.jpg){kind=small}
Adam B's Profile
Member, Netroots Nation Bd of Dirs (Chair 2008-14), and contributing writer to the Daily Kos front page on legal and campaign finance issues. Nothing I say on this site is legal advice. If you need legal help, get a lawyer.
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Groups: Daily Kos Elections, Netroots For The Troops®, NetrootsNation, Discussing The Law: TalkLeft's View On Law and Politics, Philly Kos, Trial Watch, OMalley OMentum, 2016 DNC DKos
Twitter: adambonin
Diaries published: 950 (1411 days since last diary on Mon Jan 27, 2020 at 12:34 PM PST)
Comments posted: 85086 (23 days since last comment on Wed Nov 15, 2023 at 01:20 PM PST)
Diary frequency: frequent
Comment frequency: frequent
Total Recommends: 39453
Total Comment Ratings: 160316
Most Recommended Diary: They Want To Punish ACORN? Two Can Play This Game, 457 comments, 961 recommends
People Following Adam B: 451
Adam B's Most Frequent Tags:
Adam B's Most Recent Diaries:
|
So I wrote this, and it was printed yesterday in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Based on fair use, I can give you the opening here: On Nov. 3, Pennsylvania voters will cast votes for president. About five weeks later, on Dec. 14, 20 Pennsylvanians...
by Adam B
 40 comments
on Mon Jan 27, 2020 at 12:34 PM PST
with 17 Recommends
|
|
Their districts voted for Trump. These freshmen still voted to impeach. We need to have their backs. They did it. They really did it. This was the toughest vote they may ever have to take, the solemn vote to impeach a president and place him on the path to potential removal from office. And it was an especially tough vote for those freshman Dems in...
by Adam B
93 comments
on Wed Dec 18, 2019 at 06:20 PM PST
with 247 Recommends
|
|
On a publicly owned traffic circle in Bladensburg, Maryland, sits a 32-foot-high Latin cross, erected almost a century ago as a memorial to the World War I dead of Prince George’s County. Today’s 7-2 ruling of the Supreme Court of the United States,...
by Adam B
217 comments
on Thu Jun 20, 2019 at 11:13 AM PDT
with 80 Recommends
|
|
I’ll let the LA Times explain:
The findings from a UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll, done for The Times, provide bad news for some of the contenders, starting with Sen. Kamala Harris.
Harris needs strong support in her home...
by Adam B
202 comments
on Thu Jun 13, 2019 at 06:58 AM PDT
with 77 Recommends
|
|
Trump State Department fighting to deny birthright citizenship to one of two twin sons of gay couple Equal means equal, unless you’re dealing with the Trump administration. And especially when you’re dealing with immigration. But this, however, is going to require a bit of set-up for me to explain.
In 2015 , the Supreme Court of the United States...
by Adam B
109 comments
on Fri May 10, 2019 at 02:39 PM PDT
with 227 Recommends
|
|
Almost two months ago, I wrote a diary titled "I think we're all underestimating how popular Joe Biden will be," talking about contemporaneous polling suggesting that Democratic primary voters were leaning more towards “someone who can win” than...
by Adam B
997 comments
on Tue Apr 30, 2019 at 07:56 AM PDT
with 167 Recommends
|
Recommended by Adam B
- Believe it or not—and I really cannot—today marks the 20th anniversary of Daily Kos Elections, the site that began life as the Swing State Project. And what a remarkable journey it’s been. Twenty years ago, I was a first-year law student who’d just...45 comments 104 Recs
- Tuesday was the deadline in Pennsylvania for candidates to file for this year’s crucial race for a seat on the seven-member state Supreme Court, and we learned this week that each party will have a contested primary on May 16. The Democratic contest is...5 comments 48 Recs
- I’ve been a dKos member since November 22, 2003 (coincidentally the 40th anniversary of JFK’s assassination). I used to post here quite frequently, and in fact this is where ACA Signups got its start back on October 11, 2013. However, I don’t hang out...107 comments 869 Recs
- Response to: DK Guild, March 3, 2023, 1:30 PM PST, Daily Kos Guild passes vote of no confidence in Will Rockafellow, President of Kos Media, Daily Kos.654 comments 694 Recs
- The fact that Daily Kos has featured consistent coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine since before the Russian tanks actually rolled in a year ago, and that this coverage often includes encouraging the U.S. government as well as NATO allies to...224 comments 556 Recs
- Welcome to the Daily Kos Elections Live Digest, your liveblog of all of today's campaign news. Please note: The Live Digest is a 2016 and 2020 Democratic presidential primary-free space. It’s also a place to discuss elections, not policy. Subscribe to...137 comments 8 Recs
- It was exactly 20 years ago, and I just couldn’t take it anymore. It was 2002, when most everyone had lost their minds in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Conservative voices dominated both their burgeoning media bubble and traditional news...273 comments 336 Recs
- Doug Mastriano, the Pennsylvania Republican gubernatorial nominee, did not need Donald Trump to turn him into a paranoid conspiracy theorist. He was there decades ago, a Washington Post report on Mastriano’s 2001 master’s thesis shows. Mastriano’s...33 comments 62 Recs
- Omg. THANK YOU FOR HELPING ME BECOME THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE FOR U.S. SENATE IN PENNSYLVANIA!!!!!!!! 😭😭 I am so deeply honored. With 90% reporting, here are Tuesday night’s election results. We literally won all 67 PA Counties!!!!!!!!...274 comments 875 Recs
- Welcome to the Daily Kos Elections Live Digest, your liveblog of all of today's campaign news. Please note: The Live Digest is a 2016 and 2020 Democratic presidential primary-free space. It’s ...144 comments 5 Recs
