Trump launches sexist attack on Clinton's appearance.
This morning in Cleveland, Donald Trump went there:xCLEVELAND --TRUMP on Clinton:"Does she look presidential, fellas? Give me a break."— Kevin Cirilli (@kevcirilli) September 5, 2016Attacking a female...
View ArticleTrump takes the bait... [UPDATE: Sadly, no.]
So the Clinton team decided to engage in a little bit of trolling at Trump’s expense by asking Mark Cuban to sit in the front row at the debate. Cuban and Trump don’t particularly like each other.This...
View ArticleBREAKING: NYT gets hold of part of Trump's 1995 tax return. Bombshell.
Breaking news from the New York Times: they’ve obtained a copy of part of Donald Trump’s 1995 tax return. And it’s quite something:Donald J. Trump declared a $916 million loss on his 1995 income tax...
View ArticleStop. Not today.
There is only one thing that matters in the next four years: stop the madness. So today of all days, can we please stop re-fighting the damned 2016 primary? This isn’t helpful. Neither is this. Or...
View ArticleTrump: JCC attacks may be "the reverse""to make people look bad."
From Chris Geidner at BuzzFeed:Asked about the recent wave of anti-Semitic attacks and threats across the nation, President Trump on Tuesday told a group of state attorneys general that “sometimes it’s...
View ArticleSteve Bannon under active criminal investigation for... get this... residency...
Courtesy of O’Harrow and Boburg at the Washington Post. Trump’s chief strategist Steve Bannon, a white nationalist who has repeatedly pushed false claims of massive voter fraud by minorities voting in...
View ArticleGOP health care bill "cost savings" are staggering cuts to Medicaid.
The CBO estimate is out and it's a doozy. 14 million people losing coverage next year. 24 million within a decade. Given that roughly 1 in 1000 uninsured people each year die due to lack of insurance…...
View ArticleAll of us are to blame. Full stop.
We seem to have an attempt to make a list of people who are responsible for Trump’s victory. Yes, I know it’s actually a list of people who advocated voting for Trump over Clinton. And yes, I agree...
View ArticlePutin's propaganda hits the rec list: the danger of selective skepticism.
On Tuesday morning in Syria, large numbers of people in the town of Khan Sheikhoun, Syria were rushed to hospital for symptoms consistent with exposure to a nerve agent. Dozens died. The attack has...
View ArticleFBI has "specific concrete and corroborative evidence of collusion" -...
The Guardian has an interesting Trump-Russia story today that’s well worth the read. It focuses on discussions between Trump advisers and Russian intelligence — apparently GCHQ noticed a pattern in...
View ArticleA diverse Democratic Party is a strength, not a weakness.
You know what I’ve always admired about the United States? We’re one of the most culturally mixed countries in the world. Our diversity is our strength. This doesn’t always work out in practice, to put...
View ArticleSick of the pie? Rec everything else.
Are you sick of the damned pie fight diaries from both sides? Dismayed to see another fairly reasonable front-page post turn into a flame war? Annoyed when yet another Airing of Grievances climbs the...
View ArticleHouse candidate Gianforte (R-MT) caught on tape at fundraiser praising AHCA.
Courtesy of Jonathan Martin at the NYT. Greg Gianforte, Rob Quist’s opponent in the upcoming special election in Montana, has been having some problems. He’s only leading by single digits in a state...
View ArticleActually, *here*'s why we're fighting.
It’s about something far more fundamental to our nature than politics:The fight-or-flight response (also called hyperarousal, or the acute stress response) is a physiological reaction that occurs in...
View ArticleTrump/Russia: Subpoenas CONFIRMED, per CNN.
This is short, breaking news: here is CNN's story confirming the existence of subpoenas against associates of Michael Flynn, relating to Trump/Russia. First two paragraphs:Federal prosecutors have...
View ArticleTrump admits firing Comey over Russia investigation.
Donald Trump, in today’s interview with Lester Holt, stated the following (flagged by NBC News’ Bradd Jaffy):… regardless of recommendation I was going to fire Comey. Knowing, there was no good time to...
