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- NAACP issues travel warning for black passengers flying on American Airlines
Wednesday - 10/25/2017 - 03:36 PMOn Tuesday, NPR released the results from a survey it did of Americans and their experiences with discrimination. Though all racial groups said that they experience some form of discrimination (including whites, which is worth its own post), black Americans reported experiencing broad forms of discrimination—including interactions with police, trying to vote, and in renting/buying housing.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Kamala Harris: 'I will not vote for an end-of-year spending bill' unless Dreamers are protected
Wednesday - 10/25/2017 - 03:37 PMDuring a press conference in support of the bipartisan DREAM Act, California Sen. Kamala Harris said she’s prepared to not back a key spending bill if it doesn’t include a congressional fix protecting undocumented immigrant youth stripped of their Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) protections by the Trump administration:
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Trump delivers more doozies: 'My generals and my military' authorized the Niger mission, 'I didn't'
Wednesday - 10/25/2017 - 02:50 PMCampaign Action
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More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Trump claims he was 'extremely respectful' to widow ... while basically calling her a liar
Wednesday - 10/25/2017 - 02:02 PMDonald Trump returned yet again to defend his conduct in his condolence call to Myeshia Johnson—and in so doing, call Sgt. La David Johnson’s widow a liar. “I can only say this: I was really nice to her,” Trump insisted, before going on to predictably undermine himself.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Border Patrol agents may be stalking a special needs child's hospital to detain her
Wednesday - 10/25/2017 - 12:29 PMFor the second time since May, Border Patrol agents have reportedly skirted their own “sensitive locations” policy—which says that hospitals are generally off-limits, excluding “exigent circumstances”—to target yet another immigrant family seeking urgent medical car
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Steele Dossier was funded first by Trump's GOP opponents then by Democrats—which we knew all along
Wednesday - 10/25/2017 - 09:00 AMOn Tuesday, the Washington Post “broke” the story that sources connected to Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic Party had taken over funding for Christopher Steele’s Trump–Russia compilation after Trump’s Republican opponents were knocked out of the race.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Immigrant youth don't need more false hopes from John Cornyn, they need the DREAM Act
Tuesday - 10/24/2017 - 04:30 PM
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Wednesday - 10/25/2017 - 08:16 AMHispanic Federation Fund for Puerto Rico Relief Link
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More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Cartoon: Me Too
Tuesday - 10/24/2017 - 05:51 PMwww.patreon.com/keefknight
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - This one tweet shows everything wrong with Trump, Trumpism, and the entire Republican Party
Monday - 10/23/2017 - 06:53 PMIt’s not turtles all the way down after all. It’s elephants:
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- The FCC will vote to roll back media ownership regulations wholesale in November
Wednesday - 10/25/2017 - 04:08 PMReuters is reporting that Ajit Pai and his band of telecom shills who masquerade as the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) plan to get rid of landmark rules established in the 1970s in order to slow the consolidation of media outlets into the hands of a powerful few.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Trump campaign data team reached out to Julian Assange in effort to team up against Hillary
Wednesday - 10/25/2017 - 04:23 PMDuring the 2016 campaign, Julian Assange and Wikileaks acted to distribute information stolen from servers in the United States by Russian agents.
