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The backlashes to critical race theory leave scars: racism is never funny, even if ignorance is.

5 days ago annieli

Florida bans its schools from teaching critical race theory On Thursday, Florida’s State Board of…

Deranged Trump Slams Facebook Over 'Phony Lockboxes' Full of Biden Votes

1 week ago News Corpse

Sunday marked five months since the Trump Insurrection on Capitol Hill. The riots incited by…

Marjorie Greene demands Biden respond to Wuhan lab questions by 'June 31' … which isn't a thing

1 week ago Aldous Pennyfarthing

A couple of days ago, alleged congressperson Marjorie Taylor Greene sent a letter to Joe…

Ron DeathSantis and his ships of fools, forcing cruises for Unvaccinated Passengers

2 weeks ago annieli

Remember when denying wedding cakes to gay people was about freedom? Florida Gov. Ron De…

GOP Says Biden in Chaos – with WaPo Help

1 month ago dankoh

Not that I give a bloated goat fart in hell what the Republicans think, but…

WYFP? don't call tankies Cheugy, it's the new “neat” or “nifty”

1 month ago annieli

MFP is neologisms that get sticky. Cheugy is the latest, being a term that Generation…

Just moments before the traitor left office, Florida company gets sweet gig on the Pentagon internet

2 months ago News Corpse

This is just a quick post as my movers are coming at any moment and…

“brushing history against the grain”… what did happen to a purse made from Nat Turner's skin

2 months ago annieli

A new book suggests now the necessity of reexamining the historical materialist project of Walter…

Kitchen Table Kibitzing Friday: prison break art and flat-earth theory

2 months ago annieli

Kitchen Table Kibitzing is a community series for those who wish to share a virtual…

Another piece of Arctic sea ice destruction confirmed; 'Heat Bombs' from the Pacific.

2 months ago Pakalolo

According to new findings from the University of California San Diego and Scripps Institution of…

Minerva @ Midnight: the MTG versus AOC debate on the GND likely will not happen

2 months ago annieli

This proposed “debate” between Marjorie Taylor Greene and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez should generate plenty of charitable  pay-per-view…

Red flag failure in the Indy shooting spree

2 months ago annieli

Who failed: “The FedEx gunman legally purchased his two semiautomatic rifles just a few months…

Trump refused manatees endangered species protection; hundreds now dead; Red tide looming.

2 months ago Pakalolo

The Florida Piney Point phosphate plant in Manatee county has been releasing 202 million gallons of…

Minerva at Midnight: better sex under (democratic) socialism

2 months ago annieli

“As in the Times Op-Ed from which the book originated, the title refers to the…

No library for the previous guy because the Big Lie and his non-profit grifting puts it on hold

2 months ago annieli

A physical Trump library may never come to pass except as some money-laundering real estate…

Minerva @ Midnight: previous guy crashes wedding, then crashes border

3 months ago annieli

Caravan with a drum solo, perhaps Trump will go to the border to help frame…

AntiCapitalist MeetUp: Are carbon markets like papal indulgences

3 months ago annieli

Like Martin Luther objecting to Pope Leo X selling indulgences to raise money for a…

Minerva @ Midnight: fungible space and fungible time

3 months ago annieli

The stuck ship does tell us something about the fragility of global trade and the…

the previous guy said, “I like taking the guns early”

3 months ago annieli

Concealability had nothing to do with Monday’s massacre in Boulder, Colorado, but the details tell…

Minerva @ Midnight: “it works” a pragmatics of lived experience

3 months ago annieli

We remain weary about the callow stupidity of the GOP/GQP but we must not patronize…

Minerva @ Midnight: eat pie under the covers

3 months ago annieli

The week has started badly and tragically. Even the Suez Canal got blocked. but we…

a clueless former guy wants you on his own social media platform… good luck with that

3 months ago annieli

Jason “Plan B in your Smoothie” Miller tried to pimp Trump’s anticipated social media platform….

Has the US raised “a stink” about North Korea because it “gave off a powder smell”

3 months ago annieli

North Korea is starting to test its relationship with the Biden administration. One of the…

Kitchen Table Kibitzing Friday: Beef & Broccoli, Asian Blackness, and a Trappist Monk Gap

3 months ago annieli

“The universe has been to them.” (Resident Alien) Kitchen Table Kibitzing is a community series…

Anti-Capitalist Meet-Up: the Climate Crisis has weak carbon markets and lagging technology

4 months ago annieli

The sparse number of actual carbon capture and sequestration projects plus weak carbon markets amplify the…

Kitchen Table Kibitzing Friday “she's warm, like a giant ham”

4 months ago annieli

Kitchen Table Kibitzing is a community series for those who wish to share a virtual…

PA-Sen: Fetterman (D) Keeps On Defying PA GOP “Banned Flags” Order With Bigger Weed, LGBTQ Flags

4 months ago Sam Sero

From The Hill: Spoiler: Passing laws would indeed make my flags go away. Just not…

Is the F-35 another Bradley Fighting Vehicle or an M-16

4 months ago annieli

A Swiss Navy Knife. A new article in Forbes about the failure of the F-35…

human trafficking and Comfort Women at Harvard Law – call off your old, tired ethics

4 months ago annieli

Recovering memory and historical revisionism in sex work might be the sad product of many…

Meet Elizabeth Ann, the first endangered species in the United States to be successfully cloned.

4 months ago Pakalolo

Scientists have successfully cloned an endangered black-footed ferret from the genes of an animal named…