Civil Rights

FOX News Host On Civil Rights Movement: 'We've Seen the Enemy and It's White People' 😱

1 week ago News Corpse

Fox News suffered a profound loss when Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump for the presidency….

What are the odds of Facebook Oversight Board letting previous guy back on Wednesday

1 month ago annieli

Likely Trump will continue to be banned from Facebook, but just in case, it is…

What are the odds of Facebook Oversight Board letting previous guy back on Wednesday

1 month ago annieli

Likely Trump will continue to be banned from Facebook, but just in case, it is…

Lazy Days

2 months ago Mastergardener2k

A little over a year ago, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham postured that helping out hungry…

The Colony of Washington, D.C.

2 months ago Mastergardener2k

Statistically, the state with the highest black population by percentage in America is Mississippi; or…

“brushing history against the grain”… what did happen to a purse made from Nat Turner's skin

2 months ago annieli

A new book suggests now the necessity of reexamining the historical materialist project of Walter…

The most viewed death in the history of humankind had its Rodney King moment

2 months ago annieli

“Today, a jury did the right thing. But true justice requires much more.“ x Opinion…

Economics: The Key to Voter Justice

2 months ago William Owens

It is exceedingly disturbing that media outlets are playing the game of ‘Where’s QAnon,’ searching…

Minerva @ Midnight: moderates are merely indecisive liberals/conservatives

3 months ago annieli

Is US progressive politics, especially in cultural issues, incapable of attracting majority support. Not so…

Black Girl Magic

3 months ago William Owens

Black Girl Magic has become the nouveau riche way modern society describes the accomplishments of the…

To: Republicans–the Silent Filibuster is not Governance

3 months ago William Owens

In September of 2013, Republicans attempted to curtail full funding of the Affordable Care Act…

Conservatism is greed and bigotry dressed up as moralistic “principles” like individualistic liberty

3 months ago annieli

Steve Bannon’s path to a pardon included appeals to a range of RWNJ groups including…

Kitchen Table Kibitzing Friday: Beef & Broccoli, Asian Blackness, and a Trappist Monk Gap

3 months ago annieli

“The universe has been to them.” (Resident Alien) Kitchen Table Kibitzing is a community series…

Is Being called a ‘Racist’ the White Man’s N-word?

3 months ago William Owens

Oprah Winfrey’s query of the exiled Royals was a superfluous gesture to most black Americans….

ex-POTUS* noise increasing because something even worse is coming for him and the GQP

3 months ago annieli

Plenty of dimwittedness to share as Trump demands via a cease and desist order that…

Boebert alarmed that gays, lesbians and sweet transvestites will reign supreme with the equality act

4 months ago Pakalolo

“There is nothing about equality in that act! If anything, it’s, the, uh, it’s supremacy of…

A 'second gilded age'? Maybe, but only because recycling ideas is an academic genre

4 months ago annieli

Darn those class commitments, aligning us to our political choices in a democracy, made worse…

You Can’t Have it Both Ways

4 months ago William Owens

If you listen to Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) and conservative media silos, like Fox News,…

MoveOn.org Brings The $15 Minimum Wage Fight To Manchin (D. WV) & Sinema's (D. AZ) Home Turf

4 months ago Sam Sero

Received this e-mail from MoveOn.org: Dear MoveOn member, This is a make-it-or-break-it week for Democrats,…

PA-Lt. Gov: LGBTQ Champion State Rep. Brian Sims (D) Officially Jumps Into The Race For Lt. Governor

4 months ago Sam Sero

Big news today out of Pennsylvania: x After 10 years in the State House, I’ve…

Matthew Dowd dissects the real ills of today’s Republican Party and the insurrection's cause

4 months ago Egberto Willies

Matthew Dowd gets to the core of the reason many participated in the Capitol insurrection….

Biden signs the most extensive and substantive EO on LGBT equality ever by a US President.

5 months ago Pakalolo

From the Human Rights Campaign,  “Biden’s Executive Order is the most substantive, wide-ranging executive order…

“Let's be careful out there” 10 days left.

5 months ago annieli

​Please practice greater situational awareness from January 17 to January 20. We all trust that…

The right is trying to both-sides the MAGA insurrection; here's why that's bullsh*t

5 months ago Aldous Pennyfarthing

Almost immediately after the siege on the Capitol ended, people started both-sidesing the event. You…

On Dec 19, Trump tweeted, “Wait until January 6! It's going to be wild!”

5 months ago annieli

It’s not the Bastille. Trump did incite a riotous mob to disrupt the legislative branch….

“Everybody knows who he is, but they don't know what to do with him” Ole Miss fires a professor

6 months ago annieli

As with most faculty politics, there is a subtext to the story of a professor…

The Lowest Common Denominator

6 months ago William Owens

On March 25, 1965, eleven days after the candles were blown out on my birthday…

H—is for Honor

6 months ago William Owens

Pundits in the media want me to believe that because 74 million people voted for…

Will Trump go down as the worst President ever? (He has some sadly strong competition)

6 months ago RETIII

As each day passes, Trump adds to an already impressive body of evidence arguing that…

GA-Sen A & B: Senator-Elect John Hickenlooper (D. CO) Helps Take Away Moscow Mitch's Majority

6 months ago Sam Sero

Received this e-mail today from  U.S. Senator-Elect John Hickenlooper (D. CO) in support of Jon…

Question: Is D. Trump really any worse than R. Nixon R. Reagan, G.W.H. Bush or G. W. Bush?

7 months ago LaFeminista

This is a view from abroad as I have been an expat since the middle…

Trump tweets fade into the delusion of a 'Lost Cause' presidency

7 months ago annieli

The post-presidential Trumpian revisionist history continues because the grift continues, portending an attempt to attach…

POTUS* does a drive-by waving for the teeming thousand(s) because Joe Biden flipped 5 Trump states

7 months ago annieli

Lemmings, with the Secret Service locked and loaded. Was this also a protest of DC…

Take America to Greatness…

8 months ago William Owens

A bus, traveling from Washington, D.C. to New Orleans, Louisiana, was attacked by a white…