The dinosaur on your plate: How turkeys conquered the world
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When the asteroid struck the ocean off the Yucatan Peninsula 65 million years ago, a rain of molten glass and flaming rocks spread around the planet. The last day of the dinosaurs that populate childhood imaginations, and adult fascination, didn’t drag thin
South Bronx native a Thanksgiving Day saint for over four decades to hundreds in need
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Marty Rogers is nothing less than the South Bronx’s Thanksgiving Day saint. For more than four decades, Rogers, 66, has served turkey, stuffing, and pie to those in need—never missing a one.
Rogers’ Thanksgiving dinner at the Immaculat
Caribbean Matters: Spice up your holiday meals (or any meal) with the flavors of the islands
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For those who aren’t one of the over 13 million people of Caribbean American ancestry here in the United States, or friends of same, or who don’t live near restaurants offering the wide variety that is Caribbean cuisine, the fairly standar
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News Roundup: Three guilty in Arbery murder; Jan. 6 planners had secret contact with Mark Meadows
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In the news today: A jury found three men guilty of murdering Ahmaud Arbery. Rolling Stone is now reporting that the organizers of the Jan. 6 rally that resulted in violence inside the U.S. Capitol were in contact with Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows and wi
Trump's latest toxic grudge is even dumber than usual
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The most egregious story I’ve ever heard about Donald Trump—and, granted, there’s an embarrassment of riches to choose from—is the one about his stripping health coverage away from his gravely ill infant nephew … out of spite.
This story was fairl
Presidents are kind of like NFL quarterbacks: They get too much credit when their team wins and too much blame when they lose. Rightly or wrongly, U.S. presidents tend to be the face of whatever’s happening in the country over a given snapshot of time.
The Washington Post's opinion page hits rock bottom
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News outlets under the First Amendment have a tremendous amount of leeway, and, of course, they should. They should be entitled to print diverse, conflicting, even vehemently oppositional views, and they shouldn’t be concerned about how many people mig
So, I have a confession to make about cooking and Kamala Harris
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I have a confession to make. It’s a big one, so bear with me. I like to cook, something I’ve already said in Connect, Unite, Act here on Daily Kos. I talk about it and think about it. Even when I’m with others, I tend to swap recipes. Recently, I've ha
Teens between the ages of 12 to 16 charged for anti-Asian attack on Philadelphia train
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Despite the increase in awareness of anti-Asian crimes, incidents of hate continue to rise across the country. The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) train has made headlines again after a recent incident of racism was recorded and rep
The fight to Defund the Police didn’t end with the 2020 election
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by Indianna Taylor
This story was originally published at Prism.
Last year the call to create change by defunding the police could be heard from all over. It was meant as a step forward to re-envision public safety, rather than the immediate abolition o
Watch bisexual teacher explain why he quit after being ordered to remove Pride flag from classroom
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When it comes to fostering education during the ongoing global pandemic, there are numerous valid concerns for all involved: How can we keep students, teachers, and staff safe? How can hybrid and online learning be equal when some students simply don’t hav
Kyle Rittenhouse embodies the vigilante justice system that runs alongside our other legal justice systems here in the USA. (the one for rich and white people, and the one for the rest of us)
Baltimore Police Department sued by crime victims for stealing phones and wallets
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Civil asset forfeiture laws have allowed federal, state, and local law enforcement steal money and property from American citizens for decades. What was originally sold to the public as a way to financially debilitate organized crime while pursuing lega
Jen Psaki feeds Peter Doocy crow for Thanksgiving after he asks about Biden's holiday plans
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Being the less well-regarded son of Fox & Friends host Steve Doocy has to be tough. They say the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, but in Peter’s case the testicles don’t descend far from the abdomen. Or at all, for that matter. Because th
ICE ignored U.S. citizen's pleas about status and detained him for over a month, lawsuit says
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) possibly detained as many as 800 U.S. citizens over the past several years, according to a nonpartisan government watchdog earlier this year. Among them has been Brian Bukle, who in a lawsuit
Anti-vaxx Chronicles: Long-haul COVID (or worse), blames everyone but herself
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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
$15 minimum wage for federal contract workers goes into effect in 2022, Labor Department announces
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Around five million people work on federal government contracts, and up to 390,000 of them will be getting a raise starting on January 30, 2022. In April, President Joe Biden signed an executive order directing the minimum wage for federal contract
In five ugly years, Republicans have transformed themselves into the party of misogyny and violence
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Violence—and the threat of violence—has long been a solid staple of “conservatism.” From the Civil War to the present day, one of the most consistent defining characteristics of right-wing dogma has been the implicit or explicit threat of inflict
Jan. 6 organizers used burner phones for calls with Mark Meadows, Trump family
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A new scoop at Rolling Stone adds to what we know about coordination between Jan. 6 «rally» organizers and the Trump White House—and it might be a very big deal. Hunter Walker reports that «March for Trump» planners purchased an
For chasing and fatally shooting Ahmaud Arbery, a young Black man who was jogging through a suburban Georgia neighborhood last year, a trio of white men, including a father and son, were found guilty of murder on Wednesday.
