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There’s a huge, grim, sprawling crisis unfolding right now in the U.S. And by that I mean, Donald Trump may not get the warm sendoff he’d hoped for. x The president is … Read More
If Marco Rubio really wants to upbraid people who have lied and been disingenuous about COVID-19, he doesn’t have to look far. For instance, there’s Donald Trump, who told Bob Woodward … Read More
Received this e-mail today from the progressive organization, Our Revolution: Michelle Sanchez is an Our Revolution leader doing critical work in Gwinnett County, Georgia who joined Our Revolution’s national organizing … Read More
From The St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Gov. Mike Parson proceeded with an event at a state office building last month after staff warned his office of a cluster of COVID-19 cases … Read More
Received this e-mail today from the Pennsylvania Democratic Party: Hey folks, The weather is cool and crisp. The foliage is gorgeous. And Democrats all over PA are making a triumphant … Read More
Now they’re just making things up. US Department of Justice designates #NYC as an anarchist jurisdiction. Seattle and Portland OR are also on the list because a couple of blocks in … Read More
In a scene that may eerily replicate the mass evacuations that occurred with Hurricane Rita in 2005, residents in the same area are warned to flee the coasts of Texas … Read More
who has not only failed at everything before he became President, but also at all responsibilities he has been given in this administration, for example Middle East Peace managing the … Read More
Stay the course. Wear a mask. GOTV. Camera. Television. The whole world is watching. x My new video: #AmericasGreatestMistake We need 10,000 retweets in two hours. Please remember you can retweet … Read More
I am so Trumped outraged out until I am having to color my hair more often because every day another bunch of grey pops over the color. HOW STUPID IS … Read More
Live Blog below … looks like Trump will be late, sliding into the old habit, so much for that “new tone”. x Trump says he made this decision even though lots … Read More
The oceans are really what tells you how fast the Earth is warming. Using the oceans, we see a continued, uninterrupted, and accelerating warming rate of planet Earth. This is … Read More
The oceans are really what tells you how fast the Earth is warming. Using the oceans, we see a continued, uninterrupted, and accelerating warming rate of planet Earth. This is … Read More
Jared Kushner, wonder boy, prince of darkness, the “jar” part of Jarvanka, is getting some really bad press right now. Not about his many failures and his total unfitness for … Read More
Jared Kushner’s Air Bridge may have worked to not only expedite delivery of PPE, but also failed to deliver by perhaps hoarding an as yet unaccounted amount of PPE materiel. Slender Man … Read More
What do you have to lose, except your money and your life. 18,000 lies can’t be wrong. Trump inherited Obama's recovered economy and when Trump faced a serious challenge, chose … Read More
Memorial Day is hard anytime. A time of rememberance and for military and vet families, it is very hard along with many holidays. This year is even more trying. We … Read More
Boo Fucking Hoo: Insurance agent Jo Rae Perkins won the GOP nomination by a landslide earlier this week to run against Sen. Jeff Merkley, a Democrat. Part of her voter … Read More
Are Fox News personalities in such a hermetically closed off alternate universe that they’re literally unaware of the daily fire hose of bullshit coming from the White House on all … Read More
Jared Kushner’s Air Bridge may have worked to not only expedite delivery of PPE, but also failed to deliver by hoarding an as yet unaccounted amount of PPE materiel. Trump … Read More
People have now discovered that the Obama administration left the Trump administration a detailed pandemic response playbook, so there’s only one thing to do: Release the lying monkeys! Lie, my … Read More
Political Wire posted one story at the top of its front page and another to the side: the first says Pence Self-Isolating After Aide Tests Positive for Coronavirus, while the … Read More
Elizabeth Spiers, who now serves as chief executive of the Insurrection, a progressive digital messaging firm, once worked for Jared Kushner as editor-in-chief of the New York Observer, a newspaper Boy Kush … Read More
There’s only six months left in ‘Trump Time’, so the continuum is still safe, so far. Profiteering and looting might be less safe in the interim. Already under fire for his role … Read More
Waiting for de jure to be impaneled in a time of tactical chaos, free of strategic thinking, Jared Kushner is Slender Man, de facto POTUS* of the not-so-deep, shallow state. “Jared … Read More
I still think there’s about a 10 percent chance that I crashed my bicycle into a falafel stand in 2015, died of my injuries, went to hell, and this has … Read More
