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| Saturday night owls: Teacher pay relative to that of other college graduates has collapsed Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week The liberal Economic Policy Institute has published 13 charts that it says show us where our economic priorities ought to be in 2020. The one above is No. 11. Here’s the text EPI... |
Meteor Blades | 01/25/2020 | 47 |
| Unions face another year of eroding membership as the war on workers continues The share of U.S. workers represented by a union ticked down slightly from 2018 to 2019, dropping from 11.7% to 11.6%; the share of U.S. workers who are union members also dropped from 10.5% to 10.3% |
Laura Clawson | 01/25/2020 | 10 |
| Spotlight on green news & views: Saying goodbye to the platypus? Davos hears from Trump This is the 628th edition of the Spotlight on Green News & Views (previously known as the Green Diary Rescue). Here is the January 18 edition . Inclusion of a story in the Spotlight does ... |
Meteor Blades | 01/25/2020 | 3 |
| 2020 will see American astronauts launched on American rockets, but it's been a rough flight already On December 20, an Atlas V rocket carried Boeing’s new Starliner capsule into the Florida sky on its way to the International Space Station. But Starliner never arrived. A timing error left the capsule in the wrong orbit, and the necessary adjustments... |
Mark Sumner | 01/25/2020 | 94 |
| Saturday snippets: Prosecutor objects to calling torture 'torture'; Trump wows 'Marchers for Life' Saturday snippets is a regular feature of Daily Kos. • Trump regime used California wildfires to push more logging: Emails show that political appointees in the Interior Department sought to estimate carbon emissions from the state’s wildfires in 2018... |
Meteor Blades | 01/25/2020 | 34 |
| Analysis shows unarmed young black men are 13 times more likely to be victims of police shootings A statistical review published by psychologists from Michigan State University made headlines in 2019 when it claimed to find that “no evidence of anti-Black or anti-Hispanic disparities across [police] shootings, and White officers are not more likely... |
Mark Sumner | 01/25/2020 | 11 |
| Pompeo responds to reports of rage-filled tirade against reporter with lie-filled statement The non-impeachment bombshell of the week was NPR reporter Mary Louise Kelly's interview with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the interview in which he blustered and lied to the unflappable Kelly; the interview that so enraged him that he followed up... |
Joan McCarter | 01/25/2020 | 292 |
| Friday night owls: SF DA Chesa Boudin eliminates cash bail, proving elections have consequences John Nichols at The Nation writes— How Much Did Chesa Boudin’s Election Matter? He Just Eliminated Cash Bail : T he simple fact that Chesa Boudin got elected San Francisco’s district ... |
Meteor Blades | 01/24/2020 | 58 |
| GOP congressman keeps saying he'll decide on re-election 'in the next couple of weeks' every 2 weeks Republican Rep. Fred Upton just can't seem to make up his mind about seeking a 18th term this year, even with Michigan's filing deadline looming—and a competitive race for his 6th District in the offing no matter what he chooses to do. Here's his... |
David Nir | 01/24/2020 | 7 |
| Is Moscow Mitch the messenger of the 'heads on pikes' threat from Trump to Republicans? Moscow Mitch McConnell has a team working overtime to work the refs, and getting the traditional press to spin out stories about his masterful control of the Senate. Like this one quoting people from his inner sphere, in which he is credited with... |
Joan McCarter | 01/24/2020 | 95 |
| Pentagon: 34 suffered traumatic brain injuries in Iran airstrike. Trump: They're 'headaches' The Pentagon has disclosed that 34 U.S. service members have been diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries due to the Iranian missile strike on U.S. forces in Iraq in early January. That's more than triple the number acknowledged earlier this week. On... |
Joan McCarter | 01/24/2020 | 102 |
| Texas Republicans are running scared. Let's help Eliz Markowitz keep them that way Texas Republicans are eyeing 2020 with no small amount of panic. They are in such a panic that they are plotting even now how to change the rules when Democrats gain seats in the legislature. The Dallas Morning News reports on Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick's... |
Joan McCarter | 01/24/2020 | 13 |
| Trump's 'best people' in HHS forgot to renew public health emergency declaration on opioids For the past two years, the nation's opioid crisis has been deemed a national public health emergency. That ended last week, temporarily, because no one in Health and Human Services bothered to renew it when it lapsed. They're calling it a "clerical... |
Joan McCarter | 01/24/2020 | 26 |
| Recording shows Trump threatening Marie Yovanovitch: 'Get rid of her! … Take her out. Okay? Do it.' A recording made at Donald Trump’s Washington hotel on April 30, 2019, shows Trump ranting to a small group—a group that includes Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman—about the need to immediately get U.S. Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch out of the way in Ukraine.... |
Mark Sumner | 01/24/2020 | 322 |
| 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 |
| Republican senators sure are selective in what they find offensive in Trump's impeachment trial The third day of Donald Trump's impeachment trial once again featured Republican senators competing with each other to see who could show the most disdain for the idea of their constitutional duty and the oath they took to provide impartial justice.... |
Joan McCarter | 01/24/2020 | 48 |
| House attorneys are using arguments Trump's legal team made in Senate to fight Trump's own DOJ Yes, you can. No, you can’t. Yes, you can! Those are not just the lyrics to an old show tune; they’re also the refrain in a disconnect between the case Donald Trump’s attorneys are pressing in Trump’s Senate impeachment trial and positions that Trump’s... |
Mark Sumner | 01/24/2020 | 47 |
| Second day of Trump impeachment trial ends with Adam Schiff delivering closing argument for the ages On Thursday, House managers of the impeachment trial of Donald Trump shifted gears from the chronology of events as laid out on Wednesday to the corrupt intent behind Trump’s actions. The entire day was focused on just the issue of abuse of power and... |
