Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week
A couple of weeks ago, Night Owls excerpted David Dayen’s important September 2019 essay at The American Prospect titled The Day One Agenda: The Next Administration—Using Presidential Power for Good.
The New York governor tore into Trump after the president’s threat to hold up COVID-19 vaccine distribution to his state.
“A great Shadow has departed.”
With these words, Gandalf reveals to Sam the success of his and Frodo’s quest to destroy the One Ring, the fall of the evil Sauron, and the liberation of Middle Earth. Joyful celebration ensues, Frodo and Sam are lauded as heroes, and they all live happily ever after.
Only, not quite.
This is the first full-fledged taxi flight for NASA by a private company.
Hillary Clinton called it four years ago when she pointed out then-Republican nominee Donald Trump’s propensity to cry system rigging when he happened to face an undesired result. “You know, every time Donald thinks things are not going in his direction, he claims whatever it is is rigged against him,” she said during the final presidential debate of 2016. “He lost the Iowa caucus. He lost the Wisconsin primary.
Without political leadership, it’s up to everyday Americans to do what it takes to get the pandemic under control
It’s another Sunday, so for those who tune in, welcome to a diary discussing the Nuts & Bolts of a Democratic campaign. If you’ve missed out, you can catch up at any time: just visit our group or follow the Nuts & Bolts Guide. For years I’ve built this guide around questions that get submitted, hoping to help small-race candidates field questions.
The anti-democratic strategy concocted and nurtured by the radical right over the past four years—organize busfuls of out-of-town far-right thugs to invade liberal urban centers in order to engage in faux “protests” primarily designed to spark violence—came to the nation’s capital this weekend. The results were as ugly as they were predictable.
The outgoing president retweeted a supporter who called his opponents “anti-American and anti-Christian” following an underwhelming protest in Washington.
“Of course it would be better if we could start working with them,” Dr. Anthony Fauci said of Biden’s presidential transition team.
Montana is the fourth-largest state in the nation, yet it is home to just over 1 million residents. Big Sky Country has about 30 million acres of public lands—roughly one-third of the state. From the mountains, along the rivers, to the vast plains, here are a few glimpses of the landscape of Montana, and some of the wildlife and people calling it home.This photo story is part of Fifty, a collection of images from each of the United States.
In Jersey’s Pine Barrens crickets rub their saw-toothed wings and I’m a child.
A city child now a city man with woods between my ears behind my eyes.
Swarms, throngs, populist masses, agglomerationists, millionings.
Louisiana katydids of a wet summer night beep inside my brains.
Live theater. Intermissions. Who programmed that siren test pattern?
You cicadas and your washboard jingle bells and what’s that boing-ing?
Mississippi mosquitoes. Maine black flies. Vermont hornets.
SpaceX’s first attempt to fly astronauts to space and back was, from start to finish, a success. The launch into orbit—seamless. The spacecraft’s arrival at the International Space Station—smoothly done. On return, the capsule, buffeted by billowy parachutes, coasted through the sky, toward the waters off the coast of Florida—a vision of a new era of American spaceflight.
A Japanese mother and daughter, farmworkers in California, photographed in 1937 by Dorothea Lange (Library of Congress)Quick, name one iconic Depression-era portrait each by Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, and Russell Lee. My guess is that you’d choose Lange’s Migrant Mother, a portrait of Florence Owens Thompson and her children taken in Nipomo, California, in 1936.
Parenting advice on faith, body image, and sleep.
Casualty first aired in 1986, and it’s still going strong.
The tabloid built its business on some of the same wild tactics it used to catch its biggest scoops.
We can save lives—and businesses. Let’s get it right this time.
“The personal goal is just to be seen.
The politicization of mask-wearing shows how difficult it will be for Joe Biden to build consensus around even basic public health strategies after he’s sworn in.
The nation’s testing capacity has increased, but not fast enough to keep pace with the swarm of new cases.
Biden’s transition team must plan for a crisis response without access to essential information about the nation’s supply chains and testing supplies.
The news comes days after Pfizer revealed that initial data suggest its vaccine is more than 90 percent effective.
Care facilities can’t keep the virus out as it spreads through communities.
Parenting advice on traumatic discoveries, hurtful beauty standards, and misplaced bitterness.
When Dad’s Garage Theatre became a polling place, its staff decided to offer voters more than lines and ballots.
A 3-pack of Aquaphor Healing Ointment is now 45 percent off.
Not only is she beautiful—she’s brilliant and charming.
