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| Daily Kos Elections Live Digest: 5/11 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 | 05/11/2020 | 1 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Top Comments: from the stove It has been a very Martha Stewart week for me, hanging out with rappers and making large financial transactions while gardening. There may, or may not, have been “5 on it” at some point in the ... |
John M Webb | 05/10/2020 | 23 |
| On Mother's Day, a remembrance of the woman who raised me, my 'puse' (grandmother) On this Mother’s Day, I am reprising an essay I previously published about my grandmother, the woman who raised me until I was 9 years old. • • • • • • Sixty-five years ago, August 23, 1955, a stroke killed Simmalikee, my grandmother—in the Seminole... |
Meteor Blades | 05/10/2020 | 33 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Top Comments: Jupiter in Infrared Now that you’ve seen the image, I suppose I could just stop here. But here’s a quote that will go to explain something about the image:
Researchers using a technique known as “lucky imaging� |
gizmo59 | 05/09/2020 | 27 |
| What's For Dinner? v14.44 - Tahini In my sesame WFD a few months ago I mentioned tahini (ground sesame seed butter) but didn’t offer any recipes, leaving myself room for a second diary on basically the same topic.
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esquimaux | 05/09/2020 | 58 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 80,000 dead by the end of the weekend. That’s the toll from Trump’s deluge of coronavirus lies Calvin Woodward and Hope Yen at the Associated Press introduced their updated fact-check story of the squatter in the White House Saturday morning with these words: Truth can be a casualty when President Donald Trump talks about deaths from the... |
Meteor Blades | 05/09/2020 | 150 |
| Friday Night Owls: Youth activists educate themselves about a just economic recovery Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week Leanna First-Arai at Yes! magazine writes— Amid Shutdowns, Youth Climate Activists Are Writing the Curriculum for a Just ... |
Meteor Blades | 05/08/2020 | 28 |
| Top Comments- Another look at the Trump/Peale connection Truthfully, the daily headlines have infuriated me since The Damn Fool was inaugurated 1/20/17 (and even before that). But nothing has infuriated me more than all of the “happy talk,” utter nonsense, and denial of the plain reality that we all can see... |
Chitown Kev | 05/08/2020 | 30 |
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Daily Kos Elections | 05/08/2020 | 362 |
| Voting Rights Roundup: Court ruling means Oregon may finally adopt limits on campaign donations Leading Off ● Oregon: The Oregon Supreme Court has unanimously overturned a 1997 precedent that the state constitution bars all limits on state and local campaign contributions. It also declined to overturn limits on donations in county races that... |
Stephen Wolf | 05/08/2020 | 15 |
| NC, ME, CO, MT, KS, MA & AZ-Sen: Slate's The Surge Lists The 7 Races For Dems To Win The Senate Received this e-mail today from Slate Magazine’s The Surge where they list the seven top U.S. Senate races that could help the Democrats win a Majority: 1. North Carolina Let’s get the math ... |
poopdogcomedy | 05/08/2020 | 10 |
| Daily Kos Elections Live Digest: 5/8 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. Sign up here... |
Daily Kos Elections | 05/08/2020 | 271 |
| Devastating report shows 14.7% jobless rate and 20.5 million lost jobs. This didn’t have to happen No surprises in Friday’s jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It’s been obvious since last month’s report that this month’s would be a doozy. A seasonally adjusted 20.5 million jobs lost and an official unemployment rate of 14.7%, well over... |
Meteor Blades | 05/08/2020 | 112 |
| Morning Digest: New poll shows a tight Democratic primary contest for Massachusetts Senate seat 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 | 05/08/2020 | 50 |
| Thursday Night Owls: How the climate crisis is contributing to soaring rates of infectious disease Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week Abraham Lustgarten at ProPublica writes— How Climate Change Is Contributing to Skyrocketing Rates of Infectious Disease : |
Meteor Blades | 05/07/2020 | 39 |
| Top Comments: the Measured Calm edition A suggestion that calm is in order regarding Justin Amash, after the jump ….. But first: Top Comments appears nightly, as a round-up of the best comments on Daily Kos. Surely ... you come across comments daily that are perceptive, apropos and .. well,... |
Ed Tracey | 05/07/2020 | 9 |
| This Week in Statehouse Action: Hot Blooded edition … I hope you don’t have a fever of 103.
