Ukraine Invasion Day 21: both sides have 90% of combat power available in a violent 'pause'

The war continues with Russian troops hiding among hospital facilities in the south using staff as cover or shields. They exhibit slow progress toward Kiev even as talks continue and the … Read More

Ukraine Invasion Day 20: “worse than the 415 BCE Athenian invasion of Sicily.”

Bombardment continues with over 900 missiles launched against Ukraine and the notable media appearance was the on-air protest by an editor on Russian State TV. She was arrested and seems … Read More

We sacrifice for America as corporations rob us like parasites using inflation & low wages.

While Americans are always asked to sacrifice during crises, corporations parasitically continue to exploit us all. The current inflation proves many corporations are parasites x x YouTube Video Watch Politics … Read More

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugliest

Not since, Tuco, Blondie, and Angel Eyes formed a triangle, within a circle, has greed, corruption, and self-interest intersected so destructively. Politics in America, for nearly 250 years has boiled … Read More

Minerva @ Midnight: has Biden already been moved leftward

Anand Giridharadas wrote a piece for The Atlantic asserting that Biden has been moving leftward.  This may only be a short term impression only because the GOP is trying to … Read More

“…it's time to end America's longest war*”

All US troops will be withdrawn from Afghanistan by 9/11/2021, ignoring the 1 May deadline set by previous guy. 2,500 troops remain. *“Wars with Native tribes from 1788-1890 count as … Read More

Fox News joins the late night (culture) wars with a cancellable Greg Gutfeld

Fox News and Greg Gutfeld apparently believes he’s funny enough to go up against late night comedy programming. Because of the previous guy, the world might be safe for RW late … Read More

MO-Sen: PCCC Endorses Marine Veteran Lucas Kunce (D) In The Democratic Primary For U.S. Senate

Some big news this week out of Missouri: A Missouri Democrat who works at an organization that fights corporate monopolies on Tuesday became the latest candidate to announce a bid … Read More

Is the F-35 another Bradley Fighting Vehicle or an M-16

A Swiss Navy Knife. A new article in Forbes about the failure of the F-35 aircraft system in terms of building a Ferrari points us toward the problem of seeking … Read More

1/6 was an insurrection because Trump truly hoped Pence would overturn the election

Trump never truly understood why Paul Manafort chose Mike Pence as his Vice President. Trump thought that Pence’s commitment to theocracy would serve Trump’s con of the evangelicals and guarantee loyalty rather … Read More

CNN: Trump refused to call off rioters during 'shouting match' with Kevin McCarthy

Well, this seems significant. CNN: In an expletive-laced phone call with House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy while the Capitol was under attack, then-President Donald Trump said the rioters cared more … Read More

Illiberal Capitalism: In Vogue?: The Present?: The Future?

This is something I have been considering for a long time [10 years or so] and the events of January 6th 2021 are slowly coalescing my thoughts on the subject. … Read More

President Biden on the hardships facing everyday Americans: 'This cannot be who we are as a country'

This feels like your parents coming home after asking Hannibal Lecter to babysit and then leaving nothing for him in the fridge but fava beans and a nice Chianti. Where have you … Read More

UN: Trump Broke International Law with Blackwater Pardons

The United Nations Human Rights Council has issued an expert opinion that Trump’s pardons of the Blackwater mercenaries who shot up Nisour Square in Baghdad was a violation of international … Read More

David Perdue claims he supports $2,000 relief checks, but that's not what he said before

Republicans have been walking back their deeply held principles for years in the wake of Donald Trump’s massive … boat parades. All the same folks who once called me a traitor … Read More

Winking and Nod: Tony Blinken may be the Biden Secretary of State

Nearly anyone would be better than the Dominionist nutlog, Mike Pompeo. Robert Wright (New Republic) and Connor Echols wrote an article last week grading Tony Blinken, the apparent choice by Joe … Read More

250,000 dead since “Trump's a tenant pouring cement down the toilets because his lease is expiring”

Trump doesn’t care whether he loses his security deposit. He just wants the chaos of dying meat processors, conspiracy-driven ICU trespassers, and a quarter-million dead Americans from COVID-19. And in … Read More

last week, Trump contemplated a strike on Iran’s main nuclear site at Natanz because scorched earth

The foolishness continues as sore loser Trump wanted to bomb Iran last week. On the road to the bunker a POTUS proud of trying to end “endless wars” also brags … Read More

What is Going On?

