Why FL just got High Speed Rail
As a Pinellas County native, I have been waiting 25 years for the announcement heard today: $1.25 billion would be granted for construction of a Florida high speed rail link. Estimated to cost $3.5...
View ArticleGood News for... Florida High Speed Rail!
Back in January 2010, I wrote a diary offering the political explanation for why Florida was granted $1.25 billion for a High Speed Rail line between Tampa and Orlando, as people understandably...
View ArticleProgressives win if Obama loses in 2012
Barack Obama has failed progressives in every arena. Although it'd be preferable to unseat Obama with a primary challenger in time for 2012, because none has stepped forward (tic toc...), it would be...
View ArticleGenocides do not begin with killing. They begins with words.
Words matter.Growing up Jewish, although not really that religiously so, the Holocaust has always been a part of my life. From the earliest memories of Hebrew School and Sunday School, there was the...
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What Early Nazi History Can Teach Us About Treating Trump Supporters
The iconic photograph was taken by Mrs. Rachel Posner in 1931, from her window in Kiel, Germany. Rachel Posner was the wife of the town’s Rabbi, Akiva Boruch Posner. From the Posner’s grandson(1):“It...
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Scientific Study: A Mere *Picture* of a Black Person Can Anger A Trump Supporter
Seriously. Just a Picture.A fascinating study was recently reported in Vox and The Root. And the conclusion of that academic study(1) is, as the title sadly suggests, that a mere photograph of a black...
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The story of last night is that women, not progressive populists, are winning.
There is a pernicious myth that Democrats only road back to power is through progressive populism, a vision best summarized as the combination of anti-establishment sentiment with (far) left policies,...
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Obama Saved Them. Trump's Killing Them. They Don't Care.
Perhaps I am optimistic, in a time when it is very hard to be optimistic, but I do believe that there will be another Democratic President after Trump. I also believe that President will have to clean...
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That sound you just heard? It was the cracking of the patriarchy.
I love the silence of snowfall. Sure, blizzards can howl, but there is something so pleasing about how a heavy snowfall can muffle the sounds of nature.Trumpists like to call us snowflakes. For people...
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Meanwhile, Democrats are Accomplishing Something Amazing in California (with...
California recently surpassed the United Kingdom (😮!) to become the World’s fifth largest economy, if measured separately from the united states. Since the Great Recession, California has added 2...
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Grey Lady / White Supremacy
Daily Kos user TomPasked a very important question just a few days ago:Yeah, what’s up with that indeed?TomP is referring to hit pieces in the New York Times on Andrew Gillum and Stacey Abrams that ran...
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Republicans Aren't Hypocrites (They're So, So Much Worse)
If you’re like me, you’ve found this to be a particularly infuriating news cycle. Especially considering that just a few days ago, Trump’s campaign advisor and long time friend Roger Stonewas indicted...
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It's Here! Green New Deal Calls for National High Speed Rail! (More Photos)...
The Green New Deal published back on February 7 supports the $2 trillion infrastructure investment called for by the American Society of Civil Engineers, plus a National High Speed Rail (HSR) Network...
View ArticleCA Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) Moves Quickly to Help Kill Green New Deal 😠
The rollout of the Green New Deal was just February 7, so it’s extremely frustrating that five days later, during the State of the California Address, California Governor Gavin Newsom moved to kill...
View ArticleElizabeth Warren: Break Up The Big Tech Monopolies!
Elizabeth Warren continues to be an incredible asset to the ever growing field of Democratic Candidates for President. I don’t believe in the theory of the Overton Window, just in whether the people...
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Infrastructure Kos: Austerity Kills (Revisiting the Tragedy of Flint, MI)
I am pleased to announce that it will now always be Infrastructure Week at Daily Kos (always).(1) The hope was to create a semi(2)-regular series on infrastructure, with a focus on how it relates to...
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Another Week, Another Bridge Collapse in America
(This diary is a part of the Infrastructure Kos Series. You can read last week’s diary on the Flint Water Crisis here. The hope is for this to become a weekly series, because it is always be...
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We Shattered a CO2 record this week. Here's how we can help build a Green New...
Welcome back after a week hiatus (this installment is twice as long, and took an extra week to write). I thought I’d begin this week’s Infrastructure Kos with a picture of a stump. It is one of many in...
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Tesla swooped in to save Puerto Rico. It was a disaster.
Welcome back to Infrastructure Kos after taking Memorial Day Weekend Sunday off. The subject of this diary isn’t just the destruction of Puerto Rico’s electrical grid from Hurricane Maria and the...
