Witness in Rittenhouse trial says he thought teen was an 'active shooter'
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As the Kyle Rittenhouse trial continues, the only protester shot by Rittenhouse to survive testified on Monday. Gaige Grosskreutz, a volunteer medic and protestor who was the third and final man shot by Rittenhouse in the summer of 2020, recalled the events t
Dennis Prager spits on the graves of victims of the AIDS crisis in order to prop up the unvaccinated
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In the middle of October, right-wing radio host Dennis Prager told his audience that he had contracted COVID-19. He told his audience that he had purposely “engaged with strangers, constantly hugging them, taking photos with them knowing that I was making m
Dennis Prager uses his massive platform to rewrite HIV/AIDS history
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In the middle of October, right-wing radio host Dennis Prager told his audience that he had contracted COVID-19. He told his audience that he had purposely “engaged with strangers, constantly hugging them, taking photos with them knowing that I was making m
As Sean Parnell's candidacy unravels, Trump scrambles to salvage it
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Pennsylvania GOP Senate candidate Sean Parnell testified Monday in a contentious custody battle with his estranged wife, entirely refuting her allegations of abuse against herself and their children.
Parnell, who said he «never» got physical wit
$4 drug may be more effective than $2,000 monoclonal antibodies in treating COVID-19
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From the outset of the pandemic, Republicans have seized on anecdotal claims of COVID-killing drugs to either downplay the disease itself or as an excuse to refuse vaccines. Donald Trump was at the front of the line in pushing anti-malaria treatment hydroxych
Paul Gosar isn't as funny as he thinks after tweet prompts calls for censure
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Representative Paul Gosar’s tweet of an anime video in which the Arizona Republican is shown killing fellow member Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and swinging swords at President Joe Biden has triggered waves of outrage in Washington and calls fro
New Hampshire governor declines Senate bid, crushing McConnell's hopes
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In a move that deprives Senate Republican leaders of one of their most sought-after recruits, Republican Chris Sununu announced Tuesday that he would seek a fourth two-year term as governor of New Hampshire rather than challenge Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan
Someone needs to tell Sen. Cruz how dumb he sounds coming after Transportation head Pete Buttigieg
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As usual, Republican Sen. Ted Cruz apparently doesn’t see racism, understand systemic racism, or (the most likely) chooses to ignore the realities of racism in this country.
During a White House press conference Monday, Transportation Secre
Pressure to condemn Paul Gosar heats up on Capitol Hill
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Representative Paul Gosar’s tweet of an anime video in which the Arizona Republican is shown killing fellow member Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and swinging swords at President Joe Biden has triggered waves of outrage in Washington and calls fro
Secret recordings after Columbine show how the NRA developed its school shootings playbook
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The 1999 Columbine High School mass shooting posed a challenge for the National Rifle Association (NRA). The nation was not yet accustomed to mass shootings in schools, and the NRA had to decide how to respond to public horror. Now NPR has obtained two a
It looks like LAPD is still in the business of gift-wrapping feces and calling it reform
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A year after the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) ended a surveillance program it used for years to predict where crimes might be committed before they happened, the department is using a similar program. Critics say it’s turning out to be yet
McCarthy refuses to act as his deplorables try to get their colleagues killed
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“I hope you die. I hope everybody in your fucking family dies.” That’s the voicemail Rep. Fred Upton, Republican from Michigan, found after he cast a vote for the bipartisan infrastructure bill last Friday. The caller called him a “fucking piece
House Select Committee on Jan. 6 issues subpoenas, but it's not clear they'll ever get testimony
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On Monday afternoon, the House Select Committee on Jan. 6 issued a new round of subpoenas. Included in the net this time were:
Trump Campaign Manager Bill Stepien, best known for his involvement in Chris Christie’s “Bridgegate” scandal, and for
Democrats might be in disarray, but Republicans are trying to get their colleagues killed
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“I hope you die. I hope everybody in your fucking family dies.” That’s the voicemail Rep. Fred Upton, Republican from Michigan, found after he cast a vote for the bipartisan infrastructure bill last Friday. The caller called him a “fucking piece
The House Select Committee has issued more subpoenas, but that's not the same as taking action
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On Monday afternoon, the House Select Committee on Jan. 6 issued a new round of subpoenas. Included in the net this time were:
Trump Campaign Manager Bill Stepien, best known for his involvement in Chris Christie’s “Bridgegate” scandal, and for
Trump loses latest bid to keep Jan. 6 docs hidden from investigators
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Donald Trump may be on his own planet in terms of understanding what is legal or constitutional in the United States, but Judge Tanya Chutkan brought him down to earth late Monday night after promptly rejecting the former president’s last-minute bid to kee
Trump quitting the GOP would have annihilated the party and Republicans knew it
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A new book by ABC News' Jonathan Karl includes an anecdote in which, hours before Donald Trump left office in January, he threatened to quit the Republican Party.
«I'm done,» Trump told RNC chair Ronna McDaniel. «I'm starting my own party.&
Republicans' post-Jan. 6 flirtation with reality likely succumbed to Trump's third-party threat
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A new book by ABC News' Jonathan Karl includes an anecdote in which, hours before Donald Trump left office in January, he threatened to quit the Republican Party.
