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NY Times “Alexandre Bissonnette, a 29-year-old former politics student fixated on President Trump, the far right and Muslims, was sentenced on Friday to life in prison without the possibility of … Read More
Fred Guttenberg, who lost his fourteen year old daughter Jaime in the horrific Stoneman-Douglas shooting last year, was Nancy Pelosi’s guest at Tuesday’s State of the Union speech and I … Read More
I am not going to rehash the insipid intellectual wasteland that was the Trump State Of The Union speech last night. Since I quit drinking a couple of years ago, … Read More
Breaking, from News4SA.Com According to KTRK in Houston, an investigation tip led authorities to 20-year-old Eric Black Jr. who has been charged with capital murder in the deadly shooting and … Read More
A drive-by murder. Now a manhunt. The father of a 7-year-old girl killed in a drive-by shooting pleaded with the public to help authorities in the manhunt for a gunman … Read More
It’s getting very, very frightening, kids. Trump likes to look tough, so naturally that means shooting desperate, starving immigrants seeking asylum. Real John Wayne stuff, to be sure. From Military … Read More
What an assh**e, ruining a performance my favorite musical! Baltimore Sun “A man shouted a pro-Nazi and pro-Trump salute during a performance of “Fiddler on the Roof” at Baltimore’s Hippodrome … Read More
Humor from the ass-wipe-in-chief: x Trump jokes that he considered cancelling speech to FFA not b/c of the mass shooting in Pittsburgh, but b/c his hair got wet while talking … Read More
FiveThirtyEight.com has a great piece that makes a strong case that Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D. TX) has a great shot at unseating the incumbent U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R. TX). … Read More
Iowa’s Steve King is a despicable human being, and not just because he is an unapologetic white supremacist. When he’s not posting propaganda from neo-Nazis, he’s sharing vile memes. Like the current … Read More
Received this e-mail today from the Progressive Change Campaign Committee: Since 2008, Democrats have lost over 900 state legislative seats — but bold progressives like Andrew Gillum are leading our … Read More
Can’t think of anyone else who deserves this more: x BREAKING. Activists just chased @TedCruz out of a fancy Washington DC restaurant, chanting “We Believe Survivors!†Cruz has been friends … Read More
I’ll just give the floor to Tim Dickinson, who covers National Affairs for Rolling Stone… This is an excerpt from an email thread btwn Kavanaugh and his buddies about a … Read More
Yes: x “This hasn’t happened before. I showed up and I hadn’t done something like it before.†pic.twitter.com/DVfbxfTK0y — Beto O'Rourke (@BetoORourke) September 15, 2018 Senate hopeful Beto O'Rourke … Read More
Botham Jean was shot in his own home by an off duty Dallas cop who claimed she thought she was in her apartment but who told conflicting stories about how this … Read More
Oh, my stars! Look what they found in the home of the African-American man a Dallas cop shot in the man’s own home for no reason! MARIJUANA! x DEVELOPING: Search … Read More
A must read from the New York Times: President Trump’s budget chief, Mick Mulvaney, expressed confidence to Republican donors on Saturday that the party would overcome a Democratic “movement of … Read More
Poor John Kasich, he just blew his cover. He likes to come off as this calm, steady, measured, serious kind of blowhard. He was an early and frequent critic of … Read More
NBC News “When Lisa Licata, 43, and her wife, Sherry Lau, 56, first saw what would eventually become their home in the Pittsburgh suburb of Penn Hills, Pennsylvania, they thought … Read More
When I heard there was a shooting at a Madden 19 tournament yesterday, I thought it was just a matter of time before gun-rights advocates started blaming video games for the … Read More
It’s been three months since the Santa Fe school shooting. Back then, Ted Cruz thought he had the election in the bag with ruby-red Texas. He wouldn’t meet with the … Read More
What to do when Nazis show up in your city? Shut that mother down! x Hey, Nazis, remember when you walked around with your stupid tiki torches chanting “you will … Read More
What the hell is this guy’s problem? Huffington Post “Leonard Pozner and Veronique De La Rosa lost 6-year-old Noah in 2012 when a gunman stormed Sandy Hook Elementary School in … Read More
Happy Sunday bunkies! I saw something funny on the news yesterday, so I thought I'd share it with you to lighten up your day before I hit the makeup chair … Read More
I had a little trouble feeling patriotic this July 4th, and it’s not just because our president is on the take with Russia. No, I had a real sickness in the … Read More
I can’t think of a way to sum up everything wrong with our country right now than this one story. Cynthia Tisdale’s husband lost the healthcare lottery: he was diagnosed … Read More
The shooting at Santa Fe High School in Texas was the 22nd school shooting in 2018. Ten students and teachers were killed. More people have been killed in school shootings … Read More
If you live in Florida, you know Publix. It’s a large, regional grocery chain with the overwhelming majority of its stores located here in the Sunshine State. It’s typically more … Read More
At this point, it is becoming almost impossible to tell the difference between the political messaging of the neoliberal Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), which is an organization that is … Read More
There are only four Olympic sports (not counting sports that are scheduled to debut or re-debut at the Olympics after 2018 or sports that have been discontinued from the Olympics) … Read More
Enough with the credit where credit is due stuff. Enough with, well he’s got a great platform. Dana Milbank is an a**hole. He always was an a**hole. He always will … Read More
If nothing else, Spain now has a publicity nightmare on its hands. But its violent attempts to suppress an vote — illegal as they claim or not — seem like they can only … Read More
A smattering of today’s headlines from Yonhap, South Korea’s largest news agency. S. Korea, U.S., Japan to take unbearable punitive action if N. Korea provokes SEOUL/TOKYO, April 25 (Yonhap) — … Read More
By now you've probably heard about the Michigan woman who pulled out a gun in the parking lot of the Home Depot in Auburn Hills and fired shots at someone … Read More
This is going to be a short diary. I'm going to link you to the story in the Chicago Tribune after the Kospaghetti. While this certainly sounds like a mass … Read More
Pres. Obama offered his shoulder and kind words Sunday to victims and families of victims of the alleged Colorado shooter, James Holmes. What Mr. Obama said to the press afterwards … Read More
