| These are the most recent diaries filed under this tag: |
|---|
|
The recent call from the New York Times editorial board for President Joe Biden to step aside in the 2024 presidential election is not only impractical and detrimental to the Democratic Party's goals, it is the ultimate continuation of a pattern of...
by ViewFromTheMiddle
 20 comments
on Mon Jul 01, 2024 at 02:12 PM PDT
with 10 Recommends
|
|
As a progressive Democrat running for Florida State Senate, District 33, a historically DEEP RED District, I am committed to fighting for the rights and well-being of all Floridians. My campaign is rooted in the values of fairness, equality, and...
by Chris Proia
7 comments
on Thu Jun 13, 2024 at 03:06 AM PDT
with 32 Recommends
|
|
Hello everyone! My name is Lisa Stortstrom, and I have been a teacher for 30 years! The last 10 years of which I have been proudly teaching Florida kids! I am a graduate of Jacksonville University, with a master’s degree in education and I am the third...
by lisa277
3 comments
on Thu May 30, 2024 at 12:51 PM PDT
with 14 Recommends
|
|
Happy Moonday, Peeps!�
Today is going to be downright hot where i live, so that sound you hear is just me…. perspersweatin’!!
Because the monster from SD was in the news lately, we all need a ...
by The Marti
250 comments
on Mon Apr 29, 2024 at 10:45 AM PDT
with 148 Recommends
|
|
Here in the Wolverine State, we’ve seen a remarkable turnaround. In 2016, we had a Republican Governor, Republican Attorney General, Republican Secretary of State, Republican-held Supreme Court, Republican-controlled State House and...
by Brainwrap
3 comments
on Fri Apr 26, 2024 at 12:54 PM PDT
with 9 Recommends
|
|
Tom Keen Gets Endorsed By The Orlando Sentinel - Our first big 2024 test is next Tuesday in FL HD-35. Early vote has begun, and Tom Keen, our candidate, got a big endorsement yesterday from the Orlando Sentinel. Here’s how to help: Donate - Learn More...
by Starchs
5 comments
on Mon Jan 08, 2024 at 09:34 AM PST
with 13 Recommends
|
|
Our Electoral And Political Work in 2024 - Please Volunteer, Donate, Promote! - The 2023 elections are behind us, and 2024 has officially begun! We kick off 2024 with a really important Florida House special election in just two weeks. Please sign up...
by Starchs
2 comments
on Wed Jan 03, 2024 at 02:13 PM PST
with 4 Recommends
|
|
There is a Special Election in Virginia’s 48th House District, January 9th, 2024. This is particularly exciting because no Democrat has run in this district since, well, forever. Sure, sure, we have to wait until the general election to vote on whether...
by ZenTrainer
4 comments
on Sun Dec 24, 2023 at 05:20 PM PST
with 17 Recommends
|
|
There are many good, reliable, honest charities that will appreciate your donations, but there are also too many rip-off artists running their own little scams. Giving to others can help the donor in physiological ways, but before you open your wallet,...
by thehecticdialectic
9 comments
on Tue Nov 28, 2023 at 07:51 AM PST
with 7 Recommends
|
|
Good morning, Gnusies! Sorry, pardon me (Mokurai) pardon me for interrupting arhpdx. BREAKING: Trump and 18 others indicted in Georgia on 41 counts late last night. Fani Willis held a press conference afterward, at midnight. This will be all over...
by arhpdx
124 comments
on Tue Aug 15, 2023 at 04:00 AM PDT
with 150 Recommends
|
|
Hello. This is my first diary. After many years of lurking, I’m reaching out with a question that I imagine some of you talented DK folks can help me with. It’s about political donating. I am willing and able to donate a small-but-significant-to-me bit...
by takesallkinds
25 comments
on Mon Jul 03, 2023 at 11:14 AM PDT
with 17 Recommends
|
|
Daily Update May 28th Organizing for DECF Did: Found out how we can access van for data collection Met with DECF RTCW Committee and van expert to learn van. Got access to VAN. I’ve been practicing making lists. Made lesson plan for thursday meeting and...
by Rachel Brown
1 comments
on Sun May 28, 2023 at 03:08 PM PDT
with 0 Recommends
|
|
Daily Update May 19th Organizing for DECF Did: DECF RTCW Committee Meeting 1 Productive follow up meeting with Judy and Tiff; planning for canvassing activity and subcommittee meeting 1 this Thursday Send email invite To do: Find out how we can access...
by Rachel Brown
1 comments
on Sat May 20, 2023 at 09:51 PM PDT
with 0 Recommends
|
|
Throughout college I’ve done many jobs: taking drive through orders, seating people at fancy restaurants, shoveling mulch and planting Bromeliads, lifeguarding, giving campus tours and helping new students pick their classes, but the most meaningful...
