IMPORTANT: Security Breach affects Act For Change Subscribers
I suspect many in the Daily Kos community are Working Assets members, and probably participate in their Act for Change program. If you're one of those people, you are likely affected by a security...
View ArticleMy letter to Sen. Dodd
When the Democrats -- who I thought were the good guys -- took back Congress in the last election, I was overjoyed. I thought we'd see an end -- finally -- to the Bush administration's recklessness and...
View ArticleDallas Morning News scrubs Palin quote insulting Texans
This morning, a friend of mine who lives in Texas sent me a link to a Dallas Morning News article that recounted Palin's visit to Dallas on Friday.The subject of his e-mail read "Things you do not want...
View ArticleEnd of an era in Los Angeles: KFWB 980 going all hate talk.
I spent much of my childhood in the 70s-80s driving around Los Angeles every afternoon with my mom, going on auditions all over the city.Because we spent a lot of time on the freeways, getting traffic...
View ArticleA simple question for the president
Earlier today, Kos said: Investors around the world say President Barack Obama is bad for the bottom line, even though U.S. corporations are on track for the biggest earnings growth in 22 years and the...
View ArticleWhose Side Are They On?
There's just no denying that there's a class war happening in America. On one side, you have the Koch brothers and all the scumbags who work for them. On the other side, you have about 98% of...
View ArticleHere's how Obama wins back young voters
For the last couple of months, I've heard various stories that Obama is losing the younger voters who turned out in record numbers in 2008. They're disillusioned, they're frustrated, and they feel like...
View ArticlePriorities
America launched about 62.5 Million dollars worth of cruise missiles into Libya today.Just something to think about when our government tells us we're broke and everyone needs to make sacrifices to...
View ArticleSeriously, DNC? SERIOUSLY?!
DNC head Debbie Wasserman Schultz calls for Weiner’s resignation, and says,This sordid affair has become an unacceptable distraction for Representative Weiner, his family, his constituents and the...
View ArticleSanders: Why Americans are Angry
Yesterday, I Twittered:Majority of Americans: Please raise taxes on billionaires. Congress: Herp derp screw the middle class! Majority: #fuckyouwashingtonSenator Bernie Sanders says essentially the...
View ArticleChris Dodd threatens politicans who aren't corrupt enough to stay bought.
From TechDirt:Reinforcing the fact that Chris Dodd really does not get what’s happening, and showing just how disgustingly corrupt the MPAA relationship is with politicians, Chris Dodd went on Fox News...
View ArticleThe so-called "gaffe" and why R Money is losing
If I may be indulged in a bit of paraphrasing:Obama: I tried to change Washington on my own so it would work for the American People again, but I couldn't do it because Republicans refused to work with...
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"We need a federal agent at every ..."
I don't think I've ever agreed with David Frum about anything, but his Twitter tonightpretty much nails it: He has screen after screen of entries like this, with links to every tragic example of...
View ArticleSenator Barbara Boxer, what on Earth are you thinking?
Not The Onion: Barbara Boxer, one of the most liberal and wonderful Democratic Senators in the country, in the bluest state of them all, wants to put the National Guard into our public schools.Days...
View ArticleThese People are Nihilists, Donnie.
Greg Sargent:And so the current Republican demand, as I understand it, is that Dems must agree to Social Security cuts and a higher income threshold for the lower tax rates (either $400,000 or...
View ArticleWhy is Mitch McConnell so happy? No consequences for unprecedented GOP...
Greg Sargent:Norman Ornstein, an observer of Congress for decades, literally wrote the book on GOP obstructionism. So I asked him what he thought of the disappointing filibuster reform deal reached...
View ArticleWhere's the Obama the GOP keeps screaming about?
I was just thinking last night about how great it would be if President Obama cared as much about protecting Medicare and Medicaid as he cares about making a fucking "grand bargain" with lunatics who...
View ArticleCongress opposes 90% of the American People
This is absolutely infuriating. A tiny, tiny, statistically-meaningless group of radical extremists are deliberately making life more dangerous for all of us who live in this country.TPM:Even the most...
