Ukraine Invasion Day 22: bringing a switchblade to a gunfight
We haven’t yet reached that point where the losses to the Russians are sustainable. Replacements may be on their way to the front. They likely will...
Ma, Reverend King, is dead!
My great-grandmother, we called her Ma, died at the age of 79, about eleven years after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. She...
In these last precious moments for climate action, we have been betrayed by Amazon, Apple and Disney
Joe Biden and the Democratic party are walking a tightrope on implementing meaningful changes to save the biosphere. The QOP party joined by two Democratic senators...
Barr the door… won't someone prosecute him
The Justice Department this May refused to tell Schiff whether any Republicans were investigated. Schiff: "Trump repeatedly & flagrantly demanded that the Dept. of Justice...
Trump's DOJ Spied on House Intelligence Committee Democrats [Update w/ Schiff Call to Investigate]
Just broke by the New York Times and picked up by Chris Hayes and Rachel Maddow: Hunting Leaks, Trump Officials Focused on Democrats in Congress...
The Republican game of Three Card Monty
When former President Obama introduced the Affordable Care Act, he made the recurring mistake Democrats often commit; negotiating with Republicans in good faith. Mr. Obama...
Hannity declares Liz Cheney's firing is not part of 'cancel culture,' because it just isn't, okay?
On Wednesday, Rep. Liz Cheney was bounced from her leadership position in the House GOP for refusing to acknowledge the eternal, immutable, omnipotent godhead recently...
Former Obama ethics czar: Giuliani raid is 'a red flag for Trump'
I’m not a vindictive person. I’m really not. Certain things I’ve endured in my life I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy, such as depression,...
Businesses must see a “benefit” in fighting climate change.
I was listening to an Apple representative explain this: Apple and partners launch first-ever $200 million Restore Fund to accelerate natural solutions to climate change...
Minerva @ Midnight: Summer augurs a continuation of bad faith and disinformation
Minnesota law enforcement, at its based level exhibits some intersectional issues often represented in fictional culture products like Fargo. Their police forces haven’t learned very much...
Oops! Trump sycophant, Rep. Matt Gaetz, left an ominous trail to his alleged sex/drug escapades.
Remember Pizzagate? It seems like Right Wing Republicans and the GQP had the wrong address. They should have visited Matt Gaetz in Florida. The Pizzagate...
Conservatism is greed and bigotry dressed up as moralistic “principles” like individualistic liberty
Steve Bannon’s path to a pardon included appeals to a range of RWNJ groups including some dangerous proto-fascist cults. "The Fourth Turning" by Strauss & Howe...
the former guy's lack of political understanding has made him bunt into a Cloverfielder's choice
Without the strange speculation about how Trump is in decline, it is reasonable to think that Trump is consistently inconsistent in not being able to...
Trump waved to 'lone supporter' on his first visit to NYC since being 86'd from Washington
Don’t ask me how I stumbled onto the New York Post website. I’d like to say it was during the tail end of a turpentine-and-bath-salts...
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...
Trump's D.C. hotel nearly triples its rates for his 'second inauguration' on March 4
If you had any doubt that the Trump presidency was just an elaborate four-year grift, this story should dispel your quaint Pollyannish notions. Because their...
Why did the insurrection occur? Fake news, lies, complicit politicians, and more.
There is a video that is going around that illustrates the problem. She became a robot of fake news, lies, & complicit politicians. Fake News,...
Tiffany Cross nails it: Their American dream was our nightmare. This is as American as apple pie.
Sometimes when a mirror is held in front of us, it is hard to believe. Tiffany Cross did that today. The American dream has been...
Trump tries to sock-puppet Twitter as social media compels him to threaten a new platform
Darn that Big Tech, it’s like the Deep State decided to merge with it and become mega-kleptocracy. Appropriately the new platform could be called “Trump”,...
Trump permanently suspended from Twitter. Bye Felicia!
Twitter has finally and permanently suspended @realDonaldTrump from its platform. Bye Felicia. xAfter close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them...
Take a Little Time to Avoid the View
During her second appearance on the leader of the genre in daytime talk, The View (1/5/21), following her maternity leave, Meghan McCain was told in...
The Daily Bucket: Rubies in the Sky with Diamonds, and Gold amid the tannin-stained Waters
The hummingbirds dash around my back yard, as hard to track as a feathered 3-card monte game; are there 2 or 3 or 4 hummers?...
“One of the many Marx toys, have you all of them?” part 5
This post in the Anticapitalist Chat supports a group reading of Karl Marx’s Capital Vol 1. #GoodMorningMarx #WeeklyMarx "I have joined a family, and like all families,...
How to cook a turkey and steal an election, by Donny Trump, age 5
There’s something undeniably hilarious about those classic late night talk show segments in which kids are asked to relate the instructions (as they see them)...
One of Rudy's key witnesses at 'The Four Seasons' was a sex offender, because of course he was
Loopy shrunken apple head Rudy Giuliani has been at the vanguard of Donald Trump’s farewell unreality tour — a lurid spectacle that reached its zany...
I have Republican friends, neighbors, co-workers, etc. Here is what they told me after Biden won.
As the headline says, I have Republican friends, co-workers, neighbors and so on. I got added to one of their message lists, and they had...