by Rachel Brown
10 comments
on Sun May 07, 2023 at 07:04 PM PDT
with 3 Recommends
|
|
My husband Ian and I have been together for over 20 years. Back in 2006 he was diagnosed with Celiac disease. Part of that disease most folks don't realize is that it destroys your teeth. After almost 15 years of this, Ian is in constant pain due to...
by A Bleeding God
13 comments
on Wed Dec 21, 2022 at 03:47 AM PST
with 32 Recommends
|
|
I Am Alfonso Jones by Tony Medina is a beautifully illustrated, moving story about an Afro Puerto Rican teen who gets killed by an off-duty police officer in Harlem. IAAJ an is award winning graphic novel for young readers. It has won critical acclaim...
by lapoetamariposa
85 comments
on Sun Dec 18, 2022 at 05:00 AM PST
with 123 Recommends
|
|
I saw an email “thank Nancy Pelosi” asking for a contribution. I have been flooded with requests for money. Like my one daughter who thought going to college was all fun and spending — suddenly found credit and her cut off from each other. My mistake...
by Tombs
1 comments
on Wed Jan 18, 2023 at 08:47 AM PST
with 0 Recommends
|
|
This past�weekend I joined phone banks for the my Congresswomen, as I have from my college town for the past 2 election cycles. This time I got to introduce myself as the youngest candidate in the ...
by zachc2124
2 comments
on Sun Oct 09, 2022 at 06:30 AM PDT
with 19 Recommends
|
|
This post is to give a shout out to my team of friends that have been with me, and the ones who have joined me since announcing my candidacy for the VA General Assembly.
by zachc2124
19 comments
on Wed Sep 07, 2022 at 10:59 AM PDT
with 25 Recommends
|
|
So many exciting things happening this week! My name is Zach Coltrain and I am running for the House of Delegates as a college music student in VA98. The electing of Maxwell Frost in the Florida primarios brings nothing but hope to young people running...
by zachc2124
11 comments
on Sun Sep 04, 2022 at 03:10 PM PDT
with 37 Recommends
|
Recommended
- If you perused the face page of the New York Times’ website this morning, you would have seen an op-ed piece, characterized as a “guest essay,” by a right winger named Matthew Walther titled, “Why I Don’t Vote. And Why Maybe You Shouldn’t Either.” It...260 comments 636 Recs
- I would blame this on the heat exhaustion I managed to land myself in over the weekend during a family reunion at Bryce Canyon and am only now coming out of, but I actually can’t, because this morning’s epiphany is just the tip of a years-long iceberg....74 comments 255 Recs
- I am posting this article from SubStack. As usual, Mary Trump is more articulate on the matter than I am. In posting this on DKos I hope everyone can take her words, experience, and professional psychological understanding to heart....142 comments 627 Recs
- What a wonderful trip down memory lane: Remember the time in 2015 when the press declared that Hillary Clinton was absolutely, super-for-sure probably maybe dying? For those who don't remember, back during the 2016 campaign Democratic candidate Hillary...323 comments 418 Recs
- Stormy Daniels had a 2-hour interview with Rachel Maddow on MSNBC last Monday, and the show is set to replay tonight at 8 p.m. It’s worth watching. In the interview, Stormy went into detail about the campaign both to terrorize her and also to ruin her...135 comments 379 Recs
- Russian ammunition on the left bank of the Dnipro River goes up in really big flames. Suppose it is any coincidence that Col. Gorodilov commands the Russian forces in Vovchansk that are said to be cut off? A two-kilometer advance by Ukraine is a BFD....62 comments 304 Recs
- Election results just in from the BBC Summary Labour has won a landslide victory in the UK general election, according to the exit poll It will mean Keir Starmer becomes the new prime minister Labour is expected to win 410 seats, with the Conservatives...265 comments 338 Recs
- Joe Biden said, after a NYT fueled media feeding frenzy out to get his scalp, “FU, I’m staying in.” The New York Times in response, does not cover or put Biden’s remarks on its front (digital) page. This is legit journalistic malpractice. A candidate,...328 comments 592 Recs
- President Joe Biden’s physical decline is now so apparent that it has put his reelection chances in serious jeopardy. During the debate with Donald Trump, his voice was soft, he sometimes lacked focus, and he seemed feeble. There is no doubt that his...364 comments 550 Recs
- I shouldn’t have to say it, but I’m gonna. I haven’t been around these parts for long minute because I’m an active, professionally working senior and damn proud of it. I actually still have a career and will be winding it down in a few years. I feel...320 comments 424 Recs
- Not any ‘Weekend at Biden’s’, don’t waste time on Plan B substitute candidates. The option’s always there. Take the gloves off in these last 100+ days.5 comments 21 Recs
- Looks like randy was bored last night11 comments 23 Recs
Hot Tags
- JoeBiden (184)
- DonaldTrump (153)
- SupremeCourt (83)
- Recommended (78)
