Voting Rights Roundup: Conspiracy-driven Wisconsin GOP looks to take over election administration
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Programming Note: The Voting Rights Roundup will be taking a break the week of Nov. 27 for the Thanksgiving holiday but will return the following week.
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● Wisconsin: In a chilling new report, the New York Times describes how Wisconsin Republica
Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: The success of the Biden presidency
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Joe Biden Is Succeeding
The Biden $1.9 trillion stimulus package passed and has been tremendously successful. It heated the overall economy. The Conference Board projects that real G.D.P. growth will be about 5 percent thi
News Roundup: Rittenhouse and white supremacist get a win in court; BBB passes thru the House
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It is Friday. Kyle Rittenhouse was cleared of all charges today after shooting dead two Kenosha, Wisconsin, protesters and injuring a third. While the decision was not surprising, as weeks of bizarre behavior by the judge made it clear how the
Uh-oh. The RNC chair just admitted 'Joe Biden won the election'
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This won’t go over well with … uh … certain people. Donald Trump’s decades-long campaign to pretend he’s a winner who always wins—despite his conspicuous inability to make money running a casino, selling liquor, or sponsoring a frau
California attorney general seeks rehearing following ruling against state's ban on private prisons
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California Attorney General Rob Bonta is seeking to return to court to defend a historic state law state banning private for-profit prisons after a three-judge panel from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals last mont
Elijah McClain's family may receive $15M settlement
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The family of Elijah McClain, a young Black man who died after police restrained him with a carotid hold—a now banned maneuver—may receive a $15 million settlement from the city of Aurora, Colorado.
First reported by CBS News, the settlement figure was c
After decades, two men convicted of killing Malcolm X were exonerated—offering hope to another man
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After a half-century of suspicion—at least in the Black community and certainly within the Nation of Islam—around whether those convicted of the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965 were, in fact, patsies, two men have been exonerated.
Texas Democrat changes parties to benefit from gerrymandering as redistricting maps face new lawsuit
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There’s a growing rift between voting rights advocates, those negatively impacted by Texas’ new redistricting maps, and the lawmakers who chose to gerrymander in the first place. For one, a former Democratic state representative deemed the least liberal b
Senate confirms Chuck Sams by voice vote to lead National Parks Service. Here's why that matters
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Amid an onslaught of distressing news, a recent unanimous move by the U.S. Senate has given us all something to celebrate. On Thursday night, the Senate confirmed Chuck F. Sams III as the first Native American to head the National Parks Service (NPS), as repo
Republican politicians and white nationalists spreading antisemitism along with COVID denialism
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In many ways, antisemitism and conspiracism are twins with common origins: The original conspiracy theory is the “blood libel” (claiming Jews use the blood of Gentile babies for matzoh) that arose in medieval times, and the ur-conspiracy theory of the 20t
Anti-vaxx Chronicles: COVID is just like eating raw cookie dough, except that maybe it isn't
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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
Far-right livestreamer faces new charges on top of charges for defacing Hanukkah exhibit
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U.S. Capitol insurrection suspect, white supremacist online presence, and all-around douchebag Anthime Gionet, also known as “Baked Alaska,” is facing new charges added by authorities in Arizona. The two misdemeanor charges for criminal dam
2022 themes already taking shape as House passes Build Back Better bill
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It's been an eventful pre-Thanksgiving week bookended by blowhard Steve Bannon's surrender to the FBI and House Democrats passing the Build Back Better bill aimed at boosting American families and attacking climate change.
Though President Joe Biden's potent
Revelation that ex-Nazi now holds key DOJ counterterrorism highlights police infiltration threat
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A man who was a leading figure in the racist skinhead scene in the late ‘80s—the drummer for a white-power band called Arresting Officers, and an associate of a notorious neo-Nazi terrorist group—is now a key official overseeing counterterrorism for th
Donald Trump 'wrote' a 'book' for $229.99.* Here's my 'book,' and it is free
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In fairness, the $229.99 price tag for his picture book is the cost if you want a signed copy. But if you want to “read” his book without his signature, it is just $74.99, or, roughly the same price as six—count them—six of these.
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Far-right livestreamer faces charges on top of charges for defacing Hanukkah exhibit
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U.S. Capitol insurrection suspect, white supremacist online presence, and all-around douchebag Anthime Gionet, also known as “Baked Alaska,” is facing new charges added by authorities in Arizona. The two misdemeanor charges for criminal dam
Biden boots Bloom from Postal Service board, DeJoy’s days as Postmaster are numbered
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The House Democrats finally passed Build Back Better! Can this day get better? Why yes, yes it can. Friday, President Joe Biden announced his nominees for the United States Postal Service Board of Governors, “to replace outgoing Governor
Top health associations band together to support mandates, calling them 'reasonable and essential'
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Dear unvaccinated Americans: America's top health care groups are tired of your bullshit. They're tired of you coming into emergency rooms because you refused to protect yourself against a deadly pandemic. They're tired of working nonstop as waves of unvaccin
Disgraced Ferguson ex-cop 'Maserati Mike' wields sex toy outside courthouse at Rittenhouse trial
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A clown and disgraced Ferguson ex-cop who goes by the name “Maserati Mke” has been one of the loudest anti-Black protestors hanging around the Kenosha County Courthouse during the trial of vigilante and bad actor, Kyle Rittenhouse.
