Congress creates Rube Goldberg-like mechanism on debt ceiling, instead of ending the filibuster
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The House and Senate are in a sort of holding pattern Tuesday, moving toward potentially getting a lot of stuff done on dealing with the impending debt ceiling deadline and President Joe Biden’s big family and climate bill, but not necessarily achieving muc
The one simple trick to avoiding debt ceiling default: Abolish the filibuster
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The House and Senate are in a sort of holding pattern Tuesday, moving toward potentially getting a lot of stuff done on dealing with the impending debt ceiling deadline and President Joe Biden’s big family and climate bill, but not necessarily achieving muc
In the run-up to his status hearing in federal court on Tuesday, U.S. prosecutors told a judge they would likely need just a single day to try former White House strategist Steve Bannon for the two contempt of Congress charges he was indicted on last month. B
Biden admin was warned internally that Haitian deportations posed a grave human rights violation
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Before resigning his post this past fall, a senior State Department official authored a memo slamming the unlawful deportations of Haitians under the anti-asylum Title 42 policy. The ongoing policy was implemented by the previous administration, and has used
House GOP veteran: Pay no attention to the raging extremists in our caucus running the joint
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Sure, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is coddling GOP caucus extremists in his caucus in his quest for the speakership. Sure, a small cadre of House Republicans who have gleefully put their colleagues' lives on the line are running the joint wi
Russian forces are massed on the border of Ukraine, and what Putin wants may be a price too high
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To say that Russia is threatening to invade Ukraine is avoiding the obvious: That already happened. But on Tuesday, President Joe Biden will hold a video call with Russian President Vladimir Putin in an effort to halt the Russian dictator’s growin
Veteran House Republicans try to brush GOP extremists running their caucus under the rug
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Sure, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is coddling GOP caucus extremists in his caucus in his quest for the speakership. Sure, a small cadre of House Republicans who have gleefully put their colleagues' lives on the line are running the joint wi
Schumer insists Senate will ‘restore’ itself, break the filibuster to pass voting rights this year
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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told Senate Democrats on Monday that he has a long list of things he wants to accomplish in the next two weeks: debt ceiling, defense authorization, nomination, and Build Back Better. Given that they haven’t ac
Look out old, white guys in trucking, brown folk are fast-demanding their seats in the 18-wheelers
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The trucking industry has always been notoriously white and male. But according to findings in a report from Convoy, in 2020, a sharp shift toward more diversity was noted. Now, 64% of carriers report that they are at least 51% o
A field guide to understanding who is at the center of the Jan. 6 probe
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A month from now, the United States will mark its first anniversary of the attack on the U.S. Capitol. The insurrection, incited by former President Donald Trump, cost damages over $1 million to the complex alone, left several dead and hundreds injured, and i
A field guide to the figures at the center of the Jan. 6 probe
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A month from now, the United States will mark its first anniversary of the attack on the U.S. Capitol. The insurrection, incited by former President Donald Trump, cost damages over $1 million to the complex alone, left several dead and hundreds injured, and i
Latinas and other non-white drivers fast-becoming the new faces of the trucking industry
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The trucking industry has always been notoriously white and male. But according to findings in a report from Convoy, in 2020, a sharp shift toward more diversity was noted. Now, 64% of carriers report that they are at least 51% o
Schumer vows to 'restore the Senate' and pass voting rights this year
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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told Senate Democrats on Monday that he has a long list of things he wants to accomplish in the next two weeks: debt ceiling, defense authorization, nomination, and Build Back Better. Given that they haven’t ac
Morning Digest: Trump gets his wish in Georgia. Will he get his next victim?
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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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News Roundup: Nunes bails from Congress; pandemic deaths mount in Republican counties
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In the news today: House Republican Devin Nunes has apparently decided he can do more to undermine the country as private citizen than he can in the House: Today he announced he'll be retiring from his House seat to (cough) allegedly run a new startup pr
Educators in states without school mask mandates are concerned about the COVID-19 omicron variant
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by Alexandra Martinez
This article was originally published at Prism
The World Health Organization has designated the new COVID-19 variant, omicron, as a variant of concern, with cases already being reported in California and Minnesota, adding anot
Evangelical anti-vaxx 'rebel' reveals father ended up in ER after whole family contracts COVID-19
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The evangelical right in our country is not populated by people promoting long-term thinking. While most Christians believe that vaccinations are miraculous ways in which science has been able to help humanity fend off disease and death, evangelicals continu
Openly trans high schooler says school officials told him he can't use boys' bathroom anymore
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As Daily Kos has continued to cover, Republicans are more than happy to push hateful agendas on vulnerable trans youth. We’ve covered the ongoing attempts to keep trans girls out of girls’ sports teams, for example, as well as the recent movement for scho
Tech company slammed after using white actors to voice Black characters in diversity training video
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Following the outcry and global protests after the police murder of George Floyd, many companies began their glacial march toward equality by becoming suddenly and extremely compelled to improve workplace diversity.
