Abbreviated pundit roundup: The story about the attempted coup is penetrating the media bubbles
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A theory: How Trump’s Jan. 6 coup plan worked, how close it came, why it failed
The planned coup nearly worked, but leftists stayed home and likely thwarted plans to call in troops to aid insurrectionists.
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News roundup: Manchin is so far gone it's embarrassing; Jimmy Carter is still awesome
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It’s Thursday. Guess who’s standing in the way of way of voting rights and the child tax credit? Yes, the same two duplicitous Democratic senators who have spent 2021 peddling GOP talking points. Republican officials have a plan for ending the p
Alan Lowenthal retiring from blue California House seat after long career in Long Beach politics
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Democratic Rep. Alan Lowenthal, a longtime elected official in the Long Beach area, announced Thursday that he would not seek a sixth term in California’s 47th Congressional District. The current incarnation of Lowenthal’s constituency, which includes mos
Three companies indicted for negligence in Orange County oil spill
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A federal grand jury indicted three companies on Wednesday for their role in the October pipeline rupture in Orange County, California that spewed 25,000 gallons of crude oil into the Pacific Ocean near Huntington Beach. Amplify Energy Corp. and tw
MyPillow guy says he’s spent $25 million trying to prove Trump won the election Trump lost
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Mike Lindell, CEO of the MyPillow thing, is supposedly spending a lot of his own money in pursuit of overturning our democracy—at least according to famed liar Mike Lindell. He told CNBC that he has spent $25 million of his own money since No
Caribbean Matters: Danish history, slavery, resistance, and colonialism in the U.S. Virgin Islands
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While applauding Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley’s announcement of the establishment of a memorial and archive of slavery in Barbados, which was featured in last week’s Caribbean Matters, it got me thinking about right-wing forces here in the U.S
Ex-police chief put protecting Kim Potter over his own job, but can't say deadly force was justified
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Prosecutors rested their case against former Minnesota police officer Kim Potter on Thursday after six days of testimony ranging from relevant explanations of policy to emotionally gripping testimony of victim Daunte Wright's character and how it felt to watc
Claudette Colvin, civil rights icon who refused to give bus seat to white woman, has record expunged
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Months before Rosa Parks famously refused to give up her seat to a white man on an Alabama bus in December 1955, Claudette Colvin, now 82, refused to give up her seat to a white woman nine months earlier. Her name is not as well known, but her act o
Six Bay Area men were arrested and charged in connection to at least 70 attacks on Asian women
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It’s been almost two years since the pandemic began, yet individuals still remain ill-informed. Due to misconceptions and misinformation about the virus, violence against members of the Asian American Pacific Islanders (AAPI) community continues to rise nat
'Complete act of betrayal': Leader of Ohio Muslim organization fired for spying for a hate group
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In news that has disheartened the Muslim community across the country, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)—the largest U.S. Muslim advocacy organization—has fired the head of its Ohio chapter after allegations that he shared confidential info
Earth Matters: Inslee pushes big state EV credit, bugs eat plastic, grim Arctic Report Card released
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“In the first place there is general scientific agreement that the most likely manner in which mankind is influencing the global climate is through carbon dioxide release from the burning of fossil fuels […] There are some potentially catastrophic events
At GOP fundraisers, Trump, his properties, maybe even his endorsement are for sale—if price is right
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For Donald Trump, the grift never ends. And fortunately for him, Republicans are a bunch of well-heeled suckers.
Now that Republican lawmakers have gifted the GOP to the twice-impeached, two-time popular vote loser and he is playing kingmaker in primari
Anti-vaxx Chronicles: 'How could this happen?' they ask themselves, without a hint of irony
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This series documents stories from the Herman Cain Awards subreddit, tracking the COVID mis- and disinformation on Facebook that is leading to so many deaths. Today’s cautionary tale identified as vaccinated, ha ha ha ha—oops.
'It's genocide': Honolulu residents slam Navy for water crisis, support plans to shutter fuel tanks
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Oahu residents have had it with the Navy’s inaction in the face of an ongoing water crisis in Honolulu. Around 3,200 residents remain displaced and living in hotels due to contaminated water from the Red Hill well that serves the Joint Base Pearl Harbo
Residents hold Navy's feet to the fire as Honolulu water crisis drags on
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Oahu residents have had it with the Navy’s inaction in the face of an ongoing water crisis in Honolulu. Around 3,200 residents remain displaced and living in hotels due to contaminated water from the Red Hill well that serves the Joint Base Pearl Harbo
Republican governor promises she hasn't forgotten her anti-trans agenda amid pandemic
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If there’s one way Republicans like to celebrate the sanctity of winter holidays, it’s by broadcasting a pity party about a burned Christmas tree and, apparently, reigniting hatred against vulnerable trans women and girls. In this case, Republican Go
'Fuels the flames of racist, anti-immigrant sentiment': Coalition urges DOJ probe into Texas scheme
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Ten state and national civil rights organizations have filed a Title VI discrimination complaint urging Attorney General Merrick Garland and the Department of Justice (DOJ) to formally investigate Texas’ Operation Lone Star border scheme that has swep
The plane! The plane! Paul Gosar and his wild goose chase story reemerge
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Tucked inside of an article by The New York Times piecing together how former President Donald Trump’s most loyal foot soldiers tried to keep him in power despite a handy defeat by Joe Biden in the 2020 election, is the tale of a wacky goose chase indulged
Republicanism claims more victims: Pandemic deaths among pregnant Americans are now 'surging'
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You can chalk up more deaths for the «pro-life» crowd: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is reporting that COVID-19 is now claiming the lives of more pregnant Americans and resulting in more stillbirths. Poynter reports that dea
State and national civil rights groups urge DOJ to probe Greg Abbott's racist border operation
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Ten state and national civil rights organizations have filed a Title VI discrimination complaint urging Attorney General Merrick Garland and the Department of Justice (DOJ) to formally investigate Texas’ Operation Lone Star border scheme that has swep
South Dakota governor reminds us she hasn't forgotten her mission to keep trans girls out of sports
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If there’s one way Republicans like to celebrate the sanctity of winter holidays, it’s by broadcasting a pity party about a burned Christmas tree and, apparently, reigniting hatred against vulnerable trans women and girls. In this case, Republican Go
Kentucky candle factory workers sue company, alleging 'flagrant indifference' to their safety
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A number of Kentucky candle factory workers who said supervisors threatened them with firing if they left the site before last week’s deadly tornado have sued the company.
