It is patently clear that Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) has lost the fealty, loyalty, or any semblance of respect from his underlings and enemies. As Mr. Cuomo becomes more defiant in his denials of sexual harassment, the Democratic party both locally and nationwide is getting bored with the drama and wants...
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The Democratic Party is once again proving that integrity matters. In recent days, the Governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, has had too very credible charges of sexual harassment levied against him. Couple that with the looming Covid-19 nursing home scandal involving the hiding of data on the numbers of deaths,...
Ann Coulter tells Texas crowd “a second term of Trump would have killed us”: “I'm glad he lost” “It's like he didn't know he was president..” He didn’t. These remain dangerous times, but they will get better. Looking back will always bring salty tears. x Robbie Kaplan, my attorney, is the woman who's going to make...
A “virulently racist” Trump has made the nation seem like Stockholm Syndrome’s identifying with the terrorist, as Mary Trump doesn’t underestimate the Trump family’s vindictiveness. The last question by Rachel Maddow was concern for Mary Trump’s personal safety, now that the book is now generally available; she’s taken precautions. Denial is...
Weinstein was remanded into custody. He also will have to be transported to stand trial in Los Angeles. Harvey Weinstein was convicted of rape and a criminal sexual act in New York, more than two years after allegations against the Hollywood power broker sparked the #MeToo movement. Weinstein, 67, could...
Below are the most anticipated anti-Trump books of 2020 as of Jan 17th 2020 Donald Trump is unfit in almost every respect for the high office he holds. But what distinguishes him from every other bad leader the U.S. has had is that he has repeatedly, egregiously, betrayed his country....
Former Rep. Katie Hill (D-CA.) resigned from Congress so abruptly, that her controversy is simmering and not raging. Two things undergird her anger and the public questions surrounding the MeToo movement, equity, and dare I say, “process.” Lots of talks have been deployed about the process from Republicans over the...
The “Allred Moment.” That’s what Eugene Robinson called it on MSNBC last night, and I couldn’t have put it better meself. Now I know why the guy has a Pulitzer prize on his wall. But it was more than just a pretty bit of word smithing, I happen to think...
I found this Rebecca Traister article critiquing TV pundits. Bottom line: we can do better than sexist white men who are stuck in the past. Traister highlights the usual suspects that many a diary has been written about: Joe Scarborough, Robert Samuelson, and Bret Stephens. But she does bring up...
Two corroborating witnesses, both prominent members of New York’s media establishment, recently came forward in a NY Times podcast to say that E. Jean Carroll called them after Donald Trump allegedly sexually assaulted her in the Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the 1990s. One of them told her to file...
When longtime advice columnist E. Jean Carroll decided to go public in New York magazine with her shocking story of being raped by Donald Trump in a department store dressing room, she was likely prepared to be bullied and attacked by the president and his right-wing defenders. She was probably less prepared...
I may never stop vomiting. The Hill: President Trump said Monday that writer E. Jean Carroll was “totally lying” when she recently accused him of raping her during an encounter in a New York department store in the mid-1990s. In an exclusive interview with The Hill, the president vehemently denied the...
photo: Andrea Miller with Rep. Jackie Speier, House ERA Resolution Lead Sponsor In solidarity with our sisters and brothers around the world, Debra Schrishuhn and Dan O’Neal for Alan, Mike F, Mike H, Janis, Dr Bill, Kimberly, Bryan, and Shayna—your PDA National Team Tell Congress Women Deserve EqualityDemand They Lift...
Overview Since the earliest days of Donald Trump’s Presidency, we have attempted to catalog all of the harmful actions committed by his administration. Furthermore, by categorizing these actions by policy areas and scoring their relative impact, we have attempted to understand how the Administration operates and measure where it’s done...
By Donna Smith, Advisory Board Chair – Progressive Democrats of America It’s been just four short days since Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, HI-2, announced she will make a run for the presidency in 2020. The attacks against her began growing rapidly — many surrounding her early adult, early career, and very...
Every cycle, this is the “Uncle Krusty Show” time for the congress. It’s a unique blending of hubris and rampant indifference. Look what happens every time during a :lame duck” session. You have a combination of incredibly important stuff that has to get done before year’s end, combined with the...