«I'm done,» Trump told RNC chair Ronna McDaniel. «I'm starting my own party.&
Republican leaders are getting their wish: COVID-19 is now mostly a partisan pandemic
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We have noted multiple times in the last year that the COVID-19 pandemic is turning into a largely Republican pandemic. That doesn't mean that non-Republicans aren't still getting sick, but the places where the most COVID-related deaths happen are places tha
'Ready for the long haul if you are': Obama pitches ongoing collaboration in climate change fight
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Former President Barack Obama delivered a moving speech during day nine of COP26 that took his successor to task and urged collaboration between individuals and nations in order to continue fighting climate change for the long haul regardless of political aff
We have noted multiple times in the last year that the COVID-19 pandemic is turning into a largely Republican pandemic. That doesn't mean that non-Republicans aren't still getting sick, but the places where the most COVID-related deaths happen are places tha
Abbreviated pundit roundup: Democrats, strategy, and more
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Robert Baird at The New Yorker takes a deep dive into the negotiations on President Biden’s agenda and the Congressional Progressive Caucus:
The C.P.C.’s show of strength came as a surprise. Not since the Democratic Study Group, an organization of liber
Morning Digest: After retracted concession, Virginia Democrats cling to slim hope for a tied House
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The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, Carolyn Fiddler, and Matt Booker, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, Daniel Donner, James Lambert, David Beard, and Arjun Jaikumar.
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News Roundup: Big Bird, CRT, video games, and porn battle it out in newest Republican culture wars
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In the news today: As Ted Cruz grouses that teaching children about vaccination amounts to «propaganda,» fellow Senate seditionist Josh Hawley says he'll be adopting «masculinity» as his new central political theme. As Democratic
FTC commissioner urges use of 'statutory toolbox' to combat Spanish-language disinformation
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Tech companies are failing at combatting Spanish-language disinformation, lawmakers and advocates said during an online panel last week. NBC News reports that while tech companies flag or remove English-language posts, the same often doesn’t happe
Retailers are struggling to staff the holiday shopping season, and it could be good for workers
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The coronavirus pandemic’s shake-up of the U.S. economy still hasn’t fully resettled, and it’s clearly visible in reporting on businesses looking for workers and workers looking for jobs. On the one hand, top retailers say their industry is heading int
Navy launches ship named in honor of LGBTQ civil rights icon Harvey Milk
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The United States has a long, long way to go when it comes to protecting, honoring, and respecting LGBTQ+ people. There have been significant wins in relatively recent years—marriage equality, for example, and the growing number of openly LGBTQ+ elected off
Legislators ask DOJ to probe 'shadow police unit' that's covered up border abuses for years
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A number of House Democrats have asked the Justice Department to open an investigation into the border “shadow police unit” that human rights groups said in a letter late last month has covered up agent abuses for years. The South
All 12 federally recognized Indigenous tribes in Michigan urge Biden to shutter the Line 5 pipeline
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All 12 federally recognized Indigenous tribes in Michigan sent Joe Biden a letter on Friday laying out a plan for the president to shut down the Line 5 oil pipeline, which stretches 645 miles from Superior, Wisconsin, to Sarnia, Ontario, as part of Canadian p
Facebook is a menace. COVID-19 is a menace. Conservatism is a cesspool. Together, those three ingredients have created a toxic stew of malevolent death and devastation. We can talk about all those things in the abstract, look at the numbers and statistics, an
Democrats can deal with Manchin and McConnell in one go: Add debt ceiling to BBB budget bill
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The House and Senate are both in recess this week, neither planning floor sessions. However, that doesn’t mean that they’re not working on the critical half of President Joe Biden’s big economic, climate change, and family agenda he’s calling Build Ba
Jan. 6 Committee issues subpoenas to another round of Trump toadies
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Long-anticipated subpoenas for senior officials to former President Donald Trump and members of his 2020 reelection campaign were issued by investigators on the Jan. 6 Committee on Monday.
The subpoenas come at the same time obstruction to congressiona
QAnon MAGA cult refuses to leave Dallas after JFK Jr. no-show
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On Nov. 22, 1963, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated in Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. Many people believe that Lee Harvey Oswald, who was arrested and charged with Kennedy’s murder, was not the only person involved in the assassination
Grifter Gov. DeSantis files for re-election, skirts election laws by using a political committee
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Here’s to hoping Florida is ready for another four years under a lying, conniving, anti-vaxxer, anti-mask governor who soundlessly kicked off his reelection campaign Friday, all while raising millions over the past several months via a p
State Farm dropped Aaron Rodgers ads for one Sunday, but won't break up with its 'great ambassador'
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After his COVID-19 diagnosis led to the revelation that he had refused to be vaccinated and lied about it publicly, saying, “Yeah, I’ve been immunized,” Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers is facing something he doesn’t seem to have a lo
James Carville's rebuke of 'wokeness' is nothing more than a rebuke of Blackness
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A conversation has unfolded on social media—and God help us all—it has the audacity to be about the concept of being “woke,” “staying woke,” and all matters “wokeness”-related. This idea of staying woke was created by Black people and until re
White House clarifies Biden 'perfectly comfortable' with settlements for separated families
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President Joe Biden this past weekend said he supported financial settlements for asylum-seeking parents and children who were forcibly separated at the southern border by the previous administration and subsequently filed legal action against the federa
Josh Hawley thinks he can make telling his base to stop watching porn a major political campaign
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As his ally Ted Cruz launches another conservative crusade against a freakin' puppet, Sen. Josh Hawley, most famous for abetting an attempt to topple our nation's government, announces his own new political theme will be «masculinity.»
Yes, this
Fascism, porn, and ambition: Sen. Josh Hawley says he'll make 'masculinity' a major political theme
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As his ally Ted Cruz launches another conservative crusade against a freakin' puppet, Sen. Josh Hawley, most famous for abetting an attempt to topple our nation's government, announces his own new political theme will be «masculinity.»
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Celebrate Biden getting the infrastructure bill, but keep your eye on the Build Back Better prize
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The House passed the first part of President Joe Biden’s big economic and infrastructure plans Friday in a 228 to 206 vote. That’s the $1.2 trillion bipartisan hard infrastructure bill negotiated in the Senate with Republicans—and Democrats Joe Man
