Founder of Daily Kos, co-founder Civiqs.com, co-founder Vox Media. Active at Bluesky
Berkeley, California
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Imagine how bad this place got for me to give up 170K+ followers and start fresh, but that place with the blue skies is leagues better than this hellhole, so I’m out for good.
Not deleting for professional reasons, but in my mind, it’s all gone. See you over there
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Anyone who says that they’re not voting for Biden are also saying “I want Trump to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg”
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Hearing insider rumors that Amy Klobuchar is front-runner for Biden VP pick. If that were to happen, it would be Tim Kaine 2.0—doing nothing to unify the party, bringing no new demographics to the ticket. It would be (once again) a disaster.
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Fox News viewers have been fed a story that Harris can't finish a sentence, can't handle an interview, is slow and lethargic, and that's not what they're seeing right now.
Yes, it's a Fox ambush like we all knew it would be. But Prosecutor Kamala is crushing it
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Putin needed a quick end to the war to quash Ukraine’s will to fight. Every hour that they hold out, that will multiplies exponentially, while Russian troops suffer the opposite. Ukraine isn’t just holding out, they’ve won some early rounds.
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Why isn't Biden leading the Democratic response to coronavirus EVERY SINGLE DAY? Why cede the ground to Trump's propaganda? If Biden won't do it, make it Warren. Just find someone.
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So proud of @DailyKos community for raising over half a million to help make this possible.
Thousands of American Indian voters in North Dakota are getting free IDs to comply with new voter rules. strib.mn/2qj1JUI
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As a veteran, @realDonaldTrump thinks I was a sucker for enlisting. And had I been killed during my service, I would’ve been a loser.
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North Dakota tribes need $100K to get tribal IDs to voters, after ND Republicans attempt to disenfranchise them. Daily Kos is raising the money for the effort, and WOAH within the first few minutes we're already at $34,000! Let's finish strong: secure.actblue.com/donate/dk…
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So proud of my son, who graduated infantry basic training at Fort Benning on Friday. I got to pin on his US Army unit patch that officially makes him a US Army soldier. And I got to rock my 32-year-old uniform!
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Reminder: Pennsylvania can’t count it’s early votes early (like Arizona and other states) because Republicans blocked efforts to change that. They specifically wanted the count to drag past election night to cast doubt on the process.
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Pelosi didn't cost Democrats a single seat. And anyone who thinks that a Pelosi replacement wouldn't get the same right-wing-noise-machine treatment is hopelessly naive. They'll demonize any Dem, and do so in zero time flat. Letting them dictate our leaders is idiotic.
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Wait, what is socialism again?
The Department of Agriculture has paid out $7,700,000,000 to farmers so far in aid designed to offset the negative impact from Trump's trade war, Reuters reports. reuters.com/article/us-usa-t…
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Top four countries in new Covid cases not-so-coincidentally led by the world’s four worst leaders.
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If you take out the “blue states” and blue cities from federal revenue, the red states collapse. This is not a game Republicans should be playing.
Trump says that if you take out “blue states” from the death statistics, they’re much better. (He’s previously talked about removing New York in particular, which was itself ridiculous.)
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Kristi Noem is blaming her ghostwriter for the lies in her book, which would imply that she never read the book she supposedly wrote, except that …
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Sell Puerto Rico and buy Greenland. Even his fantasy deals are racist.
In an interview with the New York Times, Elaine Duke, a lifelong Republican who was acting secretary of homeland security for four months in 2017, says that President Trump brought up the idea of selling Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria.
nytimes.com/2020/07/10/us/po…
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George Will joins ranks of Republican never-Trumpers, adds on a dose of “oust his Republican Senate enablers” washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
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BREAKING: Trump fans don't like Harris, details at 10
The New York Times is broken
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Rand Paul, explaining the entire GOP's philosophy: "“I’m very, very concerned that if you solicit votes from typically non-voters, that you will affect and change the outcome.”
They hate democracy.
