FOX News Secretly Rewrites Story to Remove References to Trump's 'America First' White Nationalists
Last Friday Fox News deliberately and deceptively edited a video of President Biden to make it appear as if he made a racially insensitive remark....
cheeseheads in Wisconsin GOP Assembly vote to end 'patriarchy' by banning its K-12 mention
Beetle-Juice Three Times. Thank Jeebus that cheesehead is not banned from primary and secondary schools in Wisconsin. Because nothing says “Freedom” and “Liberty” like being the...
Medicare Advantage is a fraud. Watch what Thom Hartmann exposes before choosing.
Thom Hartmann visits and reveals an inconvenient truth about Medicare and Medicare Advantage and the fraud that is our healthcare system. The first part of...
Enough is Enough…
When I was a boy and strayed way, way past the rules of behavior set by my great-grandmother, she would say, “ enough is enough,...
Silent Majority, Moral Majority, Silent Majority
From that moment in November of 1969, when former President Richard Nixon asked for a “silent majority” to support his ‘Vietnamization’ effort, utilizing the peace...
I Have a (Olympic) Dream
Women and people of color had a unique experience that ended yesterday in Tokyo, Japan. The controversial Summer Olympics closed with America at the top...
No Shoes, No Shirts, No Shots, No Service
Democrats, since the time of Franklin Roosevelt, have fought the accusation of wanting a Nanny State; equal access to housing, healthcare, fair wages, and education...
Alabama Councilman Uses Racial Slur To Refer To Black Colleague, Stuns Colleagues
Speaking to a colleague this morning who asked if I was tired of writing about racial ‘strife.’ The answer was—no—I am tired of living it....
Installment Plan
Layaway, on-time, and paying-something-down-on-it have been very familiar phrases in black, brown, and poor neighborhoods for generations; credit was for the people who did not...
Chasing the Mob from Behind
Burned out at the end of the Joy-Ann Reid hour on MSNBC, I am ready for mindless tv. By that time, my intellectual palette is dulled...
The Uighur Genocide
What is the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the words, terrorism? 9/11? ISIS? The Taliban? While these examples are certainly just,...
The backlashes to critical race theory leave scars: racism is never funny, even if ignorance is.
Florida bans its schools from teaching critical race theory On Thursday, Florida's State Board of Education unanimously voted in favor of an amendment banning the...
Living with Uncertainty
Living with the nagging uncertainty of being racially discriminated against and worst not being believed shatters the psyche. The most devastating effects are that people...
How Much is Too Much?
If it were a perfect world, I would like to think that the most recent attacks on young black millionaires are just a coincidence. In...
RWNJs are workshopping the false dichotomy of 1619/1776 in advance of the mid-term elections.
These are days fraught with political battles over cultural histories abjuring complexity. Today it’s The Wall Street Journal and the reactionary path to critical race theory,...
Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweeping down the Critical Race theory
Oklahoma’s right-wing politicians would like to erase history because that’s what they do, whether it’s the omission of facts or rewriting them to favor those...
Yeah, I’m Pro-Life. Quote Me.
Repost: Fordham Political Review. No one issue in politics today causes greater polarization than the issue of abortion. I remember sitting down with my mother...
A Black woman doubled her home’s appraised value by having a white man posing as the owner.
After a black woman received two low-balled appraisals for her home, her friend's white husband played the owner, and the appraised value doubled. Appraisal increased...
Flipping McCarthy’s district, Psaki cleans Fox News’ clock; Systemic racism is this, Cop attack.
McCarthy’s district, more so than most, benefits from Democratic bills. Psaki is at it again. This is what systemic racism looks like. Jen Psaki shines....
Tom Bowman on climate, Tim Ryan on GOP, Jen Psaki shades Trump, Black homeowner ripoff
Tom Bowman discusses his new book on climate. An irate Tim Ryan lashes out at GOP. Jen Psaki shades Trump. Black homeowner ripoff is systemic...
The Truth is an Easier Master to Serve
Voter rights legislation is winding its way through Congress with the foregone conclusion that Senate Republicans will scuttle it. Equitable voting rights legislation for blacks...
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How/Why Unilateral Disengagement became an Oppressive/Enforced Segregation [In defence of AOC].
Some historical terms should not be used lightly. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez used the term Apartheid to describe the Israel/Palestine reality, this shocked some people. I hate...
My Race is an Issue
Most things in America are solved by either common sense, solemnity, or time. The one exception is race. Historically both the Democratic and Republican party...
a new Fed chair… maybe but probably not.
The usual handicapping for a new Fed Chair is happening, but likely it’s too early. Lael Brainard and William Spriggs would be front-runners. Jay Powell's term...
Bamboo, Watermelons, and Rainbows
Have you ever asked yourself, why are so many GOP political theories race and gender-based? The latest is that voter ballots in Arizona were smuggled...
