Texas cannot handle another cold winter with natural gas. And neither can the planet
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Devastating, freezing weather last winter season from Winter Storm Uri wreaked havoc on the state of Texas, paralyzing a power grid unaccustomed to handling record lows and leading to the deaths of more than 200 people. More than 5.2 million homes a
Far-right trolls promptly game Twitter’s new ‘privacy’ policy to target researchers—and it works
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It’s as predictable as the ocean tides: When Twitter or some other social media giant announces a new rule intended to stamp out abuse of its platform, the very people who specialize in that abuse promptly figure out how to game the rules in a way that targ
Tests show omicron 'incompletely escapes' Pfizer vaccine, but booster should restore effectiveness
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New data from a pair of laboratory tests shows that the level of antibodies produced by the combination of the Pfizer/BioNTech and the omicron variant of COVID-19 is significantly reduced. However, those who have received a booster shot may enjoy about the sa
Thanks for the report. Now expand the Supreme Court
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President Joe Biden’s blue-ribbon commission, stacked as it was with forced birther Federalist Society types, has finally and somewhat surprisingly issued a report that doesn’t argue for the status quo. That’s because it doesn’t argue for an
Early results show that omicron significantly reduces vaccine effectiveness, but booster should help
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New data from a pair of laboratory tests shows that the level of antibodies produced by the combination of the Pfizer/BioNTech and the omicron variant of COVID-19 is significantly reduced. However, those who have received a booster shot may enjoy about the sa
CNN: Jan. 6 committee targets phone records in sprawling request
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On Tuesday, CNN reported that the committee investigating the attack of the U.S. Capitol has formally subpoenaed phone records from over 100 individuals, including a number of officials from the Trump administration, as a part of its probe int
This week on The Brief: Mónica Guzman on communicating effectively across the aisle
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How can Democrats get their message out effectively ahead of 2022? Is it worth having conversations with folks from the other side of the aisle? How can we communicate more effectively with those we don’t necessarily see eye-to-eye with? This week’s episo
New Daily Kos/Civiqs poll: One-half of Americans view racism as a major problem
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The best antidote to hot takes is hard data, and the latest Daily Kos/Civiqs poll is here with your cure. This survey of 1,272 registered voters was conducted online from Dec. 4-7 and finds that 50% of Americans view racism as a
Morning Digest: With Devin Nunes bailing, California could see some major special election weirdness
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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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Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: You can't tell your feuding Republicans without a scorecard
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ProPublica:
COVID-19 Hit This County Hard. A Weakened Health Department Still Can’t Get People Vaccinated.
Clayton County has the highest percentage of Black residents in Georgia and the lowest vaccination rate in the metro Atlanta area. Amid widespread
News Roundup: Senate yet again scrambles to avoid federal shutdown; Putin threatens Ukraine
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In the news today: As the Senate's Republicans stonewall each basic task of government, Democrats once again scramble to keep government open despite near-unanimous Republican opposition to doing so. A Senate leader is insisting that the Senate will act to ma
Shocking news: VP Kamala Harris can choose her own headphones and spending priorities!
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On June 11, 2020, AT&T noted to customers that Bluetooth devices are not considered secure, and they shouldn’t be used for transmission of any secure data as there are four known Bluetooth security problems that right now aren’t easily addressed
Colorado cops tweet 'cute' pic of Santa applying for gun permit, nation responds with disgust
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“And so this is Christmas, and where is your gun?” John Lennon’s 1971 hit “Happy Xmas (War Is Over)” was a call for peace, not for packing heat, but apparently the lyrics need to be updated to fit the 21st century. Fifty yea
'We just don't feel safe': Woman sets fire to New Mexico's oldest and largest Islamic Center
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As hate crimes against people of color continue across the country, members of faith centers and organizations are bearing the brunt of it. Faith institutions across the country are facing hate crimes at alarming rates, and an Islamic center in Albu
On Monday, Rep. Devin Nunes let it be known that he would be retiring from the House in order to become CEO of something called “Truth Social,” which is supposedly a new social media platform owned by Donald Trump. As Fox News put it, Nunes “got a
To prove lowball appraisal, Black couple ‘white-washes’ home—value rises by nearly $500K
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A Black couple in Northern California is rightfully suing the shit out of an appraisal company after getting a low-ball price for their property.
Since buying their four-bedroom, two-bath house in Marin City, a neighborhood in the San Francisco Bay are
Four horsemen of the dumbocalypse hold outrageously ignorant press conference on Jan. 6 insurrection
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On Tuesday, Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz, Paul Gosar, and Louie Gohmert held a press conference where they defended the Jan. 6 insurrection, promoting every conspiracy theory under the sun and attacking anybody who dares call i
Perdue's only real campaign pledge to Georgians was that he will gladly cheat for Trump in 2024
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When former Sen. David Perdue launched a primary challenge to Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Monday, his announcement was notably light on policy. Perdue’s only concrete commitment was to eliminate the state income tax. Other than that, he rolled out some very
Georgia gynecologist who abused immigrant women may have been defrauding government, lawmakers say
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Two House committees say in a joint letter to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that Mahendra Amin, the Georgia gynecologist accused of sterilizing and operating on detained immigrants without their consent, may have carr
Bigoted hate-monger arrested for making terrifying threats against LGBTQ community in New York
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A Long Island man who spent years threatening the LGBTQ community with attacks he claimed would make the 2016 Pulse Nightclub massacre “look like a cakewalk” has been arrested. Robert Fehring turned himself in to the FBI on Monday after the Justice D
New trial ordered for a Black man whose all-white jury met in a room adorned with a Confederate flag
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Tennessee, of all places, appears to have acknowledged what Black and brown folks have long seen clearly: the Confederate flag is nothing more than a pure symbol of racism.