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TX-20: Candidate calls for lynching Pete Buttigieg
I wish we still lived in a world where politicians making outrageous threats of violence against presidential candidates was a universally accepted violation of social norms, resulting in common shock...
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Gov. Abercrombie (D-HI) Calls for Rep. Tulsi Gabbard to Resign
On Monday, former Gov. Abercrombie (D) of Hawaii called on current democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard to resign from Congress. Rep. Gabbard has already stated that she will not seek...
View ArticleCA-25: Candidate Defends Bevin's Pardon, Accuses Pelosi of Murder
Continuing with the unfortunate recent history of some self-identified “progressives” adopting GOP talking points and making outrageous statements for social media impact, today, Cenk Uygur, Democratic...
View ArticleSen. Elizabeth Warren and Her Art of Radical Persuasion
Democratic Party Politics is the art of addition; the candidate who can build the largest coalition not only stands the best chance of winning, but the best chance of governing successfully.Last week,...
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Inside The Event Horizon of American Politics
ETA: Republished using the correct account. I am extremely sorry for any confusion.If you fall into a black hole, you'd better hope it is a big one — Stephen HawkingI was watching the Stephen Hawking...
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Our Generals Warn of a Coup.
There’s an alarming story in the Washington Post this evening warning that the military must prepare now for a 2024 insurrection. This is extremely alarming. Generals, even retired generals, don’t...
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Are We, Uh, Forgetting Biden's Biggest Accomplishment?
It’s after Christmas, and once again, we were treated to images of a President serving Holiday Meals to our Service Men and Women in harm’s way overseas.Oh.Wait a minute...No we weren’t.For the first...
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Proof That Yes Government Can, From The Void of Space
I had made a New Years Resolution to return to diary writing, but I didn’t get more than two diaries in before I contracted COVID. I am COVID positive.Our whole family is fully vaccinated, and the...
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Into a Political Heart of Darkness
You’ll never believe who the New York Times interviewed. Despite Democrats representing the majority of American voters, with more voters having chosen the Democratic nominee the last 7 out of 8 times....
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How to Answer: "Democrats Need to Win Rural Voters"
Dear FSM, look at all that red.Let’s get Computer to enhance just Tennessee as an example:Hard to believe Republicans only won Tennessee 51% to 47% in 2000. Al Gore actually had little to do with...
View ArticleAnd “Why Can't Democrats Message Like Republicans?”
As I discussed in a previous diary, Republicans don’t have exclusive rights to knock on political consulting industries. The previous diary was about the rural voter whisperers (and how to ignore...
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The Terror of Republicans
Eliminationist, perigenocidal rhetoric was a part of the Republican Party for decades, albeit a fringe. A levee separated what was talked about in polite quarters on the Sunday Morning shows from what...
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Anatomy of a Polling Failure: Part 1 (Motive)
I come with a warning.I read dKos multiple times every day. I have since 2003! But haven’t written much in the past few months. I had been spending most of my time over on election Twitter (until space...
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Anatomy of a Polling Failure: Part 2 (Garbage In, Garbage Out)
I promised warned you there’d be more. And where we last left off, I talked about how elite pundits were motivated to call this election wrong before it even began.How could a Daily Kos nobody such as...
View ArticleSo We Went Back to The Moon Yesterday
We all know Apollo 17 was the last manned mission to the lunar surface, Gene Cernan stepping off the lunar surface December 14, 1972, with the following quote:Bob, this is Gene, and I'm on the surface;...
View ArticleAnatomy of a Polling Failure: Part 2.1 (The Aggregators Strike Back)
Thank you very much to all who read Part 1 (why elite pundits were motivated to call this race so wrong from the get go), and Part 2 (the garbage polls, and garbage poll aggregators).Before we get to...
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Anatomy of a Polling Failure: Part 3 (The Fundamentalists)
Thank you very much to all who read Part 1 (why elite pundits were motivated to call this race so wrong from the get go), and Part 2 (the garbage polls, and garbage poll aggregators). In Part 3, I want...
View ArticleCarthage Must Be Destroyed
The year is 152 BC. Rome has fought two wars against its neighbor in the Mediterranean, Carthage. Although Rome was ultimately successful in both wars, it suffered a number of humiliating losses along...
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2023: Democracy Dying in Darkness is The Plan
This may be your first day back to work in 2023. I want to tie together two, seemingly unrelated stories from the end of 2022.* * *The first is our friend from Royal Island, George Santos.Look at how...
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The Polls Are Still Wrong. Let's Talk About Why.
Welcome back statisticians, masochists, and/or pollercoaster enthusiasts. When we last met, I wrote a series of diaries dissecting how (and why) the media called the 2022 midterm election so wrong. For...
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