So, how does a white-owned tech
Florida detention facility's terrible human rights record gets even worse
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A number of people were hospitalized after falling ill from carbon monoxide poisoning at a Florida detention facility that was criticized just weeks ago for its routine use of toxic chemicals. Miami New Times reports that four immigrants and&nb
Justice Department files second voting lawsuit against Texas in less than a month over redistricting
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In less than a month, the Justice Department has filed its second lawsuit against Texas’ voting practices, specifically its redistricting maps. The complaint was announced on Monday along with a press conference in which Attorney General Merrick Garland con
Anti-vaxx Chronicles: Hero daughter fights to save her parents from COVID misinformation
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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
Gillibrand leads fight to overhaul military justice, but 'a handful of powerful men' are in the way
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A major overhaul of how the military prosecutes many types of crimes has the support of a majority of members of Congress—even clearing the Senate’s 60-vote filibuster threshold. But it’s likely to be dramatically scaled back in the $768 billi
Rep. Devin Nunes announces he's moooooooooving on from Congress
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Republican Rep. Devin Nunes of California took time away from suing parody Twitter accounts to leak a rumor that he will not seek another elected position after 2022. First, KMJ NOW reported Nunes would be retiring from Congress after 2022. Then, Fo
Alabama Power picks lazy, dangerous method to close coal ash pond filled with carcinogens
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An Alabama fossil fuel plant plans to close its coal ash pond and use a controversial “cap-in-place” method to prevent its carcinogenic contents from contaminating the surrounding environment. Alabama Power’s James M. Barry Electric Generatin
Last week was a truly horrible week for asylum-seekers and U.S. asylum law
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Last week was a truly horrible week for asylum-seekers. On Thursday, the Biden administration announced it had reached an agreement with the Mexican government to restart Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), more commonly known as Remain in Mexico. This follow
Schumer pushes to finish Build Back Better while Republicans, Manchin, and Sinema balk
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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer informed Senate Democrats Monday that it’s full steam ahead on passing Build Back Better in the next two weeks. ”[O]ur goal in the Senate is to pass the legislation before Christmas and get it to the presiden
Texas realtor and convicted insurrectionist looks forward to prison as weight-loss and yoga retreat
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Jenna Ryan, the insurrectionist who flew in on a charted private jet in order to participate in an act of treason at our nation’s Capitol building on Jan. 6, is going to jail soon. You may remember Ryan as the Texas MAGA real estate broker who sai
Former neighbor previously contacted child services regarding Michigan shooter and parents
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Information about the Oxford High School shooter in Michigan continues to surface as conversations about gun violence in schools are in high gear across the country, with experts, parents, school faculty and lawmakers alike discussing ways thi
Get ready for GOP slings and arrows in Georgia—Perdue is primarying Gov. Kemp at Trump's behest
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Donald Trump is the gift that keeps on giving to Georgia Democrats. Trump’s incessant whining about nonexistent 2020 election fraud helped depress GOP turnout in the January Senate runoffs and create an opening for two Democrats to claim the seats.
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'I deserve citizenship': DACA recipient makes power plea for relief in new ad
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A young undocumented immigrant is making a powerful and heart-wrenching plea for permanent relief in a new ad set to run on major networks in the coming weeks.
Miryam, a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient, says that since chil
Government is funded, so on to the next Republican-caused crisis: The debt ceiling
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The government is funded as of last Thursday despite ridiculous Republican tricks, leaving Congress to get on with the next bunch of ridiculous antics, like raising or suspending the debt limit in the next eight days. The Treasury Department says th
‘He was dangerous and they gave him a weapon’: More warning signs connected to Michigan shooter
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Information about the Oxford High School shooter in Michigan continues to surface as conversations about gun violence in schools are in high gear across the country, with experts, parents, school faculty and lawmakers alike discussing ways thi
Out of the government shutdown frying pan, into the debt ceiling fire for this week in Congress
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The government is funded as of last Thursday despite ridiculous Republican tricks, leaving Congress to get on with the next bunch of ridiculous antics, like raising or suspending the debt limit in the next eight days. The Treasury Department says th
'I am tired of being afraid': DACA recipient makes powerful plea for immigration relief in new ad
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A young undocumented immigrant is making a powerful and heart-wrenching plea for permanent relief in a new ad set to run on major networks in the coming weeks.
Miryam, a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient, says that since chil
Feds bust dozens in 'modern-day slavery' operation, migrant held at gunpoint on Georgia farms
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After three years and the efforts of a multi-agency investigation, dozens of victims of human trafficking are free from the fetters of “modern-day slavery” on South Georgia farms.
The over 100 victims were smuggled from Mexico, Guatemala, and Hondu
Republican leaders have gotten their wish: Their own base is now dying from COVID-19
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We've long known that the national COVID-19 pandemic has been transforming into a predominantly Republican disease, with infections in Republican-voting, Republican-governed counties far outstripping those in less Republican regions. We also know that anti-ma
Former D.C. National Guard official accuses Army general of 'outright perjury' over Jan. 6
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A former D.C. National Guard official blasted the Pentagon inspector general’s report on the military’s response to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol and directly accused two top generals of lying about their role in the delays deploying the Nati
COVID-19 death rates are now several times higher in Republican counties than Democratic ones
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We've long known that the national COVID-19 pandemic has been transforming into a predominantly Republican disease, with infections in Republican-voting, Republican-governed counties far outstripping those in less Republican regions. We also know that anti-ma