View ArticleArmy Lt. Richard Collins III killed by intoxicated neo-Nazi on U of MD campus.
This is currently the lead story on the Baltimore Sun’s website:A black Bowie State University student who was set to graduate this week may have been killed over the weekend in a random,...
View ArticleGreg Gianforte (R-MT, election tomorrow) assaults Guardian reporter. Now...
I’m going to keep this brief because there’s very little information, but Ben Jacobs, a Guardian reporter, is reporting on Twitter:xGreg Gianforte just body slammed me and broke my glasses— Ben Jacobs...
View ArticleNYT: *another* undisclosed meeting between Trump campaign and Russians.
Another day, another shoe, this one courtesy of the New York Times:Two weeks after Donald J. Trump clinched the Republican presidential nomination last year, [Donald Trump Jr.] arranged a meeting at...
View ArticleCan we retire the term "identity politics"?
The term “identity politics” has always grated on me, and its appearance in a recent front-pager's diary made me think about why.The problem is that it’s a right-wing frame. The GOP has chosen the path...
View ArticleSeriously?
Yesterday several thousand neo-Nazis marched through the streets of Charlottesville. They killed a woman. They beat a black man. They terrorized a community. And the occupant of the Oval Office refuses...
View Article"Alt-left" is a symptom. The 2016 blame game is the problem.
The current controversy/discussion over the term “alt-left” has really made me think. As has been pointed out quite well, the term “alt-left” is terrible because it makes an implicit comparison to the...
View ArticleIndefensible.
This table is from a recent Harvard study, and is presented without further comment.
View ArticleWe have never let Hillary Clinton speak for herself.
Say what you want about her politics — love her, hate her, or anything in between — throughout her career one thing is constant. No one has ever accepted Hillary Clinton’s right to speak for herself.In...
View ArticleOur intra-party divisions are being greatly exaggerated.
A front-page diary by Egberto Willies, piggy-backing on an article by Robert Reich, describes the differences between Democratic factions as follows:Establishment Democrats – corporate and Wall Street...
View ArticleThis is a disgrace. Have we become Breitbart?
The following are direct quotes from a Daily Kos top-recommended diary, an extremely popular one at that (115 recs in just over 75 minutes), speaking about a woman who has made an accusation of sexual...
View ArticleMore Franken accusers: numbers 3 and 4.
From the Huffington Post, less than an hour ago:Two more women have told HuffPost that Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) touched their butts in separate incidents.[…..]The two additional women, who said they...
View ArticleConyers resigns as ranking Democratic member of House Judiciary Committee.
Breaking news:xJohn Conyers is stepping down as the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee. pic.twitter.com/uLZ9bgyoSW— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) November 26, 2017This is well-earned —...
View ArticleRoy Moore: women should not be allowed to run for office or work outside the...
ThinkProgress has a bombshell:Alabama Republican Senate Candidate Roy Moore co-authored a study course, published in 2011 and recently obtained by ThinkProgress, that instructs students that women...
View ArticleSo, about that Perdue/Cotton denial...
Along with many other Americans, I was pretty surprised when senators David Perdue (R-GA) and Tom Cotton (R-AR) came out and denied that Trump called other countries “s***holes” in a White House...
View ArticleShutdown is ending. Let's go win Round 2.
Reports are trickling in that the shutdown is about to end. Democrats seem to have agreed to take the deal on offer: 3-week CR, 6-year CHIP funding, some delays in ACA-related taxes, and a “promise”...
View ArticleRNC finance chairman, Steve Wynn, exposed as serial sexual abuser.
The Wall Street Journal is out with a massive, thoroughly researched scoop exposing Steve Wynn, the current RNC finance director and buddy of Donald Trump, as a sexual abuser. The abuse has gone on for...
View ArticleDaily Kos was hijacked to spread disinformation in 2016.
From yesterday’s indictment of the Russian troll farm by Special Counsel Robert Mueller:47. Starting in or around the summer of 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators also began to promote...
