Jan. 6 defendant seeks political asylum in Belarus
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In January, American citizen Evan Neumann was allegedly seen punching police officers as he berated them and used a metal barricade as a battering ram while he and a violent mob attacked the U.S. Capitol. After months on the run, this weekend Neumann res
Senate GOP campaign chair refuses to rule out wife, child abuse as disqualifying for GOP candidates
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The Senate is on a razor’s edge heading into next year’s midterms, and all Republicans have to do is net one seat to retake the majority. It’s a time when any ordinary party not controlled by Donald Trump would be lining up a slate of candidates wi
Guess what, Karen? CRT is a straw man backed by GOP billionaires who don't even care about the issue
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You’re probably wondering, along with the rest of us, how such an inane straw-man issue like critical race theory (CRT) could be the fulcrum to catapult GOP darling Glenn Youngkin into the governor’s seat. Well, let’s say it was
Hurray for Biden completing infrastructure week! Now get the job finished with Build Back Better
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The House passed the first part of President Joe Biden’s big economic and infrastructure plans Friday in a 228 to 206 vote. That’s the $1.2 trillion bipartisan hard infrastructure bill negotiated in the Senate with Republicans—and Democrats Joe Man
Guess what Karen, CRT is a straw man backed by GOP billionaires who don't even care about the issue
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=If you’re wondering like the rest of us how an inane, straw man issue such as critical race theory (CRT) could be the fulcrum to catapult GOP darling, Glenn Younkin, into the governor’s seat… well, let’s just say, it wasn’t white suburba
Anti-maskers show police a video of their assault on Oregon shop owner, are arrested on the spot
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Really, how hard is it to wear a mask? The first civil war in this country was fought over the profound moral tragedy of chattel slavery. If a second one is fought because Donald Trump didn’t want to smear his topcoat of Sherwin-Williams Burnt Sienna, I wil
Big Bird is just the latest piece of children's culture to trigger Republicans
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Big Bird. Mr. Potato Head. Dr. Seuss.
This is not a list of potential Christmas gifts for your young child—it’s a list of things Republicans have gotten very publicly worked up about over the past year. And the reason they’ve gotten so worked up
A record number of cities used ranked-choice voting this election. Will it help with inclusivity?
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by Sravya Tadepalli
This story was originally published at Prism.
On Tuesday, a record number of voters cast their ballots using ranked-choice voting, a system that allows voters to rank candidates in order of preference. For the first time, ranked-choic
Big Bird. Dr. Seuss. Mr. Potato Head. Republicans really don't want to talk about grown-up stuff
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Big Bird. Mr. Potato Head. Dr. Seuss.
This is not a list of potential Christmas gifts for your young child—it’s a list of things Republicans have gotten very publicly worked up about over the past year. And the reason they’ve gotten so worked up
COVID-19 bad news, COVID-19 good news, COVID-19 better news, COVID-19 WTF news
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The bad news: On Thursday, Science published the largest study to date looking at the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines over an extended period. The results of that study are not great.
Looking at a pool of over 780,000 veterans—just under 300,000 o
Morning Digest: Top-tier Democrat challenging Boebert drops out after Colorado adopts new maps
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The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, Carolyn Fiddler, and Matt Booker, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, Daniel Donner, James Lambert, David Beard, and Arjun Jaikumar.
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Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Nuance catches up with hot takes
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Will Bunch/Philadelphia Inquirer:
Democrats can’t keep ignoring the culture war. They should fight it — and win
The GOP's «culture war» on hot button issues like race in schools is trumping Democrat's emphasis on economics. It's time
News Roundup: Ted Cruz picks a fight with a bird; Border Patrol 'shadow' unit covered up abuses
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In the news today: A sitting U.S. senator is picking a fight with a Muppet because the Muppet tweeted about vaccinations and, apparently, that counts as «propaganda» to the toad-breathed kultureklowns who believe Trump secretly «won» a
Bus drivers' saga lays bare the divide between unionized and nonunionized public sector workers
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After a long slump, more drivers are winning the right to collective bargaining. Now the threat of privatization looms.
By Mike Elk for Capital & Main
“We have been here through the coronavirus, through the major snowstorms, we were her
Nuts & Bolts—Inside a Democratic campaign: We learn lessons every election
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Welcome back to the weekly Nuts & Bolts Guide to small campaigns. Every week I try to tackle issues I’ve been asked about. With the help of other campaign workers and notes, we address how to improve and build better campaigns or explain issue
Refusal to moderate social media misinformation in global languages harms communities of color
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by Nick Nguyen and Carmen Scurato
This story was originally published at Prism.
So far the Facebook Papers have led to dozens of stories about how the company knew it was failing to remove hate speech, misinformation, and calls to violence in langu
Fox News freaks viewers out with fire hose of piffling nonsense, because fear is all the GOP has
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The entire raison d’être of the Republican Party is now to scare white people into voting for them so they can continue to wield power (on behalf of billionaires, of course) with the backing of a craven minority of the U.S. population.
Indeed, the only pr
Guess which city is about to have a majority LGBTQ city council?
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As we dig into results from Tuesday’s election, we have a lot to celebrate. No, not everything went our way, but we had a lot of victories on the local level, and that’s truly amazing. For example, as covered by my colleagues, Cincinnati has elected its f
Sen. Ted Cruz is going after Big Bird. Yeah, that's a sentence that's perfectly at home here in 2021. We're just going to have to pause and bask in this one for a moment:
xThere is no better illustration of how Republicans have politicized basic public healt
Anti-vaxx Chronicles: COVID disinformation creates yet another orphan
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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
U.S. launches private group sponsorship program for Afghan refugees. Will it help?
