Bloomberg's Freudian slip: He bought Democratic politicians

Mike Bloomberg had a Freudian slip as they discussed him funding many Republican candidates including Lindsey Graham. He started to say that he bought the politicians. Could not believe this … Read More

It Is NOT Just In The Age of Trump That Politicians Doubled Down On Mistakes.

So Bernie Sanders is still defending that he said nice things about Fidel Castro, Daniel Noriega, and the subway system in Moscow, and Sanders is only doubling down on his … Read More

#KremlinAnnex Week 85 protest Tuesday #DowJones down 2000 points in two days

x #KremlinAnnex 358, we are kicking off 85 of protesting at the #KremlinAnnex! https://t.co/lC6k5J42ko — Kremlin Annex (@KremlinAnnex) February 26, 2020 x We have set a goal of adding 200 … Read More

Help Re-Elect Progressive Champion Senator Ed Markey!

Help Re-Elect Progressive Champion Senator Ed Markey! Help PDA Re-Elect Progressive Champion Ed Markey Onward!  Mike Hersh for Alan, Mike F., Dan, Deb, Janis, Kimberly, Bryan, Dr. Bill, and Donna—Your … Read More

The establishment media still does not understand the Internet – Fidel Castro edition

The establishment media is so user to controlling the Internet that they still have no idea that people can search for information….and make their own decisions….really pretty easily. The whole … Read More

“I Went Over to City Hall This Afternoon and Voted for Elizabeth Warren for President”

Charles P. Pierce from Esquire made it clear today who he was voting for: In 2016, I decided to make it a custom here at the shebeen to reveal the … Read More

Trump in India for Fat Tuesday, has verbal slap-fight with Jim Acosta

It was the same thing, Trump stands with the Russians and fails to acknowledge accountability for the revenge tour. CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta again traded verbal blows with President Donald … Read More

IA-Sen: Sen. Bob Casey (D. PA) Helps Theresa Greenfield (D) Defeat Joni “Cover-Up” Ernst (R)

Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Bob Casey, Jr. (D. PA) in support of Theresa Greenfield’s (D. IA) U.S. Senate campaign: I want to tell you why Iowa's U.S. … Read More

Elizabeth Warren & John Legend Coming To Orangeburg, SC For Huge GOTV Event On Wednesday, Feb 26

Mark your calendars: Democratic presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren is making another stop in Aiken this week. Senator Warren will make the stop on Friday when she is scheduled to host … Read More

KY-Sen: VoteVets Keeps Up The Momentum For Amy McGrath (D) To Defeat Moscow Mitch

Received this e-mail today from VoteVets in support of Amy McGrath’s (D. KY) U.S. Senate campaign: BREAKING NEWS out of Kentucky: Two new polls — out yesterday! — has VoteVets endorsed … Read More

IL-03: DFA Keeps Up The Momentum For Marie Newman (D) In Her Campaign To Unseat A Blue Dog Dem

Received this e-mail from Democracy for America: We’re entering the final three weeks before the Illinois Democratic primary and it’s our last shot at building the grassroots support needed to replace fake … Read More

Elizabeth Warren's New Ad Rips Bloomberg's Past Spending To Keep The Senate GOP In Power

Love this: x YouTube Video Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Tuesday attacked fellow Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg in a new ad, slamming the billionaire over his previous Republican ties. Warren … Read More

Former Trump supporter now supporting Bernie because of healthcare

While canvassing at a Latino Super Market in Las Vegas Nevada, I spoke to a Trump supporter who has cancer and could not afford his meds. It is interesting how … Read More

Top DHS official can't find key coronavirus resource, asks Twitter for help

So glad to see our government is on top of the coronavirus outbreak! Well, Rush Limbaugh thinks COVID-19 is just the common cold, and he has a Presidential Medal of Freedom, … Read More

PA-07, 08 & 17: Rep. Conor Lamb (D) Helps His Fellow PA Dems Hold Onto The House Majority

Received this e-mail today from Rep. Conor Lamb (D. PA-17): From prescription drug affordability to stronger unions, Pennsylvania Democrats have led the charge in passing crucial legislation to put working … Read More

is there a bubble for responding to a pandemic

Like financial bubbles, health epidemics also appear to be based on implausible or inconsistent views about the future. Trump could double-down on his inaction and use the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic to implement … Read More

Listen to Bloomberg trash his own Obama 2012 endorsement

Mike Bloomberg has been attaching himself to the hip of Obama in all his commercials as if they've been mutual supporters. Yet in newly exposed tapes, he trashed his endorsement … Read More

