Black Army Lt. pulled over, terrorized, and beaten even though police knew he'd done nothing wrong
2hLast December, Army Lieutenant Caron Nazario was on his way home with a new SUV when the lights of a police car appeared behind him. Rather than pull over on a narrow, darkened street, he proceeded just over one minute, and less than one mile, down the road…Community Spotlight: The friendly behemoth that is Readers and Book Lovers
2hYou might think that a site so prominently dedicated to political activism as Daily Kos is would be an unlikely venue for book nerds, but in fact the largest group in our Community is just that: Readers and Book Lovers, a group "where readers, writers,…Three reasons the decline of collective bargaining hits everyone, this week in the war on workers
Sat 8:33pmYou want to know why it matters to everyone that the percent of workers covered by a collective bargaining contract has dropped from 27% in 1979 to 11.6% in 2019? The Economic Policy Institute’s Lawrence Mishel offers three reasons:…Michigan is fighting both a spike in COVID-19 cases, and a continued resistance to effective action
Sat 8:32pmThe U.S. is now averaging over 3 million vaccinations a day. That would be enough to vaccinate more than 90% of the population in 100 days, so it’s not surprising that the percentage of Americans who have received at least one jab jumped from 33% on…Clarence and Virginia Thomas have an impressively corrupt activist/judge scheme going
Sat 8:32pmSupreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife, far-right activist Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, have quite the scheme going. She takes in dark money contributions to her Tea Party-connected nonprofit, Liberty Central, and organizes Republicans on exactly…With the GOP rapidly morphing into Trump, Democrats have reason to hope for 2022
Sat 8:31pmThe Republican Party, this year more than any other since I've been covering politics, has become a fascination for me. While some readers here say it's all business as usual, it seems anything but to me. Sure, the underlying motivators of racism, misogyny,…After Carlson spouts white nationalist ‘replacement theory,’ ADL chief says: ‘Tucker must go’
Sat 8:31pmTucker Carlson has been building quite the record for peddling white nationalist ideas to his supposedly mainstream audience: whitewashing the effects of far-right terrorism, claiming that white nationalism is a liberal hoax, regurgitating ecofascist themes…Republicans packed the Supreme Court. Biden is creating a commission to study the problem
Sat 8:31pmPresident Joe Biden is creating a commission to consider the possibility of expanding or reforming the Supreme Court. The bipartisan commission is created in an executive order being signed Friday, and will have 180 days to report back. The commission is not…Matt Gaetz speaks to group behind Jan. 6 rally and doubles down on the Big Lie
Sat 8:30pmOn Friday, the House at last announced a formal ethics inquiry into the actions of Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz. In a joint statement from Ethics Committee chair Rep. Ted Deutch of Florida and ranking Republican Rep. Jackie Walorski, the committee says it will…More than 528,000 people now have more affordable health insurance. Thanks, Biden
Sat 8:29pmThe extension of open enrollment in coverage in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplaces is proving absolutely necessary. More than 528,000 Americans signed up for coverage in the first six week of the special enrollment period President Joe Biden opened in…Fox News now promoting white supremacist 'Great Replacement' theory that led to mass shootings
Sat 8:28pmFox News, the most powerful propaganda arm of the Republican Party, crossed a Rubicon of sorts on Thursday, confirming that it is exactly what many media observers have suspected for some time: an organization dedicated to stoking the embers of white…Pence signs multimillion-dollar deal for memoir recounting his time as Trump's purse poodle
Sat 7:00pmMike Pence. …
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