Opinion: It is always the Same Story
States’ rights, America first, Make America Great Again, and Freedom. As much as the right-wing tries to bestow nobility on their coded phrases, those buzzwords...
Opinion: The Denial of History Helps No One
"I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black...
Critical Race ‘Theory’ Month
I wonder what happens this coming February; you know, Black History Month. Will the contingent of book banners and people who fear the delicate little...
Wolves in the Democratic Henhouse
In nineteen seventy-four, I reached three milestones in my life. In March of that year, I turned eighteen; ten days later, I registered with selective...
cheeseheads in Wisconsin GOP Assembly vote to end 'patriarchy' by banning its K-12 mention
Beetle-Juice Three Times. Thank Jeebus that cheesehead is not banned from primary and secondary schools in Wisconsin. Because nothing says “Freedom” and “Liberty” like being the...
Yale professor and expert on authoritarianism says 2024 Trump coup is 'underway'
If U.S. democracy falls this century, it will likely be at the hands of a stubby-fingered sack of extra-piquant donkey farts who likely never bothered...
Medicare Advantage is a fraud. Watch what Thom Hartmann exposes before choosing.
Thom Hartmann visits and reveals an inconvenient truth about Medicare and Medicare Advantage and the fraud that is our healthcare system. The first part of...
Thom Hartmann exposes the Medicare Advantage fraud, Democrats blast GOP Afghanistan hypocrisy
Medicare Advantage is a corporate scam and Thom Hartmann makes that clear. Democrats in Congress school Republicans on Afghanistan. Lt. Governor admonished Red State Governors....
Democracy For America CEO Yvette Simpson on the state of our Democracy and the Progressive movement.
Yvette Simpson, CEO of Democracy for America, discussed the structural problems of our Democracy and how the Progressive movement can solve it. Jeff Reese, President...
Bernie Sanders to Joe Manchin on infrastructure: Two bills go together. We're passing them both.
Democratic Senators Joe Manchin and Bernie Sanders visited the Sunday morning programs. Bernie made it clear humaneness demands both bills. The difference between Bernie Sanders...
Has Anyone Ever Asked; Why?
Republicans swing the word freedom over the heads of their voters like the Sword of Damocles. It has become a meaningless mantra, cutting away real...
I Have a (Olympic) Dream
Women and people of color had a unique experience that ended yesterday in Tokyo, Japan. The controversial Summer Olympics closed with America at the top...
Time to Stop Coddling the Children Of America?
As the grandfather of 12 grandchildren, I worry about their safety, health, and lives in this time of excessive gun violence, denial of history, and...
Opinion: Sorting Through the Garbage
I took a moment, in the interest of “fair and balanced” reporting, to tune into Fox News’ coverage of the opening of the 1/6 Committee...
No Shoes, No Shirts, No Shots, No Service
Democrats, since the time of Franklin Roosevelt, have fought the accusation of wanting a Nanny State; equal access to housing, healthcare, fair wages, and education...
Happy Holidays?
The latest rabbit punch thrown by the Republican party in the culture bout was to deny Texas children the truth about women’s suffrage and that...
Installment Plan
Layaway, on-time, and paying-something-down-on-it have been very familiar phrases in black, brown, and poor neighborhoods for generations; credit was for the people who did not...
Joe Biden and Newt Gingrich: the Unlikely Comparison that will help us respond to a more polarizing climate
Before 2016 if you told most Americans that Donald Trump would become president, they would have laughed or thought you were joking. The outspoken businessman...
Intemperate Liar?
There is a lot of media hand-wringing over a little mind with tiny thoughts who has been elevated into a big political voice by the...
Progressives & Dems: Stop being scared about Election 2022. Don’t fall for the Republican poker.
A Politics Done Right viewer's concern about McConnell's threat to withhold Biden Supreme Court nominees forced this important rant on Election 2022. Progressives & Democrats...
The Uighur Genocide
What is the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the words, terrorism? 9/11? ISIS? The Taliban? While these examples are certainly just,...
Black Defense Secretary asked if the military is racist then treated with racist disregard.
Senator Tom Cotton attempted to force the new Black Defense Secretary to claim the military he runs is not racist. He handled him well. Black...
Proud Boy insurrectionist wants out of jail because he has an owie in his back
Donald Trump has ruined a lot of lives. Usually that’s a tragedy. But sometimes it careens mighty close to comedy. Needless to say, those who hitched their...
The backlashes to critical race theory leave scars: racism is never funny, even if ignorance is.
Florida bans its schools from teaching critical race theory On Thursday, Florida's State Board of Education unanimously voted in favor of an amendment banning the...
Truthful Race Theory
For the past few weeks, I have heard from friends, colleagues, and enemies who say, ‘I never heard of ‘ Black Wall Street.’ Statements like...
