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Trump has told aides he wants to pardon himself, and he reportedly enjoyed the scenes of rioting

Not sure how this will fly after yesterday’s events, but here it is. The worst person in the country wants to grant himself clemency—because if you want a job done right, you have to do it yourself. Plus, everyone else thinks he’s a lunatic now. (Join the club, obsequious idiots.) The...

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  • January 7, 2021
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Trump finally signs the COVID relief bill, and hallucinates a line-item veto.

Trump’s staff may have tricked him into thinking he has a line-item veto. Attention-seeking becomes purer for the desperate POTUS*. Trump dithered because he thinks that improves an “unpredictability” brand that shines the turd of incompetence. Trying to make indecisiveness a fashion statement only works when horseshoes are hand grenades. One...

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  • December 28, 2020
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Trump claims “Democrats will abolish the suburbs”, religion, and something, something

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In his latest screed, Trump made the usual nonsense claims, hoping to gain support from independents who might be afraid of PoC and poor people. Because no one’s heard of the FHA, Trump wants people in McMansions to vote for him, even if his claims about higher home prices is more about...

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  • July 29, 2020
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in an economic restart, the GOP gets a national chicken pox party, and even more people could perish

The GOP’s goal is more about being reelected rather than economic recovery, and their tacit promotion of RW resistance through gun rallies is only a first step “back to normal”. This is happening even if they also tolerate attacks on science by pseudo-scientific propaganda like Vaxxed or Plandemic. Unfortunately, the...

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  • May 13, 2020
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Things really important to me

First an apology. My post yesterday on my decision to vote for Warren (which I did at about 9:45 AM) and to contribute to her campaign ($100 online) was my first posting here in more than a month. Some may remember that in mid-November I suffered a stroke, later had...

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  • February 23, 2020
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Wile E Bolton. Supergenius!

I don’t much like John Bolton. I don’t like his politics, I don’t like his superior attitude, I don’t like his opinions, I don’t like his free abandon to send other peoples sons and daughters to war, and I don’t like that goddamn mustache, which mostly looks like something you’d...

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  • January 28, 2020
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We always knew they would be first.

Tacloban, the Philippines, in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan

The horrors of climate change are unfolding around the world with smothering heatwaves, agricultural losses from flooding, and drought — higher storm surge along with powerful and deadly cyclonic windstorms armed with heavy rainfall and wildfire. The United States and other developed nations experience every single impact listed, we do....

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  • December 13, 2019
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Honoring Progressive Shero Judy Hess

photo: Judy Hess Leading For Justice Or Bust In solidarity,  Mike Hersh for Alan, Mike F., Bryan, Kim, Dr. Bill, Dan, Janis, and Deb—your PDA National Team Help Honor Progressive Shero Judy Hess   Judy Hess—force of nature, longtime Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) National Field Coordinator, Vice Chair of...

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  • October 20, 2019
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Weekly Recap: Missing From The Debates and More!

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photo: right: Homeless Man In Boston by Enver Rahmanov • CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped In solidarity,  Mike Hersh for Alan, Mike F., Dan, Janis, Deb, Dr. Bill, Kimberly, and Bryan—your PDA national team. We Demand Questions About Poverty And Homelessness And A Complete Debate On The Climate Emergency   If...

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  • October 19, 2019
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We Just Endorsed 14 Progressive Champions!

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photo: 14 Progressive Champions in the People’s House In solidarity,  Alan Minksy for Mike F., Mike H., Deb, Kimberly, Bryan, Dr. Bill, Dan, and Janis—your PDA national team. PDA Endorses 14 Progressive ChampionsPlease Support PDA’s Win 2020 Action Fund   We founded Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) to change politics...

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  • October 19, 2019
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CNN’s Shame: No Questions on Poverty or the Climate Emergency

photo: (right: Homeless Man In Boston Enver Rahmanov • CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped) In solidarity, Alan Minsky for Mike F., Mike H., Dan, Janis, Deb, Dr. Bill, Kimberly, and Bryan—your PDA national team. Tell The DNC And The News Networks:We Need Debates About The Real World!Questions About Poverty And HomelessnessA Complete Debate...

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Post-Debate Musings: Bernie’s Heart and His Courage Just Fine with Me

By Donna Smith Fifteen days from now I will know what it’s like to have Medicare coverage. For the past 64 years and 11 months, I have been at the mercy of a for-profit insurance and health system that doesn’t forgive illness or injury and never forgets my age.  Since...

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  • October 17, 2019
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musings on various topics

at the close of the 2nd of a 3 day break from teaching. It is hard not to be angry and even worse at what is happening right now in Northern Syria. As I told my students, the current occupant of the Oval Office broke no laws in the decisions...

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  • October 13, 2019
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Idiot Twitterer Attacks Greta for Eating a Vegan Salad while Riding a Train, Gets Schooled…

One of the great things about being on Twitter is the opportunity to read what influential journalists, politicians, and just regular folks whose opinions you’ve come to value think about the issues of the day, in practically real time. Another benefit is being able to interrupt the brainless musings of...

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  • September 26, 2019
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The Party of Reagan: Back to the Future

One of the most overused talking points of the Republican Party is calling themselves the “party of Lincoln.”  Because too much of America has no sense of historical nuance, explaining that Lincoln would be a Democrat today is useless and I have ceased trying years ago. The switch of the...

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  • August 2, 2019
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Don't touch that dial.

Don't touch that dial Those of you who check in on me regularly, like a parent whose kid has the measles, know that is one of my favorrte pet phrases. I use it to end an article when I have a srong feeling that I'll be circling back around to...

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