Anti-vaxx Chronicles: Every so often, one of these comes along with extra punch
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Facebook is a menace. COVID-19 is a menace. Conservatism is a cesspool. Together, those three ingredients have created a toxic stew of malevolent death and devastation. We can talk about all those things in the abstract, look at the numbers and statistics, an
Even being an Olympic gold medalist doesn’t prevent you from being a target of America’s racism
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Although anti-Asian hate crimes are no longer a topic of interest in the media, that doesn’t mean they have come to an end. Since the pandemic started, crimes against the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) have been reported daily. Between 2019 to 2020
The pandemic isn't over for much of America, and neither is the need for economic help to Americans
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This week, the White House informed states that President Joe Biden has approved an extension of Federal Emergency Management Agency COVID-19 relief until April 1, 2022. That means all state, local, and tribal governments will continue to get 100% reimbu
Jan. 6 defendant pleads guilty for hauling guns, Molotovs to D.C.
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Lonnie Coffman toted guns and hauled a cache of weapons and Molotov cocktails to Washington, D.C. on Jan. 6 and on Friday, at a court in the nation’s capital, he pleaded guilty to two criminal charges that prosecutors, if they wished to hit him with th
Rage over masks and CRT bleed together in hundreds of Facebook groups targeting public schools
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It’s not news that Facebook is a key organizing tool for angry conservatives, but the scope of it is still dizzying. Media Matters has identified “at least 860 right-wing parents and school-related groups that are active, with at least 717,000 combined me
None of the Nazis in the 'Unite the Right' trial are ready for what comes next
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Over the past few days, there have been genuinely baffling moments of idiocy on display by the Nazis on trial in Charlottesville in the case of Sines vs. Kessler. Chris “Crying Nazi” Cantwell screamed passages from a Slate article at Rev. Seth W
McConnell warns Biden, Democrats not to do exactly what he did to the Supreme Court for Trump
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On the one hand, an op-ed in The Washington Post from Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on the dangers of packing the Supreme Court is encouraging because it means the issue is gaining enough traction to worry him. On the other hand, fuck Mitch McCon
Ted Cruz conveniently forgets history of conservatives like Elvis Presley promoting vaccines
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Recently, beloved Sesame Street character Big Bird went on television and social media to promote COVID-19 vaccines. For anyone who has been conscious for at least a few years, celebrities—especially ones with larger fanbases amongst the youth of the c
McConnell trolls Biden, warning him not to pack the Supreme Court like McConnell did for Trump
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On the one hand, an op-ed in The Washington Post from Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on the dangers of packing the Supreme Court is encouraging because it means the issue is gaining enough traction to worry him. On the other hand, fuck Mitch McCon
Conservatives like Elvis Presley used to do their part to promote vaccinations
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Recently, beloved Sesame Street character Big Bird went on television and social media to promote COVID-19 vaccines. For anyone who has been conscious for at least a few years, celebrities—especially ones with larger fanbases amongst the youth of the c
New audio of Trump demonstrates how little concern he had for Pence during Jan. 6 siege
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In a recorded interview made newly public Friday, former President Donald Trump defended his supporters who laid siege to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 and in particular, those devotees who clamored to hang his second-in-command, former Vice President Mike Pence
18-year-old arrested for Austin synagogue arson after weeks of antisemitic harassment in Texas
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In recent weeks, communities in central Texas have been dealing with a spreading plague of neo-Nazi organizing and vandalism, culminating in an arson attack on an Austin synagogue. But thanks to some sleuthing work by Austin Fire Department’s arson squad, i
Far-right favorite Madison Cawthorn announces bid for new congressional seat he barely represents
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Republican Rep. Madison Cawthorn announced Thursday evening that he would run for North Carolina’s new 13th District, which includes part of the Charlotte area and counties to the west, instead of the 14th District, which occupies the state's western reache
Trump defended irate mob that wanted to hang his second-in-command
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In a recorded interview made newly public Friday, former President Donald Trump defended his supporters who laid siege to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 and in particular, those devotees who clamored to hang his second-in-command, former Vice President Mike Pence
Defense attorney sees Al Sharpton in court and allows racism to slip out
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You would think someone working to convince a jury his client didn’t help form a white supremacist mob and murder a Black man would avoid trying to outright ban Black people from the trial. You would think the last person that attorney would try t
House Select Committee runs out of patience, demands that Mark Meadows appear on Friday morning
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After what appear to be a series of fruitless and time-consuming negotiations, the attorney for former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows made it clear on Thursday that his client was not going to appear, or product documents for, the House Select Committee on
Republicans aren't just in disarray—they're at war with each other
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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has made it his job to throw his caucus members under the bus whenever Donald Trump demands, so it's perhaps not surprising that he is actively fomenting rage against the 13 House Republicans who voted to pass the bipartis
Morning Digest: Daily Kos Elections presents our calendar of 2022 primaries and filing deadlines
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The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, Carolyn Fiddler, and Matt Booker, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, Daniel Donner, James Lambert, David Beard, and Arjun Jaikumar.
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Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Justice gets a temporary stay
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WaPo:
Appeals court temporarily bars release of Trump White House records to House Jan. 6 committee
Capping days of legal drama, the appeals court rocketed consideration of the case through federal courts in Washington. While granting an injunction pendi
News Roundup: A Republican war on books; GOP silence on Gosar's disgusting 'attack' video
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In the news today: Book burning and celebrations of violence against political enemies, both brought into the news by a Republican Party that is ticking down the checklist of fascism's defining markers without bothering to put up much of a smokescreen while d
It’s getting brisk out there.
