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| Dems make the case for Impeachment and Removal, and the case is good. ‘Over the last three days, finishing up today, the House Impeachment Managers have thoroughly argued their case for the removal of Donald John Trump from office. Using visual aids and clips from testimony and public statements the managers have made an... |
Frank Vyan Walton | 01/24/2020 | 3 |
| Mr. 'Grab 'em by the pussy' spouts off about 'the majesty of God's creation' at anti-abortion rally Donald Trump’s speechwriters really pulled out all the rhetorical flourishes for his remarks at the March for Life in Washington, D.C., on Friday. Mr. “Grab ‘em by the pussy” was spouting line after line about “the majesty of God’s creation” and “the... |
Laura Clawson | 01/24/2020 | 237 |
| Virginia Democrats' legislative moves on reproductive rights prove elections have consequences After more than 25 years of forced-birthers in the Republican-controlled Virginia state legislature passing law after law restricting abortions and limiting other reproductive rights, the new Democratic majority elected in November showed its clout... |
Meteor Blades | 01/24/2020 | 46 |
| IA-Sen: Greenfield (D) Goes After Ernst (R) For Signing Letter Asking SCOTUS To Overturn Roe V. Wade Apologies, yesterday was a very busy day for me so I am playing catch up here. Received this e-mail from Theresa Greenfield’s (D. IA) U.S. Senate campaign: Forty-seven years ago, the historic ruling Roe v. Wade affirmed the right of all people to make... |
poopdogcomedy | 01/23/2020 | 2 |
| Indiana Legislators Propose Making Abortion Murder, Arresting Judges Who Strike Down Law New legislation introduced this week in Indiana would make abortion murder, declare fertilized eggs human lives, and potentially make every miscarriage and every period suspect. In 2015, Indiana enacted legislation to ban abortion, require the burial... |
ZawnVillines | 01/23/2020 | 166 |
| Trump to be first president to attend anti-choice March for Life Donald Trump continues to work hard to fire up evangelical voters—on Friday, he’ll be the first president to attend the March for Life. He was previously the first president to address the march by video, in 2018. |
Laura Clawson | 01/23/2020 | 63 |
| Trump will be the first sitting "President" to speak at anti-abortion March For Life event in person On Friday, Donald Trump will be the 1st sitting “President” to speak at the anti-abortion March For Life event in Washington DC in person, where he’ll be speaking to several thousand attendees who espouse anti-choice sentiments. Presidents Ronald... |
JGibson | 01/22/2020 | 15 |
| Kitchen Table Kibitzing 1/22/20: The Right To Choose Today is the 47th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision, giving women the right to decide what their own bodies should do. from Wikipedia : Roe v. Wade , 410 U.S. 113 (1973), [1] was a landmark ... |
jck | 01/22/2020 | 36 |
| Sanders Garners Endorsement of California's UPTE-CWA 9119, Nation's Largest CWA Chapter. Sen. Bernie Sanders Presidential bid has scored a major endorsement in delegate rich California, according to The Hill. Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) presidential campaign won the endorsement of a key California union Tuesday as it works to gin up... |
WB Reeves | 01/22/2020 | 54 |
| Bernie should argue for party unity. He needs all Democrats just as all Democrats need him Oh boy, did Hillary Clinton create a shitshow today. Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, she said, “I will say, however, that it's not only [Bernie Sanders], it's the culture around him. It's his leadership team. It's his prominent supporters. It's his... |
kos | 01/21/2020 | 687 |
| Call their bluff: Let Joe and Hunter Biden testify in exchange for Bolton and Mulvaney As we approach the beginnings of the Impeachment Trial there are reports that some Democrats are considering calling the GOP’s bluff and having Hunter Biden testify in exchange for John Bolton. On Monday, the Washington Post‘s Robert Costa reported... |
Frank Vyan Walton | 01/21/2020 | 36 |
