BNR - 'Bernie's Big Fundraising Finish To 2015' & 'Overflow Events For...
Sanders Finishes Strong In 2015Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders raised more than $33m in the last three months of 2015 from 2.5m individual donations, his campaign said Saturday. That...
View ArticleDog Whistle, Pandering, and the Primaries
Apparently there is some confusion here as to what constitutes “dog whistle” and “pandering” versus what constitutes outreach. Dog Whistle is a type of strategy of communication that sends a message...
View ArticleWe Interrupt this Rox/Sux Debate to Bring You this Special Report
For better, and oftimes worse, our fair burg is the kind of place everyone eventually visits.Yesterday, we were, um, honored to host America’s most influential jurist, purveyor of often startling...
View ArticleDear DNC/DLC/Third Way Folks: I Hope There's Some Soul Left To Save When This...
This is an honest missive to supporters of the DNC and Third Way politics. I’m going to ask a series of uncomfortable questions. I might use coarse language. There are certain things I know, and...
View ArticleABC news supports armed white militia occupying federal building in Oregon
x Peaceful protest followed by Oregon wildlife refuge action: https://t.co/1KVABOa2tY— ABC News (@ABC) January 3, 2016Yes. ABC news has just called armed militia members, some of whom pointed...
View ArticleSend snacks
Apparently, when they planned their takeover of the bird sanctuary in Oregon, the domestic Western Terrorists, the Bundynistas, apparently incorrectly assumed that the visitor center would have a fully...
View ArticleDallas TV Station Demolishes Right-Wing Commenter on #OregonUnderAttack Story...
As a progressive, I really have to hand it to Dallas’s ABC station, WFAA/8. Unlike most other stations, they make an actual effort to be (for lack of a better term) “fair and balanced” in their...
View ArticleBill Clinton Kicks Off 2016 With Two Events in New Hampshire
Bill Clinton gave his first speech of 2016 to a packed gymnasium in Nashua, NH today...and as usual, the "Secretary of Explaining Stuff" did not disappoint. x WJC: "I do not believe in my lifetime...
View ArticleMoondai Furbutts 4 January 2016
You know how this works, but as always, a gentle reminder: Be nice to each other. No trolling the diary. If you hate pootie diaries, leave now. No harm, no foul. Share any and all pootie/woozle photos...
View ArticleHillary News & Views 1.4: NH Town Halls, Downballot Democrats, and Beyond...
For more coverage of Hillary Clinton at Daily Kos, check out our new group: Hillary Writers Circle.First, a big thank you to swiffy and RugbyMom for keeping this series going in my absence. Between...
View ArticleHead to Head Comparison of Hillary v Bernie recent attendance numbers
Right sooooo to head off the usual: Attendance at rallies may not have “mattered” months ago but these numbers are from Dec, same towns in Iowa and days apart. From Democratic Underground. Bernie 2000...
View ArticleEastern Oregon once had a Malheur Indian Reservation. Guess what happened.
The armed right-wing extremists who have taken over the Malheur Wildlife Refuge are following in the footsteps of Euro-American settlers who moved to the area in the late 1800s.For most of the 1800s...
View ArticleUnivision's Jorge Ramos, speaks out about Presidential Candidates and...
Those of you who don’t watch Univision—Spanish language broadcast television— may not know much about Jorge Ramos, “regarded as the best-known Spanish-language news anchor in the United States, for...
View ArticleBernie News Roundup - 'Bernie's Extensive Iowa Ground Game' & 'Why Sanders...
Bernie's Iowa Ground OperationThis fall the words of a Hillary Clinton backer were posted like a locker-room taunt on the wall at Bernie Sanders’s Iowa headquarters: “There is no Sanders...
View ArticleChina's stock market crashed today
...and Wall Street isn’t looking healthy at the moment either. But let’s take this one at a time. China’s CSI 300 Index had just tumbled 5 percent, triggering a 15-minute trading halt, and stock...
View ArticlePastor courageously disarms distraught gunman as 60 church members face New...
Minutes before the clock struck midnight and most of the country was about to ring in the New Year, a church congregation in Fayetteville, North Carolina, faced a horrifying scare after a 57-year-old...
View ArticleSabotage or sicko?
This weekend, someone uploaded several photos of child pornography into the Daily Kos library. We removed them the second we saw them, and today we reported everything we had to the FBI and will...
View ArticleMy kid, at college, like other girls these days, carries a taser
I'll be as brief as I can. My kid is attending college in a state that has nutcase gun laws. Some young men there have taken to carrying guns usually after obtaining a license either in their home...
View ArticleObama administration urges Supreme Court to reject dangerous Texas abortion law
In a “friend of the court” brief, the Obama administration is urging the Supreme Court to reject a Texas law whose provisions have already shut down half the state’s abortion clinics and could shut...
View ArticleCNN during Bernie's Speech NOT ONE COMMENT! He calls for jailing execs who...
For those of you who missed the speech a transcript is here berniesanders.com/… and of course you can look at Liepar's Diary for a livestream. Bernie did a speech, in New York, that called out line by...
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