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Impeachment: If Trump, Why Not Bush? Pelosi's unsettling response.

From the CNN interview Dec. 5, 2019xHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi: Former Pres. Bill Clinton was impeached “for being stupid.”#PelosiTownHallhttps://t.co/F4LwDf7emfpic.twitter.com/jVu5yxZ5GY—...

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Bernie Sanders' Theory of Change: How He Will Break the Establishment

xYouTube VideoPartial Transcript:So there he was, after this stunning upset as mayor of Burlington, and all of the powers that be, whether they were Republicans or Democrats decided, in Sanders’s...

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Buttigieg Places Foot Firmly in Mouth

Hard to believe he majored in history at Harvard. xIt's just a great big bowl of nonsense, but he looks confident when saying that stuff pic.twitter.com/7j45fHDlk9— Tommy Kombuchar (@ThomasIsOnline)...

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Iraq parliament votes to end U.S. troop presence

Iraqi parliament votes to end US troop presenceIraq's parliament voted on Sunday to end foreign troop presence in the country, including thousands from the US, and to lodge a complaint with the United...

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How To Track And Stop The Spread Of The Coronavirus Outbreak

The title, taken from a segment of today’s Science Friday program, at least as far as “stopping” the virus is concerned, is misleading. It may well be, according to the experts involved in the...

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American Pie Fight: Don't Settle for Crumbs

xWEALTH INEQUALITY: The richest 1% controls more wealth now than at any time in more than 50 years. But what does wealth inequality really look like?@TonyDokoupil turned America’s economic pie...

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Coronavirus: The Bad News and the Good News

The bad news is that the coronavirus is likely to defeat containment measures. OTOH, there has been a lot of discussion here and elsewhere about the virus mutating and becoming more virulent....

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Corona Virus: A Math Quiz

Would some math whiz here solve the problem below? The diagnosed coronavirus cases seem to be doubling in China about every 4 days.  Assuming diagnosed cases are accurately tracking the actual number...

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Der Spiegel: How the Coronavirus Made Globalization a Deadly Threat

Full disclosure: as a globalization skeptic, I have priors on this topic. There follow some selected snippets from an article well worth reading in full. There is no pay wall....

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Trevor Noah on Bloomberg's Stop & Frisk

xThis clip is absolutely powerful from @Trevornoah. And to hear him reference “the audio” from Bloomberg makes it extra meaningful. David vs Goliath.pic.twitter.com/Ht2ijKqaRA— Benjamin Dixon...

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Election Meddling & Regime Change: Let's Make a Deal with the Russians

The deal should be: you knock it off and so will we. For those who think the U.S. is being uniquely wronged by Russian influence over popular opinion and hence our electoral choices, here is some...

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The Political Economy of Covid-19

From Bad Bets and the Corona Virus EpidemicSo what do I mean by “bad bet”? Totally bastardizing Taleb from memory, a “bad bet”— to me — is a bet that you cannot afford to lose. (Walk away from the...

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The Distribution of Pie in the U.S.

For those who didn’t get their slice when this was previously posted.xWEALTH INEQUALITY: The richest 1% controls more wealth now than at any time in more than 50 years. But what does wealth inequality...

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Covid-19 & The End of Affluence Politics

Covid-19 Will Mark the End of Affluence Politics Matt Stoller, Wired. Good stuff:“[T]he coronavirus is going to introduce economic conditions with which few people in modern America are familiar: the...

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Democratic Superdelegates Plan to Engage in Non-consensual Murine Intercourse

We talked to 93 superdelegates. Here’s what they said about Bernie Sanders.Dozens of Democratic Party officials said they would oppose giving Bernie Sanders the nomination if, by the time the party...

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Anti-Sanders PAC Ads on Daily Kos

So who is this Big Tent Project posting anti-Sanders ads here on Daily Kos? C’mon Kos, is there nobody you won’t take money from?From PoliticoA NEW CHAPTER in the Democrat-on-Democrat war inside the...

