The morning after the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg brings memories and fears for the future

On Friday evening came word that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg—inspirational advocate for women’s rights, second woman to ever serve on the...

Will Republicans stand by their own statements, or join McConnell in the most profound hypocrisy

Four years ago, Mitch McConnell infamously refused to consider the nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court. Instead, McConnell twisted a...

It's time to get in Good Trouble to preserve the legacy of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Of course we’re crying. A woman who held us all up for so, so long has finally laid down her burden after the literal fight of a lifetime....

People are terrible, and that's why domestic workers need added labor protections

The coronavirus pandemic just keeps bringing out new ways people treat domestic workers terribly. At the beginning of the shutdowns, many employers...

DeJoy's corruption spreads all the way down from Trump and Mnuchin

The federal judge who shut down Postmaster General Louis DeJoy's sabotage of the U.S. Postal Service sort of just scratched the surface when he...

U.S. Civil Rights Commission shelves recommendations for protecting voter rights in November

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, an independent federal board of eight commissioners tasked with investigating civil rights issues and...

Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Absorbing the loss of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

NY Times: Court Vacancy Injects New Uncertainty Into Rancorous Election Battle After the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, it was not clear that...

Racial justice uprisings bring renewed calls for diversity and inclusion in ballet

Since the performance season came to an abrupt halt in March due to the pandemic, dance companies of all sizes have attempted to endure...

Elizabeth Warren on the race to replace RBG: 'This is the last gasp of a desperate party'

Stop me if you’ve heard this before, but … Elizabeth Warren speaks for me. Addressing our loss and the challenges we—as a party, as a nation, as...

Working people's advocates mourn Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, this week in the war on workers

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was not primarily known for her positions on labor issues, though of course many feminist issues are also...

Saturday Snippets: 1000s of abandoned wells leak methane; no relief for strapped states and cities

Saturday Snippets is a regular weekend Daily Kos feature. & • Companies are abandoning natural gas wells, letting them leak methane forever: There...

Showing they want Democrats to fight GOP efforts to replace Ginsburg, donors inundate ActBlue

Amid our shock, and mourning, and raging over the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Friday, progressives have stepped up through...

Dallas schools apologize after teacher puts 17-year-old accused killer on ‘modern day hero’ list

The Dallas Independent School District apologized for one teacher’s school assignment that asked students to write about a “modern age” hero....

‘Antifa arsonists’ hoax gets a boost from Trump, Rogan, Fox and others into the mainstream

The latest right-wing “antifa” hoax—namely, the claim that leftist arsonists have been secretly behind the wildfires that have swept the West...

Saturday Night Owls: The coronavirus pandemic is widening the racial wealth gap

Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week Rhitu Chatterjee at NPR reports: How The Pandemic Is Widening The Racial...

Community Spotlight: Rescuing your excellent stories for over 12 years

Every day, a team of Daily Kos members reviews all stories published by the community. When awesome work doesn’t receive the attention it deserves,...

Congress’ new THRIVE agenda aims to help reset America’s values

Introduced last week, the THRIVE agenda proposes a set of economic policy prescriptions that shift the American imagination of what is possible in...

North Carolina has everything riding on this election. Democrats need your help

Once the Democrats broke the Republican gerrymandering of Virginia districts and fair elections were held in 2019, Virginia became a blue...

Sources say Trump could name a nominee for the Supreme Court as soon as next week

Based on unnamed sources, Peter Baker and Maggie Haberman at The New York Times report that Donald Trump could move as quickly as next week to...

David Frum: Don't assume McConnell has the votes to confirm

Last night and this morning, I felt like crawling into a hole for the next 40 days or so. And not a deep hole. I didn’t have the energy or joie...

Spotlight on Green News & Views: Recycling plastic isn't happening; Inslee shreds Trump on fires

This is the 649th edition  of the Spotlight on Green News & Views (previously known as the Green Diary Rescue). Here is the Sept. 12 edition....

Postal workers complain of poor COVID-19 precautions, lack of contact tracing

Mismanagement at the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) endangers more than just the timely delivery of ballots for November’s elections. It endangers...

Ranking the possible nominees for Trump and McConnell's express route to the Supreme Court

In a just universe, Republicans would be held to the “rule” they created in 2016, and there would be no Supreme Court nominee until 2021. Then...

There was no attempt to stop COVID-19: 'The federal government is not going to lead this response'

With COVID-19 blazing through the nation and no federal response in sight, Donald Trump temporarily affixed Mike Pence’s name on a Coronavirus...

CDC scientists say they had no hand in writing guidelines that called for less COVID-19 testing

In August, while Dr. Anthony Fauci was literally unconscious during surgery, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suddenly reversed...

