Is that a threat?
This:The only person who’s making shit up here out of whole cloth is you. Period. I suggest you stay out of these threads.A diary was posted this morning about an LA Times story, saying the FBI is...
View ArticleUnprecedented and Curious USSC Order Issued on Birth Control Case
The United States Supreme Court has always “taken cases as they come” to the Court. Today, it broke with that precedent, and in the process, signaled that it was (a) siding with religious institutions...
View ArticleClinton names gay rights advocate as Indiana campaign director
Peter Hanscomb, who recently headed up Indiana Competes, a coalition of Indiana Businesses created to lobby for equal rights for the LGBT community, was just named head of Hillary Clinton’s campaign in...
View ArticleSometimes Daily Kos really works
Sometimes it really does work. Sure, we argue, it gets heated, people say things they regret, rinse, repeat. But sometimes, it works.A series of comments was made in a diary earlier today that, at...
View ArticleMore Sanders Celebrity Surrogate Dumb-F***ery
xIntroducing @BernieSanders, @TimRobbins1 hits Clinton's primary wins: Winning South Carolina is like "winning Guam"https://t.co/igFHlLoIZv— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) April 4, 2016Here’s an...
View ArticleMore on Sanders' Daily News Interview
Daily News: You’ve said that the greed of Wall Street and corporate America is destroying the fabric of our nation. So if we can get particular: For example, in corporate America, Apple happens to be...
View ArticleWho won the Wisconsin SC race yesterday?
Right.Can we stop pretending that Sanders will have coattails, or that his “yuuuuuge youth movement” will help anybody but himself? Perhaps if he had done something to help, told his followers at his...
View ArticleGun Manufacturer Immunity.
“Should you be able to sue GM every time there’s a car accident?”I keep reading that profoundly ignorant question every time somebody tries to defend Sanders’ vote for gun manufacturer immunity. So I...
View ArticleNo Pope for you!
From the New York Times:It looks as if Bernie Sanders’s brief Roman holiday will not include a meeting with Pope Francis.In a routine briefing with reporters in the Vatican press office on Thursday,...
View ArticleThe angry sexism of "YES OR NO?!!"
Last night, one of Sanders’ big applause lines came when he thundered his demand that Clinton answer his question whether she would save Social Security by lifting the cap. “YES OR NO?!?!” he thundered...
View ArticleDoing something right
Nobody tells you, before you have kids, just how under-qualified you are for the most important job you’ll ever have — parent. And you wouldn’t believe it if they did. Nobody knows more than a...
View ArticleDon't fingerpaint in the Holocaust's ashes (trigger)
This will be very short. You might not think it worth a diary, but I’m so fucking tired of people thinking my dead relatives are toys for them to play with, to make political points.This comment was...
View ArticleSanders first in Indiana
First on the air, that is. According to the Indianapolis Business Journal, Sanders is the first presidential candidate with an ad buy in Indiana:Bernie Sanders’ campaign has placed orders for ads on...
View ArticleWhat will you do with your first Tubman $20?
Will you spend it like any other $20 bill?Will you save it as a piece of history?Or, if you can afford it, will you put it to work?If you want to put it to work, you can send it to:National Urban...
View ArticleBernie in Baltimore - a Photo Diary
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View ArticleChanging the Criminal Justice system (Not a Clinton/Sanders diary)
There has been a lot of talk about how to fix the criminal justice system, how to make sure it’s fair to everybody, but I really don’t think any of them get to the heart of the problem — the way people...
View ArticleHere is the truth: We don't need liars on the front page
THIS is a bullshit diary and demeans every one of us by residing on the front page.It starts with, “Here is the truth,” and then says:In the Democratic Party, a democratic socialist is much better...
View ArticleTheir Reality Has Lapped Our Satire - 10 years later
Well, I’m back from my 3 months on house arrest, and my only regret is that I wasn’t able to publish what follows on July 6th, the 10 year anniversary of the original diary.Ten years ago last month I...
View ArticleThe Daily Pulse - Reanimated
A long time ago, here on Daily Kos, I used to write a daily diary called “The Daily Pulse.” I would peruse a defined set of newspaper editorial pages, e.g. midwestern papers, or southern papers, for...
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