Something rotten in the state of Florida
My late dad lived in Florida when he retired and I used to visit him there. So, as a New Yorker, I continue to be interested in news out of the Sunshine State, particularly breaking stories of...
View ArticleMore Domestic Terrorism? (Ricin Letters to Michael Bloomberg)
Hmm, is it too soon to start using the terms "domestic terrorism"? This appears to be a case of right wing domestic terrorism - ricin letters sent to the biggest nemesis of America's population of gun...
View ArticleRacist apple offspring not falling far from the GOP parental tree
With examples like George HW Bush, Dan Quayle, Ron Paul, George Romney, Mitt Romney, and others, we can see that the GOP - the self proclaimed party of Family Values - sure does a bang up job when it...
View ArticleRIP, Professor Stuart Hall
A key figure in Cultural Studies who focused much on race, class and culture has passed away. Rest in peace to Professor Stuart Hall
View ArticleAndrew Cuomo's Vindictiveness
In spite of the fact that my Governor, Andrew Cuomo, has done the right thing on fracking, he is now showing the side of himself that led to his getting a serious primary challenge last year from...
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Upcoming event: “Stop the Wars at Home & Abroad!”
For those who will be in the NY metropolitan area in early May, you may want to check out a three day event being organized by the United National Antiwar Coalition This event - a three day conference...
View ArticleIf Hillary is a progressive, where was she on Occupy Wall Street?
Just a quick question. If, as Hillary Clinton sometimes suggests, that she is a progressive, where was she in terms of her reactions to the Occupy Wall Street movement? Where was her voice?Here was...
View ArticleHillary's far right, Hawkish Israeli fundraiser, Power Rangers creator Haim...
What’s the old expression about being known by the company you keep? Well, as we know, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton keeps some interesting company. Or, perhaps, I should say some of this...
View ArticleToday's Insult from Team Clinton: Bernie's a "Single Issue Candidate"
There is a pro-Hillary diary currently on the Rec List, in which Hillary praises herself for not being a “single issue” voter. By implication, Bernie Sanders is the “single issue” candidate. This...
View ArticleHillary Clinton is spending today fundraising from bankers capitalizing on...
Hillary Clinton, as we all know, is raising a ton of money from wealthy campaign contributors on Wall Street and elsewhere in the financial services industry. Among her list of supporters is the...
View ArticleIs Nate Silver Overrated?
I was just reading the diary here on the rec list that showed a national poll indicating that Sanders is ahead of Clinton. While there was a lot of sniping about this one particular poll, the fact of...
View Article"Free Stuff": More Republicanspeak from Hillary supporters
I just caught a glimpse of some coverage from South Carolina, where the battle for the African-American vote is under way and where I heard Clinton surrogate, New Orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu (brother...
View ArticleThis is How Truly Progressive Bernie Sanders Really is
At a time when it was not necessarily politically expedient to be in favor of gay rights, Bernie Sanders stood for full equality for the gay (now LGBTQ) community, writing, in the early 1970s"The...
View ArticleOn Trust, Trustworthiness, and Our Democratic Presidential Candidates
You can't depend on your family You can't depend on your friends You can't depend on a beginning You can't depend on an endYou can't depend on intelligence Ooh, you can't depend on God You can only...
View ArticleThis is How a Faux-Populist Lives
Check this out — a photo essay of Donald Trump and family’s inner sanctum. He’s really quite the the populist. Link here Whoever the Democratic nominee is can have a field day; The ostentatiousness of...
View ArticleHillary W Bush is a Neocon
When the U.S Senate voted, in 2002, for the Iraq War resolution, in effect giving a green light and a blank check to the Bush administration to enter a total quagmire, I remember wondering how it could...
View ArticleProtesting Trump, and Trump's Calls for Violence in Response
Back in 2004, GW Bush and the GOP held their political convention in NYC, and many surmised that the city was chosen so as to use 9/11 as a theme and the rebuilding of the World Trade Center cite as a...
View ArticleIn defense of Susan Sarandon (and Ralph Nader, too)
Susan Sarandon, a long time progressive activist and current Sanders supporter, is obviously raising a few hackles today. Telling MSNBC interviewer Chris Hayes that she remains uncertain about whether...
View ArticleIt's feeling a bit like the Napoleon Dynamite movie around here lately
If the GOP campaigns is increasingly resembling the cult film Idiocracy, then it also seems to me that Daily Kos, with its banishing to detention of popular but rule bending figures like OPOL is...
View ArticleOnce again, I have had a comment "troll rated"
I want to ask the Daily Kos community if you all think that the following comment should be troll rated or hidden?Randian Apr 01 · 05:29:01 PMI think that the Democratic Party establishment long ago...
View ArticleYes, Bernie should release his tax records. But Hillary should release her...
“Let everybody who’s ever given a speech to any private group under any circumstances release them—we’ll all release them at the same time.” So said Hillary Clinton, in response to reporters’ questions...
View ArticleA genuine question for Hillary supporters who don't care if she doesn't...
Yesterday, in response to criticisms of Bernie Sanders for not having yet released his tax returns, I and others brought up the fact that Hillary Clinton has yet to release her transcripts from her...
View ArticleA reason to support Sanders - Hillary Clinton's support for the 1996 welfare...
Along with knowing that when Bernie Sanders says thinks like “the middle class of this country, over the last forty years, has been disappearing,” he is speaking truthfully and on my behalf, one flip...
View ArticleA couple of interesting highlights from WI exit polls: Bernie's multiple...
ABC News has some exit polling data from last night’s Wisconsin primary and a few highlights follow. These point to some considerable candidate strengths for Bernie Sanders and some real weaknesses for...
View ArticlePerhaps your outrage should be channeled toward the real world and its problems
This is going to be short and sweet and directed toward the members of the Kos community who are still harping with outrage about Sanders comments, which he has now walked back, questioning Hillary’s...