Biden's CNN town hall performance has Republicans complaining he must have cheated

Joe Biden’s performance in Thursday night’s CNN town hall was another big reminder what a big mistake the Trump campaign’s strategy of...

Trump launches a new effort to use schools as pawns in his culture war

The federal government has no control over local school curriculums, but as usual, Donald Trump isn’t letting that stop him. Trump launched a big...

Postmaster General DeJoy has rough day in court, in multiple wins for democracy

Federal and state courts are acting quickly to protect November's election and ensure that the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) does its job of...

Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: The race is in the final stretch with Biden leading, Trump flailing

WaPo: Former Pence aide says she will vote for Biden because of Trump’s ‘flat out disregard for human life’ during pandemic Troye is the first...

Cartoon: Denialism: Not just for climate change anymore!

I thought that President Trump might lay off the climate denial on his recent trip to California while fires across the West were still burning and...

‘No, no means no’: Another survivor of Trump’s abuse shares Trump’s inability to understand consent

Survivors continue to break their silence and share allegations of sexual assault against Donald Trump. As of this report, more than 25 women have...

Murkowski: 'Fair is fair,' no Supreme Court confirmation before the inauguration. Who's joining her?

Remarkably, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, just told Alaska Public Media on Friday afternoon that she would not confirm a new Supreme Court justice before...

Mitch McConnell has already made it clear he fully intends to seat another Republican on the court

Federal Judge Merrick Garland was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Barack Obama in March 2016. March. As in eight months before the...

White House announces Trump will nominate a new justice, McConnell announces there will be a vote

Donald Trump is currently speaking at an airport outside Fayetteville, North Carolina. Over an hour into his speech, he has not mentioned the...

Scott Atlas sues actual infectious disease experts for saying that his nonsense advice is dangerous

On Sept. 9, researchers and physicians at Stanford Medical School shot an open letter across the virtual campus to Donald Trump adviser Scott...

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, pioneering advocate for women's rights and judicial icon

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was one incredibly tough woman. Ginsburg was one of the few members of recent Supreme Court benches who...

Joe Biden honors Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's 'fierce and unflinching' fight for civil rights

Referring to the “very sad news” of Supreme Court Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, former vice president and Democratic presidential nominee Joe...

House Democrats ponder throwing in the towel on Trump oversight, letting voters bail out the nation

House Democrats are not exactly presenting profiles in courage these days, generally putting the impetus for stopping Donald Trump on voters. Well,...

Friday Night Owls: Ruth Bader Ginsburg took the 'justice' of her title seriously

Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week A 7-minute excerpt from a 2017 interview with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg:...

If Republicans fill Ginsburg's seat, a President Biden would have no choice but to expand the court

At the very least, Senate Republicans stole one seat from the American people in 2016 when they refused to fill the seat of Justice Antonin...

Biden makes largest ad buy yet as he continues to eclipse Trump on the airwaves

The Biden campaign announced its largest ad buy yet this week, lavishing some $65 million on broadcast, digital, and print in key battleground...

As Trump cheers return of Big 10 football, college campuses and cities brace for outbreaks

NPR: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, women's rights icon, dies at 87

NPR is reporting that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died at 87.  BREAKING: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who charted a course for...

The nation is mourning Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death and celebrating her legacy

By now you have likely heard that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has passed away. Appointed to the high court in 1993 by President Bill...

Cheers and Jeers: Rum and Social Distancing FRIDAY!

Late Night Snark: Wow, What An Infrastructure Week, Eh? Edition "Yesterday Joe Biden was endorsed by Scientific American—I assume because of all...

Cartoon: Susan Collins' troubled mind

Trump insists a vaccine is coming in October, but the vaccine manufacturers say not until 2021

With rising concern that Donald Trump would attempt to push out a vaccine ahead of the election, despite a lack of data on safety and...

Another week gone by without the COVID-19 relief stalemate breaking

It's been 126 days since the House passed the $3.4 trillion HEROES Act, which Sen. Mitch McConnell has refused to take up, and it's 12 days until...

Confirmed: Barr's Justice Department explored prosecuting Portland officials over protest handling

In case you were wondering whether Attorney General William Barr has turned the U.S. Justice Department into a rank political weapon, here's your...

'If I've got to stand here all day, I'm gonna vote today'— 'unprecedented' lines for early voting

On Friday, early in-person voting kicked off in Minnesota, South Dakota, Wyoming, and Virginia. Judging by the lines in Virginia, voters are...

DeJoy made the Postal Service trucks leave on time, making every other part of the USPS fall apart

If Louis DeJoy wasn't hired expressly by a Trump-owned U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors in order to destroy the agency, then it's really hard...

