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| Morning Digest: Georgia Republicans are playing a dangerous game with their new maps The Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, and Stephen Wolf, with additional contributions from the Daily Kos Elections team.
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Daily Kos Elections | 12/08/2023 | 1 |
| What are you reading? December 8, 2023
In WAYR? , I note what I’m reading and comment...you note what you are reading and comment. Occasionally, I may add a section or a link related to books…got no reading done this week but I do ... |
Chitown Kev | 12/08/2023 | 3 |
| Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: A close race is a winnable race Mark Murray /NBC News:
Too many are misreading the 2024 polls. Here’s a better way.
Analysis: Whether Biden or Trump is up by a few points, almost every survey is saying the same thing — the ... |
Greg Dworkin | 12/08/2023 | 77 |
| Morning Open Thread ❧ Friday's "Notes from Below Sea Level" & tunes by Nirvana
Cheers everyone and welcome to Friday’s Morning Open Thread.
Morning Open Thread is a daily, � copyrighted � post from a host of editors and guest writers. We support our community, invite and ... |
P Carey | 12/08/2023 | 88 |
| Is higher education being set-up again for the coming election season with language policing Campus speech remains as contentious as it should in a democracy but the latest version of right-wing discourse as “anti-wokeness” has returned to its authoritarian roots in private capital’s version of ‘political correctness’ in private higher... |
annieli | 12/08/2023 | 3 |
| White House Picture of the Day for December 8th, 2023
Welcome to White House Picture of the Day
(Formerly known as MF Daily and before that, Mojo Friday’s Weekly Open Thread)
Showcasing a photo from the White House Photography staff, led by Adam ... |
bsegel | 12/08/2023 | 3 |
| Notes from South Asia: BJP Wins State Elections, India, Counteroffensive, Myanmar, Justice in Nepal Hello, everyone! Welcome to this edition of Notes from South Asia. You can find the previous edition here. Today, we will cover the Indian National Congress’s (INC’s) failure in three state elections in India, The 1027 counter offensive against Myanmar... |
AVeng | 12/07/2023 | 13 |
| Countdown With Keith Olbermann, S2E87: Trump Leak: VP ... Tucker Carlson? Because Hitler Is Dead? S2E87 of the Countdown podcast is up at iHeart Radio. S2E87 on Omny.FM (and links to all of his podcasts) ivoox also carries his podcast. YouTube: Preview: A-Block SPECIAL COMMENT: Dictator-On-Day-One Trump continues to measure the windows for the new... |
Proginoskes | 12/07/2023 | 2 |
| IAN: December 8th 2023: A Modern Hanukkah Song diary. Happy Friday! Hanukkah started at sundown yesterday, so I thought I would do a modern Hanukkah song diary this week. May your holiday be bright and peaceful.�
Bit has a short shift tomorrow, so that� |
FloridaSNMOM | 12/07/2023 | 10 |
| Ukraine Invasion Day 653: lots of different operational tempos in the battlespaces Russian forces may be suffering losses along the entire front in Ukraine at a rate close to the rate at which Russia is currently generating new forces. The US pushed for large-scale, combined arms offensives. But Ukraine faced unexpected difficulties... |
annieli | 12/07/2023 | 24 |
| IVH: Lush / Gala Tonight’s selections from Lush’s first album, 1990’s Gala (a compilation of their UK EPs).
For a too-brief moment, Lush were the platonic ideal of an underground college band turning their ... |
Al Dorado | 12/07/2023 | 24 |
| Overnight News Digest: Earth on the brink of five catastrophic climate tipping points
Tonight’s news awaits your comments. Everyone is encouraged to share their 2¢ or articles, stories, and tweets. This is an open thread. |
Magnifico | 12/07/2023 | 22 |
| Top Comments: It's Not the Aurora Borealis, It's... Steve
Here at Top Comments we strive to nourish community by rounding up some of the site's best, funniest, most mojo'd & most ... |
gizmo59 | 12/07/2023 | 9 |
| PWB Peeps: Open Thread Hannukah! NB:� strawbale is unable to join us until Saturday, so I am reposting for her. � Please to enjoy!