During the 2016 campaign, Alexander Nix and Cambridge Analytica not only provided data to the Trump campaign, but may have helped Russian agents use propaganda to target voters in critical areas.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Faced with Flake's rally cry to save America, most Republicans say tax cuts are just too important
Wednesday - 10/25/2017 - 01:02 PM
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Republicans either don't know yet or are covering up what's in their big tax plan
Wednesday - 10/25/2017 - 12:29 PMRepublicans are planning a big package of tax cuts, they keep telling us. But what’s going to be in it? Possibly changes to your 401(k) retirement plan, despite Donald Trump’s promise to leave those untouched.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - After fighting for her right to an abortion, immigrant teen finally gets one this morning
Wednesday - 10/25/2017 - 11:50 AMYesterday, the federal appeals court in Washington, DC, ruled that Jane Doe, a 17-year-old immigrant woman in federal custody, had the right to obtain an abortion. This ended a month-long battle with the Trump administration, who repeatedly attempted to block her from terminating her pregnancy.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Georgia Republicans love bump stocks used by Las Vegas shooter. Democrat Stacey Abrams can stop them
Tuesday - 10/24/2017 - 03:44 PMIt’s no secret that some Republicans love the 2nd Amendment so much that they’ll do anything to guarantee their access to firearms—even when it means standing by gun laws that are truly nonsensical and dangerous.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Cartoon: The Consoler-in-Chief
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More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Morning Digest: Arizona GOP Sen. Jeff Flake announces his retirement amid awful poll numbers
Wednesday - 10/25/2017 - 08:02 AMThe Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, and Carolyn Fiddler, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, Daniel Donner, James Lambert, David Beard, and Arjun Jaikumar.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Donald Trump is not 'untrustworthy' or 'inconsistent.' Donald Trump is a liar, and incompetent
Tuesday - 10/24/2017 - 09:31 PMThe efforts to tiptoe around the plain evidence that Donald Trump is a racist, lying, possibly dementia-riddled sack of shit continue.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Trump is setting the stage for a brutal government shutdown fight
Monday - 10/23/2017 - 03:20 PM
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- Texas children's insurance funding could run out soon thanks to hurricane and Republican Congress
Wednesday - 10/25/2017 - 11:00 AMIt’s been 25 days since Republicans let funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program expire, endangering health coverage for nearly 9 million kids. States across the country are trying to figure out how long their existing funding will last and when they need to start notifying families that their kids are about to be uninsured.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Midday open thread: The anniversary of Paul Wellstone's death and more
Wednesday - 10/25/2017 - 03:01 PMToday’s comic by Matt Bors is Consoler-in-Chief:
Sigh:
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - CBO: Bipartisan Obamacare fix would reduce deficit
Wednesday - 10/25/2017 - 12:10 PM
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Republicans again face defections on a top priority. This time, tax cuts.
Wednesday - 10/25/2017 - 10:00 AMRepublicans are once again struggling to get the votes they need to pass one of their own top priorities—in this case, tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. The House needs to pass the Senate’s budget resolution to allow Senate Republicans to use reconciliation to pass the tax cuts with 51 rather than 60 votes.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Congress to investigate deal that awarded $300M contract to Trump donor
Wednesday - 10/25/2017 - 10:15 AM
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Republicans gut protection against bank abuses in late-night vote with Pence as tie-breaker
Wednesday - 10/25/2017 - 08:44 AMMike Pence cast the deciding vote Tuesday night to allow big banks to screw consumers, as the Senate repealed a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule making it easier for people to sue banks and credit card companies.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: What adults? Where?
Wednesday - 10/25/2017 - 07:31 AMBrian Beutler/Crooked Media:
The contrast between Benghazi and Niger as political events parallels the contrast between how the American political system processed revelations about Harvey Weinstein’s sexual misconduct and how we processed similar revelations about the male leaders of Fox News—and even the Republican president of the United States.
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Wednesday - 10/25/2017 - 07:01 AMAh, Wednesday! That day in the middle of the week when we can’t commiserate about it being Monday, and it’s too early for “at least it’s Friday” jokes.
Greg Dworkin’s back!More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Roy Moore: Marriage equality is worse than slavery and fighting climate change is a 'radical agenda'
Tuesday - 10/24/2017 - 11:06 AM
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 300,000 TPS recipients from El Salvador, Haiti, and Honduras wait to hear if they can stay in U.S.
Tuesday - 10/24/2017 - 01:49 PMHundreds of thousands of people will find out in just a matter of weeks if they’ll be able to continue to live their lives in the United States, or be torn from their homes or driven underground:
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