Trump staffers worry choosing to work for an authoritarian might not look so great on a resume

Some of former officials have already gotten a taste of a post-Trump life. For former White House press secretary Sean Spicer, “[t]here’s been no cushy landing on K Street or high-profile consultancy at a major lobbying or public relations firm,” The Post said. While he published a book about being a taxpayer-funded liar, it flopped. Another one…

VoteVets and the Lincoln Project collaborate on one of the most devastating Trump videos yet

While the Lincoln Project continues to line its organizers’ pockets, the silver-lining of the PAC is that they have been very prodigious in their video output. More specifically, their videos are attacks on Donald Trump and his record and how awful he is. This relentless barrage of fact has allowed Vice President Joe Biden the…

Cheers and Jeers: Rum and Social Distancing FRIDAY!

“Dr. Sean Conley refused to answer reporters’ questions about the last time President Trump tested negative for coronavirus and said, ‘I don’t want to go backwards.’ ‘Oh, I do!’ said Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett.”—Seth Meyers Clip of Trump in North Carolina: Somebody came up and said, ‘You’re the most famous person in the world…

New documents show the internal effort to justify the murder of Breonna Taylor was ‘just astounding’

One of the documents shows that “an investigator from the Public Integrity Unit, often dubbed the department’s internal affairs team, began examining pictures and text messages from Walker’s phone in late May.” That’s two months after police officers murdered Taylor. Why two months later? Besides the fact that Taylor’s murder had become national news, it turns…

Joe Biden tests negative for COVID-19

Daily Kos Staff Friday October 02, 2020 · 9:21 AM PDT 2020/10/02 · 09:21 Former Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Dr. Jill Biden, have tested negative for COVID-19, his campaign announced Friday. The Bidens had the PCR test, which can detect the presence of an antigen, meaning it can be effective earlier than antibody tests. Biden…

Here are all the ways, big and small, you can help defeat Donald Trump and his Republican enablers

As we close in on the final month of the 2020 campaign season, Republicans are pulling all the levers to stem another blue tidal wave this November. From Republican-led state legislatures doing their part to create confusion and lay the groundwork to challenge ballots (read more about that here) to Donald Trump and his surrogates launching a…