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...
View ArticleAnother 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...
View ArticleThe 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,...
View ArticleObama 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...
View ArticleWe 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...
View ArticleThe 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,...
View ArticleObama 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...
View ArticleThat 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...
View ArticleMeanwhile, 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...
View ArticleGrey 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...
View ArticleRepublicans 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...
View ArticleIt'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 ðŸ˜
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 it....
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...
View ArticleInfrastructure 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...
View ArticleAnother 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...
View ArticleWe 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...
View ArticleTesla 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...
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