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Since last October, the Trump administration has ripped at least 1,300 children from the arms of migrant parents at the U.S./Mexico border as a matter of official policy. This is the shame of our...
View ArticleOld Irish Gold: Street Prophets Coffee Hour
Welcome to the Street Prophets Coffee Hour. This is an open thread where we can share our thoughts and comments about the day. The National Museum of Ireland-Archaeology opened in 1890 and currently...
View ArticleTop Comments: Open Thread/World Cup edition
A quick look at the World Cup, then opening-up-the-floor for your thoughts, after the jump …. But first: Top Comments appears nightly, as a round-up of the best comments on Daily Kos. Surely ... you...
View ArticleTrump administration holding babies and toddlers in 'tender age' cages
Words fail:Trump administration officials have been sending babies and other young children forcibly separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border to at least three “tender age” shelters in...
View ArticleAmerican Airlines to stop transporting border kids: 'We bring families...
American Airlines is standing up for values and has issued a scathing statement saying they will immediately stop transporting children who have been separated from their parents along the Southern...
View ArticleAs parents ask where their children are, Trump refuses to reunite families he...
Though Donald Trump signed an executive order that will possibly—though not definitely—halt family separation at the border for now, it does nothing for parents and children who have already been torn...
View ArticleTop Comments: the information scraps edition
A look at a few scrap items lying about the desktop, after the jump ….. But first: Top Comments appears nightly, as a round-up of the best comments on Daily Kos. Surely ... you come across comments...
View ArticleThis political ad from a mother in Texas running for Congress might be the...
Most political ads don’t knock your socks off, but this one? Buckle up, buttercup. Meet MJ Hegar, she’s running for Congress in Texas District 31 and she’s just dropped a masterpiece of an introductory...
View ArticleRed Cross Denied Entry into Trump Child Detention Facilities
From the official Twitter feed of the Red Cross: xWe share everyone's concern about the border situation and stand ready to help. We have offered assistance to federal gov't authorities, but without...
View ArticleFox News host: 'These aren't our kids, not like Trump's doing this to kids...
Just when you think Fox & Friends can’t go any lower, they find a way. Host Brian Kilmeade was once again defending the unbelievably cruel and wildly unpopular Trump immigration policy of...
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 ArticleHere's what I saw at the border
Sunday morning, I flew to McAllen, Texas to find out what's really happening to immigrant families ripped apart by the Trump administration.There's one thing that's very clear: The crisis at our border...
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 ArticleWomen Who Built New York City
New York City launched a public opinion website, She Built NYC!, to help select a woman, women, or a historical event in women’s history for public commemoration with a statue. It is a follow up the...
View ArticleDon't Get Mad. GET EVEN. Here's How to Get Even With the People Destroying...
The objective of this diary: To reach out to as many Democrats across America as possible, to reach all those who want to take ACTION, who want to DO SOMETHING in the 2018 campaign, but aren’t sure...
View ArticleHuge News! Civil Rights 1- Voter Suppression 0
Civil Rights 1 — Voter Suppression 0 There was a very significant federal court decision in Tennessee this week. It’s been a bit drowned out by other news, but this ruling has the potential to have a...
View ArticleWe Will WIN If We All WORK for It! Here's Where to Start. ALL Democratic...
The objective of this diary: To reach out to as many Democrats across America as possible, to reach all those who want to take ACTION, who want to DO SOMETHING in the 2018 campaign, but aren’t sure...
View ArticleTop Comments: the Music Torture edition
A look at music torture … light-hearted (and not light-hearted) after the jump … But first: Top Comments appears nightly, as a round-up of the best comments on Daily Kos. Surely ... you come across...
View ArticleA defense contractor is running a clandestine illegal detention center for...
Reveal, the news site of the Center for Investigative Reporting, has an exposé up about an illegal detention center for migrant children. The facility is in Phoenix, Arizona and until recently was a...
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