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Hunter Biden is indicted on 9 tax charges, adding to gun charges in a special counsel investigation
Hunter Biden was indicted on nine tax charges in California as a special counsel investigation into the business dealings of President Joe Biden's son intensifies against the backdrop of the 2024 election. The new charges filed Thursday — three...
Associated Press 12/08/2023 0
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. Subscribe to The Downballot, our weekly podcast ...
Daily Kos Elections 12/08/2023 1
Cartoon: Bad Santa
A cartoon by Clay Jones.
Clay Jones 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 Friday’s Roundup of Good News! Sometimes it’s hard to keep going. Even when we’re making real progress, we don’t always feel like we’re making progress. I think there are ...
chloris creator 12/08/2023 30
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 112
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 117
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 26
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
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
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
PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN---DAY1051---THIRD YEAR DAY351---EVENING SHADE Thursday
W E L C O M E TO THE SHADE YOU WILL FIND in the DIARIES a LOT of POLITICS AND EVEN MORE CATS THE PERSON who MAKES the FIRST COMMENT WILL GET TWO CATS EVERY PERSON WHO COMMENTS WILL GET A CAT RULES IN THE DIARY WHEN YOU FIND SOMETHING in the DIARY that...
hpg 12/07/2023 206
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 35
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
At tribal summit, Biden to sign order on funding, support Indigenous lacrosse team in 2028 Olympics
President � Joe Biden � will sign an executive order on Wednesday during a tribal nations summit that aims to make it easier for � Native Americans � to access federal funding and have greater ...
Associated Press 12/07/2023 2
Donald Trump returns to court as his defense expert asserts there’s no evidence of accounting fraud
Former President Donald Trump returned to his � civil fraud trial � Thursday to spotlight his defense, renewing his complaints that the case is baseless and heaping praise on an accounting professor'...
Associated Press 12/07/2023 38
McCarthy is out, Gaetz is scared, and Dems finally got SWAG!
Pop the cork gang—Kevin McCarthy has decided to take his toys and go home by the end of the year! Democrats are glad, Republicans are mad, but guess who is pissed off the most: Gaetz! That’s right, the guy with the massive eight-head (yah know, as...
sepiasiren 12/07/2023 137
UNLV shooting suspect had list of targets at that campus and another university, police say
The suspect in the deadly shooting at the University of Las Vegas, Nevada, had a list of targets at the school and at East Carolina University in North Carolina, police said Thursday. Three faculty members were killed and a fourth was wounded by the...
Associated Press 12/07/2023 29
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 34
Georgia lawmakers send redrawn congressional map keeping 9-5 Republican edge to judge for approval
For Georgia Democrats who didn’t get what they want out of a special legislative session to redraw voting districts, their retort Thursday was simple: “We’ll see you in court.” State ...
Associated Press 12/07/2023 3
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 49
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 13
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 97
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
Trump appeals ruling rejecting immunity claim as window narrows to derail federal election case
Former President Donald Trump is appealing a ruling that found he is not immune from criminal prosecution as he runs out of opportunities to delay or even derail an upcoming trial on charges that he plotted to overturn the results of the 2020 election....
Associated Press 12/07/2023 20
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
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 144
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
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 254
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 158
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 137
Lara Trump projects all of Trump's corruption and motivations onto President Biden
On Wednesday, Lara Trump went on Newsmax as a surrogate for the four-time-indicted Donald Trump in his bid to become dictator of America. Lara was sent out to smooth over her father-in-law’s most recent disastrous interview where he literally admitted...
Walter Einenkel 12/07/2023 17
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
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 252
Son of US Sen. Kevin Cramer crashes during police chase, killing North Dakota sheriff's deputy
The 42-year-old son of U.S. Sen. Kevin Cramer crashed into a North Dakota sheriff's vehicle during a police chase, pushing it into a deputy and killing him, according to authorities and the ...
Associated Press 12/07/2023 171
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
Cartoon: Kevin McCarthy to leave House
A cartoon by Jeff Danziger.
Jeff Danziger 12/07/2023 16
Texas judge allows Kate Cox to abort fetus with lethal abnormality
By Eleanor Klibanoff The Texas Tribune Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. For the first time in at least 50 years, a judge has intervened to allow an adult Texas...
Texas Tribune 12/07/2023 139
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
Cartoon Corner First Thursday
It's that first Thursday again. �It's like it happens every month.� Longer than usual but too soon it ends. http://www....
ynohtnA 12/07/2023 7
Dear GOP: You’ll Never Wash the Stink of Trump Off You or Your Party. Never.
