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| Pennsylvania State House: 2024 Ratings Up next in my state legislative summary posts (for 2024 ratings) is the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, which I looked at last month. A chart with my ratings for all the competitive seats can be found at the top of the post. As per usual, I have... |
gboros | 12/08/2023 | 2 |
| 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 | 5 |
| Good News Roundup for Friday, Dec 8, 2023: Progress through Persistance Welcome 🌻 to Fridayâs Roundup of Good News!
Sometimes itâs hard to keep going. Even when weâre making real progress, we donât always feel like weâre making progress.
I think there are ... |
chloris creator | 12/08/2023 | 28 |
| 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 | 103 |
| 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 | 114 |
| 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 | 5 |
| 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 |
| For 2024, the Veepstakes may have Stonger Appeal than any Presidential Race since 1968 and 1960 The late Vice President in Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s first two terms, John Nance Gardner of Texas, was reported to have said, “The Vice Presidency ain’t worth a warm pitcher of spit (or maybe this was a euphemism for a term that rhymes with ‘spit’).”... |
Kangaroo | 12/07/2023 | 9 |
| 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 | 25 |
| 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 |
| Kitchen Table Kibitzing: Back to Yoga For First Time Since Covid When the news came Monday that the small quiet gym I’d been attending for the past year was closing, I decided it was time for me to move across the street to The Studio in Mill Valley and sign up ... |
boatsie | 12/07/2023 | 64 |
| 📚 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 |
| 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 | 49 |
| Heading into Week 2 @COP28: US Taking Scalpel to Negotiating Text. As COP28 enters its second and final week, the hard work of determining what the participating nations are going to do about fossil fuels begins. The comments of COP President Sultan Al Jaber questioning the science correlating fossil fuels to global... |
boatsie | 12/07/2023 | 4 |
| 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 |
| Cartoon: Musk to Earth Elon Musk wont take the abuse anymore! He told advertisers (fleeing “X” or “Twitter”) to “go fuck themselves,” but in the end it is Musk who has fucked himself. |
laloalcaraz | 12/07/2023 | 7 |
| 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 |
| Photo Diary: Florida Botanical Garden, St Pete FL One of my favorite places for an afternoon walk. There’s always something in bloom, and local wildlife to see.
Some photos.
For those who don't know, I live in a converted campervan and travel ... |
Lenny Flank | 12/07/2023 | 4 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Retracted Admin note: this story, originally titled "Could it be that the Hamas October 7 attack was "provoked"?," has been retracted due to multiple violations of our Rules of the Road, including disinformation and inadequate evaluation of sources. |
Frank Vyan Walton | 12/07/2023 | 151 |
| Another lackluster GOP debate fails to upend dominance of absent front-runner Republicans held their fourth presidential primary debate, and once again, the likely nominee wasn’t on stage. Let’s be clear: Donald Trump is at nearly 60% in the national polling average, well over 40 percentage points ahead of Florida Gov. Ron... |
Laura Clawson | 12/07/2023 | 80 |
| Single Group Empathy is Self-Defeating Bigotry When empathy isn't mutual, it enables hate and then violence. Single group empathy is self-defeating bigotry. As a Jew, the growing incidence of antisemitism terrifies me. So does mindless mob violence. Acquiesce to state-sponsored mass murder... |
acamins | 12/07/2023 | 8 |
| Indians 101: Northwest Coast Killer Whale crests (museum exhibit) The First Nations of the Northwest Coast have a way of life which is oriented toward the sea.� These peoples lived in permanent villages with complex social organizations. Northwest Coast art, like ... |
Ojibwa | 12/07/2023 | 4 |