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U.S. Covid-19 Testing SNAFU

 The United States badly bungled coronavirus testing—but things may soon improve Science. Key paragraph:A faulty reagent in a test kit distributed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...

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Activate The National Disaster Medical System (NDMS) to Fight Covid-19: A...

Snippets from How the National Disaster Medical System (NDMS) Could Help Pay for #COVID-19 Treatment (and Lead to #MedicareForAll). Well worth reading in full for the details.I keep noticing how...

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Covid-19: Dancing in the Face of Death

You’ve got to admire the spirit of these Iranian health care workers.xYouTube Video

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Covid-19 and the Uninsured & Under Insured

xThis was probably not picked up most cable network coverage."Can the uninsured get tested?"<no response>"Gentlemen, ladies...Can the uninsured get tested?"WH staffer(?): "Screaming for the...

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U.S. or Italy: where would you rather be right now?

United States or Italy: where would you rather be?Italy’s first reported death was on February 22. As of now, 17 days later, 366 deaths have been record, and a region of 16 million people has been...

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Super-rich jet off to disaster bunkers amid coronavirus outbreak

Nice for some.From The GuardianLike hundreds of thousands of people across the world, the super-rich are preparing to self-isolate in the face of an escalation in the coronavirus crisis. But their...

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Profits, Patents & Price Gouging in a Time of Plague

Volunteers 3D-Print Unobtainable $11,000 Valve For $1 To Keep Covid-19 Patients Alive; Original Manufacturer Threatens To Sue By Glyn Moody at Tech DirtLast Thursday, a hospital in Brescia, in the...

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Low-Cost Ventilators Could Be Available Next Year. But Will It Happen?

Low-Cost Ventilators Could Be Available Next Year. But Will It Happen?Key to keeping the death toll down for those with virulent infections is the availability of mechanical ventilators, machines that...

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Hydroxychloroquine: a Personal Note

Hydroxychloroquine is an inexpensive generic drug used for decades as a treatment for malaria as well as for Lupus, arthritis and other conditions. There are some preliminary indications that it may be...

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Stephanie Kelton: Just Use ‘the Computer’ to Give People More Money

Stephanie Kelton: Just Use ‘the Computer’ to Give People More MoneyThe paywall is down at the New York Times. I strongly encourage reading the article in full. In the meantime, some snippets.Congress...

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Sebelius reflects on Affordable Care Act

[Daily Kos Admin: Headline changed to better reflect what actually happened]Kathleen Sebelius, United States Secretary of Health and Human Services from 2009 until 2014 and  instrumental in overseeing...

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Covid-19 Reveals Savage Structural Inequalities in U.S. Healthcare

‘We can’t afford healthcare’: US hospital workers fight for higher wagesAs part of the campaign, four unionized hospitals in the Chicago area will be fighting for new union contracts to address issues...

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The Question No Dying Person Should Have To Ask: Who's Going To Pay For It?

A nurse revealed the tragic last words of his coronavirus patient: 'Who's going to pay for it?'(CNN)Certified registered nurse anesthetist Derrick Smith is no stranger to the horrors of losing...

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'Threadbare' US System Denounced as 12 Million Lost Employer-Tied Healthcare...

From Common Dreams. Read the whole thing."Because most U.S. workers rely on their employer or a family member’s employer for health insurance, the shock of the coronavirus has cost millions of...

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Covid-19: Can't Get No Satisfaction

From Most Approve of National Response to COVID-19 in 14 Advanced Economies Pew Research.  Note the exceptions.Commentary:“The distemper is mainly Anglo-American. The question may be put: Result of the...

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Police May Back Trump; The Military, Not So Much

xUS military have flipped to a very unfavorable view of Pres Trump: service members who have most negative view are officers 59/35 unfavorable. Race not gender is main division but even amongst white...

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Rebuilding the Economy Will Require Joe Biden to Think Very Differently Than...

James K. Galbraith weighs in. These are snippets. The article is worth reading in full.JOE BIDEN’S INVOCATION of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, in the opening words of his convention acceptance speech,...