Another of the season’s festivals of light and renewal. |
The Marti | 12/07/2023 | 51 |
| PWB Peeps Open Thread: Hannukah! Another of the season’s festivals of light and renewal. |
strawbale | 12/07/2023 | 3 |
| 📚 Write On! The audience and the connect. Hiya, writers and friends. So, last week we were talking about the necessity of engaging readers/audience, and that it’s really pretty biological with them! Some of that has to do with the audience identifying with the characters or situation, and we... |
mettle fatigue | 12/07/2023 | 71 |
| A Song of Zion: Chanukkah, oh, Chanukkah! Ninalyn of the DailyKOS community presents a songfilk: I have a new menorah, I got it just this year I’ll put it in my window to spread Chanukkah cheer! Menorah, my menorah, I got it just this year I’ll put it in my window to spread Chanukkah cheer! I... |
Ninalyn | 12/07/2023 | 68 |
| Cassidy Hutchinson warns that Trump is a feather-triggered fascist with a 'volcanic temper' Cassidy Hutchinson was once Trump's Chief of Staff Mark Meadow’s right-hand woman. She has a rare gift. She radiates honesty. And in modest, calm tones, Hutchinson conveys Trump’s unstable nature better than a raft of professional pundits. She spoke... |
TheCriticalMind | 12/07/2023 | 33 |
| For those who think just one vote won’t make a difference Every vote counts — and it’s okay to vote for yourself. What Roth didn’t know was that he was casting the decisive ballot in a race that would be determined by one vote. His opponent, Damion Green, had chosen not to vote for himself in the election,... |
thehecticdialectic | 12/07/2023 | 3 |
| Fake electors everywhere are indicted with Chesebro's help, next week he visits Arizona The 2020 fake electors in Michigan and Georgia have been charged, the team in Wisconsin just admitted their crimes, and six fake bozos in Nevada were indicted this week. When Democrat Kris Mayes was running for Attorney General in Arizona last year, a... |
Mother Mags | 12/07/2023 | 30 |
| More Russian stuff blowing up: Ukrainian sniper details record-breaking shot The captain has illuminated the seat belt sign. Please return your trays to the upright position. That’s a damn shame about your electric infrastructure. This is reportedly a factory that produces transformers and other electrical equipment. That’s a... |
quaoar | 12/07/2023 | 24 |
| Democrats tap George Santos' predecessor in race to fill Santos' seat Democratic leaders unsurprisingly announced on Thursday that they'd chosen former Rep. Tom Suozzi to be the party's nominee in the closely watched Feb. 13 special election to replace Suozzi's successor, expelled GOP Rep. George Santos. Suozzi has spent... |
Jeff Singer | 12/07/2023 | 3 |
| Far-right Republicans are furious after anti-abortion measure dropped from defense bill House Speaker Mike Johnson has—gasp!— compromised again . The latest version of the $886 billion National Defense Authorization Act, unveiled late Wednesday, does not include Republican measures ... |
Laura Clawson | 12/07/2023 | 47 |
| It's high time: 6 Democratic governors urge Biden to push DEA to reschedule marijuana by end of year Six Democratic governors have sent a letter to President Joe Biden urging the administration�to push the Drug Enforcement Administration to “reschedule”�marijuana as a less dangerous Class III ... |
Charles Jay | 12/07/2023 | 59 |
| ICYMI: Alito won’t do what’s right and Taylor Swift triggers the right Justice Samuel Alito: A refusal of recusal As plaintiffs seek to fundamentally alter U.S. tax law, Justice Samuel Alito stands as the justice most sympathetic to their case—even more so than the far-right stalwart Clarence Thomas. Could it be that... |
Jen Hayden | 12/07/2023 | 11 |
| I was scammed and lost everything, don't let it happen to you. So we decided to flee Indiana. For background, my name is Alexis, I'm a nonbinary trans person, married to my trans husband Ian, and we have 2 kids, Felix, aged 12, and Zinnia age 9. Indiana is currently attempting the "Florida Speedrun" insofar as it... |
A Bleeding God | 12/07/2023 | 93 |
| Loyal, angry, and ready to break the law: How Trump plans to staff his Cabinet In a lot of ways, it’s a dream job: good pay, great benefits, lots of power, and the ability to break the law with impunity. All it requires is surrendering your soul to Donald Trump.
