Joe Biden and Newt Gingrich: the Unlikely Comparison that will help us respond to a more polarizing climate
Before 2016 if you told most Americans that Donald Trump would become president, they would have laughed or thought you were joking. The outspoken businessman...
Minerva @ Midnight: “Working towards the Previous Guy”, rolling up his lackeys
Fear and loathing rises in the land of previous guy. The raid on Giuliani’s apartment and office netted the Feds 10 devices, laptops and phones. According...
everybody's not kung-fu fighting, as Ook and Gluk get 86'd for 'passive racism' (whatever that is)
Not a victory for cancellation as perhaps poorly vetted stereotypes best left for an era when Bruce Lee couldn’t be chosen for the lead of a...
“Their stupid is always bigger than their evil” in an ex-POTUS's hope for military coup
Banana Republic is not yet a bankrupt concept in America, although it is being sorely tested. Trump’s 1/6 coup counted on the numbers of RWNJs...
23.5% of Adult Americans Have Been Vaccinated
The Center for Disease Control reports that more than 60 million Americans have received at least one shot of Covid vaccine which equals 18.1% of...
GOP congressional candidate howls 'Boycott Target' hours after whining about 'cancel culture'
Consistency really isn’t their thing, is it? In the last election cycle, Tom Norton, a once and future candidate for Congress, challenged “RINO” Peter Meijer...
Ted Cruz tells us the air speed of an unladen Swallow… FREEDOM
Ted Cruz is becoming even further unhinged, as if there will be an insanity defense for sedition. Because he actually thinks he’s funny, like a...
After the Capitol Putsch, will Trump publish a book about “My Struggle”
There was a putsch; will Trump return for a revival after crashing the Hindenberg. https://twitter.com/allwritenow/status/1359122161252921344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Editors, publishing agents and authors have signed-up to a letter...
Putin's Palace (the dubbed version) soon may look for its next Trump (it's not Junior)
Lots of events happening even if they’re all quite chaotic in the Russian Federation. Numerous anti-Putin demonstrations in the middle of winter. and some mysterious...
Cancel Culture, Give me a Break
The use of the two-word phrase cancel-culture has become an evasion tactic analogous to the words race-card. Both of these media memes have become an...
maskless Rand Paul sworn as juror, claims 45 GOP senators believe the trial is unconstitutional
Mitch McConnell’s mini-me does his usual reactionary foolishness as the Senators are sworn in for the second Trump trial. “In a 55 to 45 vote...
WSJ columnist thinks our future FLOTUS should be called 'kiddo' instead of 'Dr. Jill Biden'
On a day when Trumpite dead-enders vigorously blasphemed out of pretty much every orifice (I kinda wanted to show up to their faux-Christian pity party...
Anti-Capitalist MeetUp Open Thread
I recently came across a typical Twitter argument about the CIA promoting modern art as propaganda. The usual distorting tweet-discourse occurred but what remained are somewhat paranoid discussions of...
“…democracies suffer from post-electoral violence due to the delay in the publishing of results”
Discovery and disinformation are ahead as RWNJs are looking for reasons to overturn the election, but are perhaps more about grifting. The reality remains that...
Twitter will no longer carve out exceptions for Trump after he's gone; will he be deplatformed?
Donald Trump has violated Twitter’s terms of service God knows how many times. He glorifies violence, makes unhinged threats, spreads disinformation (including bizarre and dangerous conspiracy theories),...
Welcome to the Gutenberg Editor
Of Mountains & Printing Presses The goal of this new editor is to make adding rich content to WordPress simple and enjoyable. This whole post...
ME-Sen: “How my former boss Susan Collins (R) broke my heart – and lost my support”
A former member of U.S. Senator Susan Collins’ (R. ME) staff released a very compelling op-ed piece in the Press Herald where she talks about...
Anti-Capitalist Meetup: is there a “fully unexploited luxury socialism”
This week I attended (remotely) the Rethinking Economics Festival and encountered challenging pluralist discourses like a platform economy (noting that most of such work is...
Our climate destiny is grim after 25 top climate scientists rule out best case scenarios.
I keep vigil. I wish I knew how to get people to care, but we seem determined to kill ourselves and ignore all of the code...
Silly Season: Bari Weiss self-expels from the NY Times, because the right people didn't get fired
Of many conservatives who write on the editorial side of the NY Times, the tenure of Bari Weiss was uneven with mainly meta-commentary, but apparently...
This new Donald Trump Jr. book cover is eminently mockable
xDo you think we should tell @DonaldJTrumpJr that there’s a typo on his book cover? He means “the Democrats’ defense of the indefensible.†pic.twitter.com/SVSEiThDjn— Garrett...
would you sign this letter or would your signature depend on who else signed it
Here’s A Letter on Justice and Open Debate in Harpers July 7, 2020. The usual contingencies apply considering that some of the signatories have serious issues...
CHAZ/CHOP is dead, long may it live
CHAZ/CHOP is over but not gone, even if it lasted not as long as the Paris Commune. Ultimately it remains about power and autonomy. Basta...
Judge refuses to block Mary Trump's tell-all book about the ocher abomination
I would gouge my own eyes out with a Swiss Army knife corkscrew, have new eyes surgically implanted in my head, and then gouge those...
'No offence but that of negritude'
NOTE: I would like to apologize for the use of some archaic language and painfully explicit descriptions in what follows. Difficult as it is to...
