Community Transcripts Project: FAQs
What is the purpose of the Community Transcripts Project? The purpose of this group is to create transcripts of important progressive speeches and interviews which would otherwise not be transcribed....
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Transcripts: On "When the Stones Come Together" by Rev. Dr. William Barber...
On May 28, DocDawg nominated the following short speech of Rev. Dr. William Barber, II, for transcription. Regarding “When the Stones Come Together.” DocDawg said “Here’s an even more moving Barber...
View ArticleCommunity Transcripts Project: What Wee Mama said about the CTP.
"Many of us, for reasons of health or finances, can't watch videos. Yet important statements are made all the time that are only available through video. I salute the Community Transcripts Project that...
View ArticleCommunity Transcripts Project: What Miniaussiefan said about the CTP.
"Very much appreciated — our internet connection is limited, and watching videos would eat up our bandwidth. Thanks." ~ Miniaussiefan Brief Summary of the Community Transcripts Project We create...
View ArticleCommunity Transcripts Project: What Vetwife said about the CTP.
"I believe that this project is extremely worthwhile. There are so many seniors who cannot hear as well as they used to and many would rather read the written word than try to download video or audio...
View ArticleCommunity Transcripts Project: What ColoTim said about the CTP.
"[T]he answer I chose in the poll had to do with time constraints for videos. If I click on a video and see that it’s a half hour or hour, and especially if I know it’s at a campaign rally where a...
View ArticleCommunity Transcripts Project: What Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse said...
"The Community Transcripts Project will enable us to build our community and spread the word and our activism, completing a circle of information and social media interconnections at Daily Kos. I love...
View ArticleCommunity Transcripts Project: What Avilyn said about the CTP.
"As humans, we all have different ways in which we learn and absorb information; transcripts of audio or visual speeches are vital for those of us who retain information best through reading. It also...
View ArticleCommunity Transcripts Project: Update on gchaucer2.
A Cry from the Cor (Core)* — In case you missed gchaucer2’s cry for help and the sustained community response, four stories have graced the Rec list recently. ericlewis0 wrote gchaucer2 is okay after...
View ArticleCommunity Transcripts Project: Another Update on gchaucer2 with Poll
In case you missed gchaucer2’s cry for help and the superb, sustained community response, six stories have graced the Rec list so far. ericlewis0 contacted GC that night and wrote gchaucer2 is okay....
View ArticleCommunity Transcripts Project: Fundraiser for gchaucer2 tomorrow at 9 a.m. ET...
Sorry I am late. Been on the phone with gchaucer2. PayPal approved her account!How to donate to gchaucer2 via PayPalTo send money to friends or family, log in to your PayPal account, click Send Money...
View ArticleFundraiser for the Community Transcripts Project: Building Our Community,...
Wee Mama told me that the beginning stage of the Community Transcripts Project involved planting seeds. We are transitioning to the next phase. I believe I see little cracks in the earth, and sprouts...
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Community Transcripts Project: Suggestions for Online Banking?
We received an electronic payment in our fundraiser on Sunday. Essentially we were notified that a Kosack had donated $5 in order to test a simple and popular banking service. The notification read:You...
View ArticleCommunity Transcripts Project: Suggestions for Online Credit Unions? #2
As I wrote in our previous open thread, we received an electronic payment in our fundraiser on Sunday. Essentially we were notified that a Kosack had donated $5 in order to test a simple and popular...
View ArticleCommunity Transcripts Project: What Pakalolo said about the CTP
"A lot of climate and scientific knowledge hides in videos that are too long for the average viewer to sit through, hard to follow due to delivery, and sometimes even distracting. I have seen...
View ArticleCommunity Transcripts: Video, Hasan Minhaj, Radio and TV Correspondents' Dinner
SpeakerHasan Minhaj of “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah.”Event2016 Radio and Television Correspondents Association dinner. Date Speech Given June 15, 2016. Notes on the Speech“The Radio and Television...
View ArticleEpic Takedown ... Transcribed!
