State Dept. boneheads leave Putin meeting papers behind in Alaska hotel printer
Democrats, Gavin Newsom, reporters, anybody else who wants to help humiliate Trump and turn more Americans solidly against him, take special note: NPR is reporting that papers with US State Department...
View ArticleWhere are we now and what are we looking at: a framing for the present moment...
I’m writing this in the hope of being of help to people who are reading stories on Daily Kos and elsewhere to form their view of what’s going on in the United States.Day by day, the trainwreck that is...
View ArticleIs Musk up to something beyond Bond-villain level? It's been right in front...
Mars is hard. It’s far away at its closest to say nothing of the length of paths a spacecraft between the two is constrained to because of the physics. I’ll categorize the main risks to crewed missions...
View ArticleHow can I drive people to the polls for Harris-Walz on 11/5?
Driving in my metro area is my superpower. How can I help get people to their polling places on Tuesday?
View ArticleEnough with the pop-up videos!
Apparently on a non-mobile browser DailyKos has taken to forcing videos in the form of story “trailers” to pop up and play on the right-hand side of the window. It’s got an X to close it with; if you...
View ArticleOne more day to comment on CDC's COVID immunization policy
From PBS NewsHour:...[T]he updated booster is not intended for everyone. It’s for people in high-risk groups – those who are age 75 or older, pregnant or immunocompromised, said [director of the...
View ArticleTrump's video outtakes in last week's J6C hearing
On Thursday 7/22 the January 6 Select Committee ran clips from a video of then-President Donald Trump ostensibly being recorded for public release as a way of providing just enough acknowledgement and...
View ArticleNeal Boortz slithers back onto the airwaves
For decades, Neal Boortz operated as Atlanta’s buttress to the right-wing radio talk show ecosystem headed nationally by Rush Limbaugh. His regular show on WSB in Atlanta ended in 2013 but he supplied...
View ArticleGeorge Takei, former interned Japanese-American, gets America better than...
Scroll to 02:30 if the video doesn’t start there automatically:YouTube VideoThank you, George, for reminding us from where all that is good about America comes.
View ArticleVirtual town hall by Bernie Sanders starts in two minutes
Please go to live.berniesanders.com to watch. For those of you yet to vote in the Democratic primary, please watch Sanders, watch Biden, and vote for whom you want to replace Trump.
View ArticleAll of you in Atlanta - go do what I did today!!
I’ve had it in my head to do this for a while now but I had been waiting for some momentous event like Mueller fired or Manafort pardoned...instead, I felt like today was the day, no special trigger...
View ArticleA suggestion to all the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates
Once the Democratic field for the 2020 primaries is set, there is something that I would like to see all of the candidates do as a unified front: release a statement of principles and intent that all...
View ArticleAbout the post-fossil transition in electricity production
[NOTE: The author is an energy technology and policy researcher with degrees in engineering and public policy who has worked in the Information Technology field in private- and public-sector,...
View ArticlePR: Not sure if I'll be the first to call it this, but is it time someone does?
I am finding it necessary to ask if it is time to begin calling this an attempted mass murder. www.wsj.com/...
View ArticleThe Clearest Indication Yet of a Client State
I have been wary of this ever since before the election but I think we have here the first clear indication that the United States is now— not “risks becoming,” “may become,” or even “is becoming” — a...
View ArticleContemplations on a national emergency, Part 1: constitutional insufficiency
NOTE: I’m posting a short series of diaries, starting with this one, in which I lay out my thoughts about dealing with the Trump administration in the here and now and in the immediate future. I am...
View ArticleYou Can Wind Up Paying EBay to Get Rid of Your Stuff
After my first layoff in 1999, I signed up with eBay and helped get my family and me through a very scary time by unloading quite a few valuable items. I’ve been active ever since, either to just...
View ArticleTrump's video outtakes in last week's J6C hearing
On Thursday 7/22 the January 6 Select Committee ran clips from a video of then-President Donald Trump ostensibly being recorded for public release as a way of providing just enough acknowledgement and...
View ArticleNeal Boortz slithers back onto the airwaves
For decades, Neal Boortz operated as Atlanta’s buttress to the right-wing radio talk show ecosystem headed nationally by Rush Limbaugh. His regular show on WSB in Atlanta ended in 2013 but he supplied...
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