Time after time, succeeding presidents have followed less than stellar Republican administrations feeling obligated to bestow forgiveness. Richard Nixon masterminded a crime, known to every police drama watcher as B&E, breaking and entering. Nixon was disgracefully relegated to the dustbin of history, but that dustbin was a mansion off the...
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“Quit being so emotional, Elaine, it’s not about the people, it’s about the money.” Mick Mulvaney to Elaine Duke, acting director of Homeland security in 2017. Of course, he did. Some news outlets stated that he was joking, where have we heard that canard before? If we have learned anything...
“Quit being so emotional, Elaine, it’s not about the people, it’s about the money.” Mick Mulvaney to Elaine Duke, acting director of Homeland security in 2017. Of course, he did. Some news outlets stated that he was joking, where have we heard that canard before? If we have learned anything...
Oh yeah: President Trump’s advisers are increasingly concerned about Senator Kelly Loeffler’s campaign in Georgia, a newly competitive state where the president’s own poll numbers have tightened against former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., according to people briefed on the discussions. Ms. Loeffler, a financial services executive with no...
x At #KremlinAnnex tonight. pic.twitter.com/SyopNF9d53 — Melissa Barlow (@LiteraryMouse) November 24, 2019 x PutinâÂÂs Puppet? – Yes! Treason45? – Absolutely! Impeachment? – Yes, please!!!Protest tonight? – 7:30 pm!Rain or shine? – Rain, unfortunately!âÂÂ︠pic.twitter.com/JmC01gPmTW — Kremlin Annex (@KremlinAnnex) November 23, 2019 x Have you read about our team yet? âÂÂï¸Âðºð¸...
As part of the ongoing project to catalog every awful thing the Trump Administration has done as a reference for future political arguments and whatever few posterity survives to see 2020, here’s everything awful the Trump Administration has done this week. ____________________________________________________________________________ 1403. Moved to close 9 civilian conservation centers 1404. Used...
Yep. This pretty much says it all: x being a bad negotiator is not a national emergency — Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) February 14, 2019 Shaub was the director of the Office of Government Ethics during the Obama administration, and he’s been outspoken about Trump’s glaring lack of ethics — namely...
Medicare For All Briefing On Capitol Hill By Mike Hersh for Alan, Mike F., Dr. Bill, Janis, Dan, Deb, Kimberly, Bryan, and Shayna—Your PDA National Team Hitting The Streets, The Suites, The Phones, And The Internet—Let’s Make Some Noise! This past week we were focused on building support for Medicare for...
By Mike Fox for Mike H., Donna, Dr. Bill, Janis, Dan, Deb, Kimberly, Bryan, and Shayna—Your PDA National Team Hitting The Streets, The Suites, The Phones, And The Internet. Let’s Make Some Noise! Another intensely busy week in PDA land. But then, when you’re battling Trumpco’s insanity, there’s no time waste! This...
photo: Throwback: PDA on Capitol Hill—Support Our Organizing By Mike Hersh for Mike F., Donna, Judy, Dr. Bill, Janis, Dan, Deb, Kimberly, Bryan, and Shayna—Your PDA National Team Tell Your Senators Vote No On Trump Extremist Supreme Court Nominee Tell Congress To Protect Internet Freedom This week, Progressive Democrats of America...
Things are… not going well in Spain right now. How to breed an infertile, mentally disabled king, who soils himself regularly, and sparks a regional war with his death. First, a little history. Some three hundred years ago, what is now that little pointy bit that constitutes the northeast corner of...
So, one of the questions that is on a lot of people’s mind lately is whether there’s any way that the Republican Party could somehow divest themselves of Trump at the self-declaredly Trump-themed convention in Cleveland. Well, the short answer is yes, they can. That’s the opinion of Curly Hoagland,...
The meeting lasted well into the night, with the campus paper Daily Bruin unable to get a report out until after 11:30 PM Tuesday night. The final vote was 8 For, 2 Against, and 2 Abstentions. Details and links after the Orange Cloud of Celebration.
No, this isn't a War Diary. So you can feel free to read on. If anything, this is a Peace Diary. Because it explains how you can help to be a force for Peace, Human Rights, and Dignity for an oppressed People who have been forced to live as stateless...