I am Coming out: I am a Black Man with a Mental Illness
I AM A BLACK MAN WITH A MENTAL ILLNESS And I know that my black life matters to me and to the people who love me. But after having had to ingest so many harrowing tales of state...
View ArticleIf this article is accurate, Trump cannot win Florida
and most people will tell you that without Florida he cannot win. In fact, if you go play with the states at the bottom of this page at Upshot blog, you will find that if you give FL to Clinton it is...
View ArticleTrump Baiting: One argument getting through to his supporters
Talking to Trump supporters is usually like talking to a wall. Facts? There are no facts, only opinions. Reality has a liberal bias!But there is one thing I’ve noticed lately that his supporters have...
View ArticleThe Current Ten Battleground States According to NYT The Upshot
I encourage you to spend a few minutes today at the NYT Upshot. Specifically their “Who Will Be President” page.The interactive feature allows you to make your own determination about which candidate...
View ArticleTop Comments - My First Link-only Diary
I have never done a Top Comments diary that just consisted of a link, before, but this is it. The link goes to a compilation of Pete Souza photos of President Obama, during the past 8 years. The...
View ArticleWOW! Florida Republican Party Spokesman On Hispanic Affairs Quitting Because...
In another sign that GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump is damaging his party’s standing with Latinos, the communications director of the Florida Republican Party, Wadi Gaitan announced Monday that...
View ArticleJury Finds Police Violated Family's Constitutional Rights; Awards $1 in Damages
No, that headline is not a typo. A jury in South Bend, Indiana found that three City of South Bend police officers violated a family’s constitutional rights, and awarded the paltry sum of $1 per...
View ArticleOuch! This Has Got To Hurt: 50 Repub Security Officials Say Trump Would Be a...
Just posting from the New York Times, 50 top G.O.P. security officials, who’ve served under Bush I&II, Reagan, and Nixon, have all signed a letter stating that Trump would put the nation’s security...
View ArticleTammy Duckworth up 7 points in new poll!
A new poll from a group called Normington Petts shows Rep. Tammy Duckworth leading incumbent Mark Kirk in the race to be the next senator from Illinois.The poll was taken Aug. 1-4, after the Democratic...
View ArticleHillary Rally St. Pete: no enthusiasm gap here
Hundreds of remarkably cheerful people stood in torrential rain for over two hours, waiting to see Hillary Clinton speak today at a packed rally in Saint Petersburg, Florida. Everyone was soaked to the...
View ArticleDehumanizing Hate Speech Has No Place Here at Daily Kos
(update: the diarist in question has removed from his post the rhetoric, discussed below, that I address. But, while the original poster has done the morally upstanding thing, a disturbing number of...
View ArticleDocDawg and the insightus team have done it again. Uranium hell breaking lose...
This is not the diary I was planning to do as a fundraiser on behalf of the life changing work done by DocDawg and his amazing insightus team. I was going to write about insightus’ crucial work that...
View ArticleTrump says if he releases his Tax Returns like Romney did it will damage his...
Now to create a rationale to justify hiding his tax returns Donald Trump is claiming that Mitt Romney’s making his tax returns public lost him the election. Trump portraying himself to be a master of...
View ArticleEugene Robinson believes the campaign could get a lot worse
As he put it in this column for Tuesday’s Washington Post,By the time it’s done, the whole nation may feel like it needs a shower.As he puts it immediately after that, I base this depressing...
View ArticleReally Breaking: Republican Senator Susan Collins Says She's Not Voting for...
This just in: Maine Republican Senator Susan Collins has announced that she will not be voting for Donald Trump, making her the highest-profile Republican legislator to flee the sinking ship. In a...
View ArticleMy wife might not be only one with a health problem
My physician is not sure why, but all of a sudden my blood pressure has skyrocketed. I am on BP medicine every day, and when I saw him on Friday with an allergic reaction, it was normal, 122/80. I...
View ArticleThis is an actual Trump sentence.
I saw this pop up in my Twitter feed and decided to share with the class. Look, having nuclear—my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good...
View ArticleUPDATE: ...annnnd Trump just called for his supporters to assassinate his...
x YouTube VideoVERBATIM:“...by the way, if she gets to pick...if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the 2nd Amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know.”What more is...
View ArticleGabby Giffords condemns Trump. Secret Service aware of Trump's comments.
Strong response from Gabby Giffords condemning Trump.It appears the Secret Service might be contacting Donald very soon. They need to make it clear that any suggestion of violence won't be...
View ArticleLost in All the Trumpoversy...No Ads. No Ground Game. WHERE IS THE MONEY...
As so often happens, the big story of the day kinda washed out some smaller — yet equally damning — stories.There is this story: Clinton campaign outspending Trump on ads $52 million to zeroHillary...
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