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A few years ago, I wrote the piece titled “Boomers Must Take Some Blame And…
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Those committed to truth and facts must fight five times harder than the Republicans and their lies.
It depresses me to acknowledge this, but the Republicans’ commitment to blatant and serial lying, and Orwellian…
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President Trump and his Republican sycophants are the masters of projection. It turns out voter…
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It’s a sign of the times that Liz Cheney had to explain herself: I disagree…
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At home with my elder five sisters I very soon learnt that freedom of speech…
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That is one line that jumped out at me from this Washington Post opinion piece…
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Well, actually, he’s a Badger, not a duck. I was born in Wisconsin and currently…
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Darn those class commitments, aligning us to our political choices in a democracy, made worse…
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No, not by the US but by that jolly benevolent Empire of the British. Of…
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Let’s hope he does another two-hour snore-fest speech. “Trump to speak at CPAC conference in…
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Texas is the coalmine canary of failures in the GQP’s industrial policy. The “clusterfuzzle” appears…
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I know many don’t read Bruni’s column in the NYT, often for good reason, but…
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For much of the world’s history, we have been ruled by violence and its descendants….
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Of all the depredations Donald Trump has exposed my tender, guileless soul to, making me feel…
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“Can anyone honestly say that if some of those in the mob with zip ties,…
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As Climate Crisis returns to the new US administration agenda, negative emissions technologies (NETs) may…
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NY-Sen: Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D), “House will send impeachment article to Senate on Monday”
From CNN: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said that the House's article of impeachment will…
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the Diet Coke button's gone, Trump is golfing in Florida, and Kevin McCarthy tries to revise history
More Charlie than Kevin, McCarthy now tries to polish a turd about the insurrection, tiptoeing…
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not a lot of time but plenty of evidence, just like the last impeachment if 45 gets “more unstable”?
Impeachment and insurrection part deux on deck for next week, even as there’s now mixed…
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Twitter has finally and permanently suspended @realDonaldTrump from its platform. Bye Felicia. x After close review of…
Suddenly, we’re all talking about the felony murder doctrine. Broadly, that’s a legal principle stating…
A prepared Stacey Abrams did not allow This Week host to create a false equivalence…
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rMoney finds that conscience like a visually impaired squirrel. Mitt Romney says, "The egregious ploy…
There are now so many pardon requests there’s a spreadsheet for them, but Trump’s so…
“An incompetent coup, a clown coup, a ludicrous coup, a ridiculous coup – these are all still coups”
Counting coup involves winning prestige against an enemy rather than doing serious damage. We’re now way…
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This story supports a group reading of Karl Marx’s Capital Vol 1. #GoodMorningMarx #WeeklyMarx This…
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Here’s the latest news today out of Georgia courtesy of Emerson College’s latest poll: The…
Admittedly I had a choice of two The snake-oil-salesman from New York Crazy Uncle Snowflake…
Mother Jones has a great piece about the Alaska U.S. Senate race between incumbent U.S….
“Trump's odds of victory will decrease rather quickly, absent a sharp increase in his poll…
Yale Environment 360 notes “just as global warming has propelled the Arctic Ocean past a…
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“Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.” Trump’s betrayal has come from a…
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Black people get that question put to us a lot more often than you would…
What are these assholes even talking about? Now, I knew they’d be pricks about this…
President Obama has weighed in on the passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the confirmation…
U.S. Senate candidate, Jon Ossoff (D. GA), recently did an interview with Q Magazine and…
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In his latest screed, Trump made the usual nonsense claims, hoping to gain support from independents…
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This week I attended (remotely) the Rethinking Economics Festival and encountered challenging pluralist discourses like…
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Today in disinformation: the plan continues to be no plan, increasing our information search-costs. The…
Former GOP Congresswoman Claudine Schneider represented Rhode Island’s 2nd District from 1981-1991. She is also…
GOP spokeswoman Liz Harrington slams Joe Biden because he had the nerve to paraphrase the…
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If you ever get annoyed, look at me I’m self employed. I love to work at nothing…
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Received this e-mail today from former presidential candidate, Andrew Yang, in support of former Vice…
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee appeared on Face the Nation this morning, and he made some…
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The oceans are really what tells you how fast the Earth is warming. Using the…
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Oceans water column is heating faster than predicted, screwing any efforts to slash CO2 and methane.
The oceans are really what tells you how fast the Earth is warming. Using the…
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Having it both ways, Trump signs Uighur sanction on China yet approved of Uighur concentration camps
Trump got stuck dealing with his approval of Uighar concentration camps while also signing their…
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If they had taken over the city, Boeing and Amazon would have already been nationalized/syndicalized, so…
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#BunkerBoy remains in the White House today hiding behind his #Babygate. x Many people say…
