrows. It sure seemed on first glance that a disproportionate amount... |
Joan McCarter | 05/07/2020 | 17 |
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