Fundraiser 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...
View ArticleGraphic: Abraham, Martin and Don
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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...
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