kos's Profile
Founder and Publisher of Daily Kos
Markos "kos" Moulitsas is the founder and publisher of Daily Kos.
Real Name: Markos Moulitsas
DOB: 9/11/1971
Gender: Male
Location: Berkeley, CA, United States
Occupation: Writer
Groups: Daily Kos Elections, Daily Kos, Meatless Advocates Meetup, Velocipede Vanguard, LatinoKos, Comics, Daily Kos Liveblogs
Hobbies: Piano, Cycling, Aquascaping
Twitter: markos
Diaries published: 15378 (3 days since last diary on Tue Dec 05, 2023 at 01:47 PM PST)
Comments posted: 20345 (8 days since last comment on Wed Nov 29, 2023 at 04:20 PM PST)
Diary frequency: frequent
Comment frequency: frequent
Total Recommends: 233909
Total Comment Ratings: 42317
Most Recommended Diary: Thanks, 782 comments, 1452 recommends
People Following kos: 2842
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Major newspapers may be leading media shift on Trump coverage For far too long, we’ve bemoaned the national media for covering Donald Trump as if he were a conventional candidate and not who he actually is: a fascist threat to our nation’s democracy....
by kos
 87 comments
on Tue Dec 05, 2023 at 01:47 PM PST
with 293 Recommends
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Monday’s theme? Republican weakness Republicans don’t seem to be trying very hard as we head into the December holidays. The Republican effort in the House to impeach President Joe Biden took a new step forward before quickly taking two steps back....
by kos
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on Mon Dec 04, 2023 at 02:09 PM PST
with 209 Recommends
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So long, Santos
Rep. George Santos was expelled from the House of Representatives . A majority of Republicans—including their entire leadership team—voted against expulsion, fearful of ...
by kos
48 comments
on Sat Dec 02, 2023 at 09:00 AM PST
with 141 Recommends
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Looks like Musk is ready to abandon Twitter, er, “X” Yesterday, Elon Musk told his corporate advertisers, and specifically Disney CEO Bob Iger, to “Go fuck yourself.” And after claiming he’d never let advertisers “blackmail” him (and clearly not...
by kos
185 comments
on Thu Nov 30, 2023 at 01:46 PM PST
with 231 Recommends
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Elon Musk telling advertisers to “go fuck yourself,” with a specific callout to Disney’s Bob Iger, is getting all the attention. Musk stans on Twitter are beside themselves with excitement.
by kos
259 comments
on Wed Nov 29, 2023 at 03:39 PM PST
with 383 Recommends
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Why is the media ignoring Trump's direct threats to our Constitution? Donald Trump keeps threatening our nation’s democracy in no uncertain terms, and yet the nation’s media insists on treating his proclamations as spectacle, when they’re not outright...
by kos
78 comments
on Wed Nov 29, 2023 at 01:39 PM PST
with 199 Recommends
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- I’m so tired of all the winning! Make it stop!!! New Jersey Republicans got demolished. How bad did it get? A Trump district +35 in New Jersey was flipped by a Democrat! Ohio voted to protect abortion rights! Ohio voted to legalize recreational...150 comments 499 Recs
- In the dark hours of December 2016, we noticed something out of the ordinary. In one of the first elections following the previous month’s political apocalypse, a Democrat running for state Senate in Iowa ran up a margin 31 percentage points better...37 comments 166 Recs
- I was stunned recently when I saw that October 30th marks the twentieth anniversary of me joining Daily Kos. The old saying is “Time flies when you’re having fun.” Well, it also flies when you’re immersing yourself in a community of proud and...174 comments 303 Recs
- Alex Lawson is the executive director of Social Security Works, a nonprofit with a mission including protecting and expanding Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, as well as advocating for lower drug prices and other policies that might ensure...155 comments 289 Recs
- It’s very difficult for even the most motivated partisan hack to say anything good about Kevin McCarthy, but give the ex-speaker this: He could raise money like his life depended on it. His now-...67 comments 207 Recs
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