News Roundup: Fox holds Fellini-style War on Christmas telethon; Trump takes loss
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Hello Friday folks. It has been a tense week. There has been some good news, but unfortunately, what has been broken is very hard to piece back together again. That includes the Supreme Court, our infrastructure, and the environment. Raise a glass to Supreme
Conservatives want to ban abortion, while Build Back Better addresses the reasons people have them
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Democrats are not necessarily pro-abortion: they are pro-choice and believe that abortion should be safe and legal. President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better bill supports that by including provisions that could help reduce unwanted pregnancies by expand
Reddit and TikTok users clog job postings after Kellogg readies to replace striking union workers
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Kellogg workers began striking outside of production plants in four cities (Battle Creek, Michigan.; Omaha, Nebraska; Lancaster, Pennsylvania; and Memphis, Tennessee) back in early October. About 1,400 employees initially walked out of work after Kellogg and
Court rejects GEO Group’s effort to reduce settlement won by immigrants forced to work for $1 a day
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There are few greater pleasures in life than watching GEO Group continue to lose in court. The private prison profiteer had sought to greatly reduce, and even throw out, the millions of dollars a federal jury had awarded to detained immigr
Top law firms have donated nearly $500,000 to the pro-sedition lawmakers they said they'd shut out
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In Rolling Stone, Andy Kroll reports that the pledges the nation's top law firms took—you know, those promises to stop funding Republican lawmakers who allied themselves on Jan. 6 with a seditious attempt to topple government?—have by and large
Trump's Big Lie takes another hit in Wisconsin, but Republicans just won't care
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Republicans have yet to find any evidence of widespread fraud in the 2020 elections, but by gawd they keep trying, embracing failure with one state “audit” after another. The latest, an outside effort by the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty co
Right-winger seems nothing short of delighted about outcry over his anti-trans picture book
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Thanks to Republicans who are absolutely desperate to stoke hysteria and stow hate by any means necessary, trans youth, who are already marginalized, face an ongoing battle for basic rights. Republicans are pushing legislation to stop trans youth from partici
Tucker thinks Jan. 6 rioter ‘RedFace45’ is ’agent provocateur,’ but in fact he’s well-known Trumpite
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Ever since a mob of pro-Trump fanatics attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, Republicans and their propagandists have been frantically engaged in a gaslighting campaign to convince the public that it didn’t see what it watched unfold that day, primarily by c
David Perdue gets his election-conspiracy crazy on to woo Trump voters
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It took newly announced Georgia GOP gubernatorial candidate David Perdue less than one week to dive straight down the 2020 election conspiracy rabbit hole in search of Trump’s cultists.
After publicly asserting that he would cheat for Donald Trump at any
Jan. 6 select committee subpoenas six more people, including a Trump White House staffer
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The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol has issued six new subpoenas, more evidence that it is not sitting around waiting for contempt convictions against the Trump loyalists who have defied its subpoenas.
Anti-vaxx Chronicles: COVID long-hauler changes his tune, becomes champion pro-vaxxer
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This series documents stories from the Herman Cain Awards subreddit. tracking the COVID mis- and disinformation on Facebook that is leading to so many deaths. Today’s cautionary tale is a rare hero—antivaxxer who is working hard to make amends.
Chief Justice John Roberts inadvertently makes the case for Supreme Court expansion
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Friday’s U.S. Supreme Court decision giving Texas abortion providers a narrow path to challenge th law was not a victory for abortion providers. It was not a victory for all the people in Texas who might get pregnant in the coming months. It
'Our City, Our Vote': NYC lawmakers pass bill giving noncitizens right to vote in local elections
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In a win for immigrants nationwide, the New York City Council voted Thursday to approve legislation that would expand the voting rights of hundreds of legal noncitizens, allowing them to partake in local elections. Easily approved by the council and advocacy
Florida man Gaetz and bag of bigotry Bannon want 4,000 ‘shock troops’ to end Democracy
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Florida GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz appeared on Steve Bannon’s podcast War Room on Thursday to rant about enlisting “4,000 shock troops” to attack their political enemies and regain control of the federal government if one-term former Presid
Trump's meddling in North Carolina's GOP Senate primary inflames Republican contest
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To some extent, Democrats’ chances of holding the Senate and perhaps even expanding on their majority will rise and fall on how brutal the GOP primaries get. That's where the endorsement of Donald Trump, which inevitably pushes every race to greater ex
Conservatives fret: Why are young liberals so intolerant of plague-spreading democracy killers?
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This poll has given conservatives a real sad.