| New report unsurprisingly shows that profiteers have raised prices well above the rise in costs 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... |
Meteor Blades | 12/07/2023 | 148 |
| Latest letter to Hunter Biden is a prime example of Republican hypocrisy Republicans provided another textbook example of massive hypocrisy on Wednesday with a letter ordering Hunter Biden to appear for a hearing on Dec. 13. The letter to Hunter’s attorney says that he has no choice. He must appear for a closed-door... |
Mark Sumner | 12/07/2023 | 154 |
| Kagro in the Morning is LIVE at 9 AM ET! Listen to our archived episodes: |
David Waldman | 12/07/2023 | 1 |
| 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 |
| Countdown With Keith Olbermann, S2E86: I’ve Got Biden’s “Daisy” Ad—And Trump Is Disqualified S2E86 of the Countdown podcast is up at iHeart Radio. S2E86 on Omny.FM (and links to all of his podcasts) ivoox also carries his podcast. YouTube: Preview: A-Block SPECIAL COMMENT: The seven justices of the Supreme Court have given no indication HOW... |
Proginoskes | 12/06/2023 | 6 |
| 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 |
| Newly elected school board president sworn in on stack of banned books Pennsylvania’s Central Bucks School District was one of the places where Moms for Liberty lost big in the 2023 elections, with a right-wing school board majority swept out and replaced with ... |
Laura Clawson | 12/06/2023 | 65 |
| A Picture Paints 1,000 Words It’s been quite awhile since I’ve done a climate diary. We’ve heard plenty of news stories addressing warming-related flooding, heat waves, and drought, and the impacts and future implications of these events, so for the holiday season I thought I’d... |
billlaurelMD | 12/06/2023 | 4 |
| Kerry @ COP28 Halfway Point: "It's crunch time!" US Climate Envoy John Kerry says he is aware of a sense of urgency in Dubai as delegates from nearly 200 nations convene for COP28.
“People will measure who steps up and who doesn’t,” he said . |
boatsie | 12/06/2023 | 9 |
| Justice Samuel Alito isolated in tax case he refused to recuse from The Supreme Court heard what could be a radical challenge to the nation’s tax laws Tuesday, with the majority of justices—including most of the conservatives—seemingly looking for a way to rule as narrowly as possible, demonstrating restraint at a time... |
Joan McCarter | 12/06/2023 | 111 |
| Taylor Swift is Time's person of the year and the far right is big mad about it 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 ... |
Laura Clawson | 12/06/2023 | 298 |
| Moms for Liberty struggles with fallout from sexual assault allegation against co-founder's husband When news broke of a rape allegation against Florida GOP Chair Christian Ziegler, the husband of Moms for Liberty co-founder Bridget Ziegler, |
Laura Clawson | 12/06/2023 | 88 |
| Big Media create ads helping greenwash the fossil fuel industry and hurting reporter credibility If you’re unaware of Drilled, an award-winning website dedicated to focusing on climate accountability, you would do well to add it to your collection of substacks to read and support. It was founded six years ago by veteran climate reporter Amy... |
Meteor Blades | 12/06/2023 | 22 |
| Jim Jordan's selective outrage: Document demands and dismissals It sometimes seems Republicans are intent on testing the differences between irony, satire, and plain old hypocrisy. House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan provided a prime example on Wednesday morning when he sent a letter demanding that Fulton... |
Mark Sumner | 12/06/2023 | 89 |
| MAGAs like to claim that Joe Biden is a doddering old fool in deep cognitive decline. MAGAs like to claim that Joe Biden is a doddering old fool in deep cognitive decline. Reposted from my Substack However, they also believe - at the same time magically - that Biden is also simultaneously a super-genius criminal mastermind who managed... |
Frank Vyan Walton | 12/06/2023 | 12 |
| Ukraine Update: Trump, Putin prevail with Republican senators UPDATE: Wednesday, Dec 6, 2023 · 5:58:23 PM +00:00 · Joan McCarter Biden just spoke, slamming Republicans for “playing chicken with our national security.” Senate Republicans stormed out of a classified briefing about Ukraine on Tuesday in a... |
