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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 | 6 |
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 | 20 |
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 | 20 |
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 | 46 |
Too many people want a Trump dictatorship There’s no failure of the imagination among us as to the horrors a Trump dictatorship would entail. It’s not a problem of how to explain it to people in simple terms. People understand what a Trump dictatorship means, and some people, way too many... |
Alonso del Arte | 12/07/2023 | 8 |
Special Coverage (For Some Reason) of the 4th GOP 2024 'Primary Debate': 'BradCast' 12/7/2023 Guests: Heather Digby Parton of Salon, 'Driftglass' of 'ProLeft Podcast'... It was debate number four for all of the eligible GOP 2024 primary candidates who decided to show up. And, for reasons best left to one of our guests to explain on today's... |
TheBradBlog | 12/07/2023 | 2 |
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 | 63 |
📚 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 | 70 |
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 |
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 | 202 |
2024. No plan B Several friends have said that if Trump wins in 2024, they will leave the country. They just can’t take the thought of living in a country run by a dictator. They talk about Canada, Australia, Europe, etc. I don’t blame them. But when they ask me where... |
b3LLsb33r | 12/07/2023 | 4 |
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 | 32 |
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 | 37 |
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 | 122 |
Read Amanda Marcotte- "politics is boring and hard for most people" I have a love hate relationship with Salon. I love it because they publish Amanda Marcotte. I hate it because they publish Chauncey DeVega and a bunch of other nitwits. Anyway, Amanda’s column today gets at something that has been bothering a lot of... |
satanicpanic | 12/07/2023 | 23 |
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 | 28 |
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 |
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 | 52 |
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 | 92 |
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 | 52 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 | 13 |
AI Vs. Expert Systems Google introduced an updated version of Bard (now called Gemini), its competitor to ChatGPT and other imitative AI systems. �It is apparently a solid step forward — Google claims that is beats ... |
angryea | 12/07/2023 | 10 |
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 |
Helping out ahead of the winter holidays. Helping Humpday at Street Prophets Welcome to the Street Prophets Coffee Hour, the place where politics meets up with religion, science, nature, art, and life. Come in, have a cuppa and a cookie (or three!) and join us. Helping ... |
Aashirs nani | 12/06/2023 | 6 |
Brett Stephens on a key question about Hamas: Why all the silence on rapes? Today, Brett Stephens has an op-ed entitled: “An appalling silence for Israeli rape victims.” In it, he notes that the war criminal-level behavior toward women in the initial attack is basically being ignored, by progressives in Congress, major... |
Mrmuni12 | 12/06/2023 | 118 |
RTBs, Stalking, and the Value of Early Regulation A new paper shows how RTBs (Real Time Bidding) providers enable anyone to track anyone and anyone to get sensitive information about people’s medical history, opinions, and locations. �The ... |
angryea | 12/06/2023 | 2 |
Climate Brief:'US coal use drops to levels last seen in 1903'(but we have to keep pushing) Global carbon emissions set record high, but US coal use drops to levels last seen in 1903 Coal plant closures, fuel-switching and renewables in the US led to an 18.3% decline in coal use, bringing it down to its 1903 level. The EU saw a drop of... |
Angmar | 12/05/2023 | 28 |
Pregnant Texas woman asks a court to let her have an abortion under exceptions to state's ban A pregnant Texas woman whose fetus has a fatal diagnosis asked a court Tuesday to let her have an abortion, bringing what her attorneys say is the first lawsuit of its kind in the U.S. � since Roe v. |
Associated Press | 12/05/2023 | 28 |
Instagram, Child Endangerment, and the Problems with Section 230 The Wall Street Journal has a disturbing report on how Instagram’s algorithm shows adults who follow children porn related material, pictures of teenager and children, and images and videos that ... |
angryea | 12/05/2023 | 3 |
Save Jackson State Forest/Indigenous Sites on agenda Dec. 5, 6 at CA Board of Forestry meetings After a long struggle to get their voices heard, the Coalition to Save Jackson State Forest is finally on the agenda at the State Board of Forestry that regulates all timber lands in California. The Coalition to Save Jackson State Forest, led by the... |
Dan Bacher | 12/04/2023 | 4 |
The Language of the Night: Murderbot is back! Before all else, thank you, Clio2 , for stepping in last week with such a great discussion of YA fantasy/romance, Jennifer L. Armentrout’s� Storm and Fury �and the Moms for Liberty professional ... |
DrLori | 12/04/2023 | 34 |
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 |
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 |
Like a Com(m)e(n)t To write a poem Is to take One shred of your soul And arrange it Or splash it Or smear it Where passersby may see; Sometimes, but only sometimes, You know If they do. * We, the endangering species, Must, as Eiseley saw, Destroy what we don’t... |
Gaelsdottir | 12/04/2023 | 15 |
Shakespeare's Shadow: Twelve Days of Shakespeare Part 11 On November 8th, 1623, publisher Edward Blount registered 18 previously unpublished plays by the author William Shakespeare with the Stationer’s Guild in London. Printing the 36 plays of the folio, over 900 pages of material, had taken almost two years... |
Economaniac | 12/04/2023 | 22 |
It's Monday. Let's Save Ourselves from the Business of Tech A series of proposals that will make Marc Andreesen furious and ensure I am never promoted by Substack. �But the technology industry is massively broken, socializing the costs of its work while ... |
angryea | 12/04/2023 | 11 |
Sweet Swan of Avon / Thy Stratford Moniment : Twelve Days of Shakespeare Part 10 This is the last of four posts in the series that attempts to make sense of the Jonson elegy To the Memory of my Beloved, The Author William Shakespeare and what he hath left us from the preface materials of the folio. As Wells says, this is the most... |
Economaniac | 12/03/2023 | 12 |
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 |
Sunday Good Reads for December 3rd, 2023 We have a lot this week!
