2018 interference begins: Russian hackers attack Claire McCaskill's staffers.
A new article at the Daily Beast, by Andrew Desiderio and Kevin Poulsen, reveals that Russian hackers are trying to repeat the Podesta playbook against Claire McCaskill’s 2018 Senate campaign....
View ArticleSmoking gun: material evidence of intentional perjury by Kavanaugh.
NBC News has obtained text messages from a friend of Kavanaugh’s that make clear he was attempting damage control on the Deborah Ramirez story before it broke:The texts between Berchem and Karen...
View ArticleThe GOP "compromise bill" is a lie, guts TPS and asylum permanently.
So the GOP has been trumpeting an immigration “compromise” this weekend, right? They’re telling us it’s DACA plus TPS (Temporary Protected Status— available to people whose countries have suffered...
View ArticleUnpatriotic.
There are, to put it mildly, a lot of technical details in and relating to the Mueller report. We’ve got the definitions of various crimes, the term “collusion” and its meaning, complicated legal...
View ArticleCan we please treat each other with good faith?
I’ve got to say, these two diaries are twins, and neither of them is helpful at all:"Sanders Supporters Are His Own Worst Enemy", from today;"FAIR: Maybe Rich Liberals... Hate Sanders... Because...
View ArticleA look at Biden's health care plan.
Joe Biden has released a health care plan. It’s an interesting plan, and worth taking a careful look at, because it is likely to be the most centrist plan released by any major candidate — and as such...
View ArticleIs Daily Kos a safe place for women who call out powerful men, or not?
It is certainly the case that not all accusations of sexual misconduct are well-founded, and appropriate levels of skepticism should be applied. But let’s not kid ourselves — the MeToo movement is...
View ArticleNot again. Not another war based on a lie.
The Trump administration may be gearing up to attack Iran, as a “response” to the recent attacks on Saudi oil refineries. And they seem to be lying to justify it.Three paragraphs from the New York...
View ArticleDonald Trump seems to have solicited a bribe from Ukraine.
Just out in the Washington Post: the whistleblower complaint, according to officials who know, involves Ukraine.Although the complaint itself is still under seal, along with the details, the broad...
View ArticleFear of a stolen election is counterproductive.
We’re all afraid right now, and with good reason. It’s a scary world and a scary time. But we should stop being petrified of Trump’s threats to steal the election. They’re less well-founded than one...
View ArticleSome odd patterns in Trafalgar polling.
This is strange. Trafalgar has produced 15 polls of Senate races since August 17th (you can find them by searching the linked polling database for “Trafalgar”). They love their tenths-of-a-percentage...
View Article"Get over it"?
This won’t be a long diary. Even by Trump’s standards, this is beyond the pale. Today he said (UPDATE: better link here, h/t wasatch in the comments), in reference to the school shooting in Iowa...
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