View ArticleThis may not make a difference, but we have to try: We told you so, Harry.
In 2008, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell declared that his top priority was to ensure that Barack Obama was a one-term president. In his failed pursuit of that goal, he has led his party to...
View ArticleOMG SEXTING
Nobody fucking cares, and there are real things happening in the world that actually affect people.Weiner may or may not be the best candidate for NYC mayor, but it's his policies that matter. Grow up,...
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Time Warner and Comcast merge to form bigger, crappier monopoly
I heard it on Twitter, and I can't believe it's happening:On Tuesday evening, CNBC reporter David Farber tweeted that Comcast would announce its purchase of Time Warner Cable on Wednesday morning,...
View ArticleAnthem Blue Cross: Hospitalizing cancer patient for emergency chemo isn't...
My friend, Zoë Keating, is a musician, wife and mother. Recently, her husband was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer. He is Vegan, and has never smoked anything in his life.Zoëwrites:On May 13 an MRI...
View ArticleRemembering Leonard Nimoy
Normally, I’m pretty good with words. At the moment, I’m not at my best, for reasons I hope are self evident. However, I’m going to do my best to remember someone who gave more to my life than he ever...
View Article#TrumpTheDebate!
The Republican Presidential Clown Car just got the biggest clown of them all, The Donald.FOX News and the GOP are going to do everything they can to keep Donald "all Mexican immigrants are rapists"...
View ArticleA conversation with the GOP about SCOTUS, Reagan, and the Constitution.
GOP:We must follow the Constitution THE THE LETTER ALL THE TIME NO MATTER WHAT BECAUSE THE FOUNDING FATHERS!Me:Oh, okay. Glad you mentioned that. See, here's this thing in the Constitution where it...
View ArticleJimmy Kimmel Mansplains Campaigning to Hillary Clinton and it's Brilliant
I’m not a fan of either of them, but this is just brilliant satire.Last night, Hillary Clinton got a useful dose of [mansplaining] from Jimmy Kimmel, after she defined it for him as the act of a man...
View ArticleHow we feel about Kaine doesn't matter. Destroying Trump and what he...
I was asked on my Tumblr what my thoughts were on Tim Kaine.I wanted someone more liberal, and someone who was more unambiguously antiwar.But that’s who I wanted at the top of the ticket, and I didn’t...
View ArticleTrump's assassination call isn't just a threat to Secretary Clinton.
I don’t think Donald Trump sincerely believes that anyone will actually go shoot Hillary Clinton. I don’t think he was explicitly saying Hey someone go shoot her. I think he was trying to make what he...
View ArticleThe Clinton scandal the NYT is looking for exists, but it won't be reported...
This is infuriating. It’s one thing to work tirelessly to find some (frequently false) equivalency, to preserve the ideal of BOTH SIDES BOTH SIDES BOTH SIDES that has infected the political press and...
View ArticleDear Privileged, Rich, Tech Bro:
So Trent Lapinski, self-proclaimed Libertarian Entrepreneur who is really just exactly like all the average Americans who sold their technology company for a big million dollar payday has a lot of...
View ArticleSay their names: Susan Collins. Jeff Flake. Joe Manchin. May they never again...
Fuck you, Manchin. Fuck you, Collins. Fuck you, Flake. Fuck all of you. May you be judged so harshly by history that even your great grandchildren denounce you. You just told women everywhere that they...
View ArticleOur Eyes Are Wide Open
In today’s Washington Post, Dana Milbank published an op-ed titled We have no excuses now. Our eyes are wide open. He closes by saying:On Tuesday, voters will make a decision in what is the purest...
View ArticleRetail Giant Wayfair is profiting from Trump's Concentration Camps.
You’ve seen their commercials and struggled to keep their jingle out of your head. Now try not to throw up when you learn that retail giant Wayfair has sold over $200,000 worth of beds and other...