Axios ... |
Mark Sumner | 12/07/2023 | 55 |
| West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Daily Special, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thurs Podcast (Audio) Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays, is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump ‘will do whatever is necessary for him to... |
justiceputnam | 12/07/2023 | 1 |
| The ignorance of Liz Cheney Despite the fact that I like almost everybody at Daily Kos have sharp disagreements with Liz Cheney in almost every policy area with only a few exceptions, I have strongly supported her because she has been one of the strongest and few republican... |
Dem | 12/07/2023 | 18 |
| Do Biden and Harris need to propose "Radical Change?" I got a shock a few weeks ago around a Thanksgiving table that my family and I did not get to share. Our plans for a happy turkey meal together had been dashed by the hosting family getting COVID only a few days before. Trying to make the best of a bad... |
rflctammt | 12/07/2023 | 23 |
| Pioneer farming Welcome to the Street Prophets Coffee Hour cleverly hidden at the intersection of religion and politics. This is an open thread where we can share our thoughts and comments about the day. The ... |
Ojibwa | 12/07/2023 | 8 |
| Unholy Moses: Mike Johnson claims God chose him to lead America to a Republican promised land House Speaker Mike Johnson, whose grand vision for America includes transforming every uterus in the country into a Pez dispenser, is convinced he’s the North American Moses who will lead his people to the Promised Land. What Promised Land does he... |
Aldous J Pennyfarthing | 12/07/2023 | 142 |
| LYIN' LARA Trump Flips Charges (that Donald Trump is Running for President to Avoid Prison) to Biden It has become increasingly clear that the primary campaign strategy of Donald Trump as he seeks to reoccupy the White House is a variation on the elementary school debate response, "I know you are, but what am I?" It shouldn't surprise anyone that the... |
News Corpse | 12/07/2023 | 11 |
| Sen. J.D. Vance demands Justice Department investigate Trump-critical Washington Post editorial On Nov. 30, Washington Post Editor-at-Large Robert Kagan wrote an extended opinion piece arguing that Donald Trump is on a "clear path" to establishing a dictatorship in this country, and that ... |
Hunter | 12/07/2023 | 251 |
| Is there something seriously wrong with the American electorate? The short answer is yes. We have lost the ability to sort through disinformation and determine what is true. We have allowed a drum beat of lies to make us an angry people and lose our optimism. And now, we are teetering on a tight rope between... |
Raven100 | 12/07/2023 | 157 |
| Guyana the first Domino in our fall? 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... |
Things Come Undone | 12/07/2023 | 25 |
| Georgia GOP shreds diverse districts, defying court order to remedy discrimination Georgia's Republican-run legislature has passed new maps for Congress , the state Senate , and ... |
Stephen Wolf | 12/07/2023 | 18 |
| PWB Theme Thursday: Naughty or Nice? It’s eighteen�days till Christmas, and some of our furry friends are getting nervous!� Ai reely tried... Being cats (and woozles�and ellyfants�and horsies), it can be hard sometimes to ... |
userexists | 12/07/2023 | 136 |
| Today in Congress: Johnson’s inexperience showing; Ukraine stalemate continues House and Senate negotiators reached agreement on a major defense and national security policy bill, the National Defense Authorization Act, on Wednesday. It’s likely to be the only legislative ... |
Joan McCarter | 12/07/2023 | 44 |
| Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, When Wars Converge This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. As I was following the nightmare in Gaza and preparing today’s piece by TomDispatch regular Andrew Bacevich, author of On Shedding... |
TomDispatch | 12/07/2023 | 3 |
| New Civiqs poll: Americans say inflation won't be solved until prices drop Americans have a very different understanding from economists of what inflation is and how the economy works.
The latest Daily Kos/Civiqs survey finds that pluralities of Americans—across party ... |
Daniel Donner | 12/07/2023 | 251 |
| West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Daily Special Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays 8am PT/11am ET West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump ‘will do whatever is necessary for him to take power.’ Then, on the... |
justiceputnam | 12/07/2023 | 1 |
| The Daily Bucket: More Fun with Fungi at our annual mushroom show extravaganza. Bellingham, WA Pacific Northwest October 1923 The Northwest Mushroomers’ Association held their 31st annual Fall mushroom show In late October, the prime collecting time of the year in the Pacific Northwest. This show, hosted at Western Washington... |
RonK | 12/07/2023 | 65 |
| Russian internal report: Our powerful air defense is "helpless" against drones. Multi million dollar Russian ships, tanks, artillery and infantry are getting beat badly by hordes of inexpensive drones. A 193 page internal report from Professor Sergey Makarenko of St Petersburg Electrotechnical University (LETI) tells a grim story... |
Drone Watch | 12/07/2023 | 24 |
| Daily Kos Elections Live Digest: 12/7 Welcome to the Daily Kos Elections Live Digest, your liveblog of all of today's campaign news. You can find our collection of public data at dailykosdata.com. Please note: The Live Digest is a Democratic presidential primary-free space. It’s also a... |
Daily Kos Elections | 12/07/2023 | 44 |
| Caribbean Matters: Understanding Venezuela's efforts to seize two-thirds of Guyana 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... |
Denise Oliver Velez | 12/07/2023 | 207 |
| An “early” Song of Zion: Revised Biblical Archeology: Parsha Vayeishev I am posting early but at the usual time later today, expect a posting from Ninalyn who signed up for this week’s posting. As I was working on a post about some archeology articles from Ha’Aretz I noticed a few parallels with this week’s Parsha and one... |
thewavethatiam | 12/07/2023 | 14 |
| Morning Digest: One of the biggest Democratic primaries in the country just got underway The Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, and Stephen Wolf, with additional contributions from the Daily Kos Elections team.
