Arbery judge: Seating one Black juror seems to be 'intentional discrimination.' Same judge: Oh well
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After more than two weeks of proceedings, a jury was seated on Wednesday in the trial of three white men accused of hunting down and murdering Ahmaud Arbery after they saw him jogging on property under construction in South Georgia. Only one juror out o
New information shows how Rudy Giuliani's scheme to create a Biden 'scandal' fell apart
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Rudy Giuliani hasn’t been in the news much over the last few weeks. On the one hand, it’s a relief to be spared his spittle-producing histrionics, his endless repetitions of the Big Lie, and contemplation of just what kind of liquid is dripping down
Florida’s DeSantis says he’s going to crack down on things he signed into law
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On Wednesday, at a campaign rally event which was billed as a “press conference” (sans the press), speaking to an audience filled with people that chanted “Let’s Go Brandon,” Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced that he want
Florida death cult leader vows to create police force to investigate nonexistent election ‘crimes'
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On Wednesday, at a campaign rally event which was billed as a “press conference” (sans the press), speaking to an audience filled with people that chanted “Let’s Go Brandon,” Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced that he want
CNN's average struggling family raised eyebrows with milk consumption, but there are bigger problems
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There are good ways to cover how supply chain problems accompanied by inflation are leading to rising prices on many products. CNN took another path with a human interest story on a middle-class family’s grocery budget. They took the fearmongering, sen
Judge in Rittenhouse trial overly concerned with what CNN thinks, less concerned about the shooting
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While the judge presiding over the case of vigilante and little buddy of white supremacists Kyle Rittenhouse should be focused on the trial, he appears to be more interested in what CNN’s Jeffery Toobin has to say.
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Ron DeSantis finds a new thing to parrot as he desperately seeks deplorable approval
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It's been weird enough to see anti-mask, anti-vax Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis attempting to copy Donald Trump's mannerisms during his speeches—evidently because just praising Trump's every word just wasn't doing the trick—but the man's obsession
'Yes, this is voter suppression': Georgia journalist feels effects of butchered voting rights bill
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It hasn’t even taken a full year for the effects of a caustic Georgia voting rights law to start to impact voters—and one in particular has a larger following than many. Journalist Rickey Bevington, who anchors NPR's All Things Considered on Geo
Eight GOP candidates who were present at Jan. 6 insurrection won their elections on Tuesday
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One candidate for a Massachusetts school board posted a selfie of himself among the mob of insurrectionists on the steps of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Another participant, who is running for a seat in the Virginia House of Delegates, not only boasted about i
Biden administration delivers quiet but poignant victory to LGBTQ couples
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On Wednesday, Nov. 3, many progressives are feeling a mix of frustration and stress about election results. It’s good, normal, and important to process and accept where things didn’t go our way—and it’s also good, normal, and important to celebra
What are voters most dissatisfied with? Civiqs asked, and here's their top 10 list of concerns
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This month's Daily Kos/Civiqs poll was another deliberate effort to home in on why voters seem generally dissatisfied with President Joe Biden and Democrats right now. Not only are Biden's approval ratings eight points underwater, but Democrats too
Biden administration gives LGBTQ widows and families the benefits and dignity they deserve
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On Wednesday, Nov. 3, many progressives are feeling a mix of frustration and stress about election results. It’s good, normal, and important to process and accept where things didn’t go our way—and it’s also good, normal, and important to celebra
Election success of 8 candidates present at Jan. 6 siege shows how right-wing gaslighting works
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One candidate for a Massachusetts school board posted a selfie of himself among the mob of insurrectionists on the steps of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Another participant, running for a seat in the Virginia House of Delegates, not only boasted about it on Fa
Morning Digest: In shocker, ex-mayor's comeback bid to lead Atlanta appears to fall short
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New Daily Kos/Civiqs poll: Majority dissatisfied with the state of democracy in America
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The best antidote to hot takes is hard data, and the latest Daily Kos/Civiqs poll is here with your cure. This survey of 1,378 registered voters was conducted online from Oct. 30-Nov. 2 and reveals that 88% of Americans are dissatisfi
Perry Bacon Jr. of The Washington Post says that the voters in the gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey treated Tuesday night’s elections as normal even as the Republican Party is increasingly abnormal.
Both states followed the histori
News Roundup: Election day aftermath; Ohio attacks abortion rights with Texas-style 'bounty' bill
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In the news today: It's the day after an election day, which means it's time for each of the losing sides to explain how Actually the results vindicate whatever they believed all along. Not even the infamously «centrist» Third Way is willing to bu
FEC rules foreign companies can fund whatever state ballot measures they like
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You may have noticed, what with the Texas attorney general being under indictment for over half a decade and counting, sitting senators dabbling in insider trading as a side gig, and a certain pumpkin-headed Dear Leader being able to incite a crowd into viole
'He didn't grow up with a silver spoon': Pittsburgh to get its first Black mayor, and he's homegrown
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We won! OK, so I’m not from Pittsburgh and have never even been to the city, but when I learned the news, albeit expected, that voters had elected State Rep. Ed Gainey as the first Black mayor to lead the city, it felt deeply personal.
