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Daily Kos cartoonists rock the Herblock
Amazing news! Our own Matt Bors has won the Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning—and our own Jen Sorensen came in a close second!Matt Bors, a nationally syndicated alternative editorial cartoonist,...
View ArticleRise Like Lions
Hello,I am an activist and documentary filmmaker. This is my first diary at Daily Kos. About a month after the birth of Occupy Wall Street I released a film entitled Rise Like Lions, after Shelley's...
View ArticleProgressive Politics: Tennessee Style!
There's been a lot of talk around the GOS lately about the South. Some love us, and some love to hate us. For some, we are the hope of tomorrow. For others, we are the blame for yesterday.But, for...
View ArticleProgressives Guide to Social Media 9: Advanced Strategies
This is the ninth in a series of short articles that are intended to help grassroots activists better utilize social media websites. These are the definitive and comprehensive guides for progressives....
View ArticlePPTS: Episode 4-Taxes
Progressie Politics:Tennessee Style is a live weekly radio show which began four weeks ago as a response to the question posed on Kos: "What are Southern Progressives Doing About It?" You can find out...
View ArticleTwitterbomb Beth Myers...
Who is Beth Myers?Why she's the person that Mittens picked as a lead on finding him a VP candidate that can help him lose to Obama in November.And she's on Twitter now! BethMyers2012Her first tweet:As...
View ArticleWhat's WITH Our Economy, Anyway?
"So how did we end up in this state? How did America become a nation that could not rise to the biggest economic challenge in three generations, a nation in which scorched-earth politics and...
View ArticleThe Equal Rights Amendment vs. The War On Women
I'm betting that you are, like a very large majority of American citizens, under the impression that we actually HAVE an Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in our Constitution. You believe that women in...
View ArticleThe Problem with ALEC
It seems to be in the news quite a bit lately, this fella named "Alec". For a long time, I was just sitting out on the porch down here, along the mighty Duck River, wonderin' what all the dust-up over...
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MSNBC: Evidence of Multiple Shooters, Night Raid in Sgt. Bales Case
Author note: I didn't want to write this diary, but examining these reports, I cannot in good conscience not write it. This is terrible.The first story was shaky from the start, that Sgt. Robert Bales...
View ArticleEpisode 6: ALEC Exposed (Part 2)
On tomorrow's radio show, "Progressive Politics: Tennessee Style", we will have two very special guests:Matt Glazer, Executive Director, andPhil Martin, Research DirectorFor Progressive-Texas.Follow me...
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Chen Guangcheng - Speaking Truth to Power - (Updated)
Mitt Romney steps in it again; Consideration of the dramatic escape of Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng to the US Embassy, his voluntary release to Chinese Government custody and new request to return...
View ArticlePPTS Episode 7: ALEC vs. Public Education
In the continuing series of investigations of The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), we will look at the relationship between the organization and a seeming war on public education in...
View ArticleThis week in the War on Women: Silly girls, stop distracting us with your...
The Senate will soon be voting on what should be an uncontroversial bill: the Paycheck Fairness Act. The Act would expand and strengthen the Equal Pay Act of 1963 and the Fair Labor Standards Act, in...
View ArticleNurse Kelley Sez: homogenius, founder of KosAbility, needs our help (new...
We're moving! Please read and rec FrugalGranny's new diary for homogenius!We all encounter a lot of different people here at Daily Kos. Sometimes those encounters end up having a profound impact on our...
View ArticleI'm Overwhelmed, in an overwhelming place!
I ran into DK several years ago, and would visit from time to time. First, it was to see what was going on in the more progressive world of the political world. I mean, you must admit, if you want to...
View ArticleMessage To The (Activist) Troops (# 1)
November 6th, 2012. It is a very long way away ( It is 172 days, 6 hours, 50 minutes, 35 seconds until Tuesday, November 6, 2012 (Washington DC time) as I write this.This is the first (and, hopefully...
View ArticleProgressive Politics: Tennessee Style: May 20, 2012
On our last show, we discussed the debate between those who would bolster our public education system, and those who would seek to completely replace it with private, charter, home schooling (and...
View ArticleProgressive Politics: Tennessee Style: May 13, 2012
There's a lot of news to share this week, both about the show and the events this week which are the "hot topics" around the Progressive South."Progressive Politics: Tennessee Style" (PPTS) is an...
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Top Comments: the Pete Fornatale edition
My favorite DJ from my mis-spent youth (Pete Fornatale) died recently - and whose passing was noted by fans and musicians alike. Follow me after the jump ....
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Odds & Ends: News/Humor (with a "Who Lost the Week?" poll)
I post a weekly diary of the historical notes, arts & science items, foreign news (often receiving little notice in the US) and whimsical pieces from the outside world that I featured this past...
View ArticleProgressive Politics: Tennessee Style - Help us, please!
For three months now, "Progressive Politics: Tennessee Style" (PPTS) has been reaching out to Southern Progressives to inform, educate, highlight, and motivate activists, activity and activism across...
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Odds & Ends: News/Humor (with a "Who Lost the Week?" poll)
I post a weekly diary of the historical notes, arts & science items, foreign news (often receiving little notice in the US) and whimsical pieces from the outside world that I featured this past...
View ArticleRemarks by President Obama at Fourth of July celebration, White House, July...
THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary______________________ For Immediate Release July 4, 2012REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT AT FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATIONSouth Lawn6:02...
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Odds & Ends: News/Humor (with a "Who Lost the Week?" poll)
I post a weekly diary of the historical notes, arts & science items, foreign news (often receiving little notice in the US) and whimsical pieces from the outside world that I featured this past...