Fast forward to last Friday, when the Tennessee court of criminal appeals grante
Anti-vaxx Chronicles: Trump wrestles alligators and wears tight jeans and COVID is a #scam
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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
As deaths mount in Republican counties, party leaders find advantage in letting them continue
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It is becoming increasingly difficult to muster compassion for Americans bent on killing themselves and others in order to prove a nebulous political point. We now know, for a fact, that the COVID-19 pandemic in America is killing off the residents of Republi
You can survive conservative family members this holiday season with this great advice
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Today’s episode of The Brief, our weekly show about politics, will be a little different than most. We at Daily Kos are unapologetically partisan, and we fight hard for liberal policies and allies. Yet undoubtedly, we are losing the national narrative debat
Vice President Harris sums up the connection between healthy pregnant folks and a healthy economy
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If a global pandemic makes any lasting, collective change, I personally really hope it has to do with health care, and specifically, the cost of health care and the impossibility of access here in the United States. No matter how hard certain people (Republic
93% of West Virginia's children need Joe Manchin to vote for Build Back Better before Jan. 15
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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer continued to press his Democratic colleagues to get the budget reconciliation bill that includes President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better plan passed in the next two weeks during his opening floor statement Tuesday. He an
Senate needs to pass Build Back Better—it could literally save the lives of pregnant people
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If a global pandemic makes any lasting, collective change, I personally really hope it has to do with health care, and specifically, the cost of health care and the impossibility of access here in the United States. No matter how hard certain people (Republic
Reporter puts Republican lawmaker on the spot over bill banning teaching much of U.S. history
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If watching laws supposedly passed to ban critical race theory (CRT) from public K-12 schools used to try to ban children’s books about Martin Luther King Jr. and Ruby Bridges doesn’t convince you that the whole CRT panic is really about preserving white
With omicron, Americans unlikely to change personal behavior but still largely support mandates
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The fatigue is real. With the holidays in full swing and the omicron variant looming, Americans' attitudes toward the pandemic are largely baked in and most say they are unlikely to change their holiday plans.
A new Axios-Ipsos poll conducted Dec. 3-6 f
Prosecutors say one day is all they need to try Bannon's contempt case
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In the run-up to his status hearing in federal court on Tuesday, U.S. prosecutors told a judge they would likely need just a single day to try former White House strategist Steve Bannon for the two contempt of Congress charges he was indicted on last month. B
Biden admin was warned internally about Haitian deportations. Thousands have been deported anyway
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Before resigning his post this past fall, a senior State Department official authored a memo slamming the unlawful deportations of Haitians under the anti-asylum Title 42 policy. The ongoing policy was implemented by the previous administration, and has used
Congress creates Rube Goldberg-like mechanism on debt ceiling, instead of ending the filibuster
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The House and Senate are in a sort of holding pattern Tuesday, moving toward potentially getting a lot of stuff done on dealing with the impending debt ceiling deadline and President Joe Biden’s big family and climate bill, but not necessarily achieving muc
The one simple trick to avoiding debt ceiling default: Abolish the filibuster
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The House and Senate are in a sort of holding pattern Tuesday, moving toward potentially getting a lot of stuff done on dealing with the impending debt ceiling deadline and President Joe Biden’s big family and climate bill, but not necessarily achieving muc
In the run-up to his status hearing in federal court on Tuesday, U.S. prosecutors told a judge they would likely need just a single day to try former White House strategist Steve Bannon for the two contempt of Congress charges he was indicted on last month. B
Biden admin was warned internally that Haitian deportations posed a grave human rights violation
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Before resigning his post this past fall, a senior State Department official authored a memo slamming the unlawful deportations of Haitians under the anti-asylum Title 42 policy. The ongoing policy was implemented by the previous administration, and has used
House GOP veteran: Pay no attention to the raging extremists in our caucus running the joint
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Sure, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is coddling GOP caucus extremists in his caucus in his quest for the speakership. Sure, a small cadre of House Republicans who have gleefully put their colleagues' lives on the line are running the joint wi
Russian forces are massed on the border of Ukraine, and what Putin wants may be a price too high
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To say that Russia is threatening to invade Ukraine is avoiding the obvious: That already happened. But on Tuesday, President Joe Biden will hold a video call with Russian President Vladimir Putin in an effort to halt the Russian dictator’s growin
Veteran House Republicans try to brush GOP extremists running their caucus under the rug
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Sure, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is coddling GOP caucus extremists in his caucus in his quest for the speakership. Sure, a small cadre of House Republicans who have gleefully put their colleagues' lives on the line are running the joint wi
Schumer insists Senate will ‘restore’ itself, break the filibuster to pass voting rights this year
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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told Senate Democrats on Monday that he has a long list of things he wants to accomplish in the next two weeks: debt ceiling, defense authorization, nomination, and Build Back Better. Given that they haven’t ac
Look out old, white guys in trucking, brown folk are fast-demanding their seats in the 18-wheelers
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The trucking industry has always been notoriously white and male. But according to findings in a report from Convoy, in 2020, a sharp shift toward more diversity was noted. Now, 64% of carriers report that they are at least 51% o
