Opinion: Betrayal, Stupidity, and Enlightenment
I have rolled a question around in my head for months; why are Republicans so mean? I have concluded that it is not meanness, it...
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugliest
Not since, Tuco, Blondie, and Angel Eyes formed a triangle, within a circle, has greed, corruption, and self-interest intersected so destructively. Politics in America, for...
Has Anyone Ever Asked; Why?
Republicans swing the word freedom over the heads of their voters like the Sword of Damocles. It has become a meaningless mantra, cutting away real...
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...
13-year-old rape and incest victim would have been out of luck under Texas' new abortion law
A few years ago, a pro-choice science fiction author named Patrick S. Tomlinson challenged anti-choicers about their priorities when it came to protecting human life....
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...
“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...
If Republicans Tell you They are Cowards…
Americans should listen to the rational Republicans willing to publicly lift the scales from their eyes, who say their brethren are cowardly. Current and former...
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...
Minerva @ Midnight: Lando Cotton wants to lock… you up! Previous Guy returning to Facebook
https://twitter.com/donwinslow/status/1379557465830817793?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Tom Cotton thinks there aren’t enough people in prison, or perhaps like Arkansas lawmakers, thinks even more medical conditions should be criminalized. Cotton is being...
Minerva @ Midnight: 1941 was a bad year like 2020, then there's Gaetz's friend Molly
Actually, had Spielberg reduced the running time, the film 1941 might have been a classic. The classic film history teaching exercise would be to edit it down...
Listen to Lincoln—you Neanderthals
Back on March 2, President Joe Biden implored the states of Mississippi and Texas not to jump the gun by lifting their mask mandates. “I...
Lindsey Graham scolds Democrats over sexual harassment allegations: 'Follow the Republican model'
Is Lindsey Graham for real? No, that’s a serious question. Because he looks like a Rankin-Bass Claymation character to me. Lindsey, the misfit Christmas elf...
Trump accuser E. Jean Carroll: 'I am living for the moment … to sit across the table from him'
Donald Trump’s lawyers argued for years that he couldn’t be sued because he was kinda-sorta president or something. Apparently you don’t actually have to do the...
E. Jean Carroll is ready for her day in court with Donald Trump: ‘I think of it every day’
Donald Trump’s lawyers argued for years that he couldn’t be sued because he was kinda-sorta president or something. Apparently you don’t actually have to do the...
human trafficking and Comfort Women at Harvard Law – call off your old, tired ethics
Recovering memory and historical revisionism in sex work might be the sad product of many repressive regimes. What becomes worse is the complicity of academic...
PA-Sen: John Fetterman (D) Signs Pledge Rejecting Donations From The Fossil Fuel Industry
Here’s the latest news today out of Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (D), who announced a 2022 Senate bid earlier this month, said in a statement...
Trumpism: Victim Syndome coupled with Denialism.
Victim Syndrome (Fenichel, 1945; Zur, 1994). These are people who always complain about the bad things that happen in their lives, due to circumstances beyond...
Eric Trump simply can't believe Joe Biden got 80 million votes
My favorite clueless conservative take on the (non)fraudulent 2020 presidential election is that there’s no way Joe Biden could have gotten as many votes as...
Trump claims a corner has been turned – it's upward again, flying a white flag of surrender
The hope for a post-Trump era will bring with it already growing challenges to democracy. Along with $3 for a glass of water. xPres. Obama...
When They Go Subterranean; We Go…
In May of 1996, my middle son graduated high school. I had been hospitalized the Tuesday before his ceremony, because of a hereditary bleeding disorder,...
Biden Express goes through Ohio and Pennsylvania; Trump's call to RW militias continues
It does seem old-fashioned but the Biden post-debate train tour seems better than Trump’s promises to never return to (insert state) if he loses, which...
The Panic does not Fall far from the Trump
George Washington shepherded the United States through the War for Independence and presided, literally, over the birth of the nation, without panic. Abraham Lincoln guided...
Biden Tied in Florida Congressional District Trump Won by 9 Points
floridapolitics.com/… St Pete Polls has released a survey showing Joe Biden is tied in Florida’s 18th Congressional District. The 18th which is an east coast district just...
Tales from the Trump
Trump's followers are operating under a different set of determinants. While most of America and the free world views truth as a factor in defining...
Pam Keith's right-wing opponent jokes about rape, sex with 15-year-old girls
Getting a little bit sick of QAnon morons posting on my page about phony pedophile rings in pizza parlors, yet are totally cool with actual creeps...
CO-Sen: Denver Post, “Cory Gardner (R) poses a threat to safe and legal abortion”
Anna Ramirez Crawford, board chair for the Women;s Lobby of Colorado has a good op-ed piece out in the Denver Post that goes after U.S....