View ArticleWisconsin Underground (?) Rumors
I saw this tonight. It's pretty non-specific, but from a reliable source. Nothing follows...well, not here, anyway.
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PPTS: July 1, 2012 "ALEC and the Larger Plan" (Part 2)
The series that began our show has turned, somehow strangely predictably, into a series of series'. Like linguistics itself, we have attempted to create a factual skeleton, or "Deep Structure", as Noam...
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Odds & Ends: News/Humor (with a "Who Lost the Week?" poll)
I post a weekly diary of the historical notes, arts & science items, foreign news (often receiving little notice in the US) and whimsical pieces from the outside world that I featured this past...
View ArticleNurse Kelley Sez: The Waldo Canyon Fire, the American Red Cross, and All Y'all
SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 2012Yet another blazing hot June day in a month of record high temperatures and drought. Early in the afternoon I stepped out on the deck after seeing a crawl on the TV saying there...
View ArticleAbout Stalkers and Stalking
On September 11th, 2001, the face of America changed. Since then, Americans have lived with a new, perceived reality. Never before had the United States' citizens recognized the reality that we could...
View ArticleDemocrat Turncoats!! You Mad? I Am!
Of late, many have vented, for one reason or another, in one direction or another, their anger.Now, it's my turn. (No, it's NOT what you think it is!)Four House Democrats today voted in favor of HR 724...
View ArticleDREAM Come True -- Obama Immigration Reform Kicks In TODAY
It's not comprehensive immigration reform, but it is real progress:With their expectations soaring, young illegal immigrants across the country are preparing to apply for a temporary reprieve from...
View ArticleSTOP the LIE: Obama's Medicare change a reduction in deficit..not care
There seems to be some confusion about the reduction in the deficit Obama negotiated for Obamacare, so let me explain it on a personal level.Your mom (or dad or you) are on Medicare. Mom is prescribed...
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More Good Works
It's not every day your health insurance company sends you money, but thanks to the ACA and my insurer's over-lavish spending, they are today. Now if only the Dems would get out there and show the...
View ArticleHelp Me Get Rolling...If You Can and You're So Inclined...
Hello, all:I'm writing today to ask for your help. For your help, NOT for your charity. And for your recommendation of this diary, if you're comfortable and so inclined.Those of you who know me from a...
View ArticleCampaign Fundraiser for bfitzinAR's Reelection for JP - 3rd attempt
BFitz, as many of us, particularly in the PWB Peeps, know is definitely one of the first ones to hand over money that she really doesn't have to help out whomever may need it. She has been Justice of...
View ArticleGetting Out the Vote
The Teapublican efforts at blocking the vote and the consequences if it succeeds have finally moved me to stop lurking and write. I have organized a GOTV effort that I would like to see copied. I call...
View ArticleSuddenly Homeless Charley Needs Our Help Again
Suddenly Homeless Charley Needs Our Help AgainFellow Kossack Charley James needs our help again. If we don't pitch in one more time, then the man who is giving us the moving and eye-opening Suddenly...
View ArticleSuddenly Homeless Charley Needs Our Help Again
Fellow Kossack Charley James needs our help again. If we don't pitch in one more time, then the man who is giving us the moving and eye-opening Suddenly Homeless diaries will be out on the street Sept....
View ArticleGot my LTE in the Coloradoan
My pet peeve this election year is Republicans blaming us for the debt that they ran up. "OWEbama". Have you heard that s*it? Well, I got my LTE on it published this morning in the Fort Collins...
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WI-Sen: PPP Has Tammy Baldwin (D) Beating Tommy Thompson (R), 49-45
Uploaded with ImageShack.usI know, I'm breaking my promise on the diaries but I have been waiting all day for the latest PPP poll on the Wisconsin Senate race. Democrat Tammy Baldwin is beating...
View ArticleMust read of the day: "The Republican Party is only a viable entity because...
Please read the whole article by Ron Rosenbaum over at Slate.com, but here is the heart of it. I’ve spent some time putting “truth” claims and false equivalencies in perspective because I want...
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German Spiegel says:" Both men, Kelly and Browne, aren't telling the truth."...
(Written by an American expat of European ancestry living in the European Union)(This diary is dedicated to the memory of Darrius Kennedy. I never knew him in life but by writing about his death, I...
View ArticleWalmart Black Friday Boycott Supporters
Please list below in the comments any links to actions people can take in their area to support the Black Friday Walmart strike. There is already one for Chicago, which I have posted below. I will...
View ArticleRomneys huge auto bailout fantasy
OK I don't write that many Diaries, and I FUCKED up badly by jumping the gun on my last one about Trump, I was more than a little embarrassed. I honestly believed it was something Trump would stoop to,...
View ArticlePPTS Episode 41: "ALEC vs. ALICE"
Join us this evening for a special show on a new project to counter The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC): The American Legislative Issue and Campaign Exchange (ALICE).This is a pretty...
View ArticleNot Voting? The Koch Brothers Thank You
I don't know what's worse: Is it that a party would deliberately seek to deny American citizens the right to vote knowing full well the extraordinary sacrifices that went into securing those rights? Or...
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Odds & Ends: News/Humor (with a "Who Lost the Week?" poll)
I post a weekly diary of the historical notes, arts & science items, foreign news (often receiving little notice in the US) and whimsical pieces from the outside world that I featured this past...
View ArticleCan there ever be another revolution?
This is not a frivolous question even if it seems so. I just read this quote from Lenin on facebook: "A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every...
View Article"McCutcheon v. FEC" What YOU Can Do-Today!
Sometimes, we mere citizens feel useless, and more often than not powerless to have impact on those important things which affect our daily lives. One of the principal reasons for such (and other)...
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