Mark Sumner | 01/24/2020 | 143 |
| Abbreviated pundit roundup: Democrats continue to argue a meticulous legal and factual case We begin today’s roundup with analysis by Sam Brodey, Erin Banco, and Jackie Kucinich at The Daily Beast on the Democrats’ Senate trial strategy: [I]f the Democratic impeachment managers’ presentations on Wednesday were meant to appeal to the Senate’s... |
Georgia Logothetis | 01/24/2020 | 163 |
| Thursday night owls: Silicon Valley economy makes life tough for the precariate Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week Lia Russell at The New Republic writes—The Silicon Valley Economy Is Here. And It’s a Nightmare. Low pay, soaring rents, and cities littered with e-scooters. Welcome to the... |
Meteor Blades | 01/23/2020 | 83 |
| Rep. Hakeem Jeffries destroys Donald Trump's claims of 'no pressure' in critical presentation Stopped in a hallway outside the Senate chamber, Sen. Elizabeth Warren was asked what she’d seen that was “new.” Her immediate response — the presentation that had just finished from Rep. Hakeem Jeffries. Warren is right. The facts that Jeffries... |
Mark Sumner | 01/23/2020 | 70 |
| Susan Collins finds a principle to stand behind: Tattling on 'both sides' in the name of civility Just when you thought Maine Sen. Susan Collins couldn't get any worse, you find out she's a tattle-tale. Yes, the one thing that woke Chief Justice John Roberts out of his stupor during the ongoing impeachment trial was a note from Collins tattling on... |
Joan McCarter | 01/23/2020 | 70 |
| Trump regime finalizes move allowing pollution and destruction of wetlands protected by Obama rule Just two days after again praising himself for what he has ridiculously called his very good environmental record—this time in Davos, Switzerland, at the elite World Economic Forum—Donald Trump has finalized a rule that will remove half of America’s... |
Meteor Blades | 01/23/2020 | 61 |
| Trump is abusing his power and obstructing Congress right now while impeachment trial continues In the middle of an impeachment trial in which Donald Trump is accused of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, the Trump administration is brazenly abusing its power, flouting a court order, and ignoring Congress. Just this week, the... |
Joan McCarter | 01/23/2020 | 36 |
| Wuhan virus shows the absolute necessity, and difficulty, of controlling emerging diseases The coronavirus that is spreading in and from China, known as the Wuhan virus after the city in which it was first detected, demonstrates how impossible it is to constrain the outbreak of a new disease vector—and how important it is to try anyway. This... |
Mark Sumner | 01/23/2020 | 88 |
| Trump celebrates impeachment for abuse of power by bilking the taxpayers even more Smack dab in the middle of his impeachment trial for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, Donald Trump is shamelessly grifting off the taxpayer, spiking room rates at his Doral Resort just ahead of a Republican National Committee meeting there,... |
Joan McCarter | 01/23/2020 | 22 |
| DOJ fails to release notes from Jared Kushner's FBI interview, despite court deadline A federal judge in October ordered the Justice Department to turn over notes from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, in response to Freedom of Information Act lawsuits filed by CNN and... |
Mark Sumner | 01/23/2020 | 125 |
| Chief Justice Roberts lets Senate Republicans show blatant disdain for impeachment proceedings Senate Republicans are united again in saying they've heard absolutely nothing new in the House impeachment managers presentation against Donald Trump. That's after they voted en masse, as a unified bloc, against 10 amendments from Democrats to provide... |
Joan McCarter | 01/23/2020 | 301 |
| Republicans play the 'Obama did it too' card on military assistance—and of course they're lying The first statements from Donald Trump’s defense team in the impeachment trial in the Senate on Tuesday included multiple big, instantly refutable lies, such as White House counsel Pat Cipollone’s claim that no Republicans were allowed into the “secret... |
Mark Sumner | 01/23/2020 | 49 |
| Trump's trial, day one: A master class from House Democrats, and empty seats from Senate Republicans On the first full day of the presentation to the Senate in the impeachment trial against Donald Trump, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff and the House management team delivered the evidence against Trump in three different ways: in a... |
Mark Sumner | 01/23/2020 | 172 |
| Abbreviated pundit round-up: GOP's 'death of reason'; gun rally terrorism in Virginia The Abbreviated Pundit Round-up is a daily feature at Daily Kos. Juan Cole at Informed Comment writes—Did Saudi prince Bin Salman personally Hack Jeff Bezos’s Phone, Vacuuming up Secrets? What about Jared Kushner? We’ve long known that Amazon CEO Jeff... |
Meteor Blades | 01/23/2020 | 192 |
| Marriott's 'green choice' isn't so green, and it's hurting workers Why would environmental organizations like the Sierra Club, the Union of Concerned Scientists, and 350.org have signed a pledge that they wouldn’t use a hotel chain’s environmental program? ... |
Laura Clawson | 01/20/2020 | 70 |
| Childcare costs are sucking U.S. parents dry and still leaving early childhood teachers in poverty Parents in the U.S. pay a staggering amount for care for their young children—and here, as in so many other areas, the support they get from their government falls short of what peer nations ... |
Laura Clawson | 01/20/2020 | 75 |
| Pregnant Workers Fairness Act takes a step forward in the House, this week in the war on workers The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act took a step toward a full House vote on Wednesday when it passed in the House Committee on Education and Labor. “ The federal Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) |
Laura Clawson | 01/18/2020 | 4 |
| Trump Labor Department gives big companies the go-ahead to exploit franchise workers The Trump Labor Department is taking action to protect massive corporations from their low-wage workers seeking justice in court, because the Trump Labor Department, currently headed by Eugene Scalia, is all about putting a boot on the neck of workers.... |
Laura Clawson | 01/15/2020 | 17 |
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