Rachel Maddow skewers Trump as a super spreading epidemiological menace
Rachel Maddow makes the sad case that Donald Trump is a purposeful coronavirus super spreader. And he enjoys doing it. Rachel Maddow exposes Trump x...
Kitchen Table Kibitzing Friday: Forward to the Past
x"It's called a merge commit, Marty! It's a directed acyclic graph! We need to bisect and revert, and then use interactive rebasing possibly with a...
The Daily Bucket–Soros and my friends, the yellow jackets.
“Oyez! The Summer Session of Frog Court is called to order, Judge Jeramiah Bullfrog presiding,” honked the Bailiff, who was a Canadian goose. In strode...
ruthless Bill Barr says Bill deBlasio heads an 'anarchist jurisdiction' – who knew?
Now they’re just making things up. US Department of Justice designates #NYC as an anarchist jurisdiction. Seattle and Portland OR are also on the list because...
Oklahoma City threat legacy: there are no stochastic lone wolves
Other than Trump’s deliberate mass-casualty response to COVID-19, there was an earlier event that had similar malevolence. This is not about “antifa” as a threat,...
Twitter cancels Trump… again, and Roger Stone wants to arrest you
Trump tried to disinform again and again... xIt’s just so embarrassing pic.twitter.com/6I1ROwr86G— MeidasTouch.com (@MeidasTouch) September 12, 2020 xAttorney General William Barr makes yet another false...
But I'm the “cheerleader for America” Trump.
Trump continues to dig the hole deeper. Expect some stunts that attempt to divert attention from the current news cycle in the coming week. President...
KY, SC & ME-Sen: GOPers Who Denounced Obama's “Executive Overreach” Are Now Praising Trump
Ok, so we know about Trump’s “executive order” on the coronavirus stimulus relief package: President Donald Trump signed a series of executive orders Saturday in an effort...
Trump's Thuggery Will Cost Him the Election
Mangoface clearly thinks sending armed anonymous federal agents dressed in military camouflage into America’s streets to beat up, snatch up, and generally fuck up American...
so much Trumpian misinformation and disinformation, also HUD DragRace
So much disinformation, so little disambiguation time. Enough gaslight to save the fossil-fuel industry. xFox News peddled misinformation about the coronavirus 253 times in five...
“The 2016 campaign all over again, …the Muslim ban and the wall, just add Confederate statues”
The real question is whether Republicans are really the “unnerved who have long enabled him but now fear losing power and forever associating their party with...
56,000 cases: a new US daily record for COVID cases
And no it’s not about testing levels, which are nowhere near what needs to be done; and then there’s the lack of contact tracing. This...
No Equivalency
There is a finger pointing debate raging between conservatives and liberals over who is more responsible for the uptick of the spreading of the Covid-19...
Irrational Service; and Protection?
I watched the movies Kill Bill 1&2 for the umpteenth time last night. I endured the blood and guts, the pulpy glamorizing of violence, and...
Dispatches From Behind Enemy Lines (Covid-19 edition)
“The FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, @NBCNews, @ABC, @CBS, @CNN) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People!” Donald Trump, February...
a lesser-known but equally clear and durable influence of slavery on US capitalism
Another article from Jacobin magazine worth your reading. The #1619 Project is important for reminding us that while racism is as American as apple pie,...
A republican gets this right. Ridge calls SAH Protestors selfish and dishonoring vets.
www.inquirer.com/… www.usatoday.com/… A very good read. Tom Ridge: Selfish protests against stay-at-home orders dishonor America's veterans Tom Ridge, a combat Vietnam Veteran and member of...
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D. NV) Helps Joe Biden Defeat Trump & End Moscow Mitch's Majority
Received this e-mail from U.S. Senator and Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairwoman, Catherine Cortez Masto (D. NV), in support of Joe Biden’s presidential campaign: I’ve...
Boeing, Boeing, splat… a COVID-19 bailout that's not called one, and the rich will get richer
Classic Trumpian economic policy, preying on chaos. Trump pimps a “V-shaped” recovery in time to re-elect him. Nope, probably not happening. DC is barely keeping...
Trump's inaction on COVID-19 may have already turned the US into Italy
The Italian death rate may be ahead for the US as the numbers now follow Italy’s, which wouldn’t have happened had Trump not wanted US companies...
The Devil Can Quote Scripture – But Don Jr. Can't
HuffPo found a tweet from the Hair Apparent trying to take a swipe at the Speaker: https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1225436957179830279?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw As is so often the case with The...
Trump's SOTU was a ratings disaster
Donald Trump thinks that somehow the results of a rigged impeachment trial with no witnesses and a foregone conclusion amount to an “exoneration.” But the...
“Heads on Pikes”, Occam's Axe of Insanity, and Kardashian/Cardassian Justice
Darn those actions in furtherance of crimes, Trump still needs his Roy Cohns, as debate roils on whether to call witnesses. The GOP wants justice...
Kitchen Table Kibitzing Friday: disproportionate commonality at the Thanksgiving table… Vape!
Kitchen Table Kibitzing is a community series for those who wish to share a virtual kitchen table with other readers of Daily Kos who aren’t...