The lawsuit states that Mayfield Consumer P
In December 2020, Louie Gohmert sued Mike Pence to try to force him to go along with coup
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In the last days of December 2020, Politico noted a decidedly odd story. That’s when Rep. Louie Gohmert, along with a group of would-be Donald Trump electors from Arizona, filed suit against Mike Pence—not for violating the 1887 Electoral Count Act,
'Flagrant indifference': Candle factory workers who say they were threatened with firing sue company
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A number of Kentucky candle factory workers who said supervisors threatened them with firing if they left the site before last week’s deadly tornado have sued the company.
The lawsuit states that Mayfield Consumer P
Lord Manchin's ego will likely stay on display into 2022, as he keeps holding up Build Back Better
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Sen. Joe Manchin is giving himself his absolute favorite Christmas present this year: the continuing attention of the media, the president, and congressional leaders as he delays Build Back Better with his constantly shifting demands. It looks like the l
Chair of Jan. 6 House committee says testimony from Raffensperger is proving he is a key witness
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The chairman of the House committee investigating the terrorist attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 is speaking out for the first time publicly—saying that based on his testimony, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is a crucial witness who
DeSantis and Noem fret that COVID-19 relief money is somehow unfair to their states. Reality differs
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Republican governors are experiencing the benefits of President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan. Their budgets are afloat on a tide of money coming from the COVID-19 relief bill, which is funding priorities from rural hospitals to water and sewer syst
End abusive Virginia facility's ICE contract now, more than 100 groups urge Biden administration
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More than 100 state and national groups including the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia, Progress Virginia, and Doctors for Camp Closure are urging Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to shut down a priva
Media outlets claim indicting Mark Meadows would be a political act. Media outlets are wrong
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Before the indictment of Trump adviser and former Campaign Chair Steve Bannon, a flurry of articles warned that the Department of Justice (DOJ) had not issued a criminal indictment in such a case in years. Many predicted that no indictment would be forthcomin
Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: «Dragging democracy to hell»
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Renée Graham of the Boston Globe writes that time is running out for American democracy and the rule of law
We’re less than a month away from the first anniversary of the day when Trump’s white supremacist supporters assaulted police o
Morning Digest: South Carolina Republicans propose dueling House maps with starkly different lines
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The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, Daniel Donner, and Carolyn Fiddler, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, James Lambert, David Beard, and Arjun Jaikumar.
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News Roundup: Meadows held in contempt (the official kind); Fox News tries to explain hosts' texts
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In the news today: There's been significant public movement of late in multiple investigations of the Jan. 6 coup attempt, and all of it points to an organized, pre-planned effort to erase the 2020 U.S. presidential election by proclaiming that Trump's l
If Democrats don't act now, Republicans plan to hold the entire U.S. economy hostage in 2023
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If Republicans take over the House of Representatives in 2023, they intend to force the Biden administration into making drastic cuts to domestic social programs in exchange for “agreeing” to raise the nation’s debt ceiling. Goaded by Donald Trump, thei
Viral video reveals well-funded tech startup pitched Tasing migrants from drones
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Tech is rising and taking over across the globe, but of course not without consequences. A tech company that gained popularity for its efforts to help law enforcement agencies through the use of nonviolent robots has come under fire after a promotional video
Former Houston cop faces 20 years in prison for driving man off the road due to election conspiracy
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On Tuesday, former Houston police captain Mark Aguirre was indicted on a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon for his 2020 attack on and air conditioning technician he believed was secretly transporting 750,000 “harvested ballots
More evidence of Jan. 6 election subversion scheme mounts
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In the months before the 2020 election, lies about widespread voter fraud steadily spewed from former President Donald Trump’s lips and fingertips like so much sewage from a busted septic line. But among a tranche of text messages obtained by the Jan.
'I heard that with my own ears': Candle factory reportedly threatened workers before tornado hit
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Candle factory worker Andrea Miranda described to MSNBC’s José Díaz-Balart how she thought she was going to die when a tornado ripped through Mayfield, Kentucky, last week. “What I remember is when the building moved left, right, an
Despite GOP efforts, Lucy Koh confirmed as the first Korean American federal appeals judge
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Nationwide, members of the Asian American Pacific Islander community are turning their pain into action. They are running for office and being elected in record numbers for seats from the local to federal level, many as firsts in their states and nationally.
As of the time of writing, President Joe Biden is not extending the current pause on federal student loan payments. This means that payments will be due again as of Feb. 1, 2022, even though we are still in an ongoing global pandemic. Even though we’re stil
