My brother is dead.
We had a difficult relationship, many brothers do.I hope his passing was quick and painless,but all I know is, that he was found dead on the floor by authorities.Bill, The brother I was born and...
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Daily Kos cartoonists rock the Herblock
Amazing news! Our own Matt Bors has won the Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning—and our own Jen Sorensen came in a close second!Matt Bors, a nationally syndicated alternative editorial cartoonist,...
View ArticleRise Like Lions
Hello,I am an activist and documentary filmmaker. This is my first diary at Daily Kos. About a month after the birth of Occupy Wall Street I released a film entitled Rise Like Lions, after Shelley's...
View ArticleProgressive Politics: Tennessee Style!
There's been a lot of talk around the GOS lately about the South. Some love us, and some love to hate us. For some, we are the hope of tomorrow. For others, we are the blame for yesterday.But, for...
View ArticleProgressives Guide to Social Media 9: Advanced Strategies
This is the ninth in a series of short articles that are intended to help grassroots activists better utilize social media websites. These are the definitive and comprehensive guides for progressives....
View ArticlePPTS: Episode 4-Taxes
Progressie Politics:Tennessee Style is a live weekly radio show which began four weeks ago as a response to the question posed on Kos: "What are Southern Progressives Doing About It?" You can find out...
View ArticleTwitterbomb Beth Myers...
Who is Beth Myers?Why she's the person that Mittens picked as a lead on finding him a VP candidate that can help him lose to Obama in November.And she's on Twitter now! BethMyers2012Her first tweet:As...
View ArticleWhat's WITH Our Economy, Anyway?
"So how did we end up in this state? How did America become a nation that could not rise to the biggest economic challenge in three generations, a nation in which scorched-earth politics and...
View ArticleThe Equal Rights Amendment vs. The War On Women
I'm betting that you are, like a very large majority of American citizens, under the impression that we actually HAVE an Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in our Constitution. You believe that women in...
View ArticleThe Problem with ALEC
It seems to be in the news quite a bit lately, this fella named "Alec". For a long time, I was just sitting out on the porch down here, along the mighty Duck River, wonderin' what all the dust-up over...
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MSNBC: Evidence of Multiple Shooters, Night Raid in Sgt. Bales Case
Author note: I didn't want to write this diary, but examining these reports, I cannot in good conscience not write it. This is terrible.The first story was shaky from the start, that Sgt. Robert Bales...
View ArticleEpisode 6: ALEC Exposed (Part 2)
On tomorrow's radio show, "Progressive Politics: Tennessee Style", we will have two very special guests:Matt Glazer, Executive Director, andPhil Martin, Research DirectorFor Progressive-Texas.Follow me...
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Chen Guangcheng - Speaking Truth to Power - (Updated)
Mitt Romney steps in it again; Consideration of the dramatic escape of Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng to the US Embassy, his voluntary release to Chinese Government custody and new request to return...
View ArticlePPTS Episode 7: ALEC vs. Public Education
In the continuing series of investigations of The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), we will look at the relationship between the organization and a seeming war on public education in...
View ArticleThis week in the War on Women: Silly girls, stop distracting us with your...
The Senate will soon be voting on what should be an uncontroversial bill: the Paycheck Fairness Act. The Act would expand and strengthen the Equal Pay Act of 1963 and the Fair Labor Standards Act, in...
View ArticleNurse Kelley Sez: homogenius, founder of KosAbility, needs our help (new...
We're moving! Please read and rec FrugalGranny's new diary for homogenius!We all encounter a lot of different people here at Daily Kos. Sometimes those encounters end up having a profound impact on our...
View ArticleI'm Overwhelmed, in an overwhelming place!
I ran into DK several years ago, and would visit from time to time. First, it was to see what was going on in the more progressive world of the political world. I mean, you must admit, if you want to...
View ArticleMessage To The (Activist) Troops (# 1)
November 6th, 2012. It is a very long way away ( It is 172 days, 6 hours, 50 minutes, 35 seconds until Tuesday, November 6, 2012 (Washington DC time) as I write this.This is the first (and, hopefully...
View ArticleProgressive Politics: Tennessee Style: May 20, 2012
On our last show, we discussed the debate between those who would bolster our public education system, and those who would seek to completely replace it with private, charter, home schooling (and...
View ArticleProgressive Politics: Tennessee Style: May 13, 2012
There's a lot of news to share this week, both about the show and the events this week which are the "hot topics" around the Progressive South."Progressive Politics: Tennessee Style" (PPTS) is an...
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