Trump Misses First Opportunity to Show Leadership
President Barack Obama, who understands the nuances of diplomatic language, in responding to the death of Cuban President Fidel Castro, offered a "hand of friendship" to the Cuban people. He left it to...
View ArticleNPR Fail: Travel, Meat & Simon Feels Bad (RadioBreak01)
8:15 am—Saturday 11.26.16Castro died. Scott Simon is talking about Fidel's Cuba... explaining... confessing... not quite apologizing. Certainly he is missing the greater context of his own message when...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Black Kos, Tuesday's Chile
He rode the A-Train into the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame.Commentary by Black Kos Editor Denise Oliver VelezToday marks the birthday of jazz composer, arranger, and pianist William “Billy” Strayhorn,...
View ArticleCartoon: Castro was happy with the election of trump.
He must have been thrilled with the election of trump. He figured he lived long enough to see our freedom loving, pluralistic, inclusive America, come under threat to an autocrat, with the potential to...
View ArticleCartoon: Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro outlived 11 U.S.Presidents, and 638 U.S. assassination attempts. He repressed the Cuban people, but he also removed a tyrant who repressed his people and happily whored out Cuba to...
View ArticleTomgram: Mattea Kramer, Road Rules, or Rediscovering My Country from Cuban Soil
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.It has to be one of the oddities of our history: the near-obsessive level of...
View ArticleRalph Boof Kavanaugh forced upon supposedly Supreme Court, Americans see the...
When the President of the United States bullies Senators to overlook the obvious failings of judge who has covered up his true identity, but is now exposed as obnoxious arrogant and sexually...
View ArticleJulian Castro Announces 2020 Presidential Run
Julian Castro has announced his candidacy for President.xxYouTube VideoGood morning! And buenos dias! Thank you, Mom. I’m guessing some of you are here more for her than for me. So many journeys for me...
View ArticleClik here to view.
HARVEY MILK: Hope Will Never Be Silent
So much history. So many people. It’s the height of arrogance to think one could capture such a large part of humanity in one image. This doesn’t do that, but I tried to make it representative of how...
View ArticleAOC and Joaquin Castro promise a resolution to terminate Trump’s idiotic...
Even as reports began to filter out on Thursday that Donald Trump would likely agree to sign off on a bipartisan bill to keep the government from shutting down, Trump’s gang of miserable racists also...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Evening Edition ─ 2020 Primary Race - 03∙06∙2019 -
The 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries and caucuses 11 months away…. sigh, it’s going to be a long long road….February 3: Iowa caucusFebruary 11: New Hampshire primaryFebruary 22: Nevada...
View ArticleMy 2020 Primary Contribution Strategy
Ok, while it is probably to early to completely fall in love with a candidate, it is not too early to decide where your money will go. Indeed many of the candidates out there need early donation...
View Article#2020Primary: when you live in Iowa, have no money, but want to contribute -...
I thought I would contribute to the unofficial series with my 2 cents:Short bio: I am a 44 year old, White cis male heterosexual living in Des Moines, Iowa. I have been here, under 2 different user...
View ArticleClik here to view.
THE pressing question for the 2020 election: What are we offering non-degree...
When you comb through the data from the 2016 election there are lots of interesting facts to learn. Yes, the typical Trump voter voted for Trump because they were hate-filled racists. Never any doubt...
View ArticleJulian Castro's "Marshall Plan for Central America": addressing the chaos,...
Thank you to Back Porchphilosopher for bringing this to my attention. Today was a big policy day for Julian Castro, as he announced in an exclusive from The Guardian today. “Extending a hand of...
View ArticleLove ya Bernie and Joe, but it's time for the young to lead
I’ve mentioned this in the comments on a couple of other diaries, but after doing some deeper research it seems to me it deserves its own diary and conversation – the age of the Democratic...
View ArticleStorm Lake Culls the Candidates
You gotta love a small town with the trifecta of a beautiful lake, a college, and a packing plant. Storm Lake would be a household word but for the fact it’s in the middle of northwest Iowa, over an...