PA-10: Sen. Kamala Harris (D. CA) Endorses Eugene DePasquale (D) For Congress
Received this e-mail today from former presidential candidate, U.S. Senator Kamala Harris (D. CA), in support of State Auditor Eugene DePasquale’s (D. PA-10) congressional campaign:...
GA-Sen B: Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R) Goes On White Supremacist's Talk Show To Trash BLM
Wow: xI joined @JackPosobiec on @OANN to discuss why I had to call out the BLM political organization — and why the woke mob is...
SCOTUS decision could spell trouble for Trump in rape case
Ruh-roh. I’m no lawyer — partly because I enjoy writing books and blogs more than studying the law, and partly because, well, weed — but I...
#SupremeLoser #SaudiTrump the game-show host's new clothes
The ego trip of absolute immunity has been thoroughly trashed. xDonald Trump likes to use the term 'commander in chief' but he's in command of...
Trump was worried about the SCOTUS decision on his financial records. Not today, Don, …soon
Trump did tread water today because it now appears that the last instance for SCOTUS will be a ruling on his financial records. In the same...
desperate Trump spouts a racist message in South Dakota as he needs a pandemic-denying culture war
The choice of Mt Rushmore for a campaign event has avoided the hoopla Trump has wanted over parades as well as his desire to call...
Trump did another campaign speech that wasn't a press conference because he took no questions
More Trump lies and spin, and again he took no questions because it’s a pageant. It had the usual earmarks of such speeches, including a...
Bernie Sanders Helps These Pro-Criminal Justice Reform Candidates Become District Attorneys
Received this e-mail today from former Presidential candidate, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I. VT), in support of these progressive candidates running to become District Attorneys...
Through One Black Man’s Eyes
The Black guy did not belong here; the Mexican will rape our women, that virus—oh the Chinese did it. In one form or the other...
Our Statement on Tara Reade’s Allegations Against Vice President Biden
Believe survivors has always meant that people who come forward with allegations of sexual violence deserve the presumption of truth, and that their allegations should...
Boomers …We are still fighting to survive and change things ( most of us)
I was sitting outside on the patio tonight and boy did I have a huge reflection hit me. I hear a lot of young folks...
#MeToo Harvey Weinstein guilty on 2 of 5 counts
Weinstein was remanded into custody. He also will have to be transported to stand trial in Los Angeles. Harvey Weinstein was convicted of rape and...
Standing 'Blue' in the Breach
There are 11 Democrats still standing in the breach between democracy and autocracy in America. Last night President Trump’s deliverance of the State of the...
#KremlinAnnex protest Week 81 Thursday IMPOTUS* committed a felony (foreign assistance)
xMore than a witness! pic.twitter.com/dMOSJHiHZg— Kremlin Annex (@KremlinAnnex) January 31, 2020 xBolton Must Testify!Remove45! #KremlinAnnex’s favorite easy song: Subpoena! pic.twitter.com/k32B9KN7aq— Kremlin Annex (@KremlinAnnex) January 29,...
Matt Bevin's Favorite Rapist – Dayton Jones – Has to Register as a Sex Offender for Life.
Looks like FORMER Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin — he lost reelection in November — fucked up with regards to one of his favorite rapists, Dayton Jones. Seems...
Climate models suggest global food system crisis at hand; dust bowl scenarios now locked in.
We know from the National Climate Assessment that climate disruptions to agriculture over the past 40 years has increased and, will only worsen as the...
Matt Bevin's Commutation of Rapist Dayton Jones Sentence Just Keeps Getting Worse.
Here are some more ugly details of former Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin’s commutation of rapist Dayton Jones. Trigger Warning for anyone who is a rape survivor....
Political CessPool Report From KY: Payoff to Pardon Sodomizer and Thomas Massie Has Primary Fight.
Another day, another Kentucky criminal’s family pays to have them pardoned from prison. GOP prosecutor took donations from sex offender's family, then pressed Bevin for...
E. Jean Carroll can now sue Trump in NY
Trump’s attempt to throw out E. Jean Carroll’s case fails. Her defamation case moves forward. Trump probably should have "moved" to Florida even earlier. Should...
On the day of the perfect call Trump thought it was all coming together
Even though the funds were being held at least a week before, on the day of the perfect call, Trump knew he had to shake down...
Former Governor Matt Bevin Is The Gift That Keeps On Giving to Kentucky Democrats.
Kentucky’s version of Donald Trump — loser former Governor Matt Bevin — just won’t go away no matter how much Kentucky Republicans wish it. Bevin is an...
Mixed Bag Of Political News From Kentucky.
I should stress the possible — it is total speculation on the part of Kentucky Democrats — good political news from Kentucky, but there is “the pouring liquid...
Facebook and the shameful media tradition of enabling Breitbart hate
Here we go again: Facebook just became the latest traditional media player to enable the right-wing hate of Breitbart News. Unveiling its news tab initiative last...