Rolling Stone: In Leaked Audio Bloomberg Defends Big Banks, Calls Warren ‘Scary’ in 2016

Kudos to Rolling Stone for finding this: In a 2016 audio recording from what is thought to be a private Goldman Sachs event, Bloomberg first can be heard referring to the audience … Read More

Democrats are social democrats and not “socialists”

Even during the struggle with having Dixiecrats in its midst, the modern Democratic party has stood for social justice, however compromised because of the nation’s conflicted constitutional history. The “social … Read More

Julián Castro Is Coming To Phoenix & Tucson To Help Get Out The Vote For Warren On Tuesday

Attention all Arizona Kossacks: Former Democratic presidential candidate Julian Castro will campaign in Arizona Tuesday on behalf of Elizabeth Warren. Castro dropped out of the race in January and endorsed … Read More

BREAKING!!! Jack Black Endorses Elizabeth Warren In The Democratic Primary

FUCK YEAH!!!! x #WarrenTime pic.twitter.com/WjyWlH0WeD— Jack Black (@jackblack) February 24, 2020 Actor and musician Jack Black endorsed Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-Mass.) presidential bid on Monday. The comedic celebrity said he’s “all in” for … Read More

The Nation's small, bad take on intersectionality

A short-sighted framing of Elizabeth Warren as the “first” intersectional presidential candidate speaks to some problematic fervor, particularly for a tenured feminist professor. Intersectional critique is, after all, “the development … Read More

AK-Sen: Sen. Chris Coons (D. DE) Helps Dr. Al Gross (I) Take Down Moscow Mitch's Loyal Foot Soldier

Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D. DE) in support of Dr. Al Gross’ (I. AK) U.S. Senate campaign: Sen. Chris Coons (D. DE) Dr. Al Gross is not only … Read More

It’s Medicare For All Monday! How Can You Help?

It’s Medicare For All Monday! How Can You Help? In solidarity,  Dr. Bill Honigman and Mike Hersh for Alan, Mike F., Dan, Janis, Deb, Kimberly, Bryan, and Donna—your PDA national … Read More

Talk to Grandma and Granddad for Real Black History

It was either three years prior to her birth, or when my great-grandmother (GG) was three years old, that the Wright Brothers flew for 12 seconds in a field just … Read More

Naomi Klein on why Progressive should support Bernie

I interviewed author/social activist/filmmaker Naomi Klein at one of the Bernie Sanders field offices in Las Vegas, Nevada. She expressed the reasons why ALL progressives and others should support the … Read More

Ted Lieu: Dow is plummeting due to coronavirus, so why is Trump proposing deep cuts to the CDC?

It’s pretty much a given that Donald Trump cares more about his reelection and his wealthy cronies’ stock portfolios than he does dying Chinese, Italian, and Iranian people, so maybe … Read More

GA-Sen B: Sen. Kamala Harris (D. CA) Endorses Rev. Raphael Warnock (D) For U.S. Senate

Some good news today out of Georgia: x Georgia families deserve someone in the U.S. Senate who will expand their access to health care, fight for working people, and combat … Read More

KY-Sen: Two Polls Confirm A Toss-Up Race Between Amy McGrath (D) & Moscow Mitch (R)

Here’s some good news today out of Kentucky courtesy of Amy McGrath’s (D. KY) U.S. Senate campaign: x Two January polls for Dem Amy McGrath show her in close race … Read More

#MeToo Harvey Weinstein guilty on 2 of 5 counts

Weinstein was remanded into custody. He also will have to be transported to stand trial in Los Angeles. Harvey Weinstein was convicted of rape and a criminal sexual act in … Read More

IA-03, GA-06 & WA-03: Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D. NY) Helps These 3 Dems Hold The House Majority

Received this e-mail from U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D. NY): Friends, About a minute from now, I’m going to ask you to contribute to three incredible congresswomen who are committed … Read More

if Susan Sarandon is not the James Woods of the left, does that honor go to Dick van Dyke

The year-round Silly Season continues and apparently there is a primary insurgency against Nancy Pelosi, as if we could have imagined Steny Hoyer holding Trump’s tiny feet to the impeachment … Read More

IA-Sen: Sen. Sherrod Brown (D. OH) Is Determined To Help Theresa Greenfield (D) Flip This Seat Blue

Received this e-mail from U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D. OH) on behalf of End Citizens United in support of Theresa Greenfield’s (D. IA) U.S. Senate campaign: I’ll be direct: I need … Read More

Seismic events claw at the Doomsday glacier by rolling icebergs slamming into the fragile ice shelf.

