All posts in October 2020

Check out our new weekly show about politics, The Brief! Hey, all! I’m the world’s worst self-promoter, so I’ve done a crappy job of talking about my new weekly YouTube show, The Brief, co-hosted by our very own Kerry Eleveld. Check out our latest episode below the fold, with Media Matters’ Angelo Carusone. In case everyone has…

• IL-06 (Likely D to Safe D): Republicans have shown little interest in targeting freshman Democratic Rep. Sean Casten, who handily unseated one of their incumbents two years ago. Illinois’ 6th Congressional District, located in the Chicago area, is almost the archetype of the affluent, well-educated suburban district that has fled the GOP in recent…

Riley H. Ross III, an attorney for the mother of that child, told the Post that this was “propaganda,” and that the child was literally only in that position, terrified, because of the police brutality and terrorizing that his mother and cousin had just received from the Philadelphia police department. According to Ross, just after midnight…

On his attack website, Cawthorn has this section attacking Tom Fiedler, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and former dean of the Boston University College of Communication.  Tom Fiedler, who works with Moe Davis’ advocates, is working to tear down Madison Cawthorn. After this report, the language on the website was quickly deleted and changed to read that Fiedler “quit his…

Native women were not represented in Congress until 2018 when Sharice Davids and I became the first Native women elected to the House of Representatives. According to data compiled by Indian Country Today and Advance Native Political Leadership, in 2020, nine Native American women are running for Congress and six will advance to the general…

Like Bollier, Nancy Goroff has another chance to check off a “first” that should have been achieved years—make that decades—ago. Believe it or not, if Goroff beats out Lee Zeldin, who was the key Republican congressman in running Donald Trump’s impeachment defense, she would be the first female PhD scientist in Congress. That’s exciting. And…

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…

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…

“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…

Daily Kos Staff Friday October 09, 2020 · 11:27 AM PDT 2020/10/09 · 11:27 Donald Trump with Amy Coney Barrett and her children Donald Trump with Amy Coney Barrett and her children Remember all the comments about how Amy Coney Barrett’s children were not wearing masks at the Rose Garden event announcing her nomination to…