View ArticleLMLOS News Round-up -- April 1, 2019 (BONUS: Poll)
Good morning, it’s another Monday, another week, and another set of news stories from Liberal Minded Ladies of Substance. I know it’s April 1st, and I know looking at some of these headlines makes you...
View ArticleLMLOS News Round-up -- April 15, 2019 (WITH PRESIDENTIAL POLL)
It is Monday, April 15, 2019. TAX DAY in the United States. And another day for news stories from Liberal Minded Ladies of Substance. Don’t forget to recommend and share these round-ups.It’s also poll...
View ArticleAnother bigjac style poll: Come and predict: Who will win in 2020?
Alright.No matter who you think our nominee will be,no matter how you think the campaigns will go, between now and November of 2020,let’s just cut to the election results, the results you think will...
View ArticleSEIU, CAP Action to Convene National Forum on Wages and Working People -...
Watch Live — Start time 10:00 A.M. P.T. — 1:00 P.M. E.T. xxYouTube Video
View ArticleAnd So It Goes
For so long Trump and the Trumpeters dominated the media. Their daily activity was so chaotic that when you tried to comment on anything the country was dragged to a new subject. All of juvenile in...
View ArticleVeepstakes, July '19
So, how did the debates impact the Veepstakes? It’s more likely than not that the Veep will be chosen from this group of 24 candidates.A look at the front-runners and their more likely choices.BIDENUp...
View ArticleAOC and other Democrats booed by pro-Trump protestors outside of Texas Border...
On Monday, a number of House Democrats traveled to Texas to visit Customs and Border Patrol facilities in El Paso and nearby in Clint. This followed press coverage of a disturbing secret Facebook group...
View ArticleJulián Castro gets loudest applause after calling out de Blasio's inaction on...
Julián Castro has been slowly making his way into night two of the second round of Democratic debates in Detroit. Unfortunately, Castro doesn’t stick out as much as John Delaney and has had a harder...
View ArticleJulián Castro answers CNN's most racist question of the night and it's pretty...
CNN moderator Dana Bash got to ask the first question coming out of the commercial break in what might hopefully be the end of the last of the second Democratic Party debates. It was also the most...
View ArticleJulián Castro buys ad on Fox & Friends to speak directly to Trump about...
Since it’s still cost-prohibitive to print ads on every Chicken McNugget box or porn star’s bum in the nation, Julián Castro did the next best thing. He took out an ad on today’s episode of Fox &...
View ArticleSeptember Debate is set - Who do you think will have the best night?
The deadline has passed and it appears only 10 candidates have qualified for the September Democratic Primary Debates. The 10 are in no particular order:Joe BIdenElizabeth WarrenBernie SandersKamala...
View ArticleJulián Castro: Connecting the Dots
Julián Castro is indeed the 2020 Presidential Democratic candidate hiding in plain sight. Despite the fact that he has unveiled a comprehensive plan on immigration, a plan for gun control, 'Disarming...
View ArticleJulián Castro lays out plans for fighting climate change and addressing...
CNN’s whopping seven-hour presidential town hall on the climate crisis kicked off with Julián Castro on Wednesday. Wolf Blitzer didn’t waste a moment before hitting the former HUD Secretary with his...
View ArticleYour blow-by-blow Twitter recap of the third Democratic debate
Ten Democrats took the stage Thursday night, for the third of 12 presidential debates. This marked a stark difference from the first two, which featured 20 candidates spread over two nights. Moderated...
View ArticleCastro was Right: Biden Said "Buy In." MSNBC and Others Should Apologize for...
I don’t believe that Castro has a shot at becoming our next president. I also don’t particularly care about the distinction he was trying to make between his health care plan and that of Joe Biden.What...
View ArticleAt gun safety forum, Castro vows to tax and track bullets, build programs...