His real na
Kyle Rittenhouse found not guilty on all five counts in Kenosha shootings that killed 2, injured 1
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After almost three days of deliberation, the jury in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial has found the teenager not guilty on all five counts. The news came as Kenosha, Wisconsin, prepared for potential unrest, deploying 500 guardsmen from the Wisconsin Guar
Nazis lose the plot, and will likely lose their case, in 'Unite the Right' trial closing arguments
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The Nazis on trial in Charlottesville Thursday had three and a half hours between them to make the case as to why they shouldn’t be blamed for the violent “Unite the Right” rally they planned, executed, and hurt people at in 2017.
Instead, ma
'Unite the Right' trial Nazis try to out-white supremacist each other in closing arguments
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The Nazis on trial in Charlottesville Thursday had three and a half hours between them to make the case as to why they shouldn’t be blamed for the violent “Unite the Right” rally they planned, executed, and hurt people at in 2017.
Instead, ma
FDA clears up confusion over boosters by making Moderna and Pfizer available to all adults
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On Friday morning, the FDA announced that it was expanding the availability of booster shots to cover all adults 18 and older. This move, which many had forecast, came at the end of a week in which new cases of COVID-19 were again increasing across the U
Vice President Harris to receive transfer of presidential powers
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The nation will have its first woman president on Friday, albeit for just a short while, when President Joe Biden visits Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Friday for a colonoscopy and routine physical.
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Boosters for all: FDA authorizes Pfizer and Moderna third shot for all adults
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On Friday morning, the FDA announced that it was expanding the availability of booster shots to cover all adults 18 and older. This move, which many had forecast, came at the end of a week in which new cases of COVID-19 were again increasing across the U
Biden to undergo colonoscopy, will transfer powers of presidency to Harris
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The nation will have its first woman president on Friday, albeit for just a short while, when President Joe Biden visits Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Friday for a colonoscopy and routine physical.
In a message distributed to the press corps F
Biden, Pelosi, and progressives get it done, pass Build Back Better
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House Republicans made this the worst week for the institution since January 6, rallying around one of their worst after he made public his homicidal fantasies against a fellow member of Congress and President Biden—twice. Then they promised payback. I
Democrats reverse a bad week in the House with a big win, pass Biden's Build Back Better bill
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House Republicans made this the worst week for the institution since January 6, rallying around one of their worst after he made public his homicidal fantasies against a fellow member of Congress and President Biden—twice. Then they promised payback. I
'Furious' GOP donors pile on Republicans who voted for Biden's infrastructure bill
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Republicans aren't done clawing each others' eyes out over President Joe Biden's bipartisan infrastructure win yet. Now some GOP donors have reportedly chimed in, and they are livid over the 32 Republicans in Congress who voted in favor of creating jobs and&n
Morning Digest: Blasting GOP's new map as 'racially gerrymandered,' veteran Black congressman quits
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The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, and Carolyn Fiddler, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, Daniel Donner, James Lambert, David Beard, and Arjun Jaikumar.
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McCarthy delivers 8 hrs of sound and fury signifying nothing, to tee up passage of Build Back Better
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Last night, Americans were treated to the longest lunar eclipse in 500 years. Watching it required a good deal of patience, as the orb floated slowly across the sky, apparently unchanging from moment to moment. However, eventually there was real progress and
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Donald Trump has yet another branding operation under way. This time rather than bad cologne or suspect bottled water, he’s trying to put his stamp on how executive privileg
Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: The COVID pandemic is not over, as Europe heats up and the U.S. simmers
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Trump’s rage at Georgia Republicans should unsettle us all
CNN reports that [Gov Brian] Kemp is now facing the prospect of a serious primary challenge from David Perdue, the businessman and former senator. He very well may
News Roundup: Infrastructure Part 2; Republicans vow revenge; funding insurrection
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In the news today: House Democrats are on the cusp of passing the new, more dramatic modernization of American infrastructure that Joe Biden promoted as candidate. It will soon fall on one man, a Maserati-driving «blind trust» West Virginian coal
Eric Swalwell teaches Lauren Boebert that people who live in MAGA houses shouldn't throw stones
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Lauren Boebert’s natural milieu is a dive bar, so it’s kind of hard to decipher her dreck without at least 12 shots of Jägermeister and a Busch Light or three prepping my brain for her authentic frontier gibberish.
Sadly, these days I drink only oc
QAnon mascot's lawyer blasts Trump: 'Take care of a lot of the jackasses that you f^%@*d up'
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On Wednesday, Jacob Chansley, the QAnon mascot, was sentenced to 41 months in jail. Chansley, sans painted face and buffalo headdress, told the courtroom that he was sorry for his actions: “I am not an insurrectionist. I am certainly not a domestic ter
Liz Cheney on Ted Cruz's pro-Trump mewling: 'A real man would be defending his wife'
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Standard disclaimer: Like most Republicans, Liz Cheney is simply awful. But also like most Republicans, she’s not nearly as awful as Ted Cruz, whose (mostly) tongue-in-cheek association with the Zodiac Killer gives me the barest whiff of sympathy for the no
Matt Gaetz, who’s being investigated for human trafficking, wants Kyle Rittenhouse as his intern
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When you are under investigation for multiple crimes including narcotics use, hiring escorts, and human sex trafficking minors, you can go one of two ways: You can turns the state’s evidence and hope your punishment will be mitigated as a result, the way th
Henry Montgomery, the man behind the famed Supreme Court case, is free after nearly six decades
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After spending 58 years behind bars, Louisiana man Henry Montgomery was released from prison.
Montgomery’s Supreme Court case (Montgomery v. Louisiana) was critical in extending the possibility of freedom to hundreds of people sentenced to