Epic takedown on its way, but first a preamble:Are you going to Netroots Nation this year?Yes? Fantastic! Have a great time! No? Yeah, me neither. I wish I were. There’s gonna be something like 30...
View ArticleTips for First-Timers to Netroots Nation [Community Transcripts Project -...
Are you going to Netroots Nation for the first time this year? If you have been to Netroots Nation, do you remember the first time you went there? What advice would you give to first-timer attenders?...
View ArticleTranscribe Netroots Nation Events? Yes, We Can! [Community Transcripts - Open...
We plan to transcribe many Netroots Nation presentations, but we will need a little support from the Daily Kos community. “Many a mickle makes a muckle.” I will be unable to attend Netroots Nation this...
View ArticleWe will transcribe Netroots Nation events with your support. Fundraiser...
[Community Transcripts Project Open Thread]We plan to transcribe many Netroots Nation presentations, but we need support from the Daily Kos community to do that. Our fundraising campaign will start...
View ArticleUPDATE: 23 NN16 sessions will be live-streamed. 1 will be videotaped....
According to Netroots Nation staff, 23 sessions of Netroots Nation 2016 will be live-streamed, the two keynote sessions and all the sessions in rooms 223 and 224. If you go to the NN16 Convention page,...
View Article"I'm recovering spiritually today": Rev Kellon Nixon, Dallas, 7/8/2016. Video...
(Community Transcripts Project)Interview Craig Melvin, a reporter for MSNBC, interviewed the Reverend Kellon Nixon in Dallas on July 8, near where Reverend Nixon had run from gunshots during the ambush...
View ArticleLess Than 24 Hours After Dallas, Hillary Delivers One of the Most Important...
xYouTube Video.It's time to admit that Hillary Clinton is an underrated orator. While her delivery doesn't usually match the finesse and dynamics displayed in memorable speeches by her husband or...
View ArticleClimate Mobilization Added to Democratic Party Platform! Boring or Historic?...
Context"Democrats believe it would be a grave mistake for the United States to wait for another nation to lead the world in combating the global climate emergency. In fact, we must move first in...
View ArticleVIDEO: Hillary Clinton Speaks on National Unity in Springfield, IL
xYouTube Video.This is what a president sounds like.NYTimes:In the chamber where Abraham Lincoln denounced slavery and declared “a house divided against itself cannot stand,” Hillary Clinton called on...
View ArticleCartoon: RNC luring us to the Dark Side.
Didn’t conventions used to be happy, celebrations of the pride of a party, displaying optimism for the future? It was a place to roll out, and spell out, the candidates’ plans for running the country....
View ArticleBring...Back...Spiro Agnew (anecdote)
Politics aside, I’ll tell ya’ the VP candidate I miss most: Spiro Agnew. Scoundrel, occasionally nasty (although certainly not by today’s high standards), and ultimately apparently not always on the...
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View ArticleTrump is an expert on all sorts of issues... “Believe it!”
This phrase is a favorite for substituting for real-life plans and policies. He has all sorts of very pressing concerns that need immediate attention, so he says. They usually involve immigrants and...
View ArticleTrump's Simple Vocabulary in Speeches, Visualized
My brilliant friend Emily has a degree in Political Science and Government from the University of Chicago, as well as being a software engineer. To satisfy her own curiosity, she did a bit of analysis...
View ArticleMUST READ: Dan Balz of Wash Post on today's 2 speeches
Dan Balz of the Washington Post is one of the most experienced and thoughtful writers on politics in the United States. He is curious enough that he was at the first Yearly Kos in Las Vegas early...
View ArticleTImothy Egan slams Trump on all fronts - we should pay attention
in a New York Times column titled Burning Down the House.I want to examine the column, and also reflect more broadly on where we are, because the column challenges us to do that.The column is so...
View ArticleMr.Trump: Where are your campaign emails?
Hilllary Clinton is taking some heat from a number of sources for her campaign emails that were released by Wikileaks. And some of them do show the process of “making sausage” is less than pristine....
View ArticleAnswerable Courage
The media’s claims of Donald Trump’s “pivoting” toward being more “presidential” in his congressional address got me thinking. What does “being presidential” sound like?And this is what I came up...