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Latino museum must be built on National Mall, House and Senate lawmakers tell Smithsonian secretary
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In a truly historic win late last year, a measure establishing a Smithsonian National Museum of the American Latino (along with a second measure establishing the American Women's History Museum), was passed into law. It was an effort years in t
Biden names ‘two history-making women of color’ to lead OMB
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President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that he’s chosen Shalanda Young to direct the Office of Management, and Nani Coloretti as Deputy Director. Young has been serving as Acting Director since March. “Both Young and Coloretti have been confirm
Biden taps OMB director, deputy nominees: 'Two history-making women of color'
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President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that he’s chosen Shalanda Young to direct the Office of Management, and Nani Coloretti as Deputy Director. Young has been serving as Acting Director since March. “Both Young and Coloretti have been confirm
House and Senate lawmakers stress the need to build Latino and women's museums on National Mall
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In a truly historic win late last year, a measure establishing a Smithsonian National Museum of the American Latino (along with a second measure establishing the American Women's History Museum), was passed into law. It was an effort years in t
This year, schools across the country are reconciling with the real story of Thanksgiving
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by Ray Levy Uyeda
This story was originally published at Prism.
This year’s Thanksgiving holiday marks the 400th year of a meal shared between early settlers and Wampanoag Native peoples that laid the foundation for American mythos of collaboration an
Waiting for JFK Jr.: QAnon cult’s followers create a deeply unsettling spectacle at Dealey Plaza
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The wing of the QAnon conspiracy cult that believes John F. Kennedy Jr. faked his death and will return to the American political scene as Donald Trump’s running mate showed up earlier this month in Dallas after being told that both JFK Jr. and his assassin
Keeping the promise of citizenship for millions is entirely up to the political will of Democrats
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Senate Democratic aides met informally with Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonaugh on Tuesday to gauge the prospects of the immigration compromise they had reached for President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better bill. While she didn’t endorse the pr
Bizarre QAnon group’s monthlong JFK Jr. watch in Dallas shows how conspiracism breeds cults
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The wing of the QAnon conspiracy cult that believes John F. Kennedy Jr. faked his death and will return to the American political scene as Donald Trump’s running mate showed up earlier this month in Dallas after being told that both JFK Jr. and his assassin
'#Notinvited': CPAC says famous fictional Muppets are not invited to their conference next year
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Republicans have expanded their list of people to hate on to include muppets. Last Thursday, the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) posted not one but two tweets that barred Elmo, Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie from attending their conference. Th
The New York Times and CNN are spreading misinformation designed to scare people about the economy
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Prices are up. That’s absolutely true. Inflation has increased since the beginning of 2021 at a rate unmatched since 2009. But that’s what happens every time a Democratic president drags the economy back out of the ditch where a Republican administration
Happy Thanksgiving, Senate Democrats. Rest up, you've got a lot of work to do in the next few weeks
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When the Senate left last week for the Thanksgiving recess, the end-of-year workload was building up. The House added to it the day after senators’ departure by passing the Build Back Better plan, President Joe Biden’s climate change and economic securit
These stores will be closed on Thanksgiving—and one is making it permanent
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Some top retail chains are raising pay or offering other incentives to recruit workers as they struggle to staff the holiday shopping season, and one outcome may be a second year in a row of fewer stores opening up on Thanksgiving for pre-Black Friday sh
These stores will be closed on Thanksgiving—including some surprises
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Some top retail chains are raising pay or offering other incentives to recruit workers as they struggle to staff the holiday shopping season, and one outcome may be a second year in a row of fewer stores opening up on Thanksgiving for pre-Black Friday sh
Morning Digest: John Boehner called him 'insane.' He's hoping Texans will call him attorney general
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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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Build Back Better, now with higher taxes on the wealthy!
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The nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation tweeted out this low-key correction to its previous analysis on the House’s Build Back Better bill and the tax provisions included in it. “The staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation has discovered a
Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: The Politics of Despair
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Michelle Goldberg/NY Times:
The Problem of Political Despair
It’s predictable that, with Donald Trump out of the White House, Democrats would pull back from constant, frenetic political engagement. But there’s a withdrawal happening right now — fro
News Roundup: Charlottesville racists must pay damages; new subpoenas for Proud Boys, Oath Keepers
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In the news today: A jury slammed organizers of a violent 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville over $25 million in damages. The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection has released a new set of subpoenas, this time against far-
Trump-backed PA Senate candidate Parnell drops out after losing custody suit amid abuse allegations
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Donald Trump may think otherwise, but if a man can’t be trusted with his own children, one has to wonder why Pennsylvania voters would trust him with their vote. As reported by Kate Riga for TalkingPointsMemo:
A judge granted sole legal custody to Laurie