A Presidential Turning Point
There is no doubt that the year 2020 has been tumultuous, to say the least. With a global pandemic, nationwide protests against police brutality, and...
Previous Guy shines a pile with a revisionist history of his Helsinki beta moment
Previous guy whines with some strange riffs from Mueller Report, likely because of the latest Rudy tape as well as the McGahn testimony. Apparently he...
Living with Uncertainty
Living with the nagging uncertainty of being racially discriminated against and worst not being believed shatters the psyche. The most devastating effects are that people...
The Threats to American Democracy
I don’t know if this statement has been diarized, my apologies, but it bears repeating often, so if anyone missed it. The Threats to American...
The previous guy and his unsteamed pants, 'wasting away again in Mar-a-Lagoville'
More gaslight: Trump's speech Saturday in North Carolina was one being delivered by the person who incited an act of terrorism designed to overturn the...
How Much is Too Much?
If it were a perfect world, I would like to think that the most recent attacks on young black millionaires are just a coincidence. In...
Tulsa's Mayor fails as Tiffany Cross and her panel make economic & moral cases for reparations.
This edited segment was the most powerful on Tiffany Cross's Cross Connection. It completely addresses the moral and economic reasons for reparations. Tiffany Cross uses...
Previous guy's an alien, “…because when you're a star they let you do it”
Former President Trump ordered the Pentagon to release all of its information on "unidentified aerial phenomena" (UAP) within 18 days in his last coronavirus relief bill...
Disagreements cancel Monday's main event commemorating the Tulsa race massacre of 1921.
Critical Race Practice. Organizers have canceled plans for an afternoon of speeches and performances commemorating the centennial on Monday of the Tulsa massacre. This reminds us...
Congressman threatens the government, Linda Curtis of League of Independent Voters speak.
Linda Curtis of the League of Independent Voters of Texas: We need a new political paradigm. Matt Gaetz getting wilder as he threatens the government....
The Man who Killed Republican Politicking
Once Senator Mitch McConnell staked out the politically uncompromising GOP opposition to ‘everything’ Democrats proffered, during the Obama administration, the redline was drawn. Slowly but...
Redistricting and Representation
The addition of the 1982 amendments to the Voting Rights Act was a turning point in terms of minority representation. Redistricting is the process of...
RWNJs are workshopping the false dichotomy of 1619/1776 in advance of the mid-term elections.
These are days fraught with political battles over cultural histories abjuring complexity. Today it’s The Wall Street Journal and the reactionary path to critical race theory,...
Rick Wilson: Marjorie Taylor Greene is 'the heart and soul of the Republican Party'
The devolution of the Republican Party has been a sight to behold—but it’s been a particularly fraught experience for ex-Republicans. I know if the Democrats...
Godwin’s Law, MTG and the GOP
The simplest explanation for lawyer Michael Godwin’s law is that the longer a debate or disagreement extends, it will eventually devolve into an unfounded comparison...
Charlie McCarthy's cousin Kevin is not “feckless” as Taylor Greene gets rebuked
Kevin McCarthy Just Tried To Blame Nancy Pelosi For Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Holocaust Remarks…. because he’s not feckless, but he’s still a blockhead. Marjorie is wrong,...
Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweeping down the Critical Race theory
Oklahoma’s right-wing politicians would like to erase history because that’s what they do, whether it’s the omission of facts or rewriting them to favor those...
This is What Trump Expected the First Time…
Meandering nonsense highlighted by searches for bamboo fibers, and official lies issued from Mar-a Lago, are exactly what Donald Trump expected to be doing in...
WITCH HUNT! Trump's Victim-Whining Over the Criminal Probe in New York Shows How Scared He Is
Throughout the one-term presidency of Donald Trump, he has been implicated in numerous criminal activities. They include making hush money payments to porn porn stars,...
The Truth is an Easier Master to Serve
Voter rights legislation is winding its way through Congress with the foregone conclusion that Senate Republicans will scuttle it. Equitable voting rights legislation for blacks...
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How/Why Unilateral Disengagement became an Oppressive/Enforced Segregation [In defence of AOC].
Some historical terms should not be used lightly. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez used the term Apartheid to describe the Israel/Palestine reality, this shocked some people. I hate...
My Race is an Issue
Most things in America are solved by either common sense, solemnity, or time. The one exception is race. Historically both the Democratic and Republican party...
Interviews like Ayman Mohyeldin and Israeli ambassador show the importance of diversity.
MSNBC Host Ayman Mohyeldin interviewed Israeli ambassador Mark Regev. The substance of the interview illustrates why diversity in the news is important for us all....
What Irony: a Cheney being punished for the truth
The Republican members of the House of Representatives convened their star chamber this morning and ousted the most conservative member of their caucus. GOP House...
Liz Cheney and the “calm before the storm.”
As Liz Cheney faces the near certain guillotine, she gave a defiant speech today (with all the points you would expect). What I noticed was...