Yes, antifa is real, FBI chief explains, but it’s ‘not an organization’—contradicting Trump’s tweets

One of the more revealing exchanges in FBI Director Christopher Wray’s testimony Thursday before the House Homeland Security Committee involved a...

Amid public outcry, judge lowers ridiculous $1 million bond for Pennsylvania protesters

Following nationwide protests against police brutality and racial injustice calls for reform continue. In Lancaster, Pennsylvania, residents once...

700,000 Floridians are being disenfranchised right now, and you can do something about it

The right to vote is a foundational constitutional right for United States citizens, but more than 700,000 Floridians are being denied this...

Daily Kos Radio is LIVE at 9 AM ET!

Time to wrap up another work-at-home week, with another visit from Ian Reifowitz. It’s always nice to spend Fridays getting a little...

Barr declares he has the right to levy any charge, dismiss any case, and persecute as he pleases

On Wednesday afternoon, Attorney General William Barr blasted the members of his own department in a speech in which he insisted that he was...

Whistleblower reveals officials considered using 'heat ray' to broil protesters in Lafayette Square

National Guard Major Adam DeMarco has come forward and provided sworn testimony that everything about the narrative that Attorney General William...

COVID-19 shutdowns worse than Jim Crow and Japanese internment, AG Barr suggests

Attorney General William Barr showed just how like Donald Trump he is on Wednesday night by lying while comparing coronavirus lockdowns to slavery....

Freedom Caucus decides six weeks before the election is a good time to totally unify the Democrats

Oh, Freedom Caucus, you remarkable idiots. Just when national politics haven't become stupid enough, in you swoop to bring the absurd part of the...

Trump doesn't want to count dead Americans from blue states

Donald Trump’s latest attempt to escape responsibility for his deadly coronavirus failures is to try and write off the blue states. As the...

Biden pounces as Trump goes to war with his own CDC director over vaccine timeline

Donald Trump wasn't happy with his Centers for Disease Control director Wednesday after he told a congressional committee it would take until at...

Cheers and Jeers: Thursday

Happy Birthday to Bill Barr’s Favorite Door Mat I hope you put some extra starch in your bloomers this morning because no slouching is allowed on...

Cartoon: All the President's Rage, by intrepid reporter Bob Woodward

Read the REAL story of the Trump phenomenon, by intrepid reporter Ruben Bolling: Tom the Dancing Bug: Into the Trumpverse , chronicling the rise...

Anti-masker chaos in South Dakota school board meeting proves the need for a federal mask mandate

One of the greatest issues with our country’s public health policy right now is how splintered and erratic the information being disseminated is....

Federal ruling could allow Trump to deport up 400,000 immigrants, if reelected

Since the start of his term in office, Donald Trump has attacked immigrant communities. In his latest attack, Trump has been targeting immigrants...

Trump's COVID-19 lies draw more support than criticism from Republican lawmakers

Donald Trump is unleashing scandal after scandal on the country, showing again and again how badly he failed to protect us from the coronavirus...

Biden is doing a CNN town hall. Expect it to be very different from that other town hall this week

Joe Biden is taking his turn at the televised town hall thing Thursday night on CNN, and unlike Donald Trump earlier in the week, Biden is unlikely...

Congress leaves for the weekend, but COVID-19 doesn't take a holiday

It's been 125 days since the House passed the $3.4 trillion HEROES Act, which Sen. Mitch McConnell has refused to take up, and it's 13 days until...

New applications for jobless relief fall, but still running far higher than before the pandemic

The Department of Labor reported Thursday that 860,000 Americans filed seasonally adjusted claims for unemployment insurance for the week ending...

Trump's 'acting' Homeland Security head defies House subpoena, refusing to give ordered testimony

"Acting" Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf, who the Government Accountability Office believes is not legitimate even in his "acting" role...

If GOP Sen. Ron Johnson isn't a Russian asset, he's certainly behaving like one

As Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin nears the completion of an investigation on Joe Biden he has claimed "would certainly help" Donald Trump, he...

Post Office documents reveal that Trump scrapped a plan to send masks to every home in April

In April, the United States Postal Service had a plan in place to send five reusable masks to every American home. It was a step that would have...

FBI Director Wray says Russia is focused on attacking Joe Biden in the 2020 election

Showing that there are still some government officials not terrified to appear on the House side of Capitol Hill (looking at you, Chad Wolf), FBI...

Trump brags he offered to help Big Ten with COVID-19 testing to revive postponed football season

On Wednesday, the Big Ten football conference announced that it would resume its football season after all. Presidents and chancellors voted...

Judge halts changes at Postal Service, citing 'a politically motivated attack' by Trump, DeJoy

One of the suits brought by states attempting to prevent Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and Donald Trump from continuing sabotaging the agency's...