Before we all found out that Brett Kavanaugh was a rapey asshole, we discovered he was just an asshole. When Fred Guttenberg, the father of slain Marjory Stoneman Douglas student Jaime Guttenberg, tried to shake Kavanaugh’s hand early on in the SCOTUS confirmation process, Kavanaugh turned his back, barely acknowledging the...
BlueStarNavyMom3 thought she was being clever with her unauthorized use of her son’s Navy photo to support Trump and the budding #HimToo movement on Twitter. The clap back caused her to delete her post, but KT NELSON preserved it for us. since she deleted it here’s a screenshot. one of the greatest...
From NBC News: Fox News on Thursday fired contributor Kevin Jackson after he called Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and other women “lying skanks” for accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct. Jackson, who has 67,000 followers on Twitter, posted a string of highly offensive tweets over a period...
Patti Davis, Ronald and Nancy Reagan’s daughter, has written an op-ed for The Washington Post in which she recounts being sexually assaulted in the office of a prominent music executive four decades ago. An aspiring songwriter at the time, she was hoping to get her songs in the hands of...
Photos: The U.S. Supreme Court Building, by Joe Ravi • CC BY-SA 3.0 and Kavanaugh at his confirmation hearing in 2004, CSPAN • Public domain By Debra Schrishuhn for Alan, Mike F., Mike H., Dr. Bill, Janis, Dan, Kimberly, Bryan, Donna, Judy, and Shayna—Your PDA National Team Act Now! Help #StopKavanaugh!...
This is why I have no respect for the “credit where credit is due” people. The diaries that celebrate Joe Scarborough for saying the obvious — that Donald Trump is a corrupt cretin. Because when the rubber hits the road these people take the Republican line, one hundred percent. I...
I’m seething a little bit here, because I just listened to Karl Rove on Fox “News” smear the victim. Fox has been constantly reminding people that Brett Kavanuagh’s victim, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, is a registered Democrat. Breitbart jumped in and dug up some dirt on her: she had the audacity to oppose Trump’s child cages,...
GOP strategist Rick Wilson named his new book “Everything Trump touches, dies.” I’ve been calling Trump the “Anti-Midas” for quite a while now, everything he touches turns to shit. Just look at Ronny Jackson. “The Candyman” was as happy as a clam, being a one man pharmacy for the White...
MSNBC just reported (on Lawrence O’Donnell) that somebody familiar with the Kavanaugh letter said it might contain allegations of sexual assault and it might not. Ninety percent of the time (rough estimate) that means the letter contains allegations of sexual assault. I am beginning to think that the American public...
Ryan Grim of The Intercept recently wrote this report on the fact U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) is refusing to release a letter, for whatever reason, that may implicate Brett Kavanaugh, Donald Trump’s appointee to the U.S. Supreme Court seat that was vacated by Anthony Kennedy, in a sexual misconduct...
This will absolutely work, right? BBC “Russia has appointed the US actor Steven Seagal as a special envoy to improve ties with the United States. Seagal was granted Russian citizenship in 2016 and has praised President Putin as a great world leader. (snip) He is also one of the Hollywood stars...
There is a devastating article from Jezebel up about Laura McGann, one of the true heroes of the #metoo movement. She is the woman who wrote the article about Glenn Thrush. Thrush got a two month suspension and a pretty good NYT gig with HUD. McGann is having her career...
This is a really big surprise right? I mean how could this happen? Well, of course it can’t. As a matter of fact somebody who wrote that would not be able to get a job, or even have a word printed, at any mainstream or even marginal publication. The blow...
I actually think a lot of men are having a nervous breakdown over the #metoo. But really, this should not be in the New York Times (or really my idealized version of the New York Times which is now down the rabbit hole). Today’s Brooks column is on the Jordan Peterson...
I am so, so stupid. I really believed we were better. We watched time and time again, when Republicans faced charges of sexual harassment or worse, the horrible tactics used by the right against the accusers. Dig into the accuser’s past — en masse! – to try to find anything you can...