Time after time, succeeding presidents have followed less than stellar Republican administrations feeling obligated to bestow forgiveness. Richard Nixon masterminded a crime, known to every police drama watcher as B&E, … Read More

The Georgia Flip?

For a period in history, there existed something called the Whig Party. A group of disaffected Nationalist Republicans and Democrats who saw a need to unify the country after the … Read More

one kiss from Trump could be worth $80 million in COVID infection

Harvard economists estimate the cumulative financial costs of the COVID-19 pandemic. The fiscal conservatives' pandemic cost $16 Trillion for the US, about 90% of the country's GDP. If anything, you’d think … Read More

The Michigan State Supreme Court Just Reminded Us We Need A Second Huge Blue Wave To Hit Michigan

So this bull shit just happened: The Michigan Supreme Court issued a split decision late Friday that ruled against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in a battle over her power to extend … Read More

VoteVets Launches New Ad Campaign To Boost Hispanic Turnout In Florida To Defeat Traitor Trump

Received this e-mail today from VoteVets: We’re teaming up with Nuestro PAC to run our latest ad in Florida featuring Iraq War Veteran and former GOP Hispanic Outreach Director Pablo … Read More

Trump, in Ohio, calls Biden a communist, because of “super-duper, hydrosonic” missiles

Trump's in Ohio today, trying distract us from knowing that the Manhattan DA has grounds to prosecute Trump and his business on these grounds: -Scheme to Defraud -Falsification of Business Records … Read More

LA-Sen: Add Adrian Perkins (D) To List Of Senate Dem Candidates Who Want To Abolish The Filibuster

This was posted on The Huffington Post last week and a I just found it today. Apologies, but I wanted to bring it everyone’s attention: Louisiana Democratic Senate candidate Adrian … Read More

Tales from the Trump

Trump's followers are operating under a different set of determinants. While most of America and the free world views truth as a factor in defining honesty, Trump sycophancy dictates that … Read More

What could the Trump Coup d'état look like without a Biden landslide

GOTV and get a Biden landslide. x The Coming Biden Landslide https://t.co/DB0UYBnxoU pic.twitter.com/ePYMFI9YNi — #TheResistance | Vote Early And Use A Ballot Box (@SocialPowerOne1) September 13, 2020 With a few … Read More

IA-Sen: Joni Ernst (R) Is Now Trying To Walk Back Repeating A QAnon Conspiracy Theory

So this happened earlier this week: Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst seemed to embrace on Monday a thoroughly-discredited QAnon conspiracy theory about U.S. deaths from COVID-19 being a mere fraction of … Read More

NC-Sen: VoteVets Launches Huge Ad Campaign Slamming Thom Tillis' (R) Record Voting Against Veterans

Received this e-mail today from VoteVets in support of Cal Cunningham’s (D. NC) U.S. Senate campaign: x YouTube Video Exciting news out of North Carolina today. We just announced a … Read More

Kyle Rittenhouse, junior patriot, brought a gun to a skateboard fight, and Mom helped

Trumpian legal defense logic would suggest that like the COVID toll, Wendy Rittenhouse helped her kid with his guns but she didn’t get killed, and the death toll from her son’s shooting … Read More

snorting a post-RNC bump on the path to the bunker

Anything Trump says, like taunting the Big Ten football conference because he wants to see college football on the TV, is a lie. Strange was his workshopping that meme in … Read More

70 minutes of Trump RNC speech, more of the same lies, and a couple of new ones

The White House version of the Sturgis Smash Mouth concert is ready for its hydroxychloroquine treatments as one big Hatch Act violation. And for the umpteenth time he lies about Veterans … Read More

LA-Sen: Sen. Sherrod Brown (D. OH) Helps Adrian Perkins (D) Pull Off A Huge Upset Victory