(If you do, please stop reading and get that seen about.)
Republicans in statehouses across the country remain awfully hot to put people’s health and ... |
Carolyn Fiddler | 05/07/2020 | 8 |
| New poll shows a tight Democratic primary contest for Massachusetts Senate seat On behalf of UMass Lowell, YouGov is out with the first survey of the Massachusetts’ September Democratic primary that we’ve seen since March, and gives Rep. Joe Kennedy III a 44-42 edge in his ... |
Jeff Singer | 05/07/2020 | 33 |
| We Can Defend Joe Biden Without Attacking Sexual Assault Survivors For weeks, the sexual assault allegations against Joe Biden have littered my social media feeds. Every activist group I’m in has been torn apart over these allegations. I’ve grown increasingly despondent as I listen to Democrats trot out the same rape... |
ZawnVillines | 05/07/2020 | 158 |
| Daily Kos Elections Live Digest: 5/7 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. Sign up here... |
Daily Kos Elections | 05/07/2020 | 348 |
| 3.2 million workers file new jobless benefit claims, bringing the eight-week total to 33.4 million Eight weeks ago the first ripples of what would soon become a tsunami of new claims for unemployment insurance benefits began as the economy was shut down to keep the deadly coronavirus from spreading further. It was a weekly increase of about 70,000... |
Meteor Blades | 05/07/2020 | 58 |
| Morning Digest: Stacey Abrams nearly won, but our new data shows the power of the GOP's gerrymanders 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 Donner, James Lambert, David Beard, and Arjun... |
Daily Kos Elections | 05/07/2020 | 8 |
| Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: Anti-Black vigilantes; Biden should ignore advice to name a cabinet now The Abbreviated Pundit Round-up is a regular feature of Daily Kos. Noah Feldman at Bloomberg writes—America Has No Plan for the Worst-Case Scenario on Covid-19: In the midst of the constant up-and-down of coronavirus news, both from science and the... |
Meteor Blades | 05/07/2020 | 192 |
| Wednesday Night Owls: Malicious, killer incompetence makes 'war-time president' a war criminal Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week Jeet Heer at The Nation writes—If This Pandemic Is a War, Trump Is a War Criminal: [...] Of course, wartime metaphors are common in this crisis, used by many leaders, including... |
Meteor Blades | 05/06/2020 | 73 |
| Top Comments: Yellow Phase Edition Clearly, I’m not paying proper attention to local news. Today, I opened my work e-mail only to discover that the county I live in (Erie County, PA) is about to enter the “yellow phase” of coronavirus mitigation. Businesses that can be conducted via... |
gizmo59 | 05/06/2020 | 14 |
| Stacey Abrams nearly won Georgia, but our new data shows the power of the GOP's gerrymandering Democrats have been making gains in Georgia over the last few years, and Stacey Abrams’ narrow 50-49 loss to Republican Brian Kemp in the tainted 2018 election for governor suggests Team Blue has a path to win statewide. However, our new data, which... |
Jeff Singer | 05/06/2020 | 16 |
| Coal companies, some with ties to Trump, get $31 million in paycheck protection loans Coal mining companies, including two with strong ties to the Trump regime, have received $31 million from the Paycheck Protection Program designed to help small businesses stay afloat and their workers employed while much of the economy is shut down as... |
Meteor Blades | 05/06/2020 | 13 |
| Help Me Raise Money For Planned Parenthood I am fundraising for Planned Parenthood Texas Action Fund. So far, I have raised $3,309.85 for Planned Parenthood via my facebook fundraising. Two separate anonymous donors have pledged $3,000 total in matching funds and $1,191.15 of $ for $ matching... |
AndyT | 05/06/2020 | 4 |
| A minor oddity when loading the site: are you seeing this? Sometimes, when I load the site, I’ll see the first headline like this: Then the site “reloads,” a moment later (before I can click on anything) and I see the same article, but with a new headline: It seems like there’s something wonky in the code... |
Samer | 05/06/2020 | 17 |
