Merrick Garland: A Good Man About to Go Through GOP Hell.
My spouse, Jay Michaelson who writes for the Daily Beast and has been covering SCOTUS / GOP Blockage / Obama this past month-plus, has just written a piece on Judge Merrick Garland that I want to share...
View ArticleSupport ActBlue. But do not, DO NOT, give them your phone #.
They come in waves, the “No Caller ID” calls. Sometimes just two or three a week. Lately it’s as many as five, six a day. And it will probably get worse as Congressional campaigns kick into high gear...
View ArticleHow exactly would a Pres. Sanders move the levers of power in ways Pres....
This is the question that has been dogging me since the contest began. I admire Clinton for her knowledge, experience, good heart, and unabashed policy-wonk intelligence. I admire Sanders for his...
View ArticleWOW. Pew study: Dems approval/disapproval 45/50 (-5), Repubs is a whopping...
Anyone else seen THIS, out today from Pew Public Research? It is worth clicking, reading, and looking at the graphs. In 2010, Americans were polled as having an equal favorable/unfavorable view of...
View ArticleSanders, Superdelegates, and Stirring up Sore-Loserism
Hi all. Torta here. I’ve spent the past 13 years on DailyKos in support of the Democratic party and the advancement of liberal-to-progressive politics. I’ve spent the past 9 months on here professing...
View Article(Updated) Hillary's concession in June 2008 was not immediate - let's keep...
(UPDATE: Some really good and helpful items from the Comments below, stuff I hadn’t fully known or realized. Adam B offers the full text of what Hillary said on the night that Obama claimed victory…...
View ArticleFeeling a surge of hope as I watch/listen to our nation's finest: Barack and...
So many emotions and thoughts the past few days. The horror of what happened in Orlando. The particular and hard ways that this attack and its aftermath have hit those of us like me who are...
View ArticleCNN, NYMag: Trump Children (Ivanka and Eric) told Daddy to fire his Campaign...
OMG, people. This isjust getting more and more bizarre. From CNN:Contributing to Ivanka Trump's recent dissatisfaction with Lewandowski were intensifying tensions between Lewandowski and Ivanka...
View ArticleLOL from Politico: "Hardly anybody wants to speak at Trump's convention"
The RNC Convention, which Politico names more accurately as “Trump’s convention”, is looking bleak for the RNC as a Party.Almost nobody who’s anybody, is willing to speak. Or even attend.From Politico...
View ArticleMUST-READ: New Yorker, "Trump's Ghostwriter Tells All"
Wow. Today (July 18, for its issue dated July 25), the New Yorker published a full length piece by Tony Schwartz, who conceived and ghostwrote the entirety of Trump’s 1987 best-selling book TRUMP: The...
View ArticleCNN: "Peter Thiel to tell RNC he's proudly gay"
Interesting side note to tonight’s RNC Convention speaker roster.CNN is reporting that tech billionaire Peter Thiel plans to declare openly to the Convention audience that he is proud to be gay....
View ArticleGotta lift up the DKos LIVE BLOGGERS -- superb DNC coverage, thank you!!
Whew, what a week. I was alone in my apartment watching. My spouse was in the arena in Philly, or in the press pavilion, trying to cover what he could, on assignment as a member of the press. May I...
View Article"Just a flesh wound!" Trump tweets a Zogby outlier claiming Clinton 38%,...
He’s so excited. Finally, FINALLY, the embattled Mr. Trump can tweet again about a poll result!x'It's just a 2-point race, Clinton 38%, Trump 36%'https://t.co/EzDzJ4EzINâ Donald J. Trump...
View ArticleMadness, meet Method: Trump is readying himself as post-election King of RWNJ...
Donald Trump knows he’s going to “lose” on November 8. He does. We know from his past Twitter patterns, this is someone who obsessively tracks the polls as much as some of us do in here. But “lose”...
View ArticleA Chronology of Birtherism: Clinton's (non-)role and Trump's central role
Here goes.2008: During the spring and summer of 2008, particularly around the most intense moments of the nomination fight, an anti-unity faction of Clinton supporters — but not the Clinton campaign,...
View ArticleNew Yorker: Imagine President Trump's First Term.. in all its chilling detail
Evan Osnos has written a piece for the upcoming issue of the New Yorker that is detailed, disturbing, and essential reading. President Trump’s First Term.Please read it. Please.He really goes there,...
View ArticleNYT Mag new Hillary Interview: "I'm the last thing standing between you and...
New York Times just published an excellent full length piece and interview with Hillary Clinton. Highly, highly recommended reading.Excerpts:“It does feel much different,” she said. “If I were running...
View ArticleTrump's 2012 Election Night Twitter Fit: "Sham!""Travesty!""Stolen!"
He deleted some of them, but the Internet has memories… and CNN brings it all back up this morning. Timely, that’s for sure. It seems Trump went ballistic on Twitter on Election night 2012, raging...
View ArticleMinor chuckle du jour: Trump unfollows Kellyanne on Twitter
A friend posted a funny and eyebrow-raising thing on Facebook this morning. This friend is kind of addicted to the 2016 election and to OMG-what-did-Trump-do-now… he posts about it daily… and he had...
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Matt Yglesias: The real Clinton email scandal is that a bullshit story has...
Anyone else been wanting a thorough, well-written, dead-on accurate takedown of the bogus “email scandal” that Trump and the GOP have used to great effect this cycle? Well better late than never....
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