Received this e0mail today from U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D. OH) in support of Shreveport Mayor Adrian Perkins’ (D. LA) U.S. Senate campaign: Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight says control of the … Read More

Senators on vacation as the Russians keep working

GOP Senators took their three weeks off, as the COVID death toll rises, Some left to campaign for re-election, others to disinform in support of IMPOTUS*. And then there’s Trump corrupting USPS … Read More

NY-01, 02, 21, 22, 23 & 24: Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D) Helps Send Some More NY Dems To Congress

Received this e-mail from U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D. NY) in support of these New York Democrats running for Congress: I first ran for Congress in 2006 in a long-shot … Read More

LA-Sen: Sen. Kamala Harris (D. CA) Endorses Shreveport Mayor Adrian Perkins (D) For U.S. Senate

This happened yesterday: x Adrian Perkins has fought for our country and now he wants to take that fight to the Senate to build a better Louisiana for all. Watch … Read More

bringing down a Columbus statue before Trump's protection squad arrives in Chicago

Considering the penchant for bored federal tactical teams to practice their snatch and grab techniques with their rental vehicles, it’s a good thing to take down that statue. Chicago will … Read More

LA-Sen: The DSCC Adds Another Senate Seat To Their Target List By Endorsing Mayor Adrian Perkins (D)

In case you haven’t heard: Republican U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy drew the first high-profile challenger to his reelection bid Wednesday, when Shreveport Mayor Adrian Perkins announced his last-minute entrance into … Read More

Ohio Trumpster Who Refused To Wear Mask and mocked COVID-19 as hype dies!

I am so tired of writing about people committing suicide because of willful ignorance promoted by the COVID-19 charlatans they listen to day in and out. It is easy to … Read More

MI, TN, MN, KS, NC, SC & CO-Sen: Giffords PAC Launches Virtual Road To Background Checks Tour

Received this e-mail today from Giffords PAC: This is the year we will elect a gun safety majority in the United States Senate. When elected, our majority will take historic … Read More

So you call yourself a patriot? Masks make you uncomfortable.. Really? ( Trigger Warning)

Back when the WWII soldiers left their families and stormed the beaches of Normandy under fire and away from loved ones, they made sacrafices and huge sacrifices.  It was not … Read More

Health Care Activist, Ady Barkan, Officially Endorses Joe Biden For President

From the New York Times: x YouTube Video Ady Barkan, the prominent liberal activist and advocate for “Medicare for all,” is endorsing Joseph R. Biden Jr. for president, in a sign that some progressives … Read More

Tucker Carlson attacks Tammy Duckworth, fortunately #SheHasMoreBallsThanYou

Like the rest of the entertainment division of Fox News, Tucker Carlson simply chases the latest Trumpist meme as Tammy Duckworth is mentioned as a VP candidate. x Oh snap!! @votevets … Read More

Whose deepfake personas are these and how many more are out there?

The placing of 90 op-eds in a range of 40+ media outlets signals some real disinformation problems at work. One guess is that one of many (Saudi/UAE/Russia?) intelligence services have … Read More

Did Duckworth Just Kill Her Shot as Biden's VP?

Tammy Duckworth has the makings of a very attractive VP candidate. Smart, articulate, a working mother (who gave birth while in office and has brought her baby to the Senate … Read More

AZ-Sen: MSNBC, “McSally (R), Trump haunted by their records on pre-existing conditions”

She can’t stop getting caught lying: Sen. Martha McSally released a TV ad for her campaign in which she says, “Of course I will always protect those with preexisting conditions. … Read More

NC-Sen: Pete Buttigieg Keeps Up The Momentum To Replace A Trump Enabler With A Fellow Veteran

Received this e-mail today from former presidential candidate, South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D. IN), in support of Cal Cunningham’s (D. NC) U.S. Senate campaign: Cal Cunningham (D. NC) November … Read More

Lawn Order: in New Jersey it's wet, in DC it's golf

x Photos of Trump today – from @tru62. pic.twitter.com/dVVHvwUG9q — Manu Raju (@mkraju) June 27, 2020 x In white polo shirt and red cap, Pres Trump returns to WH from … Read More