From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE… Olly Olly Oxenfree!!! Tomorrow is the 26th National Coming Out Day, an annual event celebrated since 1988 “to promote a safe world for LGBT individuals to live truthfully and openly.” Overall it’s much easier and safer than it was when my closet door finally swung open—that was 1991 when […]

Idaho marriage plaintiffs Lori and Sharene Watsen The U.S. Supreme Court has turned down Idaho’s request for an appeal of the 9th Circuit’s ruling that the state’s marriage ban is unconstitutional. The order allows a federal appeals court decision issued Tuesday to take effect in Idaho, just as it did in Nevada. Three other states […]

If Republicans would like to nominate anyone—anyone at all—who is not a loon, we would all be down with that. I mean, c’mon. In previously unreported comments that were captured on video, Colorado Republican attorney general candidate Cynthia Coffman can be seen telling supporters that she intends to lead a legal fight against the U.S. […]

Leading Off: • IL-Gov: If the gubernatorial race in Illinois isn’t the nation’s nastiest campaign, it’s at least very close. Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn features a news clip in which a reporter describes how Republican Bruce Rauner threatened an executive, declaring, “I will bury her …. I will bankrupt her with legal fees. I don’t […]

Georgia Republican David Perdue isn’t just an outsourcer and a pay discriminator, he’s also supremely selfish. The New York Times points out that, in the same deposition in which Perdue so lovingly detailed his outsourcing experience, he also went into quite a bit of detail about his efforts to squeeze every possible dime in pay […]

More bad news for Kris Kobach—the worst secretary of state in the nation. The Wichita Eagle is out with a blistering op-ed from Michael A. Smith, associate professor of political science at Emporia State University, noting Kris Kobach’s voting laws aren’t preventing fraud, they are preventing votes: There is real voter fraud going on in […]

Today’s comic by Mark Fiore is Shell’s deadliest crude: • Here’s what is coming up in Sunday Kos: The great Republican tax cut scam of 2015, by Jon Perr Book review: ‘Latino America’ by Matt Barreto and Gary M. Segura, by Susan Grigsby Sane approaches to health epidemics. Medical anthropologists address ebola fearmongering, by Denise […]

This image was voluntarily released by the owner of the Shaw Market in South St. Louis. VonDerrit Myers is on the left in the black t-shirt. The time stamp says 7:03 PM. Myers and his friends left at 7:05pm. Shot and killed by an off-duty St. Louis police officer on the night of Wednesday, October […]

GT Thompson, [Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate] Vietnam Veteran and Kit Fox Society registering to vote We have a chance to help Rick Weiland win the Senate seat in South Dakota thanks to the vote the nine tribes (Oceti Sakowin or Seven Council Fires) there can provide this election. How do we get the Dakota, Lakota and […]

Any comment, sirs? For the third year in a row, Medicare beneficiaries won’t be facing higher Part B premiums. Part B covers doctors visits, outpatient care, durable medical equipment and other non-hospitalization type medical services. This year, it’s remaining a pretty good deal for seniors, a continuing trend. Over the past four years, per capita […]