Pac-12 to Pac-2: Oregon State, Washington State, and Realignment’s Cost - The Ringer : TV money controls college sports, often to the detriment of fans and students.
An ... |
angryea | 12/03/2023 | 2 |
The Ziegler story gets more icky, but what it reveals about Republicans is just as bad The allegations reported this week about Florida Republican Party Chairman Christian Ziegler and his wife, “Moms for Liberty” co-founder Bridget Ziegler, are salacious enough to sufficiently occupy the press for weeks. A three-way relationship... |
Dartagnan | 12/02/2023 | 387 |
Kitchen Table Kibitzing Dec 2, 2023: The Great American vision care racket Like millions of my fellow Americans, one of the first things I do in the morning is put my contacts in. I’ve worn some type of corrective lenses since about the age of eleven. And although the lenses specify they’re supposed to be changed or discarded... |
Dartagnan | 12/02/2023 | 82 |
🌍This Week In The War on Women: news from the war fronts - ALL of them. JTA We believed diverse coalitions would include Jewish women. Now we fear we are alone Seven weeks after the Hamas attack on Israel, the strangely silent women’s rights group UN Women issued an Instagram statement on allegations... |
mettle fatigue | 12/02/2023 | 64 |
WOW2: December 2023 Women Trailblazers and Activists – 12-1 thru 12-8 “You don’t know you’re making history when it’s happening. I just wanted to do my job.” – � Charity Adams Earley , |
officebss | 12/02/2023 | 19 |
Shakespeare was a Woman: Twelve Days of Shakespeare Part 9 This is the 9th post in a series. I have been working the last few years on a book about Shakespeare and the 1623 first folio edition of plays with a particular focus on Ben Jonson and the other figures who played a role with Shakespeare in the writing... |
Economaniac | 12/02/2023 | 54 |
Meanwhile, In Another World: Chanukkah FROM: m.benezra@rebses.edu CC: —all staff— DATE: 18 Kislev 5784 TIME: 08:32am SUBJECT: Student Diversity Training Shalom all, As we move toward Chanukkah, I’d like to remind you all that Reb Shammai has a wonderful and diverse student body, with a... |
Ninalyn | 12/01/2023 | 24 |
Bye, Felicia! — The Week in Editorial Cartoons, Part 2 Here is the link to Part 1 of this diary — The Many Crimes of Henry Kissinger — The Week in Editorial Cartoons The State of the Republican Party Tonight George Santos was expelled from the United States House of Representatives earlier today, becoming... |
JekyllnHyde | 12/01/2023 | 35 |
Occult and Psychical Sciences presents:
"Mind Over Matter!" 👀 🥄 The word occult comes from the Latin occultus (clandestine, hidden, secret), referring to "knowledge of the hidden 👁 👁 👁 Occult and Psychical Sciences presents: "Mind Over Matter!" -Thanks Neiman the creator of Tales... |
Angmar | 12/01/2023 | 113 |
Bauds, Whores and William Basse: Twelve Days of Shakespeare Part 8 In the previous post in this series I introduced Ben Jonson’s First Folio elegy To the Memory of my Beloved, the Author William Shakespeare and offered some observations about the structure and likely sources and references for the poem. In this essay... |
Economaniac | 12/01/2023 | 18 |
The Many Crimes of Henry Kissinger — The Week in Editorial Cartoons (Update x 5) An Exception to the Rule Normally, when someone famous dies, most of us react by taking a “don’t speak ill of those who have passed” attitude. Common human decency requires as much. This is a different case. A very large number of people in several... |
JekyllnHyde | 11/30/2023 | 61 |
A Song of Zion, Parsha Vayishlach The parsha of the week is Vayishlach, meaning “and he sent.” Jacob (Yakov) sent messengers bearing gifts to Esav, his brother, in several waves, to butter him up. Our sages have criticized Yakov for this, for endangering himself and his wives and... |
thewavethatiam | 11/30/2023 | 19 |
To the memory of my Beloved: What Ben Jonson tells us about Shakespeare Twelve Days of Shakespeare 7 “Ben Jonson is the person who tells us most about Shakespeare. Ben Jonson was a colleague of Shakespeare, in the sense that some of his plays were put on by Shakespeare’s company, or one of them was, and he clearly, he writes very intimately about... |
Economaniac | 11/30/2023 | 36 |