View ArticleMy neighborhood Superfund site
I live in the scenic Hudson Valley in the city of Beacon, NY, just a little over 60 miles north of New York City, and we are blessed here to be surrounded by much natural beauty, as well as by...
View ArticleIn celebration of Bernie's supporter, Michael Stipe (of REM)
I’m attending a Bernie rally in Poughkeepsie, NY later today and not only am I feeling the Bern and excited to be going, but I am as excited that one of the speakers will be Michael Stipe of REM, one...
View ArticleToday in NY
Just a quick message of solidarity to my fellow Bernie supporters here in NY. Today’s the big day, and I have just gotten back from a round of canvassing. Polls open here in about 15 minutes. i plan to...
View ArticleIf Hillary is the nominee, she and her supporters are in for a rude awakening
I am a Bernie supporter, as I have made clear multiple times in recent months. I still support Sanders and want to see him continue on with the campaign, and to even take it all the way to the...
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With Hillary and Trump, AIPAC has their bases covered
I was just listening to Trump’s speech, and thus to his bashing of Obama on the issue of Israel. But the thought also occurred to me that with Hillary and Trump as the likely nominees, AIPAC has pretty...
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a party election, not a coronation
Just a quick note. There are a whole lot of comments here castigating and demonizing Sanders for, essentially, continuing to follow the process of running for the nomination. There are diaries...
View ArticleHillary Clinton a "reactionary Republican in faux progressive clothing"
Back in March of this year, I wrote a diary titled Hillary W Bush is a neocon. The title was meant to be satirical, but also provocative. And in that, it was a success, though the diary also had its...
View ArticleCongratulations to Hillary from a Sanders supporter
Consider this diary my olive branch to Hillary supporters.Congratulations to Hillary Clinton and her campaign! After a long, hard fought campaign, she is the legitimate nominee of the Democratic Party....
View ArticleA question about Hillary Clinton and fracking
I am going to ask a direct question about fracking, which I (along with thousands of environmental activists here in NY state) oppose, and which Hillary Clinton, has in the past, supported. My question...
View ArticleWhy I'm done with Hillary vs. Bernie (as well as Hillary) diaries
I had been toying, this morning, with taking a long break from Daily Kos, perhaps skipping out and not returning until some time early next year. But I’ve been a regular member here for ten years, have...
View ArticleThe dangers of turning police officers into revenue generators
Mother Jones has a really important piece of analysis pointing to solving the puzzle of police shootings of unarmed, disproportionately poor, minority citizens. As the article points out, When you ask...
View ArticleImagine the outrage
“She doesn't know if it's the Russians doing the hacking. Maybe there is no hacking.” -Donald Trump in 2nd presidential debate Imagine the outrage that would ensue were there to be a role reversal, and...
View ArticleI'm donating to Hillary and making phone calls for the Dems this weekend...
Back in the Spring time, I was here doing my best to support my primary candidate, Bernie Sanders. And while I still admire the heck out of Senator Sanders and proudly display his bumper sticker on my...
View ArticleBreaking: Bridgegate Defendants Guilty
NJ.Com has the details Two former Christie administration insiders charged in a bizarre scheme of political retaliation against a mayor who refused to endorse the governor for re-election were found...
View ArticleGOP austerity pols vs Trump supporters: the wedge we need to exploit
I just read something and wanted to share it here as an example of a wedge that we can potentially drive between Trump supporters and the GOP establishment of Ryan, McConnell and company — the fact...
View ArticleCalling for Nancy Pelosi to step aside is pragmatism not sexism
At the risk of being called a sexist, it is my belief that Nancy Pelosi — for the good of the party and indeed, the country — should step aside as minority leader, following last night’s and last...
View Articlemassive protest activity happening right now in NYC
This is happening now. Here is a link to live Buzzfeed coverage on Facebook. Here is the NY Times link for live coverage. Trump is apparently due to arrive at Trump Tower shortly and when he arrives,...
View ArticleAre House Democratic leaders finally ready to discuss impeachment?
Now that Trump has “gone rogue” and made his racism and authoritarianism clear for all the world to see, I have a question for Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer and the rest of Houser leadership: Is this...
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The American people support the Sanders agenda
Just a quick reminder that the progressive agenda which Sen Bernie Sanders has been pushing is extremely popular with the American people. For example, take single payer. Examine these results from Pew...
View ArticleA bit of good news. A judicial ruling against Trump and on behalf of climate...
This does not seem to have been posted here, but a bit of very good news in the fight for sustainability and against climate denialism, in the form of a rebuke to Trump’s Interior Dept. U.S. District...
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death threats by white supremacists on Facebook against AOC
On Facebook right now, there is a thread on a white supremacist group called Pissed Off White Americans that offers itself as a forum for the grievances of paranoid racists who uphold the conspiracy...
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I am ecstatic, and feeling the Bern!
I am ecstatic that Bernie is throwing his hat into the ring once again. He remains my political hero, and for all the reasons given in this wonderful graphic novel style biography by Ted Rall. Of...
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some wisdom from an old gospel song
I was thinking, moments ago, about what it takes to defeat Trumpism and to restore the American dream of truth and justice for all. I was thinking about the need for unity among Democrats (both...
View Articlefive right wing judicial activists on the US Supreme Court are gerrymanderers
Here is the unsurprising result of the ruling by the five right wing judicial activists on the USSC The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday blocked lower court rulings that had ordered Republican legislators...
View ArticleBernie (and others) should certainly respond to Hillary's latest foot in...
This is in response to a Rec listed diary, one which calls Bernie Sanders to task for defending Tusli Gabbard against some rather slanderous indirect references to her as a “Russian asset.” All I can...
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