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Kerry Eleveld's Profile
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Kerry Eleveld is the author of "Don't Tell Me To Wait: How the fight for gay rights changed America and transformed Obama's presidency," published October 2015 to critical acclaim by the NYT, Kirkus Reviews, and others.
Groups: Daily Kos Elections, Daily Kos, 50 State Strategy Project
Twitter: @kerryeleveld
Diaries published: 5794 (0 days since last diary on Mon Sep 27, 2021 at 05:53 PM PDT)
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Most Recommended Diary: 'I'm about to puke': QAnon followers finally sickened by their own toxic sludge, 868 comments, 783 recommends
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Senate Republicans, who ballooned the national debt under Trump, block Democratic bill to pay for it Last week, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell promised his caucus would engage in political terrorism on raising the debt ceiling, and on Monday Senate Republicans delivered. On a party-line vote, Senate Republicans blocked a Democratic bill to...
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Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona has committed two political sins this year that have decimated her standing with Arizona's Democratic voters. One—a vote against including a $15 minimum-wage hike in Democrats' pandemic relief package—left the indelible...
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On second thought, maybe it wasn't the best idea to overturn a 50-year-old Supreme Court precedent on abortion in the dead of night via an unsigned opinion. After a fourth poll in the span of a couple weeks found the Supreme Court's job approval...
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In a profoundly detached�fit of magical thinking, GOP leader Mitch McConnell told journalists�Bob�Woodward and Robert Costa that the Trump era was on the wane. In their recently released book Peril,
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The days of the federal government blindly providing Donald Trump with blanket immunity for his crimes against the republic are over. The House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection has reportedly made extensive records...
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The timing couldn't have been better. Late Thursday, almost simultaneously, bombshell news broke that Arizona's GOP fraudit had confirmed Joe Biden's 2020 win while Texas officials announced they would launch their own "full forensic" fraudit....
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- This report really brings my exasperation with Kyrsten Sinema to a full boil. Sinema to hold fundraiser with groups opposed to social spending package BY MYCHAEL SCHNELL The New York Times obtained a copy of the invitation for Sinema’s fundraiser —...63 comments 102 Recs
- Hello, Daily Kos Community. I’ve heard you’re a vibrant group of voracious readers with informed opinions. I’m thrilled to join the ranks of some of the writers you enjoy reading. My route to journalism was circuitous. I began in 2008 in San Diego as a...80 comments 249 Recs
- A short four-month relationship between Republican state Rep. Steve Marino and Democratic state Rep. Mari Manoogian has turned into a multi-year nightmare. On Friday, Manoogian won a personal protection order against Marino, who she alleges has been...58 comments 268 Recs
- Pfizer and BioNTech have good news for parents who want to protect their children aged 5 to 11 from COVID-19: The companies’ coronavirus vaccine is safe and effective for children in that age group, they announced in a press release Monday. The Food...70 comments 104 Recs
- The Biden administration is now fighting to keep in place the cruel and unsound public health order implemented by the prior administration that’s used the novel coronavirus pandemic as an excuse to quickly deport asylum-seekers in violation of their...184 comments 92 Recs
- Dozens of lawmakers led by Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley and New York Rep. Nydia Velázquez are calling on the Biden administration to immediately halt mass deportations to Haiti, writing in a letter last Friday that the nation’s “ability to safely...8 comments 54 Recs
- Immigrant and human rights advocates expressed outrage on Thursday amid news that the Biden administration deported nearly 90 people—including a number of children under age 3, advocates said—back to Haiti despite political unrest and a devastating 7.2...57 comments 63 Recs
- The good news is that there does seem to be some appetite for discussing, in political circles, just how close members of Trump's inner circle believed Trump came to attempting an overthrow of our constitutional government. The bad news is that much of...113 comments 159 Recs
- Imagine if the response to 9/11 had been to close the New York Fire Department. Or if the follow-up to Hurricane Katrina had been taking away satellites from the National Hurricane Center. Now imagine if the reaction to the greatest disaster in over a...214 comments 218 Recs
- Senators say unspent funds should go to aiding Afghan refugees, not 'already bloated' defense budgetThe federal government has billions in unspent funds following the official withdrawal of U.S. military forces from Afghanistan—and that money should be reallocated to aid refugees who have now been displaced following the war, a group of Democratic...15 comments 50 Recs
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