Morning Digest: Washington court accepts redistricting board's new maps, even though they came late
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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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Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Omicron, SCOTUS and media reluctance to face GOP anti-democratic forces
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NY Times:
Vaccine demand grows in the U.S. and so do wait times.
Many vaccination clinics and local officials are reporting long lines and delays in booking vaccination appointments recently, the product of expanded eligibility on booster shots and fears o
News Roundup: Omicron, Tucker, and Marjorie (sigh) Taylor Greene, yet again
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In the news today: The omicron variant of COVID-19. Tucker Carlson's dangerous demonization of supposed enemies apparently is something for the cameras, because in his personal life? Different story. And Marjorie Taylor Greene continues to make the nation wor
For Muslim eco-activists, protesting the L3 Minnesota pipeline is a religious responsibility
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by Tasmiha Khan
This story was originally published at Prism.
Coverage of the fight against climate change in the U.S. often ignores the efforts of Muslim activists, for whom caring for the environment is a religious obligation. However, Muslims have be
KosAbility: Internalized ableism is a consequence of an ableist society. Let's dismantle both
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Ableism is pervasive in society, accepted as normal and “how things are,” because too many people are oblivious to the myriad ways systemic ableism determines how we build out human spaces and interact. Even if you aren’t d
Nuts & Bolts—Inside a Democratic campaign: It's okay to be human
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Welcome back to the weekly Nuts & Bolts Guide to small campaigns. I’ve written about rest in campaigns and why I think it is important. Today I want to talk about rest and ease, and what both can offer potential voters when candidates embrace
Trump may self-publish memoir to prevent 'humiliation' of getting smaller advance than Obama
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After normal presidents stop presidenting, they’re typically deluged with offers from major publishing houses for the right to release their memoirs. But judging from the blowback The Wall Street Journal received after publishing Donald Trump’s recen
What went wrong in America’s record-low refugee admissions? Not just Trump
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by Aysha Khan
This article was originally published at Prism.
The Biden White House has ended its first fiscal year with a stunning new record: admitting the lowest number of refugees to the U.S. ever since the Refugee Act passed in 1980.
Refugee advoc
Rep. Eric Swalwell reminds us who really has the right to complain when it comes to COVID-19
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Even though I’m not a parent (you can thank me later, nonexistent kids who were never forced to explain my Igloo cooler-sized head and piquant yeti musk to your friends and classmates), I feel every bit of this mini-Twitter thread from Rep. Eric Swalwe
How the right corrupted the idea of 'freedom' to promote its racist agenda
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As the COVID-19 pandemic has unfolded we’ve heard an awful lot from the right—a near-constant refrain, in fact—about their “freedom.” The word itself has become a shibboleth, wielded like a bludgeon against any attempts to rein in the virus: Vaccin
Forget horse paste. Anti-vaxxers are now literally eating dirt to stay healthy
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What else might people do to prevent COVID-19—aside from taking a free, safe, effective, FDA-approved vaccine? Horse paste was all the rage for a while. Bleach injections never really took off, despite the ocher abomination’s imprimatur. Oh, I k
Afghan refugees call for a clearer path to citizenship
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by Alexandra Martinez
This article was originally published at Prism
When humanitarian parole passed the House of Representatives last month as part of President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better package, it was a tentative win for organizers working wit
Debt collectors can now slide into your DMs as Trump social media rule takes effect
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During the Trump administration, amongst all of the many terrible things being done in order to line the wealthiest Americans’ pockets at the expense of the rest of us, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau proposed new rules as an update to the 40-
Marjorie Taylor Greene wonders why we never closed schools or businesses because of cancer
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Oh, what fresh hell is this? The last I checked, this aimless tangle of glitching neurons held a seat in the U.S. Congress. If we can’t actually administer IQ tests as a prerequisite for serving in the House of Representatives, can we at least biopsy their
Reproductive rights advocates sound alarm after Supreme Court hears Mississippi abortion case
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by Alexandra Martinez
This article was originally published at Prism
The landmark U.S. abortion rights case Roe v. Wade is in jeopardy. The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Center Wednesday morning, and reproductiv
He put the R in rock 'n' roll: Remembering Little Richard
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As the end of 2021 draws near, I have been thinking about jazz and soul musicians we lost this year While browsing through the memorial tribute I wrote in 2020, which was headed with this photo, I realized that I have never featured Richard Wayne Pe
Let’s dig right in!
Paul Krugman of The New York Times says that Republicans are “actively working to make the country ungovernable.”
To some extent it surely reflects a coldly cynical political calculation. Voters tend to blame whichever p
Community Spotlight: Woo-hoo (and farewell)! Rescued stories now live on the front page
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The technical experts who keep Daily Kos humming take a lot of flak from us, but they do listen to Community gripes, devise solutions, and then implement them. Tonight, let’s shout our gratitude and appreciation for their efforts, which often occur wit
Georgia election workers sue Gateway Pundit over false accusations of election fraud
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When Infowars and Alex Jones were slapped with a default judgment for their years-long smearing of the Sandy Hook families in October, I believed that it would likely have the effect of putting them out of business. Now it looks like another deplora
Ready to resist and not sure where to start? Our new activism roundup is here for you
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Daily Kos is an organization powered by people. Specifically, a community of activists and progressives who, for almost 20 years, have been working to advance progressive values. Our Activism department is an initiative to organize this community and affect p
Many families were saved from homelessness and hunger amid pandemic thanks to this group's program
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Hundreds of Latino-based non-profit organizations in dozens of states were able to better assist already-vulnerable communities amid the novel coronavirus, thanks to a grant system from a leading non-governmental organization that also wor
Alec Baldwin denies pulling trigger of gun that killed Halyna Hutchins, says his career may be over
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In an interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos that aired Thursday, actor Alec Baldwin said he’s speaking out to clear up what he calls “misconceptions” around the tragic and accidental shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hut
Connect! Unite! Act! Are you giving some holiday time to a charity? Tell us about it!