- SCOTUS (77)
- Election2024 (73)
- Community (38)
- Immunity (35)
- Media (34)
- Democracy (30)
- Democrats (26)
- KamalaHarris (25)
- PresidentialImmunity (25)
- Election (23)
- Fascism (21)
- Debate (19)
- Elections (18)
- 2024election (17)
- PresidentialDebate (14)
- Cartoon (13)
Recent Diaries
- The United States Supreme Court, that august institution of injustice, has again proven itself by delivering an outrageous and puzzling decision. This decision granting presidents unlimited criminal ...1 comments 1 Recs
- There is a lot of comment and a few other diaries about this, but now that the results are almost completely known I thought I’d put a few thoughts down. Anyone who’s read my comments before will realise that whilst I consider myself mostly progressive...2 comments 1 Recs
- Back in the 1840's Chief Justice Roger Taney was generally regarded as a worthy successor to his famous predecessor in that role, John Marshall. Though a Jacksonian Democrat from a wealthy slave-holding family in Maryland, Taney had actually taken the...3 comments 2 Recs
- Looks like randy was bored last night11 comments 23 Recs
- Not any ‘Weekend at Biden’s’, don’t waste time on Plan B substitute candidates. The option’s always there. Take the gloves off in these last 100+ days.5 comments 21 Recs
- Sizeable tropical fish fleeing ocean warming are increasingly killed by cold bottom water upwelling.Hundreds of large ocean fish, including species such as highly mobile bull sharks, manta rays, and tuna, along with slower moving species such as whale sharks, convict surgeonfish, bigeye trevallies, and common blacktip sharks, were found to have died...7 comments 14 Recs
- Welcome to White House Picture of the Day Showcasing a photo from the White House Photography staff, led by Adam Schultz. Feel free to join us anytime and share with us what is happening in ...2 comments 9 Recs
- In 1979 a former Governor of Arkansas named Bill Clinton was involved in a failed land deal where he and his spouse Hillery Rodham-Clinton lost money. In 1992 this same gent named Clinton was elected President and endured a 10 year war by a Press and...5 comments 11 Recs
- Challenging MAGA supporters: Listen and justify your unwavering support for Trump despite his controversial actions, rhetoric., and deviancy. MAGA, listen, please! Watch Politics Done Right T.V. here. Podcasts (Video — Audio) In this political climate...2 comments 1 Recs
- The last chance to save the nation: The Declaration of Independence: "...Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness...That to secure these rights...whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to...6 comments 0 Recs
- Marc Munroe Dion strikes again Honor is the lost virtue, “Watch Joe Biden. Watch him stand, alone, […] in honor and offers himself as his nation's shield.” The pundits that can’t seem to demand Trump quit the race — instead they faithfully quote his...8 comments 2 Recs
- Happy Friday! Bit is off today, so we’ll be going out for groceries at some point, but I will be around so feel free to mingle and comment.� I hope everyone had a safe and good July 4th. I know ...4 comments 6 Recs
- Russian forces conducted drone strikes against Ukraine on the night of July 3 to 4 and a missile strike against Odesa Oblast during the day on July 4. The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Russian forces launched 22 Shahed-136/131 drones from Kursk...14 comments 46 Recs
- “Galaxie 500’s singsongy psychedelic “Oblivious” was so sweet and lo-fi that it might have been actual innocence instead of the Velvet Underground’s received ghost.” — Trouser Press .25 comments 7 Recs
- This video is so……………. Hezbollah fires over 200 rockets into Israel after killing of senior commander The Lebanese Hezbollah group said it launched over 200 rockets on Thursday at several military bases in Israel in retaliation for a strike that killed...18 comments 17 Recs
- Here’s the gist of a letter I sent to my representative and senators in Washington. I’m writing to ask you to help the Democratic Party find its way to a new ticket for this year’s presidential election. Of all the presidents since Reagan, overall I...45 comments 10 Recs
- So … lately, have you found yourself crying (or just emotional) hearing a story, or even watching a seemingly benign tv show? Because someone — anyone — did or said something thoughtful? You know the feeling, right? When the hairs on your arm stand up....9 comments 3 Recs
- I love President Biden. I saw him in person when he was Obama’s running mate. He was amazing, dynamic, energizing and inspiring! Years later, it is obvious to everyone that he is not the same person. Eight years of VP duties and three years being the...21 comments 5 Recs
- Nothing in the Conservative world is more mainstream than Heritage Foundation. When Heritage started parroting Trump’s lies about a stolen election, you knew that election denial was in the mainstream of Conservative thought. Crazy, I know. Hard to...8 comments 19 Recs
- 8 comments 19 Recs