Live Blog below It wound up being the same as the COVID Taskforce briefing, turning into a campaign speech with the same talking points, mentioning Biden more, and lying about … Read More
Having spectacularly failed to deliver on every POTUS’ tacit promise that he wouldn’t try to kill us all, Donald Trump is desperately trying to keep one of his oldest and … Read More
Go down with the ship: When Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) moved to draw the line on sending further coronavirus aid for hard-hit state and local governments on Wednesday, … Read More
LIVE BLOG below 5:30* PM EDT *(rarely starts on time) Members of the Coronavirus Task Force Hold a Press Briefing The White House Trump may try to double down today, … Read More
Hey, Donald Trump is going to be sending the Blue Angels out to do flyovers in honor of doctors and nurses! Mere weeks after sending the Angel of Death! Wow, he … Read More
Shakedowns of materiel like PPEs that demonstrate abuses of federal power are now de rigueur and should not be confused with fiscal policy or even neoliberal austerity. Disaster hides much venality. It’s … Read More
Kudos to Julia Conley at Common Dreams for capturing this: Three weeks after government watchdogs demanded the resignation of U.S. Sens. Kelly Loeffler and Richard Burr following reports that both … Read More
This article first appeared on Up North Progressive on April 15, 2020 Today the sheriffs of four counties in the northern lower peninsula of Michigan issued a press release stating they would … Read More
Escape (to) Wisconsin (and Michigan and Pennsylvania): Trump campaign hypes sinophobic anti-Biden ads because that’s what 2020 in the swing states will be about. Because a squinting Biden with this … Read More
A leaked CDC/FEMA draft plan tries to triage mitigation efforts, commodifies immunity without testing, and attempts to divert attention from Trump’s missteps. In the interim, swab and PPE shortages may be contributing … Read More
…Fear will keep the local systems in line.” By his own admission, Trump is always fighting someone on behalf of Americans — Congress, scientists, courts, foreign countries, Democrats, even his … Read More
I write this from my experience this week. My husband was doing some regular chores around the house Wednesday and nothing seemed wrong at all. I had asked our daughter … Read More
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Ed Markey’s (D. MA) re-election campaign: Last month, I called on President Trump to immediately begin using the Defense Production Act to produce … Read More
The last surviving prosecutor at Nuremberg trials said Trump's family separation policy is a 'crime against humanity'. Then there’s this COVID pandemic, made worse by the Trump administration’s delay, denial, and dysfunction. • US arcing up … Read More
New Trump Covid-19 taskforce briefing It started early today, as it tends to on Saturdays, Sunday will likely start later. x Wow Trump, who says he tested negative for virus … Read More
“I feel like more than anything, we’re just trying to keep our people in some state of calm as we daily put out these bleak circumstances, these bleak numbers. We’re … Read More
Trumpian incompetence continues with number-rigging, even as actual facts get presented by scientists. In today’s presser, he worked in campaign rally rhetoric including softball answers about his impeachment in order to attack Democrats. x … Read More
Thank God I stocked up on weed. From Donny’s Daily Disinfo Dance Party: x “How do you go from 10 to 20 to 30,000, to 300,000 — even though this is … Read More
FUBAR’s definition is – thoroughly confused, disordered, damaged or ruined x America First is the Trump campaign slogan pic.twitter.com/KwGTOnWoDm — Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) March 29, 2020 x All these right-wingers kept … Read More
Live Blog below. This time it’s from the Rose Garden. Likely it’ll start at 545 or 6pm ET. We are near the end of the touted Trump 15-day period. More likely … Read More
Live stream at www.whitehouse.gov/… If it happens, liveblog just to see if there’ll be yet another idiotic remark. x How many American deaths will you be responsible for in this episode?— Cheri … Read More
Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear made it official: Beshear said all “non-life-sustaining” businesses must close to in-person traffic by Thursday evening. Exactly which businesses will be affected wasn't immediately clear Beshear’s earlier actions … Read More
Remember when Donald Trump, instead of taking the bull by the horns and helping our fellow Americans in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria, decided to throw paper towels at them, … Read More
Pence (and Mother) will be tested now that one of his staff has contracted COVID-19. Trump continues his inaction on using the Defense Production Act (DPA) during a national emergency. … Read More
