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| Sunday snippets: Court nixes case seeking TN voting security; did Iran prez threaten to resign? Sunday snippets is a regular weekend feature at Daily Kos.
• Sixth Circuit Court says tough beans to voter rights plaintiffs in Tennessee: A unanimous three-judge panel upheld a lower court ... |
Meteor Blades | 01/26/2020 | 16 |
| Unproven, made-up ‘science’ and dangerous experiments fuel the right’s war on choice Traditionally, attacks on women’s reproductive rights were largely frontal in nature. Opponents argued that abortion was wrong on religious or moral grounds, and thus should be made illegal. While they continue to make those arguments, in recent years... |
Ian Reifowitz | 01/26/2020 | 33 |
| Cattle Call 2020: Bernie makes his Iowa (and national) move Taking a look at the national polling aggregate, Bernie Sanders is making a move:
My operating theory has been that Sanders can’t break past his core support in the high-teens. Polls aren’t ... |
kos | 01/26/2020 | 185 |
| Tennessee governor signs bill into law that allows foster, adoption agencies to deny LGBTQ couples Republican Gov. Bill Lee signed an anti-LGBTQ “child welfare” measure into law on Friday, Jan. 24. In short, as previously covered at Daily Kos, the law allows faith-based adoption and foster agencies to deny LGBTQ families based on religious beliefs... |
Marissa Higgins | 01/26/2020 | 38 |
| Republicans make clear they won't be modifying their aversion to facts in defending Trump On Saturday, Donald Trump’s lawyers lifted the corner a bit on what will be the Republican strategy for fighting impeachment come Monday. First the Republicans will introduce the same five lies they’ve been spouting all along at the impeachment trial... |
Meteor Blades | 01/26/2020 | 41 |
| 'Space Force' debuts new uniforms, Graham's 2020 opponent, and more you might have missed this week Yikes, where does the time go? How is it Sunday already? The impeachment trial has dominated the news cycle and our front page, but our staff also picked some other stories that might have flown ... |
Cara Zelaya | 01/26/2020 | 36 |
| We must keep telling the story of Fred Hampton and 'The First Rainbow Coalition' As we face the challenges of life in a United States fraught with growing racism, xenophobia, and division, sown deeper each day from the highest office in the land and replicated across the states, ... |
Denise Oliver Velez | 01/26/2020 | 164 |
| 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 | 107 |
| Evangelical scammers praise Trump for hastening the end of the world. Well, they're not wrong... Mother Jones reporter Stephanie Mencimer has produced a good read on the "End Times" evangelicals who support Donald Trump because they believe, truly and sincerely, that Donald Trump will bring ... |
Hunter | 01/25/2020 | 250 |
| Full video of Trump calling for Yovanovitch firing—seconds after Parnas smears her with lies In an 83-minute video published by PBS Newshour on Saturday, Donald Trump appears to chat with Lev Parnas—a man Trump has repeatedly insisted he does not know—and then immediately demand that then-Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch be fired. About... |
Jessica Sutherland | 01/25/2020 | 177 |
| 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 | 12 |
| Anything but impeachment: This week's picks from the Daily Kos Community Hey, Daily Kos Community! I don’t know about y’all, but it feels so good to not be watching the Impeachment Trial of Donald J. Trump this afternoon. I can’t be alone in that mood. I won’t waste any more of your time talking about that which has... |
Jessica Sutherland | 01/25/2020 | 18 |
| 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 | 4 |
| 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 | 126 |
| 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 | 36 |
| Why Sanders' insistence on seeking an economic solution to racism is built on hollow mythology Do racism and bigotry increase during economic downturns, and decrease during economic good times? The belief that racism and economics are deeply connected, and that broad economic solutions can ... |
David Neiwert | 01/25/2020 | 358 |
| 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 | 14 |
| 'Home Now': Somali refugees forge new lives and transform a dying Maine town When I moved from Chicago to San Francisco in 1973, I was struck by how many of my new friends were also migrants from other states. A native-born Californian was a rarity in those days. Many years ... |
Susan Grigsby | 01/25/2020 | 45 |
| 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 | 370 |
| Trump's defense begins opening arguments in impeachment trial: Live coverage #3 Donald Trump’s defense team previewed a very Donald Trump strategy during Tuesday’s procedural debate in the impeachment trial: lie, attack, ignore the facts. Now it’s time for a concentrated blast of that as they begin their opening arguments.... |
Laura Clawson | 01/25/2020 | 202 |
| Trump's defense begins opening arguments in impeachment trial: Live coverage #2 Donald Trump’s defense team previewed a very Donald Trump strategy during Tuesday’s procedural debate in the impeachment trial: lie, attack, ignore the facts. Now it’s time for a concentrated blast of that as they begin their opening arguments.... |
Laura Clawson | 01/25/2020 | 225 |
| Trump's defense begins opening arguments in impeachment trial: Live coverage #1 Donald Trump’s defense team previewed a very Donald Trump strategy during Tuesday’s procedural debate in the impeachment trial: lie, attack, ignore the facts. Now it’s time for a concentrated blast of that as they begin their opening arguments. |
Laura Clawson | 01/25/2020 | 272 |
| Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: Feigned Senatorial outrage, real House moral courage So the Democrats have rested their case, and it was a powerful comprehensive one. Of course, they had facts, logic, and presidential guilt on their side, making this an unfair fight.
Later today, ... |
Greg Dworkin | 01/25/2020 | 365 |
| 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 |
| House managers wrap up their opening argument for impeachment: Live coverage #5 It’s the final day of the House managers’ opening arguments in the impeachment trial of Donald Trump. House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff delivered a closing argument for the ages on Thursday night, and now we get to find out what he left... |
Laura Clawson | 01/24/2020 | 146 |
| Cheers and Jeers: Rum and Resistance FRIDAY! From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE… Late Night Snark: The Pettifoggery Stops Here Edition "It is a pivotal day in the history of the republic. Soon we’ll find out if breaking the law is illegal. Gotta say, so far I don’t like the odds." —Stephen Colbert... |
Bill in Portland Maine | 01/24/2020 | 111 |
| Cartoon: G.O.P. jury duty Mitch’s shady late night impeachment shenanigans should clue people in to the G.O.P.’s project to undermine democracy, but if the last twenty years haven’t, I don’t know what will. |
BrianMcFadden | 01/24/2020 | 18 |
| House managers wrap up their opening argument for impeachment: Live coverage #4 It’s the final day of the House managers’ opening arguments in the impeachment trial of Donald Trump. House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff delivered a closing argument for the ages on Thursday night, and now we get to find out what he left... |
Laura Clawson | 01/24/2020 | 148 |
| 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 | 98 |
| MAGA Congressman schedules first Town Hall ever, instantly recalls why he prefers "safe spaces" As recently as late November 2019, Congressman John Rutherford told a reporter, “I don’t do town halls because they’re so dysfunctional.” And because his district is gerrymandered in his favor, he could get away with that. There were grumblings on... |
pollamb | 01/24/2020 | 11 |