Dear Republicans, After the corruption of the Coolidge and Hoover administrations crashed the world economy, kicking off the Republican Great Depression in 1929, it took your party decades to rid itself of the stink. After Nixon extended the Vietnam...
thomhartmann 12/07/2023 197
Wyoming may auction off huge piece of pristine land inside Grand Teton
Off and on for over a decade, Wyoming leaders have threatened to auction off large chunks of pristine, state-owned parcels of land within Grand Teton National Park to the highest-bidding developer ...
Associated Press 12/07/2023 37
The gag order's back, as is Previous Guy, prior to Monday's testimony in the New York fraud trial
"Trump is really here as a spectator. He did not have to be here until Monday when he's expected to take the stand once again," An angry Donald Trump called New York Attorney General Letitia James a "lunatic" as he attended his $250 million fraud trial...
annieli 12/07/2023 4
Son of Sen. Kevin Cramer (R_ND) caused a police pursuit with fatal outcome for a policeman
Is there an intention to kill implied? I mean mean he might have rammed the car intentionally. www.rawstory.com/… The adult son of Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) led police on a car chase that ended with the death of an officer. CBS News reports that...
ca cokz 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
Ukraine: Looking back at US assistance and what we can learn from it.
With the latest political debacle in the US congress holding up aid to Ukraine, I wanted to take a step back and assess US aid in general to Ukraine. I’m going to come across harsh and critical of the US and by association the Biden Administration....
Peter Olandt 12/07/2023 62
12/6 Good News Roundup: Featuring Good News from DK Itself
I’m using my canned outline again, but I’m trying something new this morning—mining DK itself for goodies. We have all sorts of animal, politics, science, and other cheering Diaries to work with, and we can ignore the relatively few Gloom & Doomers. So...
Mokurai 12/07/2023 94
Morning Open Thread - The wake
I was 7 years old and sitting with my uncle as we sat next to Great-uncle Robert’s body.� I was reminded that I was named after him as my uncle recounted tales of his youth and how Uncle Robert ...
CaptBLI 12/07/2023 29
Widespread computer security vulnerability reported
Computer security researchers from Binarly have identified a widespread set of vulnerabilities that affect most Windows and Linux computers due to bugs in the boot-loader that starts the computer (before the operating system starts). The attack—dubbed...
AChris 12/07/2023 80
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
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
Overnight News Digest for Dec 6 2023 (Night before Chanukah edition)
Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and JeremyBloom. Alumni editors include (but not limited to)...
jeremybloom 12/06/2023 14
Disarray alert: House Republicans struggle with slim majority and chaos
With the exit of Rep. Kevin McCarthy, the ejection of George Santos, and the impending resignation of Rep. Bill Johnson, House Republicans' bare majority is getting delectably precarious. Daily Kos Elections political director David Nir games it all...
Kerry Eleveld 12/06/2023 41
George Santos finds his calling
On Friday, former Republican Rep. George Santos was expelled from Congress, half a year after being indicted for embezzling money from his campaign , one month after being indicted again for ...
Hunter 12/06/2023 71
Will Haley, DeSantis target Trump in final pre-Iowa debate?
During the first Republican presidential debate in August, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley arguably took the strongest stance against GOP standard-bearer Donald Trump. "We have to face the fact that Trump is the most disliked politician in America,"...
Kerry Eleveld 12/06/2023 28
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
Team Biden: Feeling lukewarm on the economy? Just wait until Republicans strip your health insurance
The Biden campaign wants voters who may feel lukewarm on the economy to know they have a choice next year: They can opt for MAGAnomics and lose their health insurance. On Tuesday, President Joe ...
Kerry Eleveld 12/06/2023 30
A.I. -- the Promise and the Peril
— — As with most new technologies and innovations, the promise and the peril of releasing them into the economic world — is in a word: “complicated.” They usually hold untold benefits for companies, economies, and even individuals. Some of the classics...
jamess 12/05/2023 9
Kitchen Table Kibitzing 12/5/2023: Salmagundi, Part 2
Ernst Eitner : View of the Alster at Night (1895) Good evening, Kibitzers! When I was messing around trying to get ...
belinda ridgewood 12/05/2023 174
A Don Winslow Video.
I was looking at my feed & saw this Tweet. I thought the video was very Good. Thanks Don.
eeff 12/05/2023 3
Angry about record-low unemployment, Marjorie Taylor Greene blames it on abortion
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene piped up with more Republican thoughts Monday, and if you know anything about Greene, you already know it's going to be bad. This time, the notorious Georgia ...