View ArticleThis is sickening, and depressing.
Unsurprised, but deeply disappointed, that not a single Republican voted for the formal impeachment inquiry in the House, especially after the stunt they pulled earlier this week. Absolutely sickened...
View ArticleAt last, accountability.
For the first time in his cruel, racist, abusive, mendacious, privileged life, Donald Trump has been held accountable for his actions. A majority of Congresspersons, representing a majority of...
View ArticleTrump told us exactly why he wants to start a war with Iran.
xPeople keep saying that the assassination of the most powerful man in Iran, "makes no sense."It makes perfect sense.Trump is a raging narcissist with a 42% approval and an impeachment trial in the...
View ArticleTrump is not on trial. The Republican Party, and the Senate Majority, is.
As the trial of the Republican Party in the United States Senate begins, I'm reposting this, which I originally wrote the day after the House voted to impeach Donald Trump:"As far as I am concerned,...
View ArticleWe came together in the greatest act of human kindness in history. Of course...
America had come together, setting aside all of our own wants and needs, to engage in the single greatest act of human kindness in history. We all stayed home, at great expense and inconvenience, so...
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Despite manufactured "protests", over 80% of Americans support Safer at Home...
Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll:"More than a month after schoolyards fell silent, restaurant tables and bar stools emptied, and waves from a safe distance replaced hugs...
View ArticleCalifornia barbershop owner refuses to close as virus surges. He says,...
California had a reasonably decent response to COVID-19 months ago, and with a lot of hard work and sacrifice, we flattened the curve enough to allow a phased reopening of our businesses. A lot of us...
View ArticleNever Forget
Never forget that George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and the entire Fox News Entertainment Complex took our national shock, trauma, and grief on 9/11 and weaponized it against their domestic...
View ArticleF--- Joe Manchin. F--- Kyrsten Sinema.
These two are going to destroy not just Biden’s presidency, but the entire Democratic party, for a generation. This is our last chance, before the Fascists take over, and they know it.And these two...
View Article"He's a shame to Democrats," she said.
Few moments illustrate so perfectly the personal and political evolution of Arizona’s junior senator. When Sinema was first becoming active in state politics as a lefty political activist—she ran as a...
View ArticleChange the narrative. It's not "The Democrats". It's 100% of Republicans,...
Oh look! America is finally a few steps away from doing something to help its people, give voters a reason to turn out for Democrats, generally improve everyone's quality of life, and here comes Joe...
View ArticleAn attempt to sum up the last year (or "WHy IsNT BiDEn DoInG MoRE tO EnD...
I just want to sum up the last year, because I gotta tell ya, I'm really at the end of my rope with the people who are deliberately prolonging this fucking pandemic.President Biden: Please get...
View ArticleAll of this Stochastic Terrorism is by design.
It is easier to get a gun and body armor in America than it is to get medical care, and that is by design.Tucker Carlson can get on TV every night, spout racist lies about a paranoid conspiracy, and...
View ArticleTwitter is now owned by a narcissistic, sociopathic, 4chan troll.
One of the most powerful and wide-reaching communication tools in human history is now owned by a narcissistic, sociopathic, 4chan troll. The bullying, the harassment, the doxxing, the misinformation,...
View ArticleWant to spread lies, help incite a coup, and get away with it? It only costs...
Shortly after the settlement was reached, CNN reported that part of the terms of the settlement was that Fox News will not have to acknowledge on air that it promoted lies about Dominion during the...
View ArticleAnderson Cooper's Condescending, Gaslighting, Offensive Lecture
I keep thinking about Anderson Cooper’s condescending lecture where he was like, “Boy, we sure fucked up letting a Fascist spout a bunch of lies for an hour on our network! It was disgusting! “Also, if...
View ArticleNo, Republicans, Democrats are not going to clean up your mess again.
I think it's hilarious that Republicans want Democrats to bail them out of yet another catastrophe they deliberately created. Some centrist (sic) Republican is pitching some "co-speakership" idea to...
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