The most menacing glacier for coastal regions worldwide is the Thwaites glacier, aka the doomsday glacier, located in the active climate tipping point region of West Antarctica. Recently a new … Read More

Judge in Roger Stone trial slaps down motion to disqualify her

Roger Stone’s lawyers recently threw a Hail Mary, filing a motion to disqualify Judge Amy Berman Jackson, who presided over Stone’s trial for being a worthless ratfucker witness intimidation and lying to … Read More

We Won Nevada! Now The Hard Part Starts.

We Won Nevada! Now The Hard Part Starts. photo: PDA’s Dr. Bill Honigman With Bernie And National Nurses United Nurses In solidarity,  Mike Hersh for Alan, Mike F., Deb, Kimberly, … Read More

AntiCapitalist MeetUp: Getting Trump out the WH – The End of History and splitting Whig-hats

If electoral victory is a mouse to be caught, the color of the cat deployed doesn’t really matter. Matthew 21:12 He knocked over the tables of the money changers and the chairs of … Read More

Trump Threatens Schiff, Who Is Not Impressed

A WaPo story just out: Trump makes veiled threat toward Schiff over classified briefing on Russian 2020 election interference President Trump on Sunday made a veiled threat toward House Intelligence … Read More

Cheetolini Cheatz: “Trump is going to cheat”

The Atlantic article by Sarada Peri assumes an event will occur that is endemic. Trump has destabilized facts and their media frames. If he’s going to cheat what was he doing … Read More

New CBS/YouGov Poll Has Elizabeth Warren Back In 2nd Place In New National Dem Primary Poll

Here’s something that will raise your spirits: x New CBS/YouGov national poll just out: Sanders 28%Warren 19%Biden 17%Bloomberg 13%Buttigieg 10%Klobuchar 5%Steyer 2%Gabbard 1%— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) February 23, 2020 Here’s … Read More

Trump's spiritual adviser claims she literally traveled to heaven and saw the face of God

Paula White, Donald Trump’s spiritual adviser, has an official White House job. That means we’re paying her to tell POTUS stuff like the following, which she recently disgorged from her … Read More

Things really important to me

First an apology. My post yesterday on my decision to vote for Warren (which I did at about 9:45 AM) and to contribute to her campaign ($100 online) was my … Read More

Still Need To See Final NV Caucus Results, But Certain Things Appear To Be Given…

I want to congratulate Bernie Sanders on his victory in the Nevada Caucus.  It is going to take some time for us to see the final tally and the data.  … Read More

coat tails – can Sanders calm 'down-ballot jitters' in 2020

Republicans up and down the ballot are already casting their Democratic rivals as socialist puppets who would remake the economy in Sanders’ collectivist vision. The play is straightforward: President Donald … Read More

Elizabeth Warren & Julián Castro To Hold A Huge Town Hall In San Antonio On Thursday, Feb. 27th

Texas Kossacks, mark your calendars: Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren and Secretary Julian Castro are coming to San Antonio next week. The pair will hold a town hall event at … Read More

#KremlinAnnex week 84 protest Saturday

x At DOJ this evening. Not giving up. Not sitting home. @hr_indivisible @LiteraryMouse pic.twitter.com/ssvOoKfnvv — Aimee Daigle (@daigle_aimee) February 21, 2020 x While he’s in Congress, Attorney General Barr should … Read More

To preview India trip, Trump retweets doctored video of him slaughtering brown people

Donald Trump heads to India on Monday and … well, this is simply off-the-charts bonkers: x Look so forward to being with my great friends in INDIA! https://t.co/1jdk3AW6fG— Donald J. Trump … Read More

Clint Eastwood endorses Bloomberg: never-Trumpublicanism reaching a high-water mark

“A man’s gotta know his limitations.” “The politics has gotten so ornery,” Eastwood reportedly stated before adding he approved of “certain things that Trump’s done” but wishes the president would … Read More

We’re Under Attack! Will You Help Us Fight Back?

We’re Under Attack! Will You Help Us Fight Back? In solidarity, Mike Hersh for Alan, Mike F., Dan, Janis, Donna, Deb, Dr. Bill, Kimberly, and Bryan—your PDA National Team Pete … Read More

Donald Trump Jr. wants to murder an Alaskan bear for some reason

I really wish Donald Trump Jr. were restricted to shooting at living things that are less intelligent than he. That would pretty much leave bivalve mollusks and his own foot … Read More