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In what is likely the best admonition of the Right, Jake Tapper presented a clinic…
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Fox News and Greg Gutfeld apparently believes he’s funny enough to go up against late…
A noted piece of work, State Senator Hensley, a Sons of Confederate Veterans member, decided there…
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Darn those class commitments, aligning us to our political choices in a democracy, made worse…
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Donald Trump is ending his presidency the way he began it—as a squishy wad of…
“A 22-year-old self-proclaimed member of the “Boogaloo Bois” movement pleaded guilty on Wednesday to trying…
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The post-presidential Trumpian revisionist history continues because the grift continues, portending an attempt to attach…
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The summary of today's Trump presser: Trump defended Kyle Rittenhouse x Trump actually offers a…
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The White House version of the Sturgis Smash Mouth concert is ready for its hydroxychloroquine treatments…
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This week I attended (remotely) the Rethinking Economics Festival and encountered challenging pluralist discourses like…
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Tom Cotton, the only member of Congress named after his own brain, appeared on Fox…
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Trump went to another COVID “hotspot” and gave an infrastructure speech because it's that week…
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Just when you think we’re not going to go all degenerate art versus official art,…
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Trump wants Confederate spectacles, why else try to attack NASCAR because of its flag ban….
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It is more of a comment on Trump’s “cancel culture” that the Aurora, Colorado police would…
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The problem of Trumpian logic and math is that epidemiology has too many syllables. A…
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After yesterday’s screed on the leftist boogeymen, tonight should lean toward jingoism with the Trumpian…
Apparently Trump thinks there’s something called “new far-left fascism”, whatever that is. Strange how the…
Joe Biden made a statement that the Right-Wing is likely to go wild about. He…
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Now this is fascinating. David Graham argues in the Atlantic that white voters are abandoning…
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Made to order for whenever the national guard(s) and whatever federal riot squads are ready…
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee appeared on Face the Nation this morning, and he made some…
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Trump has just issued an executive order to protect statues. This faux martial law applies…
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There was unrest in Madison Wisconsin and while we’ve gotten used to the idiocy often…
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Unfortunately, a still recovering nation has civil unrest which will be exploited by complicated agendas,…
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Received this e-mail from U.S. Senator Cory Booker’s (D. NJ) re-election campaign: Confederate statues are…
More monuments to oppressors probably need to be removed, just not by force and not…
Received this e-mail yesterday from Mike Espy’s (D. MS) U.S. Senate campaign: Thousands of people…
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Apparently the disinformation default for the GOP is to ridicule the iconoclasm of decommissioning US…
Fucking really?!? U.S. Sen. John Cornyn expressed resistance to the idea of changing the name of Fort…
A lot’s been going on in the news but here’s something you might’ve missed: The…
We are in some strange space where to Ted Cruz, those people taking down monuments…
Republicans were not always Neanderthals when it came to science and climate. In 1901, the…
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As part of the ongoing project to catalog every awful thing the Trump Administration has…
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Salvation is a post-apocalyptic film set in the year 2018. It focuses on the war…
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When Iowa Republican Congressman Steve King lamented that language like “White nationalist, white supremacist, Western…
With the advent of the Trump era, the GOP has already gone all in with…
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OK, look, I know that I’m not the sharpest scalpel on the surgical tray, but…
Dems have a real shot at retaking FL Senate. They just have to ignore consultants who are blowing it
Some people should not be in politics. I’m not talking just about perennial losers like…
Image Attribution: Friends of the Earth By Mike Hersh for Alan, Mike F., Dr. Bill, Deb,…
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I am very happy to receive this e-mail today from the former U.S. Senator and…
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Welcome to what I hope will become a daily feature. This carnival we call the…
Well we’ll see how the Intellectual Dark Web handles this (spoiler alert, they’re going to ignore…
The neo-Nazi violence in Charlottesville has spurred calls around the nation for the removal of…
I watched Flimflam Man Paul Ryan’s CNN town hall last night, and realized that at this…
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Defending the indefensible on Tuesday, President Donald Trump traveled back in time to deploy the…