Former HUD Secretary Julián Castro took the stage Wednesday during the 2020 Gun Safety Forum in Las Vegas, Nevada. The forum, presented by Giffords, March For Our Lives, and MSNBC, hosts nine major...
View ArticleDemocratic candidates place LGBTQ issues front and center at Equality Town Hall
The breakneck speed with which the news cycle moves can be so bewildering at times that it is hard to know which blatant act of corruption taking place in the White House to follow. We can sometimes...
View ArticleThe GOP Prays Democrats Will Savage Each Other in Tonight's Debate.
There are still 19 candidates for the Democratic presidential nominee. Twelve of them will be on the debate stage tonight in Westerville, Ohio. They range from the ‘front runners’— to the ‘maybes’— to...
View ArticleYour blow-by-blow Twitter recap of the fourth Democratic debate
Twelve candidates descended upon Otterbein University in central Ohio on Tuesday night for the fourth (of 12!) Democratic presidential debates. Presented by The New York Times and CNN, the primary...
View ArticleIs it Julián Castro's Time? Meets Donation Threshold for December Debate!
Is it time for us to consider Julián Castro as a consensus candidate? I’ve been on Team Warren for most of this year as a recurring contributor, but I also flirted with Kamala and Pete back in the...
View ArticleTX: Filing has closed for the 2020 primary
There are 2,254 offices up in the 2020 election in Texas from President down to Justice of the Peace. 1,249 Democrats filed for office. 2,459 Republicans filed. Democrats did not contest 1,534 (mostly...
View ArticleTwitter mourns Julián Castro's campaign—and what it means for the race
On Thursday, Jan. 2, Julián Castro suspended his bid for the Democratic nomination for president, and people took to social media to express their sadness, if not their surprise. On Thursday morning,...
View ArticleBREAKING: Wow! Julian Castro Endorses Elizabeth Warren for President!
Breaking, just getting the word out… xToday I'm proud to endorse @ewarren for president.Elizabeth and I share a vision of America where everyone counts. An America where peopleâ âÂÂnot the...
View ArticleWe should be asking ourselves who has the best skill set to meet tomorrow’s...
Our country’s needs spinning like a carousel in a hall of mirrors. A wise man will look at what skills will be needed tomorrow than who is electable today?First, let’s take a look at the state of our...
View ArticleCastro actively collaborated to place nuclear missiles 90 miles from the...
Started out as a comment but worth a diary. The problem many of us who agree with his policies have with Bernie boils down to the Castro comments as a good illustration. Despite how poor a political...
View Article"Warren or Harris" trending as people debate who Joe should choose as VP. Who...
Interesting to see “Warren or Harris” trending on Twitter early this morning.As everyone knows, Joe said he’s pick a woman.Kamala Harris got the question, and I thought her answer was excellent. Today...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Castro Country!!! Mi Gente Marchan!
Hubby and I voted and as also our daughter and son in law. We have to trade Madeline back and forth to do it. It we usually would take Madeline with us to vote but in these COVID times, NO. When...
View ArticleAs Republicans try to distract from root cause of blackouts, Twitter sparks...
Countless Texans woke up on Wednesday without power yet again. Some parts of the state are not only living through blackouts but awaiting a fresh dose of concerning weather, including a potential ice...
View ArticleClik here to view.
GOP talking point fail: Natural gas failed Texas
As disaster continues to unfold in Texas— or at least those parts that are covered by ERCOT—Republicans are continuing to deploy their talking points that this is all about Texas not having enough...
View ArticleFidel Castro's Racist legacy
The world has finally lost one of the longest reigning kings, I mean tyrants in modern history. Fidel Castro has croaked. This man threatened our nation with nuclear war just 90 miles away, jailed and...
View ArticleWhy are we losing the Hispanic and Other Voting Groups? (and what can we do...
One would think that a party that openly campaigns against immigration would not find favor with people who have immigrated legally or illegally. I know that legal immigrants are not in favor of...
View Article