Economic cratering on the 2021 horizon as Goldilocks got the Stormy Daniels treatment by Trump
Continuing the Trump economy described initially as “just right” for a second term is more Red Riding Hood than Goldilocks. Where “what was originally a...
Trump wants to shut down Twitter and national economic forecasts … what a day!
Trump looks for another distraction using the Twitter fact-check of his misinformation, hunting for some lawfare disruption, even as he withholds economic forecasts. Can’t fact...
Hackers threaten to release Trump's 'dirty laundry' unless they're paid ransom
To be clear, I do not condone this. Not at all. And, unlike Trump, if someone came to me with this kind of information, I’d...
New Marquette Poll Has Joe Biden Leading Trump In Wisconsin 48-45
Since the Wisconsin Primary is coming up next Tuesday, Marquette University’s latest poll reminds us how much of a role Wisconsin will play in the...
It's a Friedman Unit Election: Bloomberg has the 'Right Stuff'
Not having listened to a random taxi driver, Thomas Friedman comes out for the anti-Bernie ‘radical middle’, because money talks at least for six months....
Trump's disinformation in local media this year may deploy Potemkin local news sites
The Trump campaign’s media strategy will more directly address “local news” that at some moment might trade on the same model of Sinclair Broadcasting. Brad...
96% of Iowa caucus results has Buttigieg ahead of Sanders by 0.3% in state delegate equivalents
IDP Caucus 2020 Results 96% reporting (1686 of 1765 precincts) Candidate SDE National Delegates Bennet 0 - Biden 327.578 - Bloomberg 0.21 - Buttigieg 549.074 -...
Journalist David Cay Johnston: Why Trump tax cut is really a tax increase with interest.
The report is out on Donald Trump's tax cut and it is not pretty. Just as we expected it helped corporations and not the people....
Russian support for Rudy's “investigations” in Ukraine also included disinformation
A new Washington Post article describes the mechanics of disinformation underlying portions of the smear campaign to which Rudy Giuliani claimed credit as a private...
Don Jr: “How can Democrats beat Trump if they can't boot Sean Spicer from DWTS?”
For some Trumpers, not even the spawn is racist enough for some of its followers in 2020. Still early days, but Trumpism may be in...
Breitbart Follows Don Jr. in Outing Whistle Blower and Lewandowski Can’t Wait to Retweet Them.
Welp, it didn’t take long for Breitbart to join the parade of potential felons in publishing the name of the purported NSC whistle blower, after Russian...
Vlad’s Boys, Vlad’s Boys—Whatcha Gonna Do…
On July 27, 2016 Donald Trump asked the Russians to help him defeat Hillary Clinton. The infamous comment by Mr. Trump was “I will tell...
Remember that scathing anonymous NYT op-ed from a Trump insider? The author has a new book
Ooh, boy. Trump is going to lose whatever scintilla of a mind he has left. The senior Trump administration official who wrote that anonymous (and utterly...
Here’s What’s Phony – RW Content Masquerading as Local Newspaper Websites.
The Constitution and the emoluments clause are not phony, but dozens of websites pretending to be local newspaper sites are: Lansing State Journal “LANSING...
D.C. press whitewashes its role in 2016 email fiasco after State Department exonerates Clinton
Page 16 and 649 words. That’s how The New York Times treated the recent news that a years-long State Department investigation concluded there was no systemic or...
Biden Comms Director Shreds NY Times for Op-Ed by “a “discredited right-wing polemicist.”
In a two page letter to NY Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet, Biden Campaign Comms Director Kate Bedingfield slammed the paper for amplifying Don the Con’s phony controversy against...
Trump's stock market lies prevent it from growing because it's Moloch's fault
If you believe that Individual-1 has altruistically helped the US stock market since inauguration, you might believe we Democrats worship Moloch, just like we treat the free market...
Trump tariffs 'could result in a Bible shortage'
Well, that’s karma — or whatever the Christian equivalent of karma is. Eternal perdition? Because that’s what they’ve given us ... So now this is happening:...
Shame on The New York Times!
Buck-buck-BUCKAW! The New York Times Well, that was a breath of fetid air. The New York Times just announced that it has made the decision to remove political...
AL-Sen: Sen. Doug Jones (D) Demands Resignation Of Newspaper Editor Who Called For Return Of KKK
Damn straight: Alabama Sen. Doug Jones (D) called for the resignation of a local newspaper editor for publishing a "disgusting" editorial urging the return of the Ku...
It's a retirement party!
That’s right, I’m throwing a retirement party, and it’s gonna be one helluva bash, I can tell you that. There’s gonna be unlimited beer and...
In America DDoS Leaks You!
Daily Beast “This Time It’s Russia’s Emails Getting Leaked The Russian oligarchs and Kremlin apparatchiks spared by WikiLeaks in the past will not be so...
Dust Jacket Blurbs From An Upcoming Trump White House “Tell-All” Updated with bonus excerpt /s
Wow! I feel so, like, all Michael Schmidt and shit. Here I am, thousands of miles from Washington DC, and I have a legitimate scoop...
GA-SoS: Mother Jones, “A Runoff Election Tuesday Could Reverse Brian Kemp’s Voter Suppression in GA”
Tomorrow is a big day in Georiga: After an election marred by voting problems, Georgia voters will decide in Tuesday’s runoff who should fix them....
Don Jr. Writes The Most Idiotic, And Revealing, Guest Op-Ed
Maybe this was published in other newspapers, but I see that The Denver Post was pretty desperate for a guest op-ed, publishing “Democrats are now...
