OH-Sen: Richard Cordray (D) Helps His Fellow Populist, Sherrod Brown (D), Win Re-Election

Received this e-mail today from the gubernatorial candidate, Richard Cordray (D. OH), in support of U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown’s (D. OH) re-election campaign: Sen. Sherrod Brown (D. OH)   When … Read More

Is Trump seriously thinking of engineering a reverse 2016? (With a poll)

t it NOW!   Queen Please Dios, if you have any mercy, let His Lowness keep his promise, and campaign tirelessly for the last 45 days of the campaign, especially … Read More

TX, WI & OH-Sen: Kamala Harris (D. CA) & MoveOn.org Team Up To Help Democrats Win The Senate

Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Kamala Harris (D. CA) on behalf of MoveOn.org in support of Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s (D. TX) U.S. Senate campaign and U.S. Senators Tammy … Read More

Never Trumper Rick Wilson Sends Manafort a Signed Copy of His Book. Twitter Loves It.

Rick Wilson felt bad about poor Paulie Numbnuts languishing in stir with only dry legal briefs to read, so he did the least he could do, send him a signed … Read More

Murfini the Mystic predicts: Trump WILL shut down the government in September.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know. Who gives a fat rats ass what I predict? What was I on the secret Manafort witness thingy, 50%? But tell me this, what in … Read More

Apparently, Trump thinks that EVERYBODY is Stormy Daniels now.

Q: What do Stormy Daniels and soy bean farmers have in common?   A: They both got schlonged by Donald Trump The story is like a cross between a Mel … Read More

Bits of Information From MSNBC Today.

Over 4 million Obama voters from 2012 did not vote in the 2016 Election. 2016 was an election cycle in which Trump’s margin of victory was one of the narrowest … Read More

What We’ve Achieved Together So Far This Year

Dear MoveOn member, The year so far has, of course, been shaped by Trump and the GOP’s ongoing and deeply destructive cyclone of chaos. But it has also been deeply … Read More

America in black and white in Alabama

In an age of “both sides do it” and “teach the debate,” some issues are simply black and white. So it was this week in Alabama, where truth and myth, … Read More

GOP Not Happy: Quinnipiac Poll Shows Serious $$$ Needed To Save Most Hated Senator

Who knew that being respected and liked by absolutely nobody might affect your election chances? It was just a few months ago that Ted Cruz enjoyed an 18-point lead over … Read More

MoveOn Members in Texas Vote Overwhelmingly to Endorse Gina Ortiz Jones (TX-23) for Congress

Members of MoveOn.org Political Action in Texas’ 23rd Congressional District have voted overwhelmingly to endorse Gina Ortiz Jones for Congress. In Texas’ 23rd Congressional District, 93% of votes were cast … Read More

Jeff Sessions Sues California Over ICE.

Late-night breaking news: The Justice Department is suing California and two top state officials, accusing them of interfering with federal immigration efforts by passing and enforcing state laws that hinder … Read More

Burns Strider and the “Bosslady”: The work continued after the campaign was over.

Sorry for being rather late on this one; I don’t write here much anymore. The reaction was ever so predictable. After the New York Times’ report that Clinton shielded campaign … Read More

With 3,500 structures burned, the California fires are now the most Destructive in State History

x Wow. With 3,500 structures burned, the California fires are now officially the most destructive in state history.https://t.co/nlV24GUUDL pic.twitter.com/3KCHKhhkUU — Eric Holthaus (@EricHolthaus) October 11, 2017 And it appears that … Read More

Violence and Misogyny Win Presidential Election

A Presidential candidate who makes flippant jokes about women. Complete with an especially horrific rape joke. Campaigns on explicitly extra-legal solutions to crime problems. Is repudiated by just about everyone … Read More

Who should Sanders pick as a running mate?

Sanders has some work to do to win the Democratic nomination, but for the sake of entertaining ourselves, there’s no harm in wondering who would make a good vice-presidential running mate. … Read More

War in Syria and Iraq: Check CENTCOM's event logs for May and the U.S. is roughly a No Show

Summary: According to U.S. Central Command logs, we are making fewer airstrikes during a whole month today than we did every day in 2003 during the effort to remove Saddam … Read More

NY Times “The Center-Right Moment.” In fact it's Dirty Tricks and racism that beat the Left

David Brooks states the issue properly: Given the financial crisis, widening inequality, the unpopularity of the right’s stances on social issues and immigration, you would have thought that progressive parties … Read More

Policing the Police – A “How To” By An Expert, Detective Frank Serpico

Fully-automatic weapons and armored vehicles used on unarmed protesters in Ferguson, MO., and the questions which remain about Michael Brown's death are both enormous and numerous.  The local PD and … Read More

Being Homeless With Kids

Again, I’ve been asked, “Where has Jenny been?” As always, I struggle with answering these kinds of questions. I suppose that a person who doesn’t bare her soul on the … Read More