Jezebel Lives Jezebel has been purchased by Paste Magazine! Paste Magazine buys Jezebel weeks after closure with aim to ‘push boundaries’ Less than three weeks after the feminist US news site Jezebel was shuttered, news has emerged that the site has been acquired.... |
karij | 11/30/2023 | 25 |
Meatballs, Worms, NASA, Joy and the Public Sphere I unabashedly love this story about designers celebrating the return of the “worm” logo at NASA. �It is a silly little story about a meaningless design change but the people in it are just so ... |
angryea | 11/30/2023 | 5 |
Making the Right Choices as Consumers: Have You Escalated the War on the Environment? Choices: unless we can live sustainably outside of the market, we all interact with the global marketplace when purchasing goods and services. For the most part, our clothes, food and furniture are common items that we must purchase. We try to choose... |
Alex Morales | 11/29/2023 | 39 |
Fine Are Just a Cost: C Suite Executives Need to Start Going to Jail Recently un-redacted documents show that states claim to have ... |
angryea | 11/29/2023 | 46 |
Navajo Artist Baje Whitethorne Sr 1951-2023. World renowned Navajo painter, sculptor, and illustrator Baje Whitethorne Sr passed away in his sleep on November 17 in Flagstaff, Arizona, following a long illness. He was 73 years old. Mr ... |
A Pagan in Arizona | 11/28/2023 | 14 |
Robert De Niro's remarks criticizing Trump at awards show were edited out, so he read them anyway The iconic actor Robert De Niro was in the middle of presenting an award at the Gotham Independent Film awards ceremony on Monday when he looked up at the teleprompter and noticed that something in his planned speech was missing. Someone—it’s not clear... |
Dartagnan | 11/28/2023 | 233 |
Facial Recognition and Police: The Triumph of Data over Expertise Police, collectively, are bad at their jobs.
This is not a statement of opinions, but a fact. �Their budgets have balloon since the George Floyd protests of 2020 (there is no record of any city ... |
angryea | 11/28/2023 | 20 |
Trump will try to lie his way out of the abortion debacle he created One of Donald Trump’s singular talents has always been to invent fake, alternative realities to inoculate himself from the consequences of his corruption and pathological acts of malfeasance. That is the approach he took in obfuscating his own, his... |
Dartagnan | 11/27/2023 | 79 |
Why Ben Jonson Writes Not of Love
Twelve Days of Shakespeare Part 4 The fourth post in a 12 day series of excerpts from my forthcoming book. In previous posts I have made an argument that nearly all that we know of the author Shakespeare relies on a few words from Ben Jonson. Today I explore what Jonson means when he... |
Economaniac | 11/27/2023 | 38 |
Artificial General Intelligence and the Disconnect from Reality For those of you who are not caught up in the minutia of tech company internal dramas (and what lucky people you are), OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT among other programs, had quite the ... |
angryea | 11/27/2023 | 68 |
The Washington Post is very worried that American women don't want to marry Trump supporters In an editorial published last week titled, “If Attitudes Don’t Shift, A Political Dating Mismatch Will Threaten Marriage,” The Washington Post’s editorial board points out that political polarization in this country has reached the point where it is... |
Dartagnan | 11/26/2023 | 1413 |
Sunday Good Reads, November 26th, 2023 How to Debunk the AI "Revolution" - A Lily Bit (substack.com) : �An excellent overview of what imitative AI is and is not.
How Sam Altman plays into ... |
angryea | 11/26/2023 | 2 |
Occult and Psychical Sciences:Native American Heritage Day is November 24🪶 🪶 🪶 🌕 🪶 Every year, by statute and/or presidential proclamation, the month of November is recognized as National Native American Heritage Month. In 1907 both Charles Curtis of Kansas and Robert Owen of Oklahoma were... |
Angmar | 11/24/2023 | 23 |
Our country's failure to provide affordable long-term care for the elderly is already a crisis Old age is generally not a good time for severe�emotional shocks.�But millions of elderly Americans, along with an equal if not greater number of their (mostly) middle-aged�children, are quietly ... |
Dartagnan | 11/24/2023 | 217 |
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