View ArticleIt wasn't cute when Ronald Reagan did it and it's downright depressing...
I’m not sure where you were in 1989 but it certainly wasn’t acceptable — at least to the liberals of the day or the progressives of the day that directly after leaving office former president Ronald...
View ArticleThe Moral Arc of History Bends Against Paid Speeches.
historynewsnetwork.org/...Former President Jimmy Carter "seldom accepts speaking fees," The Associated Press wrote in 2002, "and when he does he typically donates the proceeds to his charitable...
View ArticleUPDATED & Republished: Why Obama SHOULD Make That Speech - And Take The...
New Update: Last week I published a diary under the title above because many people here on DK were bashing Obama for getting paid to speak at a conference hosted by a Wall Street firm. The firm in...
View ArticleJoe Scarborough ties Bannon to Trump's Paris speech: 'Trump doesn't know...
Friday saw the 24-hour news outlets bringing people on to say one thing: Holy crap, what is President Trump doing? Except Fox News which probably just brought someone on to talk about why women should...
View ArticleTrump's tax speech was a real blast from the past.
That’s just the way it is, some things will never change. Bruce Hornsby and the RangeI’d like to say that it was great to see the Tangerine Tantrum Machine back on the road again, but I’m trying to...
View ArticleNotes on the March for Our Lives Rally
I walked in Boston on March 24 in the March for Our Lives but didn’t stay to listen to the speeches on the Common. Later, I saw some of the CSPAN coverage of the March for Our Lives In Washington, DC...
View ArticleHere are some Donald Trump Mad Libs you can play with your loved ones during...
Mad Libs are easy and fun. They’re a great way to teach children what adverbs are! They are also a simple way to have a laugh with friends and family of all ages, and we have the perfect subject in...
View Articlewatching the Iowa victory speeches
well oddly enough tonight everyone got to give a victory speech. I decided to watch the 5 front-runners, and tried to do it in unbiased manner. To see which I liked the best.Here’s my ratings from...
View ArticleThis Week: Two Speeches for History
Maybe I missed it, but I haven’t seen Whitmer’s “Tough as Hell” speech on the site. Just hours after it was revealed there was a plot to kidnap and kill her, when she could have justifiably overflowed...
View ArticleWATCH: One minute of Trump's foreign policy follies shows he's off his game
Donald Trump has always been an incompetent generalist. However, recent weeks have shown that something is missing from The Donald’s typical grotesquery and vitriol. He has mixed up which dictators...
View ArticleTrump can't be a Nazi because he's 'not a student of Hitler'
Donald Trump joined conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt on Friday to discuss politics and his campaign. The more than 30-minute interview was 30 minutes more time than one should ever spend with the...
View ArticleDr. Martin Luther King Jr. (15 January 1929 - 4 April 1968)
Fifty-six years ago today in Memphis, Tennessee, civil rights pioneer Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was martyred by a malicious white bigot. The assassin, a misanthropic Caliban, fled, unable to stand up...
View ArticleDNC Agenda & Speakers (and a little fun)
When we watch the political conventions on TV, we get to watch the big speeches, which are held in the evenings for prime time audiences. What we don't get to see are all of the meetings that are...
View ArticleWhat was your favorite speech at the DNC? There's no wrong answer
We can’t stop smiling in the Daily Kos newsroom after that amazing Democratic National Convention—how about you? It’s hard to choose a favorite speech, but it’s fun to try.Here are a few of our...
View ArticleTake a look at Kamala Harris' DNC speeches through the years
The powerful moment when Vice President Kamala Harris accepted her party’s nomination for president Thursday night wasn’t her first appearance at the Democratic National Convention.xxYouTube VideoYou...
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Meiselas catches Trump Vance emergency memo saying expect a bounce for VP...
UPDATE: Saturday, Aug 24, 2024 · 11:52:36 PM +00:00·DemWe can expect a lot of pollsters to start polling sometime around Monday. They will do that to capture or measure the strength of the bounce from...
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