Joan McCarter | 12/06/2023 | 103 |
| From Capone to dictatorship: Trump's troubling interview with Hannity During an interview on Tuesday evening, Fox News’ Sean Hannity asked Donald Trump whether he would abuse power if he was returned to office and noted that Trump has been using the line “I am your retribution” in his campaign. Trump responded by... |
Mark Sumner | 12/06/2023 | 176 |
| Ukraine Invasion Day 651: RU Duma to claim Sea of Azov as internal body of water ‘Immigration reform’ stalls congressional aid package to Ukraine. Putin has signed a decree to add another 170K troops to the Russian army. Most of these are likely to come from ethnic minorities. Is the Sea of Azov more real than actual or more actual... |
annieli | 12/05/2023 | 38 |
| Ukraine Update: Zelenskyy lobbies Republicans blocking aid to Ukraine Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is providing a classified video briefing to senators Tuesday in a bid to convince them to support the supplemental funding bill coming to the floor as soon as Wednesday that includes $60 billion in aid for Ukraine.... |
Joan McCarter | 12/05/2023 | 68 |
| The Implications of Israel's "Calculated Bombing" Yuval Abraham of +972 Magazine in collaboration with Local Call has written an eye-opening article on the two factors which have contributed to the unprecedented level of civilian death and injury in Israel’s war on Gaza: The removal of constraints on... |
AvoidAmnesia | 12/05/2023 | 9 |
| Cartoon: A taste of his own war crimes Help keep this work sustainable by joining the � Sorensen Subscription Service! � Also on � Patreon . |
Jen Sorensen | 12/05/2023 | 21 |
| Ukraine Invasion Day 650: Western partners continue supporting military and economic efforts Russian forces are increasing their "strategic stockpile" of missiles in preparation for the coming year’s offensives as well as the winter attacks on Ukraine infrastructure and grid. Is Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer setting the Senate on course... |
annieli | 12/04/2023 | 31 |
| Palestinian, Israeli, Arab & Jewish Women speak and act for peace while men make war. JTA - November 24, 2023 ‘We will choose a new path’: How Israel’s peace activists are responding to the war in Gaza __________________________________________________________ TheGuardian — Oct 31Violence rages in Gaza, but a meeting of Jewish and... |
mettle fatigue | 12/04/2023 | 32 |
| 3 commercial ships hit by missiles in Houthi attack in Red Sea, US warship downs 3 drones DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Ballistic missiles fired by Yemen's Houthi rebels struck three commercial ships Sunday in the Red Sea, while a U.S. warship shot down three drones in self-... |
Associated Press | 12/04/2023 | 24 |
| Harris dashed to Dubai to tackle climate change and war. Each carries high political risks at home DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Filling in for President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris flew to the Middle East to tackle a pair of challenges that have flummoxed White Houses for ... |
Associated Press | 12/04/2023 | 66 |
| Ukraine Invasion Day 649: US willingness to support Ukraine ‘for as long as it takes’ limited by GOP Lindsey Graham does not represent the US position when he says: “I’m not helping Ukraine until we help ourselves.” Republicans in House are blockading the aid Ukraine needs. The Republican party will be responsible if Ukraine runs out of ammunition.... |
annieli | 12/03/2023 | 69 |
| Poorer World – Poem Poorer World War is instant poverty – What treasures and resources Lost, Like the sphinx's nose, Throughout all our history And potential ways From lust for power, fear and greed? We are a curious species And would build the passage to the stars And... |
Paul Frea | 12/03/2023 | 6 |
| Israel orders more people in crowded southern Gaza to evacuate as heavy bombardment shifts there KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel on Sunday ordered more evacuations in and around Gaza's second-largest city of Khan Younis, followed by heavy bombardment, as the military's offensive shifted to the southern half of the territory where Israeli... |