View ArticleStop trying to win the intra-party fight and start trying to talk.
As long as I have been here — over a decade — there has been conflict between, broadly defined, the left wing and the center-left wing of the Democratic Party. The left wing accuses the center-left...
View ArticleWSJ smoking gun: Stone asked Assange for hacked Clinton emails during campaign.
It’s in the WSJ, and they spend about half the article furiously spinning to downplay it, but this seems like a major revelation:Former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone privately sought information...
View ArticleOur Dem leaders are right here, calling out the crazy.
In the aftermath of the Canada-related insanity of the last 24 hours, it is wholly legitimate to ask for a forceful response from Democratic leadership. But before writing an angry denunciation of said...
View ArticleThey want us to turn on each other. Let's not.
The timing of the upcoming Supreme Court vacancy is going to be extremely difficult for Democrats in advance of this fall’s midterm elections. You can already see Mitch McConnell rubbing his hands in...
View ArticleThe Women's Choice Act: time to go on offense.
Roe v. Wade was an important decision, a milestone for women’s reproductive rights. It was not, however, entirely positive for the women’s rights movement. Ever since Roe, we have been in a defensive...
View Article2018 interference begins: Russian hackers attack Claire McCaskill's staffers.
A new article at the Daily Beast, by Andrew Desiderio and Kevin Poulsen, reveals that Russian hackers are trying to repeat the Podesta playbook against Claire McCaskill’s 2018 Senate campaign....
View ArticleSmoking gun: material evidence of intentional perjury by Kavanaugh.
NBC News has obtained text messages from a friend of Kavanaugh’s that make clear he was attempting damage control on the Deborah Ramirez story before it broke:The texts between Berchem and Karen...
View ArticleThe GOP "compromise bill" is a lie, guts TPS and asylum permanently.
So the GOP has been trumpeting an immigration “compromise” this weekend, right? They’re telling us it’s DACA plus TPS (Temporary Protected Status— available to people whose countries have suffered...
View ArticleUnpatriotic.
There are, to put it mildly, a lot of technical details in and relating to the Mueller report. We’ve got the definitions of various crimes, the term “collusion” and its meaning, complicated legal...
View ArticleCan we please treat each other with good faith?
I’ve got to say, these two diaries are twins, and neither of them is helpful at all:"Sanders Supporters Are His Own Worst Enemy", from today;"FAIR: Maybe Rich Liberals... Hate Sanders... Because...
View ArticleA look at Biden's health care plan.
Joe Biden has released a health care plan. It’s an interesting plan, and worth taking a careful look at, because it is likely to be the most centrist plan released by any major candidate — and as such...
View ArticleIs Daily Kos a safe place for women who call out powerful men, or not?
It is certainly the case that not all accusations of sexual misconduct are well-founded, and appropriate levels of skepticism should be applied. But let’s not kid ourselves — the MeToo movement is...
View ArticleNot again. Not another war based on a lie.
The Trump administration may be gearing up to attack Iran, as a “response” to the recent attacks on Saudi oil refineries. And they seem to be lying to justify it.Three paragraphs from the New York...
View ArticleDonald Trump seems to have solicited a bribe from Ukraine.
Just out in the Washington Post: the whistleblower complaint, according to officials who know, involves Ukraine.Although the complaint itself is still under seal, along with the details, the broad...
View ArticleFear of a stolen election is counterproductive.
We’re all afraid right now, and with good reason. It’s a scary world and a scary time. But we should stop being petrified of Trump’s threats to steal the election. They’re less well-founded than one...
View ArticleSome odd patterns in Trafalgar polling.
This is strange. Trafalgar has produced 15 polls of Senate races since August 17th (you can find them by searching the linked polling database for “Trafalgar”). They love their tenths-of-a-percentage...
View Article"Get over it"?
This won’t be a long diary. Even by Trump’s standards, this is beyond the pale. Today he said (UPDATE: better link here, h/t wasatch in the comments), in reference to the school shooting in Iowa...
View Article