| A celebration and dedication to the brilliance of Neil Peart and the band Rush In the midst of Impeachment trials, royals renouncing their nobility and earthquakes in Puerto Rico there are other events happening in the world. One of those events was the passing of what is arguably the greatest rock drummer in the world, Neil... |
Frank Vyan Walton | 01/20/2020 | 25 |
| Cattle Call 2020: They debated in Iowa, so where do they stand now? The polling aggregate:
Full disclosure: I get to cheat. Thanks to Civiqs , I get to see how the primary campaign is playing out throughout the country and in individual states. BUT, since we don� |
kos | 01/19/2020 | 304 |
| Odds & Ends: News/Humor (with a "Who Lost the Week?" poll) I post a weekly diary of historical notes, arts & science items, foreign news (often receiving little notice in the US) and whimsical pieces from the outside world that I often feature in "Cheers & ... |
Ed Tracey | 01/19/2020 | 14 |
| Politico Labels Biden "Doctored Video" Accusation "False". Politico is calling out former V.P. Joe Biden’s charge that Sen. Bernie Sander’s issued a “doctored” a video of remarks he made in 2018 as false. According to Politico: But the video in question — of Biden’s 2018 remarks to the Brookings Institution... |
WB Reeves | 01/18/2020 | 410 |
| Anti-choice group wants to "rescue babies from abortion" I don’t work in the Daily Kos ad department, I’m not a staffer here in any capacity. But if I did work in the ad department, I think I would have made the same call to accept an ad from Focus on the Family. I saw the ad this morning, clicked on the... |
Alonso del Arte | 01/18/2020 | 16 |
| Happy Religious Freedom Week! Let's Examine Religious Freedom for Women. With a Poll! In case you haven’t been aware, this week is Religious Freedom Week! Every January 16, in honor of Thomas Jefferson, the US president declares Religious Freedom Day. Here is this year’s, www.whitehouse.gov/… I doubt *Rump actually wrote it — I see no... |
elenacarlena | 01/17/2020 | 66 |
| Democrats across the country seek to make California's mistake, destroying careers of freelancers The problems of the gig economy are real, with corporations like Uber legitimately screwing over many of its workers. But the first attempts at addressing these concerns have been an unmitigated disaster in California—the bad actors are merely going to... |
kos | 01/17/2020 | 399 |
| Top Comments: the Music murder and Liver transplant edition A look at murder, childhood hepatitis .. and a landmark recording, 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 ..... |
Ed Tracey | 01/16/2020 | 12 |
| Reclaiming and Renewing Religious Freedom in the 21st Century As Religious Freedom Day 2020 comes to a close, it is important to know that the commemorations here and around the country are part of a sustained campaign to reclaim the idea, the history and the Day from the Christian Right. We have lost much in... |
Frederick Clarkson | 01/16/2020 | 25 |
| The Impeachment Trial has begun and the bombshells keep landing This week in the endless Trump Corruption Timeline we have the pomp and circumstance of the beginning of the Impeachment Trial in the Senate as the House Impeachment Managers delivered their articles to the Senate well, the Senators were sworn into... |
Frank Vyan Walton | 01/16/2020 | 74 |
| Planned Parenthood pumping $45 million into 2020 elections in its largest voting push ever Planned Parenthood has apparently had enough of President Donald Trump and anti-abortion advocates. The reproductive healthcare nonprofit announced it would be investing $45 million in presidential, state, and congressional races this year to continue... |
Lauren Floyd | 01/16/2020 | 16 |
| Iowa, unworthy of first-in-the-nation status, muddles its caucus results. But that's a good thing So who died and put Iowa in charge of the primary process? Who knows, but it’s been amazing seeing tiny unrepresentative Iowa retain its first-in-the-nation status with its undemocratic caucuses while the rest of the states look on in envy. Iowa’s... |
kos | 01/16/2020 | 238 |