Associated Press | 12/03/2023 | 46 |
| Ukraine Update: Why a lack of armored vehicles is stalling Russia's infantry assault You can read more great Ukraine coverage by both staff and community members here . A Ukrainian artillery spotting drone with a thermal camera hovers in the darkness, silently observing.� Small ... |
RO37 | 12/03/2023 | 143 |
| Henry Kissinger: The portrait of an evil man Henry Kissinger held influential roles as Secretary of State and National Security Adviser during the Nixon and Ford administrations, shaping American foreign policy for many decades. His realpolitik approach downplayed the significance of the rule of... |
tony a | 12/03/2023 | 34 |
| Ukraine Invasion Day 648: crypto-mobilization recruitment schemes happen amidst possible war crimes Poor weather conditions continue to slow the pace of Ukrainian and Russian combat operations across the entire frontline but have not completely halted them. Ukrainian Ground Forces Command Spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Volodymyr Fityo stated that... |
annieli | 12/02/2023 | 39 |
| Ukraine Invasion Day 647: ‘Winter Is a New Phase of the War’ Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief General Valerii Zaluzhnyi signaled intent to increase Ukrainian defenses and fortifications around the Ukrainian theater, but notably did not include Zaporizhia Oblast in... |
annieli | 12/01/2023 | 62 |
| Ukraine Update: Russia is not winning the war On Friday, Russian state media reported that�dictator Vladimir Putin had ordered the size of the Russian military to increase by 170,000 active members. This is the second time in a year that Putin ... |
Mark Sumner | 12/01/2023 | 198 |
| "Israel's Budgetary Sleight of Hand" Dov S. Zakheim, senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and vice chairman of the board for the Foreign Policy Research Institute has just written an article for the Hill in which he sounds the alarm about what Israel’s... |
AvoidAmnesia | 12/01/2023 | 17 |
| Random Comments on Ukraine + Giving Thanks – Part 1: Dnipro Crossing; Trucks from Britain Like the previous time, I want to thank the Daily Kos staff and community for the excellent daily coverage of the Russian war against Ukraine. As a Ukrainian, I consume tons of information about this war on all levels. Even though I am a civilian... |
KyivGuy | 12/01/2023 | 67 |
| Ukraine Invasion Day 646: short circuits or multiple explosions on the RU Baikal-Amur Mainline On the night of 29-30 November, an explosion occurred on the Baikal-Amur Mainline in the Severomuysky Tunnel, named after Vladimir Bessolov, located in Buryatia (Russia). The train of jet fuel and iron ore was delayed by relay cabinet explosions.... |
annieli | 11/30/2023 | 69 |
| WriteOn! The Science of Compelling Stories Hat tip to novapsyche for bringing this paper to my attention: In “Why Inspiring Stories Make Us React: The Neuroscience of Narrative,” Paul Zak explained that “compelling narratives cause oxytocin release”—the “love” or bonding hormone—“and have the... |
strawbale | 11/30/2023 | 102 |
| Ukraine Invasion Day 645: RU Major General killed by a mine. Plus a smoking RU railway tunnel fire. Ukraine is making huge gains with deep strikes that are destroying key Russian capabilities, inflicting heavy losses. The most represented tanks are still T-80s and T-72s. The Commander of the Russian Taman Division and deputy of the 14th Army Corps,... |
annieli | 11/29/2023 | 93 |
| "The stakes are too small" - why he never returned to teaching. Henry Kissinger dead at 100 The irony of getting a peace prize by means of carpet bombing. Richard Nixon: “Pray with me, Henry” Now history has come full circle. Around the world, we see a resurgence of autocracy and ethnonationalism, most acutely in Russia’s war against Ukraine.... |
annieli | 11/29/2023 | 295 |
| Ukraine Update: Assisting Ukraine is the best U.S. defense program in decades You can read more great Ukraine coverage by both staff and community members here . The list of reasons why�assisting Ukraine is good for the United States is a long one. There’s the immense ... |
Mark Sumner | 11/29/2023 | 89 |
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