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What’s tragic is that a real number of Bernie (and Jill Stein) supporters happily let themselves be used by Russia to undermine our democracy
NYT: "The voter suppression effort was focused particularly on Sanders supporters and African-Americans, urging them to shun Mrs. Clinton in the general election and either vote for Ms. Stein or stay home."
nytimes.com/2018/12/17/us/po…
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The cult of personality around Bernie is one of the Left’s biggest dangers. There are better, more effective messengers that are actual members of the Democratic Party
My report from the Sanders conference, perhaps one of few articles you’ll read that quotes both Fernando Haddad and John Cusack washingtonpost.com/powerpost…
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When my daughter was a toddler, she'd drop a glass of water or juice and say "Uh oh, the glass fell!" The passive voice implying she had no responsibility in the accident.
That's what the @nytimes is doing here, pretending that they weren't a major drive of The Narrative
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Remember when Politico declared that Ron DeSantis had “won the pandemic”? Florida just hit its all-time highest number of new daily cases, 21,683, out of 52,000 total in the *entire* country.
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For Biden it was “he’s old” and “cognitive decline”. Trump is just as old and cognitively declined, yet for him it’s “off-script”. The NY Times is irredeemably broken
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If Republicans refuse to follow their own McConnell Rule, about confirming a justice in a presidential election year, then Democrats should, with zero ambiguity, promise to expand the court if they win this November. Expand it to 15.
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There's your reward for voting Republican, North Carolina.
99 percent of Hurricane Matthew aid requested by NC denied by Trump administration: wp.me/p5hgNQ-1IPX
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Legit surprising. Perhaps the most conservative Dem in Congress.
It’s time for the House of Representatives to begin the impeachment process against President Trump. The President’s invitation to yet another foreign power—this time Ukraine—to undermine U.S. elections requires that Congress begin the process in our
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For the record, it was Bernie that fought to preserve the caucus system because he did better in low-turnout contests in which supporter intensity is an advantage.
We're going to make it easier to vote, not harder. #IowaCaucuses
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Trump isn’t running for re-election. Not anymore. He’s trying to hold on to power. It’s an important distinction that explains pretty much all of his behavior and actions.
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I don’t understand why the Bernie campaign doesn’t try to actually win a majority of Democratic votes. Instead, they do everything possible to shrink their potential pool of supporters.
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At this point, it’s intentional. The NYT knows it’s being accused of a double standard, and its response is “yup”
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Fuck it. I give up. @realDonaldTrump has defeated me. I endorse him. Inject Clorox to own the libs.
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There are liberals who sit and whine and snipe from the sidelines, and those that busted their asses last year to elect Democrats to Congress. Today happened because of the doers.
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“Send it back to the states” they said.
That’s not what they really want. A small minority, terrified of public opinion, is using every structural tool at their disposal to overturn popular sentiment
BREAKING: Missouri Secretary of State @JayAshcroftMO has decertified #Amendment3, the ballot initative that could lift the state's ban on abortions.
This comes as the Missouri Supreme Court is set to hear the case for the ballot initative Tuesday morning.
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It sucks that we have to win by 10 points to be beyond the margin of chaos, but that's what we need to do, and we need to win the close Senate races, and then we need a whole new democracy agenda that will expand the courts and establish uniform national voting standards.
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With CNN confirming that intelligence chiefs consider this report credible, it's about time to start using the word "treason"
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Dumbass brought cameras into a “private” negotiation to show the world how Schumer and Pelosi kicked his ass. dailykos.com/story/2018/12/1…
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This argument over whether Tuesday was a "wave: is so stupid. Democrats won A TON of shit. We minimized losses where we were most vulnerable—the Senate. Who cares what to call it? We WON A TON OF SHIT. Now we prepare for 2020.
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I’ll call it now—Bernie won’t get more than 12% once the field shapes up. Likely single digits. Too many good progressives will run. Too few Bernie dead-enders left.
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Kamala Harris doesn't owe the national press anything dailykos.com/stories/2024/8/…
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He literally just tweeted that he never called John McCain a loser. And we’re supposed to believe the rest of his denial?