Two Sides of the Same Con
If you take a moment and listen to the so-called moderate wing of the Republican party, they are as extreme as the rest. This weekend...
“brushing history against the grain”… what did happen to a purse made from Nat Turner's skin
A new book suggests now the necessity of reexamining the historical materialist project of Walter Benjamin recognizing those moments of historical contact as acts of...
Knee on the Throat, Foot on the Gas?
I watched the celebration of former police officer Derek Michael Chauvin’s conviction of three various counts of murder yesterday, and my feelings were mixed. No,...
I'm Relieved, But I'm Not Celebrating
Derek Chauvin has been found guilty on all three counts of murdering George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for nine minutes and twenty-nine seconds,...
The most viewed death in the history of humankind had its Rodney King moment
"Today, a jury did the right thing. But true justice requires much more." xOpinion | Caught on camera Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is...
Indy spree killings: were there My Little Pony reasons
Apparently the spree killer in Indianapolis was also a “Brony”, a follower of My Little Pony as reported by the Wall Street Journal. We are...
Minerva @ Midnight: Summer augurs a continuation of bad faith and disinformation
Minnesota law enforcement, at its based level exhibits some intersectional issues often represented in fictional culture products like Fargo. Their police forces haven’t learned very much...
Garland's DOJ reverses Trump-era rule on consent decrees, which help hold local police accountable
The Trump administration—the malignant milieu of racism, bad ideas, and bad, racist ideas—had, for the past two-plus years, limited the use of consent decrees in holding...
Ted Lieu has questions about Gosar and Greene's new 'Anglo-Saxon' caucus. I think we all do
Finally! A voice for white people in the United States! I’ve felt like a second-class citizen ever since … okay, I’ve never felt that way. Nevertheless,...
Colorado Republican makes lynching joke before whitesplaining the Three-Fifths Compromise
I’m not sure if I liked Republicans better when they were secretly racist or if it’s better now that they’ve decided to wear their racism on...
It is Long Past Time to Reimagine Policing in America
The Black Codes of the late 1800s are making a comeback in America. These ordinances were meant to control the free movement of people of...
The Conversation
White America has been made aware there is a conversation black parents have been compelled to have with their children, literally, for centuries. The conversation,...
Tucker Carlson's latest shtick gets big thumbs-up from white nationalist hate group
My father helped run a construction company when I was a kid, and he was pretty hands-on with his work. While he was perfectly at...
Activist decimates American policing as systemic problem fatal to black & brown bodies by design
Activist Brittany Packnett Cunningham slams police assault on POCs. Union leader/organizer Danny Fetonte explains why Amazon unionization likely failed. Danny Fetonte on Amazon unionization failure...
Why Amazon unionization failed, Police assault on POCs deconstructed GOP Voter fraud.
Activist Brittany Packnett Cunningham slams police assault on POCs. Union leader/organizer Danny Fetonte explains why Amazon unionization likely failed. Danny Fetonte on Amazon unionization failure...
Danny Fetonte on why Amazon unionization failed, Police assaults on POCs, Jake Tapper slams Right
Union leader/organizer Danny Fetonte explains why Amazon unionization likely failed. Police continue to assault POCs. Jake Tapper slammed Right like no other. Danny Fetonte on...
MUST WATCH: Jake Tapper slams Right, their ‘bumbling treasonous fools’ CW generals worship, more
In what is likely the best admonition of the Right, Jake Tapper presented a clinic on their intransigence and outright racism. Jake Tapper nails them...
Trump-Jugend try for parody, but demonstrate their racist ignorance.
The sponsors of campus speakers like Ann Coulter and Milo Yiannopoulos, Young America’s Foundation took on Pete Buttigieg, thinking that they were delivering trenchant criticism. Instead, they’ve...
PA-Sen: Toomey (R) Wants PA To Adopt GA's Jim Crow Laws Because He “Thinks Black People Do Drive”
Can’t wait to see this asshole go: https://twitter.com/Matt_Maisel/status/1379777588009271304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw In an interview with York, Pa.’s WPMT television station, U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Lehigh) was asked about the...
Minerva @ Midnight: has the left been “tamed” by Biden
This is a bad place in history. Apparently half of the GQP thinks the 1/6 insurrection was left-wing activists trying to make Trump “look bad”,...
Military voters have had enough of the GOP
While the Republican Party continues to devolve into the party of white supremacists, authoritarian fascists, and conspiracy theorists, they are losing their grip on many...
Take a Knee
It is a cruel irony that before the start of the trial of former officer Derek Chauvin the state of Minnesota is one of many...
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...
Boyz Out the Hood(s)
Yesterday the state of Georgia defined election integrity as—black people not voting. Republicans love to throw around the image of liberal politicians in hemp-filled rooms...
Where are you from? (The Coast) How long have you been here? (I look at my watch and say 50+ years)
More “bad days” ahead. We’re not going to throw up our hands even as social media now shifts to predictable Islamophobia. Notable is that the...