| A Postpartum Hemorrhage Could Have Killed Me. Here's How to Ensure It Doesn't Happen to You. Three weeks ago, when I was nearly six months pregnant, my baby died. I have no framework for understanding the magnitude of this loss, no clear path through the grief. But I haven’t had a chance to even begin the grieving process. Because also three... |
ZawnVillines | 01/16/2020 | 170 |
| The Crucible of Religious Freedom in Our Time This is part of an annual series of posts here on Daily Kos in the run up to and on Religious Freedom Day. So far, there have been at least two (here and here) and I expect there will be more. The Day commemorates the enactment of the Virginia Statute... |
Frederick Clarkson | 01/15/2020 | 34 |
| Democratic Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear Ends War On Women's Right to Choose. Let’s see. Socially conservative state- Kentucky - that supposedly obsesses about abortions. Check. Big reason many Kentucky voters said they were voting for loathsome Republican Matt Bevin for governor. Check. Said Republican governor tries to shut... |
Merlin1963 | 01/14/2020 | 52 |
| [IA-SEN] *URGENT* - Iowa Governor Proposes Constitutional Ban on Access to Abortion Services Governor Reynolds has been working with our current Senator Joni Ernst to ban abortion and restrict access to Planned Parenthood services ever since they served together in the legislature. We need to ACT to stop them. Join us and our efforts to... |
eddiemauro | 01/14/2020 | 11 |
| Sen. Elizabeth Warren's Campaign moves to Squelch Conflict with Sen. Bernie Sanders Hours before tonight’s scheduled Campaign debate Sen. Elizabeth Warren is moving to mute the media fueled controversy pitting her against Sen. Bernie Sanders, according to an account on Buzzfeed. Elizabeth Warren’s campaign is telling key online... |
WB Reeves | 01/14/2020 | 412 |
| It's a 50-50 nation, so how does impeachment affect the political calculation? Spend some time at Civiqs looking at the data we’ve made public, and one fact shows up—public opinion doesn’t change quickly. Remember, marriage equality was a sea change in public sentiment, and that was a 10-15-point swing toward marriage equality in... |
kos | 01/14/2020 | 70 |
| Disabled workers hugely impacted by clumsy and arbitrary Democratic efforts to regulate gig workers Democrats are screwing up big time with efforts to regulate the new gig economy. While many companies such as Uber, Lyft, Postmates and others are attempting an end-run around employment ... |
kos | 01/14/2020 | 269 |
| 'Democrat' Lipinski attacks fellow Democrats using the worst abortion lies in weekend rally It was "March for Life" weekend in Chicago, in which a thousand or so activists declare they are so concerned about zygotes that they're perfectly willing to ruin or end the lives of millions of actual, existing people. Who else would be there but... |
Joan McCarter | 01/13/2020 | 64 |
| Foreclosure Update I apologize for my long absence. Life took a bad turn in October. I have had lots of trouble with my back and many procedures.As some of you remember Abby was day to day back then and on October 14 she went to the Rainbow Bridge to play with my other... |
snoopydawg | 01/12/2020 | 43 |
| Cattle Call 2020: It's Biden-Bernie-Warren, and no one else matters (kind of) Last time we checked in, Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of a small, liberal college town, had crept up into the low teens in national polling, making a bid for top-tier status in the Democratic ... |
kos | 01/12/2020 | 600 |
| Stop The Corridor-Central Maine Power (CMP) Electric Transmission Power Line! Stop The Corridor, is a coalition of concerned citizens and organizations worried about the new CMP proposal to build a new High Voltage Direct Current transmission line from the Canadian border in Northwest Maine down to Lewiston. The 145-mile-long... |
rebel ga | 01/12/2020 | 14 |
| Odds & Ends: News/Humor (with a "Who Lost the Week?" poll) I post a weekly diary of historical notes, arts & science items, foreign news (often receiving little notice in the US) and whimsical pieces from the outside world that I often feature in "Cheers & ... |
Ed Tracey | 01/12/2020 | 13 |
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