Subscribe to The Downballot, our weekly podcast
... |
Daily Kos Elections | 12/07/2023 | 6 |
| How To Fight Back Against MAGA Extremists I turned on MSNBC about a month ago on a Sunday morning, only to see a show being rebroadcast from a recent previous evening program. It wasn’t a problem, or so I thought, as I hadn’t seen the previous airing of the show. It was an eye-opener with... |
ottovr | 12/07/2023 | 13 |
| White House Picture of the Day for December 7th, 2023 - 🕎 Welcome to White House Picture of the Day (Formerly known as MF Daily and before that, Mojo Friday’s Weekly Open Thread) Showcasing a photo from the White House Photography staff, led by Adam Schultz. Feel free to join us anytime and share with us what... |
bsegel | 12/07/2023 | 8 |
| GOP debate: Ron DeSantis saying Muslim men wear “man dresses” was not on any bingo card The fourth GOP primary debate was as stupid as the others. The debate, hosted by NewsNation and moderated by Megyn Kelly, Elizabeth Vargas and Eliana Johnson, devolved into conspiracy theories and confusing personal attacks. Sartorial splendor included... |
annieli | 12/06/2023 | 191 |
| IAN:Thursday 12/7/2023 It's a wrap! I make a total mess out of wrapping a gift and so am stunned by the Japanese methods.� They have very quick procedures where one lady wrapped 2 boxes in 50 seconds and other ways that make the ... |
art ah zen | 12/06/2023 | 24 |
| Ukraine Invasion Day 652: more than an invaded "former Soviet republic" Funds and firepower remain the key issues as drones continue to strike. Russian forces conducted a notably large series of drone strikes against Ukraine on the night of December 5 to 6. Ukrainian military officials reported that Russian forces launched... |
annieli | 12/06/2023 | 52 |
| Late Night Insomniacs Vent Hole
SPOILER WARNING: A late night gathering for non serious palaver that does not speak of that night’s show. Posting a spoiler will get you �. You don’t want that to happen to you.
This Vent Hole ( |
sallym | 12/06/2023 | 16 |
| PWB - Kitties Love Catmas Carols Kitties are well known for their singing prowess…�They are quite proud of it. We have been invited to sing along…
But first, the rules…
You are all welcome to join us!
Here are few not-... |
mamajo2k | 12/06/2023 | 59 |
| Top Comments: Some Personal News. The Happy Kind. The Pelican has landed!
But first, a word from our sponsor:
Top Comments � recognizes the previous day's � Top Mojo � and strives to promote each day's outstanding comments through nominations ... |
Tara the Antisocial Social Worker | 12/06/2023 | 34 |
| Is a Trump Criminal Trial Verdict Still Possible Before Election Day 2024?: 'BradCast' 12/6/2023 Guest: Former federal prosecutor Randall D. Eliason Also: McCarthy quits Congress U.S. files war crimes charges against Russians Trump's fake 2020 electors settle WI lawsuit, are indicted in NV... Given all the legal delay tactics available to him, Is... |
TheBradBlog | 12/06/2023 | 5 |
| Bookchat: Mysteries and binge reading Welcome to Bookchat! Where you can talk about anything; books, plays, essays, and audio books. You don’t have to be reading a book to come in, sit down, and chat with us.
Last Tuesday I wrote ... |
bookgirl | 12/06/2023 | 70 |
| West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Daily Special, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays Podcast (Audio) Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays, is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Speaker of the House, MAGA Mike Johnson, admitted... |
justiceputnam | 12/06/2023 | 1 |
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