Via @fitsnews: “Donald Trump: John McCain Is ‘A Loser’” fitsnews.com/2015/07/18/dona…
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Let today be the last time Iowa goes first. The last time they do this ridiculous and undemocratic caucus system would be a bonus.
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Couldn't stand Bush, politically, but my god, it wasn't hard for him to be a decent human being. What happened to the Republican Party?
Today is @SpeakerPelosi 80th birthday.
Bush began his 1/23/2007 SOTU:
"In his day Congressman Thomas D'Alesandro Jr from Baltimore saw Presidents Roosevelt & Truman at this rostrum. But nothing could compare with the sight of his only daughter Nancy presiding tonight as Speaker"
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No one should have to wait three hours to vote. No one in white suburbs is waiting three hours.
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Look at that. A real president.
We grieve for the Americans murdered in Pittsburgh. All of us have to fight the rise of anti-Semitism and hateful rhetoric against those who look, love, or pray differently. And we have to stop making it so easy for those who want to harm the innocent to get their hands on a gun.
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The POPE is more progressive than the GOP or US Supreme Court.
BREAKING: Pope Francis endorses same-sex civil unions for the first time as pope while being interviewed for the feature-length documentary “Francesco.” “Homosexual people have the right to be in a family. They are children of God,” Francis said. apne.ws/N8oNNCU
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So the White House has a secret server to hide politically damaging information about Trump. That’ll be fun.
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Say goodby to Virginia’s racist illegal gerrymander, and with it, Republican majorities.
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Remember when you refused to impeach Trump and said he had learned his lesson? This is on you.
The lawlessness and violence on Capitol Hill today was a dangerous, shameful, and outrageous attack on our democracy. But this attack will not deter Congress from performing our constitutional duty. We will affirm the certified results of the presidential election.
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is it that hard to write “Elizabeth Warren”?
Despite messy results, the Iowa caucuses scrambled the 2020 campaign, with Pete Buttigieg and Bernie Sanders pulling ahead and Joe Biden trailing in fourth place. How will this outcome affect the dynamics on today’s debate stage? nyti.ms/389Jy8f
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Jesus Christ Alex, it’s freakin plain English. There’s a transcript.
Seriously, this is why people are done with the Beltway media.
My write up:
I also asked the WH how they knew Biden only meant “supporter’s” as they have it in this transcript.
Did they talk to Biden to ask him what he meant? The spokesperson asked to go off the record. We declined. They didn’t comment further.
axios.com/2024/10/30/biden-g…
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The @DailyKos community bought 25,000 roses for @SpeakerPelosi, and I had the honor of delivering about 7,000 of them. The other 18,000 were donated by the Speaker to Walter Reed hospital, will be delivered tomorrow!
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Sure it’s no BENGHAZI, but perhaps overseeing the mass death of hundreds of thousands of Americans might merit _some_ investigation.
We don’t need another commission... foxnews.com/politics/schiff-…
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1. Howard Stern has exactly the kind of male audience that Democrats have been losing in recent cycles
2. Frank wants Harris to do Fox, and there are no undecided voters there
3. There are almost no undecided voters anywhere. It's about turnout among core demos
How many watchers of The View, Stephen Colbert, or Howard Stern are undecided voters?
Although kudos to Tim Walz for going on Fox News this morning.
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Sinema's poll numbers are BRUTAL. Not sure how she thinks she's surviving dailykos.com/story/2021/9/27…
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The way the Democratic leadership has treated Biden is shameful. There were ways to handle this with care and respect, behind closed doors, not publicly humiliating him after his service to our country
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They hate the Constitution.
JUST IN: Tennessee governor signs bill that would punish some protesters with loss of voting rights hill.cm/XkBtQhL
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It took less than an hour for the amazing @dailykos community to cover the entire $100K cost of the project! Republicans will always try to suppress the vote. It's who they are. We need to fight them every step of the way. secure.actblue.com/donate/dk…
North Dakota tribes need $100K to get tribal IDs to voters, after ND Republicans attempt to disenfranchise them. Daily Kos is raising the money for the effort, and WOAH within the first few minutes we're already at $34,000! Let's finish strong: secure.actblue.com/donate/dk…
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Guys, if you don’t sign the front of a check, you don’t have a real job.