Temperatures are dropping (don’t get it twisted, the earth is still warming at a terrifying rate), and autumn is in full swing.
And even though the Virginia elections are still on folks’ minds (… or maybe just mine
Hospitalized for a month with COVID-19, man returns to apologize to ICU staff for being unvaccinated
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One of the hardest things to do in life is to admit you’ve made a mistake. Admitting mistakes strikes directly at our notions of identity and self-worth; it’s why people double down when faced with irrefutable evidence that they’re wrong, and it’s wh
'We killed Herman Cain': ABC reporter's book sheds new light on Trump's Tulsa rally disaster
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In a new excerpt from his upcoming book Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show, ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl notes that Donald Trump’s Spinal Tap-esque Tulsa rally marked “the worst day of his entire campaign.” Which is weird
These local agreements between ICE and sheriffs continue to terrorize immigrant communities
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Maira Oviedo-Granados, an asylum-seeker living in Knoxville, Tennessee, dialed 911 for help when a jealous and previously violent boyfriend tried to attack her on Nov. 7, 2020. She managed to lock herself and her three children in a bedroom as she told t
Biden’s infrastructure bill promises to address ‘racist infrastructure.’ Here’s what that means.
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by Lakshmi Gandhi
This story was originally published at Prism.
Urban planners and community advocates have long noted that the interstate highway system was designed to separate and isolate poor Black and brown communities from the economic hearts of t
The hesitations trans folks have about the COVID-19 vaccine might surprise you
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As we continue to face the novel coronavirus pandemic, we’ve seen countless conservatives push anti-vaccine rhetoric. Some folks have argued it’s all about personal choice, while others say parents should make health decisions for their children, and othe
Caribbean Matters: What do you know about the Dutch- and Papiamento-speaking Caribbean?
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By now, most folks have heard about “Missing White Woman syndrome,” a term which was coined by PBS news anchor Gwen Ifill. Recently we’ve seen this in full force with the case of Gabby Petito. However, let us not forget that in May 2005, another mi
San Francisco police officer dies battling COVID-19 after missing city’s vaccination deadline
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As cities and states nationwide continue to implement COVID-19 vaccine requirements for specific positions, many are refusing to comply. As a result, individuals are not only being let go from their jobs but contracting the coronavirus. In one incident an off
Chad Wolf's naturalization stunt was slammed as 'illegal.' The Office of Special Counsel agrees
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Remember back in August 2020 when former unlawfully appointed acting Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Chad Wolf presided over a political stunt that used immigrants as human props as part of an effort to reelect the pre
The Republican lie generator is coughing up a new one about Biden's child care plan
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Affordable child care is one of the major ways the Democrats’ Build Back Better will help families with young children. So, naturally, Republicans are revving up the disinformation machine. The party that specializes in coming between a woman and her docto
Earth Matters: New U.S. drilling leases ignore climate summit warnings; resurrecting Diablo Canyon
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(The reason I wrote this piece about activism and despair last week was manifest by Delger Erdenesanaa at Inside Climate News in his piece, At COP26, Youth Activists From Around the World Call Out Decades of Delay.)
The final declaratio
Native LGBTQ adults report high levels of depression, economic stress, and abuse
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As Daily Kos has contextualized while covering anti-queer legislation proposed and implemented by Republicans, LGBTQ+ people report disproportionate rates of mental health issues like anxiety and depression and harassment, abuse, and even homel
Fox News headline on CRT in schools has holes you could drive a truck through, but does that matter?
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If you want to see an article so loaded with caveats and wiggle-wording that it’s nearly falling over under the strain, check out the Fox News headline about critical race theory being taught in many K-12 schools.
First off, “Critical Race Theory t
Sen. Mike Braun is in hot water over millions in 'loans' to his 2018 campaign
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During his 2018 run for the Senate, Republican Mike Braun was getting a lot of attention for a campaign strategy that relied on self-funding, sweetheart loans from allies, and «creative» accounting to dodge federal election laws. Over three-quarte
Anti-vaxx Chronicles: She had no idea COVID was *really* this devastating (in November 2021)
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Facebook is a menace. COVID-19 is a menace. Conservatism is a cesspool. Together, those three ingredients have created a toxic stew of malevolent death and devastation. We can talk about all those things in the abstract, look at the numbers and statistics, an
Mark Meadows makes it clear he only takes orders from Trump, not Biden, not Congress, not the law
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Among the first set of subpoenas issued by the House Select Committee on Jan. 6 back in September, the one issued to Trump advisor and professional fascist Steve Bannon has gotten the most attention. That’s because Bannon’s refusal to testify was followe
Black cyclist brutally beaten by white man who says he’s ‘making people nervous’ in the neighborhood
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It’s been over a week since 50-year-old Black cyclist Elliot Reed was mercilessly beaten by a racist white man while riding through his neighborhood in Seabrook, Texas, a suburb of Houston.
The white man has been identified as 25-year-old Colin
U.N. Secretary-General says climate change goals are ‘on life support’ as COP26 winds down
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Tomorrow marks the close of the climate summit COP26 and, with that, a final agreement—hopefully—adopted by all 197 parties who’ve helped draft the document. At its present stage, the agreement has already faced pushback from countries like Saudi A