Hunter 12/05/2023 168
Black Kos: The Montgomery Bus Boycott. They didn't have social media; they had a mimeograph machine
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 ...
Black Kos 12/05/2023 170
Hidden History: "The Gael" and "Last of the Mohicans"
The�1992 film version of The Last of the Mohicans �has one of the best and well-known musical scores ever done for a movie. "Hidden History" is a diary series that explores forgotten and little-...
Lenny Flank 12/05/2023 17
Johnson says Republicans blurring faces of insurrectionists so they can’t be 'charged by the DOJ'
When new House Speaker Mike Johnson announced that he would be "keeping [his] promise" to release all 44,000 hours of Capitol security camera footage from the Jan. 6 insurrection, it wasn't just far-...
Hunter 12/05/2023 185
Let him eat cake! House GOP campaign arm throwing ousted former speaker McCarthy a party
Mark your calendars for Dec. 13, folks. The House Republican campaign arm is throwing a festive bash for prolific fundraiser, ousted speaker, and still-sitting member of Congress Kevin McCarthy. For what, you ask. Good question.
Kerry Eleveld 12/05/2023 21
Anti-Trump group launches early ad campaign warning third-party candidates threaten democracy
When the anti-Trump group Citizens to Save Our Republic first launched, its main goal was to expose the third-party group No Labels as a sure-fire effort to elect Donald Trump. Now the group is expanding its scope to target all third-party candidates,...
Kerry Eleveld 12/05/2023 58
The silver lining on young voters: Despite Biden fatigue, they're voting and they get the stakes
It's no secret that young progressives are one of the most consequential and unpredictable voting blocs in next year's general election. They despise Donald Trump but are undeniably uninspired by President Joe Biden. While foreign policy isn't helping...
Kerry Eleveld 12/04/2023 241
A Shameless Plug
As many of you know, most of my diaries here are draft chapters for a number of books that I work on. A number of these are out and available, so let me take the opportunity to make a shameless plug ...
Lenny Flank 12/04/2023 9
‘Whatever it takes’: Cheney using her national book tour to bury Trump, Republicans in 2024
The Republican Party has become such an existential threat to American democracy that former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming is using her national book tour to promote Democratic control of Washington. “I believe very strongly in those principles...
Kerry Eleveld 12/04/2023 234
Kari Lake demonized Arizona Republicans. Now she’s demanding their support for her Senate run
Media critics and experts have repeatedly warned that the political media's sloppy insistence on gossip and horse-race coverage while ignoring the public issues behind the politics is the "darkness" ...
Hunter 12/04/2023 43
It's been a while, but I wanted to say thank you to my Daily Kos family
What a year this has been. What a past several years this has been, actually, and what a large part of my life it has been to share with the Daily Kos community. It feels like it has been a long time since I’ve said anything, and coming into the...
Christopher Reeves 12/04/2023 61
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...
ChrisRodda 12/04/2023 225
Just When They Thought They Were Out, He Pulled Them Back In: GOP's War On The ACA Is On Again.
Since Donald Trump was defeated in the 2020 Presidential election, most people seemed to be under the impression that the Republican Party's decade-long obsession with tearing down President Obama's signature legislative accomplishment, the Patient...
Brainwrap 12/04/2023 31
Cartoon: The bad place
As always, if � you find value in this work I do, please consider helping me keep it sustainable by joining my weekly newsletter, � Sparky’s List! � You can get it in your inbox or read it on ...
Tom Tomorrow 12/04/2023 53
Snopes rides to the rescue on Trump's Gaffe -- But when it comes to Trump's Attacks -- Crickets!
— — When I saw this clip making the Social Media rounds, I thought to myself: “Finally, Trump is saying the quiet part out loud.” Trump: “We’ve been waging an all out war on American democracy.” Not so fast, says the Fact-checking organization Snopes....
jamess 12/03/2023 56
Inside with Jen Psaki Sunday 12/3/2023.
I watched another video Of Jen Psaki on Twitter. Jen is doing a terrific job with here Show. I’ve watch a few this afternoon this is my fav And
eeff 12/03/2023 7
Sekrit Armee Sundai — Muttz
A gentle reminder of how we do things: 🐱🐶🐦 Do not troll the diary. If you hate pootie diaries, leave now. No harm, no foul. Please do share pics of your fur kids! If you have health/...
FosterMomInCA 12/03/2023 193
North Carolina Open Thread
NORTH CAROLINA OPEN THREAD This is a weekly feature of North Carolina Blue . The platform gives readers interested in North Carolina politics a place to share their knowledge, insight and ...
randallt 12/03/2023 2

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