| To the Businesses Pushing to Restrict Women’s Healthcare This is an open message to the Trump administration and the businesses that are encouraging him to push for more restrictions on women’s reproductive health insurance. First off, we are your employees, not your slaves. You shouldn’t get a say in what... |
ElisMad | 05/06/2020 | 6 |
| Payroll company shows private job losses in the past month were way past Great Recession territory Each month, Automatic Data Processing Inc., which handles payrolls for about a fifth of U.S. private employment, releases its job report two days before the government’s Bureau of Labor Statistics announces its own findings for both private and public... |
Meteor Blades | 05/06/2020 | 46 |
| Daily Kos Elections Live Digest: 5/6 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. Sign up here... |
Daily Kos Elections | 05/06/2020 | 324 |
| Morning Digest: GOP primary for swingy New Mexico House seat reaches new low in nastiness 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 | 05/06/2020 | 15 |
| Tuesday night owls: While top companies' workers are laid off, shareholders get their wallets filled Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week Igor Derysh at Salon writes—Top US companies lay off thousands of workers while rewarding shareholders amid coronavirus pandemic: Some of the largest companies in the U.S. have... |
Meteor Blades | 05/05/2020 | 100 |
| A couple of ideas about diaries and the rec list This is just my two cents, and I totally appreciate and respect that your coins may look very different. My spiel isn’t directed at anyone in particular and isn’t a result of any posting in particular. Daily Kos (sometimes oddly referred to by... |
skralyx | 05/05/2020 | 116 |
| Top Comments: Time Flies Edition Everyone’s experience these days is different, yet one constant I seem to hear is that ‘time has no meaning’ … we barely know what day it is unless it’s Shopping Day, in which case we’... |
brillig | 05/05/2020 | 23 |
| Ultra-nasty GOP primary sinks into gutter as one candidate accuses the other of infidelity The June 2 GOP contest to take on freshman Democratic Rep. Xochitl Torres Small in New Mexico’s 2nd District turned negative a long time ago, and it may now be the ugliest primary anywhere in the ... |
Jeff Singer | 05/05/2020 | 27 |
| New Civiqs poll shows GOP in bad shape in North Carolina's key races A new poll conducted by Democratic pollster Civiqs on behalf of Daily Kos shows Democrats well ahead in North Carolina’s Senate and gubernatorial contests. (Civiqs and Daily Kos are owned by the ... |
Jeff Singer | 05/05/2020 | 6 |
| Missouri rabbis: Staying home to stop virus qualifies as 'religious belief' to seek absentee ballot Missouri Gov. Mike Parson doesn’t think that the novel coronavirus pandemic is an adequate reason for voters to request absentee ballots this year, but local Jewish leaders have outsmarted him and found a way to protect public health while still... |
David Nir | 05/05/2020 | 46 |
| Daily Kos Elections Live Digest: 5/5 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. Sign up here... |
Daily Kos Elections | 05/05/2020 | 356 |
| Morning Digest: Republican accused of pandemic profiteering defends herself with ... her private jet 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 | 05/05/2020 | 51 |
| Monday night owls: As the coronavirus rages, the epidemic of gun violence surges Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week Matt Cohen at Mother Jones writes—As Gun Violence Surges During the Pandemic, Mayors Beg Congress For Help: As Chicago struggles to treat the flood of COVID-19 patients, a surge... |
Meteor Blades | 05/04/2020 | 63 |
| Top Comments - Money is more important than people
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BeninSC | 05/04/2020 | 18 |
| Sunday Night Owls: Activists seek 'Peoples Agenda'—relief legislation that favors workers Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week Andrea Germanos at Common Dreams writes—Progressives Boost Call for 'Peoples Agenda' With Eyes Towards Next Relief Package: As the Senate prepares to reconvene Monday, progressive... |
Meteor Blades | 05/03/2020 | 20 |
