"
The cold passion for truth hunts in no pack. -Robinson Jeffers
"
.png){kind=small}
Laurence Lewis's Profile
The blogger known as Turkana has evolved.
Groups: DK GreenRoots, DK Poli, Dailykos Kossacks For Action, Meatless Advocates Meetup, Science Matters, PDX Metro, Wildebeests and Yaks, Black Kos community, Discussing The Law: TalkLeft's View On Law and Politics, ClassWarfare Newsletter: WallStreet VS Working Class Global Occupy movement, Nuclear Free DK, Daily Kos Oregon, Abolish the Death Penalty, Discussing Race At Daily Kos, The Durban Daily, VirtuallySpeaking, Climate Change SOS, Shut Down the NRA, Repeal or Amend the Second Amendment (RASA), Les Miserables, Trial Watch, Caucus, Firearms Law and Policy, UN Climate Summit, Climate Action Hub, DK Fans of 90 for 90, Foster Campbell 2016, Trump Russia Investigators
Diaries published: 1415 (12 days since last diary on Sat Nov 25, 2023 at 04:19 PM PST)
Comments posted: 77440 (1 day since last comment on Thu Dec 07, 2023 at 07:44 AM PST)
Diary frequency: frequent
Comment frequency: frequent
Total Recommends: 137782
Total Comment Ratings: 331844
Most Recommended Diary: Congratulations to the Democratic leadership!, 1432 comments, 1000 recommends
People Following Laurence Lewis: 618
Laurence Lewis's Most Frequent Tags:
Laurence Lewis's Most Recent Diaries:
|
Their religious beliefs were fundamental inspirations to the lives and activism of Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela. Same goes for Jimmy Carter, Rosalynn Carter, Oscar Romero, Coretta Scott King, William Barber, Helen Prejean, Martin Sheen, Simone...
by Laurence Lewis
 348 comments
on Sat Nov 25, 2023 at 04:19 PM PST
with 95 Recommends
|
|
While some have been demonizing President Biden for showing empathy and support for an internally troubled ally that just suffered an external terrorist attack the equivalent of 30 9/11s, the reporting all along has been that Biden has also been...
by Laurence Lewis
50 comments
on Fri Oct 27, 2023 at 02:39 PM PDT
with 33 Recommends
|
|
Piggybacking on Laura Clawson’s post, here’s the Washington Post: The U.S. economy churned out a blockbuster 336,000 jobs in September, smashing economists’ expectations and heightening the risk that policymakers will have to push even harder to slow...
by Laurence Lewis
82 comments
on Fri Oct 06, 2023 at 04:11 PM PDT
with 126 Recommends
|
|
Sorry to yell in the headline. Not my style. But this is really out of hand. And sorry to be brief, but this doesn’t require a long explanation. I’ve received ten unsolicited texts today from Democratic candidates. Most with exactly the same message....
by Laurence Lewis
272 comments
on Tue Sep 26, 2023 at 04:57 PM PDT
with 235 Recommends
|
|
We don’t know what happened in Poland. We can be certain that Putin would never admit a mistake, because Putin can never be wrong, he can only be wronged. Thus was it ever in Russia, from the Tsars to the Soviets to whatever hybrid kleptodictatorship...
by Laurence Lewis
32 comments
on Tue Nov 15, 2022 at 02:11 PM PST
with 39 Recommends
|
|
Incredible. Here’s a fucking clue: Make them vote. Make them vote every fucking day. Yes, there is no hope for anything to get through this Senate. But you want to make the case that we need more Democratic senators? Make them vote! Make them vote...
by Laurence Lewis
24 comments
on Wed May 25, 2022 at 11:59 AM PDT
with 17 Recommends
|
Recommended by Laurence Lewis
- A new report from progressive UK.-based think-tanks IPPR and Common Wealth says profiteering played a major role in jacking up prices far above the rise in costs, reinforcing a previous but narrower study showing such an impact. Among other things, the...132 comments 422 Recs
- While most U.S. media has its international news attention trained on events taking place in the Middle East and Ukraine, President Mohamed Irfaan Ali of Guyana is making Caribbean and South American headlines. I doubt that most Americans would...206 comments 289 Recs
- Taylor Swift is Time Magazine’s person of the year, a choice that makes perfect sense. Swift’s Eras Tour is on track to break global records for tour earnings. A concert film also smashed ...296 comments 672 Recs
- If you’ve seen the post by dmontaine, there’s a list of ways The economy sucks - for many of us. I won’t go into them all here — you can find the list at the link. There’s a lot there to be angry about — but there’s something to remember about much of...19 comments 31 Recs
- Commentary by Black Kos Editor Denise Oliver-Velez Today we celebrate the history, and success of the Montgomery Bus Boycott which began December 5, 1955 with a call for a one-day boycott of buses ...170 comments 84 Recs
- Commander projects Mikey Weinstein on screen at unit gathering, calls him “anti-Christian terrorist“That time of year is upon us once again — that joyful season when crusading Christian military commanders bent on bringing all of their subordinates to Jesus abuse their authority to compel all to have a merrily mandatory Christmas. Often, this is done...225 comments 607 Recs
- In the early nineteenth century, museum curators began organizing their prehistoric collections by classifying cutting tools according to the material used to make them: stone, bronze, and iron. ...78 comments 252 Recs
- Two years ago, wagering that Michigan would enact a clean energy package like the one Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed Tuesday would be a good way to lose your rent money. The state House of Representatives had been in Republican hands for a...65 comments 194 Recs
- On Dec.�4,�the sound of drumming�and singing will fill the air�across the Caribbean and Latin America, and in neighborhoods here in the States where there are practitioners of African diasporic ...115 comments 109 Recs
- 'Sleepwalking into dictatorship': Liz Cheney says 'co-opted' GOP would help Trump 'end the republic'Anti-Trump, pro-democratic conservative are goin g to play an important role in helping us beat MAGA/Trump and preserve the US democracy. In fact, imo, the recent paralells in the US to old European fascism—and the amount of political support it...17 comments 46 Recs
Laurence Lewis's Tags
- No current results.
