Republicans deny they're cutting Medicaid, but tell that to the people who...
One of the big Republican talking points in favor of their very unpopular Trumpcare bill is that it doesn’t really cut Medicaid. How can they deny something that is made very clear in the Congressional...
View ArticleDisability Rights activists edify police who come to arrest them outside...
A group of Disability Rights activists staged one of the many a sit-ins around the country this week. The activists stayed overnight outside the office of Colorado Republican Senator Gardner. At one...
View ArticleTrump: Just repeal Obamacare now, they'll be desperate for whatever we give them
With Senate Republicans struggling to come to a consensus on Trumpcare, the repeal and replacement for the Affordable Care Act, Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) made a radical, scorched earth proposal to popular...
View ArticleCartoon: The Institute for Empathetic Studies
x Vimeo VideoWell, I bet Mitch McConnell wishes he could have kept the Senate health care bill secret until after the vote. First that whole representative democracy thing got in the way, then the CBO...
View ArticleUpdated: Time For Senate Republicans, To Do What's Right. Save, The...
The Affordable Care Act aka ObamaCare.The Republican health care plan, sks!Stop Health Care Repeal. Sign Petition-Tell the Senate; do not, vote to repeal Obamacare and kick 24 million Americans off...
View ArticlePA & CT-Sen: Tammy Duckworth (D. IL) Helps These Dems Keep Up The Resistance...
Received this e-mail yesterday from War Veteran and U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D. IL) in support of U.S. Senators Bob Casey, Jr. (D. PA) & Chris Murphy’s (D. CT) re-election campaigns: Sen. Bob...
View ArticleThis week in the war on workers: When three days sick means losing a month's...
Nearly two-thirds of private-sector workers in the U.S. have access to paid sick leave, but as with so many labor and economic statistics, that masks serious inequality: 87 percent of the top 10...
View ArticleSpotlight on green news & views: Bye-bye White House science division;...
This is the 508th edition of the Spotlight on Green News & Views (previously known as the Green Diary Rescue) usually appears twice a week, on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Here is the June 28 Green...
View ArticleStreet Prophets Community Fundraisers Sharing Saturday 07/01/2017
Sharing Saturday — Sharing funds by donating, sharing links including artisan/vendor site links, sharing by purchasing gifts for self or others, sharing a hug or a cup of coffee as appropriate. Helping...
View ArticleTop Comments: Saturday! Edition
So…. weekends don’t mean a lot to me now, given that I’ve decided to temporarily do the stay-at-home wife thing for the summer. (It’s worked out better than I expected!!!)But I’m not that far removed...
View Article5 Yr Old Feeds Homeless, Shows More Maturity Than 70 Y.O. dt
While dumbster was throwing his usual temper tantrums, a 5 year-old boy helped feed the homeless (video) at a shelter near me (one which I donate to when able.) Monday was a special night for the...
View ArticleOdds & Ends: News/Humor (with a "Who Lost the Week?" poll)
I post a weekly diary of historical notes, arts & science items, foreign news (often receiving little notice in the US) and whimsical pieces from the outside world that I often feature in "Cheers...
View ArticleGood news and bad news about Cash: An update
I missed the vets call this morning but he left a message to call him in the morning. But on his voicemail he said that although the kidney tests they ran are worse than last years results they do not...
View ArticleHow To Troll Trump Supporters, Ancestry.com Style
Everyone knows of John Trumbull’s famous painting of the Signing of the Declaration of Independence. Well, ancestry.com just trolled the Hell out of Trump supporters who want to Make America White...
View ArticleMinerva Garcia second undocumented mom to go into sanctuary in North Carolina...
This undocumented mom checked in with ICE without incident throughout the entirety of the Obama administration, so long as she could show she was paying her taxes with her government-issued PIN and...
View ArticleIAN: Tuesday, July 4, 2017: Happy Fourth!!! And a Seekrit Hideout Partay.
How often am I scheduled to write for IAN on the Fourth of July? Almost never! So do I have anything brilliant to contribute? Um, no. Just some purty holiday celebration pix.Plus, snapshots from...
View ArticleG20 - Summit of Leaders - Summary and Background For Kossacks
A quick look at G20. — G20 This year under the presidency of Republic of Germany. I apologize in advance for the heavy dollop of boring crap. I had intended for this to be just a brief primer but...
View Article'You are welcome here': 15,000 immigrants sworn in as U.S. citizens during...
In naturalization ceremonies spanning a former warship in California to the majestic New York Public Library, nearly 15,000 immigrants hailing from Albania to Zimbabwe were sworn in as United States...
View ArticlePWB: Fursdai Furries, and Feathers: Simple Pleasures.
image found at SiteAfter the momentous events of last week when The Meow and Dinos rumbled, this week the Fur and Feather are relaxing. RULES OF ENGAGEMENT — You know how this works, but as always, a...
View ArticleTop Comments: the Hillsborough Disaster update #2 edition
For the second time, an update to a story from a prior (2011) Top Comments diary, after the jump …. But first: Top Comments appears nightly, as a round-up of the best comments on Daily Kos. Surely ......
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