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Connect! Unite! Act! is a weekly series that seeks to create face-to-face networks in each congressional district. Groups meet regularly to socialize, get out the vote, support candidates, and engage in other local political actions that help our progressive
House investigator indicates WH helped Clark draft incriminating letter to Georgia officials
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The chief investigative counsel for the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack wants to ask Jeffrey Clark about White House involvement in the drafting of an incriminating letter that the former Trump DOJ official wanted to send to Geo
After making millions, author Alice Sebold apologizes to Black man wrongly convicted of her rape
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Best-selling author Alice Sebold, known for her memoir Lucky as well as novels The Lovely Bones and The Almost Moon, apologized Tuesday to the man she wrongly accused of raping her in 1981 while she was a freshman at Syracuse Uni
Anti-vaxx Chronicles: Painful long-haul COVID wasn't going to change her mind
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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
The consequences of overruling Roe v. Wade go well beyond the issue of abortion rights
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In remarkably swift fashion—within a few short years—Americans have been given a front-row seat into the wholesale corruption of each of the three branches of our republic, all courtesy of the Republican Party. We had a presidency that transformed th
Tucker Carlson asked Hunter Biden to help him get his son into college
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During the run-up to the November election between President Joe Biden and the former guy, Fox News and other conservative propaganda machines went back to the only playbook the Republican party has used for decades—scandal mud-slinging. Having not spent th
Omicron may have incorporated RNA from a 'common cold virus,' but that doesn't make it a common cold
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The idea that viruses have a tendency to become weaker over time is simply not true. Smith’s “law of declining virulence” was a 19th century construct that has been thoroughly debunked again and again. Without going into the details again, just take it
Asian Woman beaten on train; hundreds march as violence on Philadelphia SEPTA train continues
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Following an attack on an Asian American teen on Philadelphia’s Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) train on Nov. 16, hundreds have rallied together to show their support and condemn acts of violence against Asian Americans. Students
Horse paste enthusiasts are threatening hospital workers. Maybe don't go to the hospital then?
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Here's an NBC story about the new trend of people getting mad when they show up at hospitals with severe COVID-19 symptoms and the doctors refuse to give them horse dewormer to fix it. Well, it's mostly a story about the families of COVID-19 patients getting
Voting Rights Roundup: New York City may soon grant local voting rights to permanent legal residents
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Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Omicron comes into better focus, but more needs to be known
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Bloomberg:
Omicron Up Close: South Africa’s Experts Tell Their Stories
“While people are freaking out, the other thing to stress is that if you look across the variants, the vaccines have protected against severe disease, hospitalization and death. A
Rep. Madison Cawthorn calls women 'earthen vessels' in weird anti-choice rant
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Wow. This guy. Seriously. I know that the potentially seismic Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization Supreme Court case could vaporize Roe v. Wade and its precedents once and for all, so this is the anti-choice crowd’s Empire Strikes Back mo
Right-wing so-called 'journalists' exploit Waukesha tragedy, drawing neo-Nazis there to protest
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It was predictable that, given their histories of using dubious pretenses to whip up public animus against leftist protesters—particularly against Black Lives Matter and antifascists—right-wing propagandists would seize upon the Nov. 21 tragedy in Waukesh
Judge says former Border Patrol chief's horrific tweet to survivor was ‘classic' rape threat
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Jenn Budd, a former Border Patrol agent turned whistleblower who was raped while training at its academy in the 1990s, has been a fierce critic of abuses committed by the agency and its officers. That outspokenness has continued to make her a target
Honolulu demands answers after Navy finds petroleum in Red Hill drinking water
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On Thursday, the Navy confirmed what residents had feared about the Red Hill drinking water well that serves the Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam area: Petroleum has been found in the water. “We have pretty conclusive indications that there ar
Trump's personal COVID-19 negligence set the tone for millions, and we're still suffering for it
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A fashionable take among conservatives these days is to say President Joe Biden deserves the blame for not stopping the COVID-19 pandemic in its tracks. To my mind, that’s a little like squatting on the hood of your neighbor’s car, taking
Black parents see a problem with how race is taught in schools, but it's not CRT
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The whole “critical race theory” uproar is really about stripping schools of any teaching about racism or the contributions of Black people and other people of color to U.S. history, rolling back any tenuous progress made at teaching those important
Earth Matters: Manchin helped kill reform of 1872 mining law that harms people and costs billions
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Manchin wreckEd latest move to reform 150-YEAR-OLD MINING LAW
Sen. Joe Manchin III has got a lot of reasons for that smile.
In the last year of his first term as president, Ulysses S. Grant signed the 1872 Mining Law that set mod