Earth Matters: Critics nix Facebook's climate hub; speculation soars over Tesla 'Battery Day'

Earth Matters is a Daily Kos compendium of wonderful, disturbing, and hideous news briefs about the environment.   • Facebook launches  Climate...

Thursday Night Owls: Covid-19 will soon take its 200,000th U.S. life. How many more have to die?

Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week Stephen Engelberg at Pro-Publica writes— America Is About to Lose Its...

Presenting 'Democrat Voters Against Joe Biden,' a group so fake it's hilarious

If you have at some point stumbled across a political group on Facebook (of course) calling itself "Democrat Voters Against Joe Biden," you...

Pandemic still raging, McConnell thinks the filibuster is keeping Americans up at night

Trump called supporters ‘disgusting people,’ says former top Pence aide and COVID task force member

Former top aide to Vice President Mike Pence and onetime official on the Trump administration’s coronavirus task force Olivia Troye has released...

Tucker Carlson rages after social media platforms finally check his racist conspiracies

On Tuesday, Tucker Carlson broke away from his usual format of being racist against mostly Black people and Latino folks, to get racist against the...

Conservative pastor in a whole lot of hot water after sending gross email to journalist

A Michigan pastor has been hearing a whole lot from the public recently after sending an email to journalist Sarah Jeong—which was then posted...

This Week in Statehouse Action: The Longest Time edition

Somehow September’s already more than half over. Weird, right? Feels like it just started. But, well, with just 47 days to go until Election Day,...

Evidence from white bar owner himself undermines self-defense claim in Black protester’s murder

Calls to end racial injustice continue across the country following the brutal murder of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man who was killed by the...

Immigrants allege mistreatment by doctor and whistleblower

A complicated picture is emerging of both the doctor accused of sterilizing detained women without their consent and the nurse who brought the...

Cheers and Jeers: Wednesday

"We'll return after these messages…" The Emmy Awards are happening this weekend, and among the categories is one for best commercial. Here are a...

Bipartisan Senate bill preventing a rushed census would also prevent harm to Native communities

A bipartisan Senate bill seeks to block the Trump administration from stopping the census count early and guaranteeing an undercount of the U.S....

Pelosi's pressure on COVID-19 relief might kickstart negotiations, as Trump pushes Senate GOP

It's been 124 days since the House passed the $3.4 trillion HEROES Act, which Mitch McConnell has refused to take up, and it's 14 days until the...

Trump tries to turn his polling around with a last-minute flurry of presidential-type actions

Donald Trump is frantically trying to make himself look like an effective leader in the final weeks before the elections, and he couldn’t be much...

More DeJoy corruption exposed, along with the extent of damage he's done to the Postal Service

Senate Republicans authorize subpoenas in bogus probe angling for October surprise to boost Trump

As Republican Sen. Mitt Romney acquiesced to voting to approve some three dozen subpoenas for one of two bogus partisan probes being conducted by...

Biden on why we need to trust scientists, not Trump: ‘This is the same guy that said inject bleach!’

Joe Biden held a campaign event late Wednesday afternoon in Wilmington, Delaware. Addressing reporters, the Democratic presidential nominee spoke...

Doctor claimed his daughter was attacked by BLM activists and cops refused to help. He was lying

On Sunday, the conservative internet was abuzz with a report of Black Lives Matter protesters attacking innocent people. Dr. Andrea Natale, a...

Patagonia has a new clothing label that’s getting people hot under the collar

Patagonia has been very openly in opposition to every terrible move made by the current Republican administration. They have dedicated the...

Red pills and radicalization: New book explores how conspiracism is overwhelming us

America is drowning in conspiracy theories: QAnon cultists are taking over the Republican Party, the occupant of the Oval Office praises them in...

Delaware GOP nominates QAnon cultist with white nationalist ties for seat in U.S. Senate

The Republican Party’s descent into the quagmire of far-right conspiracism deepened Tuesday night in Delaware when Lauren Witzke, a onetime QAnon...

Within 2 weeks, Snapchat has registered over 400,000 new voters

Utilizing its platform, Snapchat, the popular social media app, is registering new voters ahead of the election on Nov. 3. As of this report, the...

Trump says America can get over the virus without vaccine by developing 'herd mentality'

On Tuesday evening, someone at the Trump campaign thought it would be a great idea to have Donald Trump sit down with some regular Pennsylvania...

Hurricane Sally reaches coast as a Category 2, slow moving storm brings life-threatening floods

On Monday, it seemed as if Hurricane Sally was destined to hit Louisiana as a Category 1 storm. However, throughout the day on Tuesday, Sally...

Teachers are worried school districts will reopen too fast. Recent events show they should be

U.S. teachers are still having to spend their own money on basic classroom supplies—but now, it’s personal protective equipment for themselves...