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by Natasha Ishak
This story was originally published at Prism.
In late October, the U.S. State Department announced a new sponsorship program for incoming refugees from Afghanistan. Modeled after a similar community sponsorship program in Canada, the&nb
Border Patrol 'shadow police unit' has helped cover up abuses for years, human rights groups say
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A network of organizations along the southern borderlands is calling on Congressional leaders to open an investigation into what they describe as possibly “the largest and longest-standing shadow police unit that is operating today in the federal gover
'You people want everything for free': Black McDonald's worker allegedly told—and company fires her
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A former McDonald's employee has filed a federal complaint alleging she was fired for reporting a racist comment another worker said to her, according to Business Insider. Shanece Tailo filed the complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission afte
Eighth-grader recorded teacher's seven-minute rant about vaccines and Joe Biden
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An absolutely shocking story out of a middle school in Ventura, California, has me thinking back to my own days as a preteen. I attended a public school and while we were assigned debates on pre-selected issues, we weren’t really supposed to talk abou
Study: Marginalized communities in food deserts also live with risk of dangerous chemicals in food
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Aside from communities of color existing in what are often called “food deserts,” now we’re learning that much of the food available to Black and brown people is more akin to a “food apartheid” where fast food restaurants line the streets and margin
It's about time: Set those clocks back, and enjoy an extra hour of Black music
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I’m elated that I get an extra hour of sleep today, now that we are no longer on Daylight Saving Time here in New York. I keep saying “fall back, spring forward” to remember to set a few of the windup clocks I have in the house. Thankfully, m
Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: An infrastructure week to remember
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Let’s dive right in!
Li Zhou of Vox writes about Friday night’s passage of the $1.2 trillion infrastructure package,and the concerns of the progressive wing of the Democratic caucus about the eventual fate of Build Back Better bill.
The result wa
Community Spotlight: Making the political personal is more effective than you may think
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Everyone is a storyteller. Every day, we relate different stories to different audiences with different objectives. How we frame the story, the voice we use, and what details we include all contribute greatly to how audiences respond. Commiserating with a nei
I grew up in northeast Wisconsin, about 40 miles outside of Green Bay. So, naturally, I’m a Packers fan.
You might say Packers fandom is part of my DNA. So, in a way, anti-vaxxers are right. The vaccine—or at least one gormless Green Bay goober’s
Louie Gohmert hints that climate action would force us all to brush our teeth with bark
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How the hell did Republican Louie Gohmert of Texas ever become a member of the House of Representatives? Did he collect the most Froot Loops box tops in his district? Did our reptilian alien overlords take a sudden liking to him halfway through eating hi
Students of color in junior colleges are set up for inequities
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by Juliana Clark
This story was originally published at Prism.
From an early age, Joel Velasquez knew that Texas A&M University was his dream school, drawn by the university’s sizable student population, traditions, and leadership opportun
Striking health care workers in Buffalo have a tentative deal, this week in the war on workers
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Around 2,000 health care workers at South Buffalo Mercy Hospital have been on strike since Oct. 1. Now, they have a tentative agreement and picket lines are suspended while the workers vote whether to ratify the contract. The continuing John De
Connect! Unite! Act! 42 million Americans face food insecurity
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Connect! Unite! Act! is a weekly series that seeks to create face-to-face networks in each congressional district. Groups meet regularly to socialize, get out the vote, support candidates, and engage in other local political actions that help our progressive
Parler Chronicles: Good luck to Virginia's Republican governor-elect dealing with his party's nuts
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Anti-vaxx Chronicles aren’t going anywhere, but it gets to be a grind sometimes. So I will occasionally mix it up with Parler Chronicles, exploring the right-wing Twitter-wannabe social media outlet. Reddit’s r/ParlerWatch subreddit tracks the ridicu
Jewish residents in an Austin neighborhood were sent antisemitic letters blaming them for COVID
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A string of antisemitic attacks has taken place over the last few days across Texas and in Austin. In the latest incident, several people in an Austin neighborhood received hateful letters at their homes. The letters received by Jewish residents in
Multilevel marketing firms have a favorite Democratic senator, and it makes so much sense who it is
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Sen. Kyrsten Sinema has emerged as the favored candidate of multilevel marketing companies, and it’s not because of her statement handbags and dresses, as easy as it would be to imagine her recruiting a group of coworkers or friendquaintances to aggres
Making sense of what Virginia means and doesn't mean for Democrats in 2022
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Tuesday and the handwringing that followed has undoubtedly been unpleasant. As Democrats on Wednesday tried to assess the magnitude of the post-election fallout, one astute observer chimed in with some good news.
«The 2022 election is not, in fact, bei
Powerful union joins call for Supreme Court expansion
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This week’s U.S. Supreme Court rocket docket hearing on Texas’s abortion ban demonstrated that the court might not be ready to turn citizens into vigilantes when it comes to enforcing their political wishes. That was an argument worthy of s
U.S. retail operations got lean by making CEOs fat, and now everyone is paying the price
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There was a moment in the spring of 2021 when the steady growth of e-commerce actually reversed. For three months, Americans actually put down their laptops, mice, and smartphones and, like bears emerging from a very long hibernation, went out to en
Small town in California declares itself free of federal, state rule as a ‘constitutional republic’
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Far-right “constitutionalists” have been around for decades now, particularly in rural America, where they have a history of recruiting vulnerable marks into their grift, which convinces the gullible that they can declare themselves “sovereign” peopl