xNearly a quarter of college students wouldn't be friends with someone who voted for the other presidential candidate — with Democrats far more likely to dismiss people than Republicans — according to n
Youngkin too inept to realize he can't pull Virginia out of carbon initiative on his own
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Virginia governor-elect Glenn Youngkin is ready to pull the plug on the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). Speaking at the annual Hampton Roads Chamber of Commerce meeting, the Republican said he was tired of the so-called carbon tax being p
If Democrats want to win on Build Back Better, they need to make it work for people faster
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The latest NPR/Marist poll, not to mention their very own recent experience, should make Democratic lawmakers and President Joe Biden reconsider their approach to Build Back Better (BBB) and the programs in it that will be most popular. Right now, just 4
NYPD says while hate crimes rose by 100% in 2020, anti-Asian incidents jumped 361%
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It’s no surprise that hate crimes are increasing at alarming rates across the country. Reports throughout the year have consistently noted increases in faith-, race-, and identity-based crimes nationwide. According to data compiled by the FBI, the highest l
Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt is running for Senate. Killing Missourians is his platform
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On Thursday, a startling announcement appeared on Facebook: “This is to inform you that the Laclede County [Missouri] Health Department has been forced to cease all COVID-19 related work at the current time. This includes: case investigations, con
Driven by crimes against the Asian community, New York Police Department says hate crimes up 100%
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It’s no surprise that hate crimes are increasing at alarming rates across the country. Reports throughout the year have consistently noted increases in faith-, race-, and identity-based crimes nationwide. According to data compiled by the FBI, the highest l
Three-judge panel shoots down Trump's claims to former-executive privilege. Next stop: Supreme Court
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On Thursday, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. issued a ruling that reaffirms what a district court said last month: Donald Trump has no right to prevent the House Select Committee on Jan. 6 from gaining access to a collection of documents held b
Supreme Court leaves pregnant Texans still in danger, but gives abortion providers narrow legal path
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In a rare Friday decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Texas abortion providers can sue the state’s “executive licensing officials” to block S.B. 8, the state’s six-week abortion ban. The Court, however, also denied the Biden Adm
Video shows Kanye’s publicist pressing Georgia election worker to admit to fake voter fraud claims
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The months that followed the 2020 presidential election were a living nightmare for temporary Georgia election worker Ruby Freeman and her daughter Wandrea “Shaye” Moss.
Freeman, a 62-year-old grandmother, along with Moss, 37, were falsel
New video shows Kanye's publicist pushing a Georgia election worker to confess to sham voter fraud
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The months that followed the 2020 presidential election were a living nightmare for temporary Georgia election worker Ruby Freeman and her daughter Wandrea “Shaye” Moss.
Freeman, a 62-year-old grandmother, along with Moss, 37, were falsel
Supreme Court allows Texas abortion providers narrow path to sue, lets ban stand in the meantime
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In a rare Friday decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Texas abortion providers can sue the state’s “executive licensing officials” to block S.B. 8, the state’s six-week abortion ban. The Court, however, also denied the Biden Adm
Hundreds of high school students walk out of class over video of white peer saying racist slurs
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One thing the global pandemic hasn’t stopped: people spewing hateful, discriminatory rhetoric, whether it’s coming from elected officials, folks showing up at school board meetings, or, sadly, even students themselves. The good news is students aren
Fox News' pity party over its burned Christmas tree reaches operatic levels of drama
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The hosts and pundits of Fox News have been through suffering and adversity beyond what mere mortals can adequately convey this week … but they sure are working overtime to tell us about it.
The network’s large fake Christmas tree was se
Honolulu's water contamination crisis worsens as second well shuts down, residents moved to hotels
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The contamination crisis in Honolulu, in which drinking water from the Red Hill well was found to contain petroleum, has only escalated since the Navy slowed pumping at the well last week. The Red Hill well, which provides drinking water to the com
Morning Digest: New Maryland map aims to target Republicans and shield Democrats from primaries
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The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, Daniel Donner, and Carolyn Fiddler, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, James Lambert, David Beard, and Arjun Jaikumar.
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From anti-masking to 'natural immunity,' Republicans' pandemic policies are total losers
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Fresh Navigator Research polling out this week serves as a reminder that the American public still largely supports the efforts of President Joe Biden and Democrats to quash the coronavirus. Among other indicators, Biden's approvals o
Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Get your booster going
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NPR:
1 in 10 Americans say the COVID-19 vaccine conflicts with their religious beliefs
Only 10% of Americans believe that getting a COVID-19 vaccine conflicts with their religious beliefs, and 59% of Americans say too many people are using religious belief
Pastor who performed in drag on HBO docuseries loses job at Indiana church
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Here in the United States (and, really, globally) there are plenty of LGBTQ+ people and allies who are religious. This might sound surprising as religion can be harmful, oppressive, and isolating for queer people, but it can also be a space of affirmatio
News Roundup: Trump's sedition allies scramble to refuse testimony; Dems fed up with Boebert stunts
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In the news today: The economic news continues to be surprisingly bright, considering that we're still knee-deep in a worldwide pandemic. As courts continue to treat the invented «executive privilege» claims an ex-president with skepticism, Donal
Taylor Energy billionaire used oil spill cleanup to avoid taxes for over a decade
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In 2004, Hurricane Ivan tore through the Gulf of Mexico. One of the worst disasters wrought by Ivan’s wrath was damage to an offshore oil rig, owned by Louisiana-based company Taylor Energy, which fell over—uncapping the well beneath. Crude oil began to f
'Appropriate use of state’s constitutional power': Court dismisses challenge to Illinois' ICE ban
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Two Illinois counties went straight to court after lawmakers passed into law legislation that effectively ends immigration detention in the state. Their plan was to deal the Illinois Way Forward Act a death blow, and continue reaping in millions from fed
Senate Democrats are determined to ‘restore the Senate,’ if only Manchin will let them
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On Monday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer notified Senate Democrats he is prioritizing an effort to “restore the Senate,” and do something about the filibuster in order to pass voting rights legislation. Politico has a bit more inform
Caribbean Matters: Enslavement memorial and museum to be built in Barbados
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Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley of Barbados has announced that a memorial and museum will be built on the site of a burial ground for approximately 570 enslaved Africans in Barbados, It will be part of the new Barbados Heritage District, w
Openly trans seventh-grader sues school for the right to use the boys' bathroom
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In addition to the stress of returning to school amid an ongoing global pandemic, trans youth in a number of states have to worry about having their most basic needs met. One? Using the bathroom while at school. Here at Daily Kos, we’ve covered a numbe