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The Other 9/11

Embodiment of U.S. elites’ attitude toward democratic socialism.xOn Sept 11 1973, a CIA-backed coup overthrew Chile's democratic socialist president Salvador Allende & worked to install Gen....

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Billionaires Won Corona

From Billionaires Won Corona by Anand GiridharadasImagine you’re just finishing your shift as a picker at an Amazon warehouse.All day long you’ve been carting items for other people, under giant...

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Happy Holiday, America

Happy Holidays, America.If you search on Google for "how many food insecure children in the u.s." the top of page result is 1 in 6. According to PBS Newshour last night that number has increased to 1...

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Scott Galloway: “We Should Have Protected People”

A self -described full-throated promoter of capitalism offers a trenchant critique of our contemporary American iteration of capitalism and its malign influences on our lives. America is bracing for a...

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In Case You Have Any Doubts (Jesus Wept Edition)

KQED Radio Forum:  California Healthcare Workers Share Experiences from COVID's Frontline (52 minutes) As of Friday, more than 9000 Californians are hospitalized with a confirmed case of COVID-19 -- a...

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Still Favor Masks? You Are Not Alone

Nation's largest nurses union condemns new CDC guidance on masks (The Hill)“This newest CDC guidance is not based on science, does not protect public health, and threatens the lives of patients,...

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Covid Orts and Scraps: Good, Bad, and Confusing

xAnyone who doubts the #DeltaVariant wave is coming only needs to look at Israel🇮🇱 and UK🇬🇧—two of the most heavily vaccinated countries in the world. Hospitalizations are increasing ⬆️ in both...

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Pro-vaccine Chronicles: Pfizer & Moderna Letting People Die for Profit

Excerpt from Dr. Thomas Frieden interview on PBS Newshour criticizing U.S. plan to share Pfizer shots globally  as ‘too little and too late’.William Brangham:You have in the past already also been very...

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DoomDeeDoomDoom

The window for progressive change, to the extent that it may or may not have ever been truly open, is closing, and with it the hopes for holding onto or expanding Democrats’ electoral majorities are...

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"Breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 infections in 620,000 U.S. Veterans, February 1,...

Breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 infections in 620,000 U.S. Veterans, February 1, 2021 to August 13, 2021 (from www.medrxiv.org BMJ Yale).Caution: Preprints are preliminary reports of work that have not been...

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Enrolling in Medicare & Considering Medicare Advantage Plans? Caveat Emptor

I first enrolled in Medicare more years ago than I care to relate. Even though during the course of my working life I had garnered more than a passing familiarity with provisions of health insurance...

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"Ivermectin: Much More Than You Wanted To Know"

Ivermectin: Much More Than You Wanted To KnowBy Scott Alexander, Astral Codex Ten. The linked article is an exhaustive review of Ivermectin studies for laypersons. It’s pretty damned long but can be a...

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On Omicron: Noah Smith Interviews Eric Topol

From Noahpinion:xYouTube VideoKey points according to Smith [Emphasis added, mine]:Delta, though much more transmissible, wasn’t an “escape variant”. The original, unmodified mRNA vaccines worked...

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U of M Medical School launches nation’s first ivermectin COVID-19 treatment...

From: U of M Medical School receives $1.5M to launch nation’s first ivermectin COVID-19 treatment clinical trial An ongoing COVID-19 clinical trial studying the outpatient use of metformin, a generic...

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Covid Outrages in 3 Tweets

Anti-vaxxers aren’t the only reason for outrage. When Psaki brings up cost: first its miniscule compared to the costs of not testing; secondly, given the astronomical amounts we have and are paying for...

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Vaccines Alone Ain't Gonna Cut It

Vaccines alone ain’t gonna cut it.‘No Evidence’ That Omicron is Less Severe Than Delta, Say Imperial Researchers ReutersxFrom a doctor friend in a DGH in England Word from the front line trenches:...

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Omicron News from Europe & Hong Kong

xYouTube VideoKey Point:Omicron cases will rise in Europe over the next few weeks. This will mean tens of millions of people will have the infection all at the same time. However, South Africa has had...

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