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• 5 DailyKos Headlines
• Sep 23, 2020 Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: The price of a Supreme Court seat is yet to be paid Ron Brownstein/CNN: Fight over Ginsburg succession poses stark question: Can majority rule survive in US? But if Democrats can build a sustainable political majority from the growing groups that now lean toward them -- younger generations, people of color and college-educated Whites, all of...     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
• Sep 23, 2020 Daily Kos Radio is LIVE at 9 AM ET! Listen to our archived episodes: RadioPublic|LibSyn|YouTube Support the show: Patreon|PayPal: 1x or monthly|Square Cash It’s Wednesday, and I don’t know about you, but I’m getting tired of ducking all those flying cans of Bumble Bee™ brand tuna products—the Official Weapon/Canned...     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
• Sep 23, 2020 Tuesday Night Owls. Zhang: 2020 election needs a focus on the climate crisis Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week At Teen Vogue, 18-year-old Rachel Zhang, a first-time voter this year and formerly a Bernie Sanders DNC delegate from Minnesota, writes in an op-ed column—The 2020 Election Has to Be a Story About Climate Change....     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
• Sep 23, 2020 Diaper need is a public health emergency that the government ignores One in three U.S. families cannot afford an adequate supply of diapers for their babies. It’s National Diaper Need Awareness Week right now (September 21–27, 2020), and you just learned (if you didn’t know already) that diaper need is a widespread problem. The National Diaper Bank Network...     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
• Sep 23, 2020 Experts agree: Biden, who will actually fight right-wing terrorism, is the one to keep us safer More than any other single individual, Daryl Johnson can speak to the failure of the Republican Party to keep America safe from right-wing and white supremacist terrorism over the past few years. Most recently, he has spoken out to condemn the Trump administration’s stubborn rejection of facts...     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
• Daily Beast
• Sep 23, 2020 Hip Hotelier Ian Schrager Says The World Will Be Just The Same When All This Is Over Phillip FaraoneThe legendary hotelier and nightclub veteran Ian Schrager is bullish when it comes to the post-pandemic future.“In the history of humanity, historically, any crisis that I have been witness to, or experienced, we have always recovered. And after we have recovered, we go back to...     Daily Beast        more   
• Sep 23, 2020 Our Democracy Is at Stake. Democrats Have to Act Like It. Drew Angerer/GettyJoe Biden didn’t mince words as Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump abuse and corrupt the Constitution in their rush to fill Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat on the Supreme Court.“The infection this president has unleashed on our democracy can be fatal. Enough. Enough....     Daily Beast        more   
• Sep 23, 2020 ‘That’s So Gay’: How ‘PEN15’ Nailed the Heartbreaking Experience of the Closeted Y2K Middle-Schooler Erica Parise/HuluThere’s something that happens when watching PEN15, especially if you are a millennial, especially if you were 13 years old in the year 2000, especially if you can recite with perfect inflection the spoken-word monologue in Mandy Moore’s “Candy.”You look at stars,...     Daily Beast        more   
• Sep 23, 2020 Dems Ready to Make GOP Pay if SCOTUS Kills Obamacare The Daily Beast/GettyOne week after Election Day, the Supreme Court is set to hear the latest legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act—and a newly confirmed conservative justice could easily usher in a decision that overturns the sweeping health-care law once and for all.Democrats might not...     Daily Beast        more   
• Mother Jones Politics
• Sep 23, 2020 Trump Is Trashing the Constitution to Stay in Power Before there was a United States of America, there was a postal system. Revolutionaries like Samuel Adams and Thomas Jefferson hatched their plans using underground postal networks known as committees of correspondence. In 1775, a year before the Declaration of Independence, the Continental...     Mother Jones Politics        more   
• Sep 23, 2020 The Terrifying Story of How QAnon Infiltrated Moms’ Groups When Kristen Alden moved to Thousand Oaks, California, two years ago, she joined the local moms’ Facebook group, Moms of Conejo Valley. She figured it’d be a good place to find out about activities for her seven-year-old, and she looked forward to unloading some old clothes, books, and toys...     Mother Jones Politics        more   
