All posts in December 2020

In addition, we have a political transformation coming in a few weeks when the climate-science denier maliciously occupying the White House is ousted by a president who not only acknowledges that we have a severe climate crisis on our hands but also has nominated a few people for high posts who can legitimately be called climate hawks. Rejoining the…

Daily Kos Staff Friday December 25, 2020 · 10:30 AM PST 2020/12/25 · 10:30 ‘Immigrants take the oath of citizenship to the United States at a naturalization service on January 22, 2018 in Newark, New Jersey.’ ‘Immigrants take the oath of citizenship to the United States at a naturalization service on January 22, 2018 in…

To be honest, many of the items that made the Post‘s list felt like consolation prizes in a year that ground America down to little else but a nub. Even the board itself acknowledged that many items on the list were more “silver lining” additions than things to wholeheartedly celebrate.  Sure, it was nice to reconnect with…

According to sources, MacGregor—like Bernhardt—has a tendency to not wear masks when inside. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt breathily hands Republican a key…in September of this year. Bernhardt, who tested positive for the coronavirus before he was to attend a Cabinet meeting with President Trump on Wednesday, has been in proximity with several Interior officials in the past…

But no worries, the company, created in April 2018, was headed by Trump daughter-in-law Lara Trump as president and Mike Pence’s nephew John Pence as its vice president, so they surely kept things on the up and up. Additionally, the Trump campaign’s CFO, Sean Dollman, became the shell company’s treasurer—and we all know what a…

It’s a perfect fit for Johnson—whose relationship with reality seems pretty loose at best—but the fact that nearly every Republican senator on the committee joined in Johnson’s scheme signifies that Republicans have every intention of continuing to be the party of baseless conspiracies long after Trump leaves office. Johnson’s main witnesses, supposedly called forth to…

Republicans are now so enamored of this seditious act that another score have rushed to have their names appended onto the list in the House. They genuinely believe they can take this action without consequence. For the sake of the nation, they had better be wrong. Maybe the most ridiculous thing about this ridiculous moment,…

Jon Ossoff makes things crystal clear for Georgians in this new ad: Any help coming from this Senate is not going to be for the people who are hurting the most. “When this pandemic hit, millions of Georgians like me had to file for unemployment,” the Georgia worker on camera says. “We needed our senator’s…

In Trump’s mind, there are only two possible roles anyone can serve: Completely subservient bootlicker, or infuriating opponent. There is no in between. So the fact that Barr didn’t wholeheartedly join in with Rudy Giuliani and his parade of Hunter Biden laptops as confirmed by blind shop owners before the election had already made Barr suspect. Trump repeatedly…

First, Ocasio-Cortez dropped this truth bomb on the laziest of the privileged class: Republican officials. x The thing that these conservative Senators don’t seem to understand is that I’ve actually had a physically difficult working-class job without good healthcare most of my adult life. I bring that work ethic to Congress & to my community.…