| Saturday Night Owls: Our old nemesis ALEC is playing big role in pushing lawmakers to reopen economy Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week David Armiak and Alex Kotch at the Center for Media and Democracy have given some lengthy scrutiny to documents they have ... |
Meteor Blades | 05/02/2020 | 74 |
| Spotlight on Green News & Views: Deniers don't surrender; bailing out Big Oil This is the 641st edition of the Spotlight on Green News & Views (previously known as the Green Diary Rescue). Here is the April 25 edition. Inclusion of a story in the Spotlight does not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of it.... |
Meteor Blades | 05/02/2020 | 12 |
| Saturday Snippets: Threats push mayor to ax his face-mask order; self-isolators favor banana bread Saturday Snippets is a regular Daily Kos weekend feature. • Threats spur Oklahoma mayor to retract order requiring face masks: Stillwater Mayor Will Joyce pulled his order late Friday after many types of stores and restaurants re-opened as... |
Meteor Blades | 05/02/2020 | 53 |
| Friday night owls: NY's Cuomo points to 'frightening' increase in domestic violence calls Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week Carter Sherman at Vice News writes— New York Is Seeing a ‘Frightening’ Increase in Domestic Violence Calls : New ... |
Meteor Blades | 05/01/2020 | 61 |
| Donald Trump has had a profoundly negative impact on the GOP's control of state governments Donald Trump’s deep unpopularity was the central force behind the electoral wave that gave Democrats control of the House in 2018, but it’s also played a huge role in turning state governments blue, too. Just how big? Since Trump’s win in 2016,... |
David Nir | 05/01/2020 | 142 |
| As virus takes heavy toll on people of color, Harris wants task force to study why and propose fixes Come Monday, Sen. Kamala Harris of California will introduce legislation creating a task force to scrutinize the racial disparity in health outcomes as the coronavirus pandemic continues to take a heavy and disproportionate toll among African... |
Meteor Blades | 05/01/2020 | 26 |
| Thursday night owls: The pandemic hasn't stopped aggressive medical-debt collections Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week At ProPublica , Alec MacGillis writes— One Thing the Pandemic Hasn’t Stopped: Aggressive Medical-Debt Collection : ... |
Meteor Blades | 04/30/2020 | 60 |
| Failure to provide relief money shows America just never gets tired of sticking it to Indians Back in the 19th century, when the U.S. was removing, corralling, and slaughtering the American Indian population, treaties and other agreements were made to provide regular compensation to those tribes that agreed to stop fighting the ongoing theft of... |
Meteor Blades | 04/30/2020 | 39 |
| 30.1 million workers have now filed for jobless benefits The Department of Labor reported Thursday that, seasonally adjusted, 3.9 million U.S. workers filed new claims for unemployment benefits in the week ending April 25. That brings the seasonally adjusted total for the past six weeks to 30.1 million new... |
Meteor Blades | 04/30/2020 | 41 |
| Abbreviated pundit round-up: Virus not Trump's Vietnam? A public health corps for contact tracing The Abbreviated Pundit Round-up is a regular feature of Daily Kos.
David Smith at The Guardian writes— Trump is seizing the courts – only a Democratic win in November can stop him :
The ... |
Meteor Blades | 04/30/2020 | 247 |
| Wednesday night owls: Postal Union's president says vote-by-mail best way to hold secure election Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week Amy Goodman at Democracy Now interviews Mark Dimondstein, the president of the American Postal Workers Union:: AMY GOODMAN: [...] The issue of mail-in voting, increasingly... |
Meteor Blades | 04/29/2020 | 43 |
| If you want to know what a Person really values in Life, take a look at How they spend their Time — If you want to know what a person really values in Life, take a look at how they spend their Time. (Which kind of has some interesting implications, for this home-bound era, we find ourselves in.) — If you want to know what Donald Trump really values... |
jamess | 04/29/2020 | 43 |
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