By Rachel Goldfarb, originally published on Next New Deal Click here to subscribe to Roosevelt First, our weekday morning email featuring the Daily Digest. Nobel-Winning Message for the FCC (Bloomberg View) Roosevelt Institute Fellow Susan Crawford asks whether Jean Tirole’s new Nobel Prize in Economics might convince the Federal Communications Commission to reconsider his work […]
Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: Protocol? Communiciation.
Dallas Morning News: Health care workers treating Thomas Eric Duncan in a hospital isolation unit didn’t wear protective hazardous-material suits for two days until tests confirmed the Liberian man had Ebola — a delay that potentially exposed perhaps dozens of hospital workers to the virus, according to medical records. The 3-day window of Sept. 28-30 […]
Open thread for night owls: Ex-Blackwater chief proposes mercenary army to fight ISIS
Mirror Lake, Yosemite National Park Condemnation for Bill O’Reilly’s idea of using mercenaries to fight ISIS rather than using American forces has been fierce, but he can count on support from one key group: The mercenaries. The man who founded and ran Blackwater—the company that sent thousands of private workers into Afghanistan and Iraq—says President […]
Unreal: Rick Scott refuses to debate Charlie Crist because of a—well, just watch
If Florida Gov. Rick Scott loses his bid for re-election next month, everyone—and I mean everyone—is going to blame this surreal moment from Wednesday night’s debate at Broward College with Democrat Charlie Crist. Trust me when I say that you just need to watch this video: Scott literally would not come out to debate Crist […]
Reince Priebus uncovers evidence Democrats trying to influence election by persuading people
Uh-oh, Reince Priebus has figured out the scheme: RNC Chairman: Tom Steyer, Democratic allies trying to keep GOP voters away from polls By Reince Priebus – Published October 14, 2014 – FoxNews.com Tom Steyer’s dark money special interest group, NextGen Climate, knows Democrats can’t win this election on the issues this year—especially not on Steyer’s […]
Spotlight on green news & views: Hell-on-wheels in the Bakken, seeing CO2, Paul Ryan still denying
Atlantic sunrise off Florida. See matching mole’s post. Many environmentally related posts appearing at Daily Kos each week don’t attract the attention they deserve. To help get more eyeballs, Spotlight on Green News & Views (previously known as the Green Diary Rescue) appears twice a week, on Wednesdays and Saturdays. The most recent Saturday Spotlight […]
Obamacare enrollment begins in a month. Here’s what you need to know.
We’re just a month away from the launch of 2015’s open enrollment period for Obamacare plans, and here’s another reminder that it’s smart to shop around, again, for plans on the marketplace whether that be Healthcare.gov or a state exchange. Why? So you can save money, primarily. PriceWaterhouseCooper’s Healthcare Institute found that on average, premiums […]
Cartoon: The bizarro Nobel prizes
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What an awesome bunch of GOTV activists in South Dakota. Aren’t you excited to support them?
That’s a lot of travel for GOTV! Meteor Blades wrote earlier about the GOTV efforts we’re helping fund in South Dakota reservations. So naturally, it’s time for another update! (Can you tell I’m excited about this?) South Dakota Rep. Kevin Killer, the guy running this GOTV operation, emails me with an update: We had 125 […]
Right-wing group uses clip of Foley murder in cut-n-paste ‘border crisis’ ads
Well, you’re monsters. There’s really nothing to say to this. It’s just gross. James Foley, the American journalist murdered by ISIS militants, makes a cameo in a series of web ads from the Secure America Now, a right-wing nonprofit national security organization that lists on its advisory board people like former Gov. Mike Huckabee […]