Along with Trump saying a child can do an automaker’s job, it’s clear how little they think of anyone that isn’t the owner class.
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Dems have no choice but to expand the Courts—all of them, Supreme and Appellate—next year.
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Guys, the Senate race in Maine isn't decided. Susan Collins is at 49.5% and dropping, and the state has instant runoff voting. The two liberals are at 48% combined, and two other candidates have a combined 5%. Only 66% of votes have been counted.
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Dems must pass “democracy agenda” first thing next year: eliminate filibuster, expand courts (supreme, appellate, district), DC, PR, and maybe even Navajo Nation statehood. And uniform national right-to-vote laws. We cannot let republicans retain minority rule
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There isn’t a fiercer Warren partisan around than me, and I’ve come around to the reality that Biden was likely the safest candidate in our field. Black Democrats in South Carolina made the right call.
"Biden should've won by more" is the last gasp of the boomerang left Dead Enders who secretly wanted Trump to win so that they can claim they were right all along.
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Notice how soldiers have cell phones? Russian ones too. They have access to information that contradicts what they’re hearing from Moscow. The sunflower babushka might even be playing on some of them right now.
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Goodbye, and Godspeed my friend, @EricBoehlert. I’m going to desperately miss you. I’m devastated.
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I wrote that she’d be a great pick, but with this, I’ve changed my mind.
Karen Bass in 2010 at a ribbon-cutting for a Scientology church:
"That is why the words are exciting of your Founder L. Rob Hubbard...The Church of Scientology I know has made a difference, because your creed is a universal creed and one that speaks to all people everywhere"
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Putin obviously miscalculated. Maybe he thought, like George W, that his invading army would be welcomed as liberators. For a supposed student of history, he certainly seems dead-set on relearning the lessons of Afghanistan. World powers, including the US, apparently never learn
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Just imagine what the coverage would be like if 222,000 had died under President Hillary Clinton.
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White supremacist presidents will pardon other white supremacists. That's what happens when communities of color don't vote.
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Fire them all and start from scratch. The system is utterly rotten to its core.
An earlier press release from a city spokesperson says this man tripped and fell. Here is video of that incident from WBFO reporter @MikeDesmondWBFO. A BPD spokesperson tells me they were "just made aware of the video and it's currently being looked at."
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And all I hear is @realDonaldTrump screaming "SIT DOWN!" at the Jewish journalist who had the temerity to ask about this stuff.
Appears hundreds of graves vandalized at #STL Jewish cemetery. Damage is extensive. @andybankertv live report on @KPLR11 and @FOX2now at 5p
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So next time the FBI busts a sleeper terrorist cell, no harm no foul, because the attack was never carried out? dailykos.com/story/2019/11/1…
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What an execrable piece of shit human being.
#HankAaron's tragic death is part of a wave of suspicious deaths among elderly closely following administration of #COVID #vaccines. He received the #Moderna vaccine on Jan. 5 to inspire other Black Americans to get the vaccine. #TheDefender
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He is out of his fucking mind.
TRUMP: "Mothers who love their daughters give them massive amounts of birth control pills, because they know their daughters are going to be raped on the way up to our southern border. Think of that. True story told to me by the Border Patrol. Think of how evil that is."
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Liar. He was voting to reject Biden electors.
REPORTER: After the rioters came into the Capitol on Jan. 6, you voted to overturn the results in PA and AZ. … Do you regret the role that you played in any way in sowing doubt about the election?
MCCARTHY: … What I voted on wasn’t to overturn an election because it wouldn’t.
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Warren is third in your poll, but you exclude her from Trump head-to-heads. Why? No one else listed here was excluded. This demands an explanation.
New national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll...
Dem horserace
Sanders 27% (unchanged from Jan poll)
Biden 15% (-11)
Bloomberg 14% (+5)
Warren 14% (-1)
Buttigieg 13% (+6)
Klobuchar 7% (+2)
Feb 14-17, Dem primary voters, +/- 4.8%
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