Monthly Poll From Now to the Election: June

Please rec this diary so I can collect enough data. I’m conducting an experiment here, and I need your help. Below is a poll of possible presidential election outcomes. Please … Read More

Biden Polls Persistently Give Him the Advantage – Why This Is Important

CNN has a new report on the history of the Biden-Trump polls: Biden's in one of the best positions for any challenger since scientific polling began There were more than … Read More

AntiCapitalist MeetUp: boogaloos have their Horst Wessel. #BreonnaTaylor is different

(Originally, I had done something on a MMT podcast with some of its major luminaries, but I’ll save it for a future AC chat diary, since Historical events seem more important … Read More

MT-Sen: Sen. Chuck Schumer (D. NY) Helps Gov. Steve Bullock (D) End Moscow Mitch's Majority

Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D. NY) on behalf of End Citizens United in support of Governor Steve Bullock’s (D. MT) U.S. Senate campaign: … Read More

A statement to share – well worth reading

I teach at DeMatha Catholic High School in Hyattsville MD, a school founded in 1946 originally to educate people for  the Trinitarian Order, more properly known as The Order of … Read More

White House adviser says Trump's racist tweets were meant to 'deescalate' violence

Remember this horrible, horrible pig-feces-lagoon of a tweet from three days ago in which the actual president of the United States suggested protesters should be shot by the police and/or the … Read More

KS-Sen: NYT, “Kris Kobach (R) Is Back, and a Kansas Senate Seat May Be Up for Grabs”

From yesterday’s New York Times: Ahead of the August primary, Democrats have largely rallied around Barbara Bollier, a retired anesthesiologist who was until recently a Republican. Republicans, meanwhile, are locked in … Read More

SC-Sen: Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D. MD) Helps Jaime Harrison (D) Kick Lindsey Graham's (R) Ass

Received this e-mail yesterday from U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D. MD) in support of Jaime Harrison’s (D. SC) U.S. Senate campaign: Jaime Harrison (D. SC) I’m writing to you … Read More

Fox News slam does not stop Ali Velshi from calling out cops and context-appropriate recording.

Fox News decided that they would caricature Velshi’s factual reporting on the George Floyd murder protests in Minneapolis. Did Ali Velshi change his coverage? Ali Velshi undeterred by Fox News attacks Watch … Read More

John Cusack: “I hope this keeps up 'til Trump flies away in a f'-ing helicopter”

The goal of all this trash talk? Simple enough: to eat away at the press’s credibility. CBS reporter Lesley Stahl said Trump admitted as much to her shortly before the 2016 election: … Read More

New ABC News/WaPo National Poll Gives Joe Biden A 10 Point Lead Over Trump

Here’s some encouraging news: Joe Biden holds a 10-point lead over President Donald Trump among registered voters in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, but that’s sliced in half among those certain to … Read More

GA-Sen A: Jon Ossoff (D) Continues To Lead In Fundraising In The Democratic Primary

Here’s the latest news out of Georgia: Investigative journalist Jon Ossoff has grown his fundraising lead in the final stretch leading up to the June 9 Democratic U.S. Senate primary. … Read More

Do 42% still support Trump and will they vote

Trump is no Nixon, but like Nixon, he could still win a second term, extending the latest national nightmare. x Going back further, the Kerner Commission reported in 1968 that … Read More

This is what you get when the will of the people get ignored. An Angry America.

This was the straw that broke the camel’s back.  This is bigger than Police Brutality in my opinion.   I knew at some point people would take to the street when … Read More

This is what you get when the will of the people are ignored. An Angry America.

This was the straw that broke the camel’s back.  This is bigger than Police Brutality in my opinion.   I knew at some point people would take to the street when … Read More

TX, CO, & MN-Sen: Sen. Patty Murray (D. WA) Keeps Up The Fight To End Moscow Mitch's Majority

Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D. WA) in support of MJ Hegar (D. TX), John Hickenlooper (D. CO) & U.S. Senator Tina Smith’s (D. MN) re-election … Read More

urban curfews begin – keeping the peace, owning the night

I am putting this up here in case folks want to share updates and more local stories, resources and information about the first night of curfews for what has been … Read More