• Sep 22, 2020 The Left Wasn’t Ready to Fight Brett Kavanaugh. That Isn’t the Case This Time. Almost two years ago to the day, Ana Maria Archila wedged herself between the doors of an elevator in the bowels of the US Senate’s serpentine basement corridors and forced Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) to listen as she detailed her sexual assault experience and criticism of his support for...     Mother Jones Politics        more   
• Sep 22, 2020 Mike Pompeo Has Turbocharged the State Department’s War on LGBTQ Rights Last month, in a video seemingly devoid of irony, former ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell declared that “President Trump is the most pro-gay president in American history.” Believable perhaps if one’s head has been buried in sand for three years, Grenell’s video...     Mother Jones Politics        more   
• Plunderbund
• Jun 7, 2020 A Walk in the Park – Memories of Lafayette Square, Then and Now Ugh is right. Are we back in 1968 again? In a way. As Americans try to comprehend the magnitude of all that has transpired in the past week, I can only wish that history could repeat itself, a half-century after a profound personal experience that my memory links to current events. The setting...     Plunderbund        more   
• May 26, 2020 They’re Called Common Schools or Public Schools. Any Other Name Comes With An Agenda.   “Golf is a good walk spoiled” is an observation attributed to but apparently not uttered by Mark Twain. Aside from a good walk, a similar effect of something being spoiled is felt when you finish reading a great book about the history of Ohio and then read a jarring quote in a...     Plunderbund        more   
• May 2, 2020 We Knew He Was Mean. Now We Know He’s Also Radioactive. A little more than twenty years ago, the buzz among cinephiles was that there was something about Mary. Today, the buzz heard not so much among moviegoers but by knowledgeable politophobes seems to be that, without a doubt, there’s something about Andy. Big time. And that something? How can you...     Plunderbund        more   
• Slate
• Sep 23, 2020 Cindy McCain Endorses Joe Biden for President “He was horrible,” Trump said of Sen. John McCain in a Fox News interview six months after his death.     Slate        more   
• Sep 23, 2020 Don’t Spend a Mint on Le Creuset When This Option Is Just as Good This beautiful, affordable Dutch oven can do it all.     Slate        more   
• Sep 23, 2020 Trump’s Crime and Carnage Ad Blitz Is Going Unanswered on Facebook The president has spent millions on misleading Facebook ads targeting undecided voters, while Joe Biden has been virtually silent.     Slate        more   
• The Nation
• Sep 23, 2020 ‘Nobody Gets Left Behind’ A New Orleans Plague Pod Mutual aid in practice, on both sides of the screen: a word collage. The post ‘Nobody Gets Left Behind’ appeared first on The Nation.     The Nation        more   
• Sep 23, 2020 The Media’s Climate Coverage Is Improving, but Time Is Very Short Mark Hertsgaard, Kyle Pope Climate change is a top issue for voters. With the election just six weeks away, the media owes it to the electorate to be talking this emergency. The post The Media’s Climate Coverage Is Improving, but Time Is Very Short appeared first on The Nation.     The Nation        more   
• Sep 23, 2020 The Perils of Creativity and Capitalism in ‘Tesla’ Vikram Murthi Michael Almereyda’s biopic of the eccentric inventor is a portrait of the the tensions that arise when art and commerce intersect. The post The Perils of Creativity and Capitalism in ‘Tesla’ appeared first on The Nation.     The Nation        more   
• Sep 23, 2020 Fascism Is the Core of Trump’s Message Sasha Abramsky Shooting journalists, he says, is a “beautiful thing,” his fans have “good genes,” refugees are dangerous, and his political opponents should be prosecuted. The post Fascism Is the Core of Trump’s Message appeared first on The Nation.     The Nation        more   
• The Hill
• Sep 23, 2020 CNN's Don Lemon: 'Blow up the entire system' remark taken out of context CNN's Don Lemon attempted to clarify his remarks...     The Hill        more   
• Sep 23, 2020 Top GOP senators find Hunter Biden's work for Ukraine company interfered with Obama-era policy Two Senate Republican chairmen on Wednesday released findings from their months-long investigation into the Bidens, arguing that Hunter Biden's work for a Ukraine gas company "did interfere with the efficient execution" o...     The Hill        more   
• Sep 23, 2020 Read: Senate GOP's controversial Biden report Republicans on Wednesday released a report on th...     The Hill        more   
• Sep 23, 2020 The Hill's Morning Report - Sponsored by Facebook - GOP closes ranks to fill SCOTUS vacancy by November                                  Sponsored by Facebook...     The Hill        more   
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