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Sean Parnell's 'fictional' novel, rife with violent and abusive scenes, not so fictional after all
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Pennsylvania GOP Senate candidate Sean Parnell wrote a fiction thriller in 2018 that coincidentally included scenes where women were violently abused, strangled, pinned down, and called «whore»—all things his estranged wife said she endured at t
SCOTUS argument points to gun control laws changing for concealed carry permits
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The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Wednesday in the case of New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. (NYSRPA) v. Bruen, which focuses on whether New York State violated plaintiffs Robert Nash and Brandon Koch’s Second Am
‘We made history’: Aftab Pureval elected as Cincinnati’s first Asian mayor
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The trend of firsts from the last election continues: People of color are making historic wins nationwide, and by a significant margin. Securing more than 66% of the vote, Aftab Pureval was elected as Cincinnati’s mayor Tuesday. His win makes history as th
Supply chain problems likely to persist into 2022. The best solution? 'Put the pandemic behind us'
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The Biden administration and the state of California are working on a medium- to long-term solution to the supply chain problems affecting the nation, but in the short term—extending well into 2022—problems will persist.
President Joe Biden an
Pennsylvania county that approved new ICE contract facing lawsuit after failing to follow state law
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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Pennsylvania is pursuing legal action over the proposed reopening of the closed Moshannon Valley Correctional Center as a private Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility. Th
Trump's election saboteurs were paid for by his campaign. The 'privilege' debate is over
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We've known for some time now that the «official» attempt by Donald Trump's inner circle to find a strategy for nullifying a United States presidential election was deadly serious, was plotted for many weeks, and featured some of the top Republica
Woman waits seven hours at ER. Despite never seeing a doctor, she’s charged $700
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Nothing paints a more stark picture of our nation’s dysfunctional health care system than the stories of everyday Americans and the bills they receive following medical treatment.
In a recent case in Atlanta, Georgia, a woman named Taylor Davis went t
Federal judge Trump once praised at length delivers blow to LGBTQ protections in Texas
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As progressives process a number of disappointing losses from the Nov. 2 election results, it’s important we don’t glaze over a concerning ruling that came from a federal judge in Texas on Sunday. U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor—the guy who Trump on
Smartmatic becomes second voting tech company to sue OAN over election fraud claims
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On Wednesday, Reuters reported that Smartmatic, a voting technology company, has followed in the footsteps of Dominion Voting Systems and filed a lawsuit against One America News (OAN). The details of the lawsuit have not yet been pos
Woman charged $700 for ER visit and wasn't even seen by a doctor—why we need a single-payer system
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Nothing paints a more stark picture of our nation’s dysfunctional health care system than the stories of everyday Americans and the bills they receive following medical treatment.
In a recent case in Atlanta, Georgia, a woman named Taylor Davis went t
Trump's sedition team still has no basis for executive privilege claims, but the clock is ticking
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We've known for some time now that the «official» attempt by Donald Trump's inner circle to find a strategy for nullifying a United States presidential election was deadly serious, was plotted for many weeks, and featured some of the top Republica
Senate Republicans spit on the memory of civil rights hero John Lewis Wednesday afternoon when all but one of them blocked the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act from proceeding to the floor for debate, 50-49. Alaska Republican Lisa Murkowski
Six oil and gas entities subpoenaed over failure to provide climate change documents
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On Tuesday, House Oversight Committee Chair Carolyn Maloney subpoenaed six fossil fuel entities in hopes of continuing the committee’s investigation into whether these organizations hid the dangers of climate change and their role in the climate crisi
Youngkin won by keeping Trump at bay. Congressional Republicans can't possibly replicate that
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Virginia GOP Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin cracked the code. The consensus of multiple election analysis pieces is that Youngkin entertained the fringe views of Trump voters just enough while also managing to stay palatable to more mainstream voters in the su
Big oil companies face subpoenas as House Oversight Committee continues climate change investigation
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On Tuesday, House Oversight Committee Chair Carolyn Maloney subpoenaed six fossil fuel entities in hopes of continuing the committee’s investigation into whether these organizations hid the dangers of climate change and their role in the climate crisi
Private prison profiteer GEO Group has another bad day in court, and that's a good thing
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Private prison profiteer GEO Group has had yet another bad day in court. U.S. District Judge Robert Bryan ruled it must pay the state of Washington nearly $6 million “in unjust enrichment gained” through the company’s use of forced immigrant labor,
Democrats’ strategy for Manchin: Plow ahead without him and dare him to kill Biden’s agenda
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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is moving full steam ahead on getting the budget reconciliation bill that comprises President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better plan to the floor, despite the demands from Sen. Joe Manchin to delay, delay, delay. What’s more
'Constitutional sheriff' is just the latest rebranding for America's pro-insurrection right
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The Washington Post here uses questions fielded by Bucks County, Pennsylvania, candidate for sheriff Mark Lomax as a jumping-off point to remind readers of the (ahem) bizarre right-wing beliefs that have coalesced under the codeword «constitutional sher
Map shows where American industries pump the most cancer-causing chemicals in the air
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Over the years, environmental racism has been the subject of hundreds of articles at Daily Kos. Here’s much-missed Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse taking about “eco white privilege” back in 2010, Walter Einenkel reporting on a refinery that pours
Biden admin rescinds previous admin's 'metering' policy limiting asylum-seekers at ports of entry
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The Biden administration on Wednesday rescinded a policy more widely used by the previous administration that limited the number of asylum-seekers who could ask for protections at a port of entry daily. While “metering” had at times be
Ohio GOP introduces most egregious near-total abortion bounty law, goes further than Texas
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Ohio is on a fast track to becoming the real-life Gilead of The Handmaid’s Tale, with a new abortion bounty law more restrictive than the oppressive ban recently passed in Texas.
House Bill 480, also known as the 2363 Act, named by it
