GA-Sen A: Georgia's Other Corrupt Stock Dumping Senator Is Trying To Cover His Ass

Nothing to see here: U.S. Sen. David Perdue, after seeing his portfolio scrutinized and criticized, says his advisers will no longer trade stocks in individual companies. The Friday evening announcement … Read More

GA-Sen B: NYT, “Loeffler (R) Got Lucrative Parting Gift From Public Company en Route to the Senate”

From the New York Times: When Kelly Loeffler accepted an appointment to be a United States senator from Georgia, she left behind a high-paying job as a senior executive at … Read More

fools and their money: Trump leads Biden 50/44 in the betting markets

RCP has Trump over Biden 49.9 / 42.0. Even if you don’t wager, at present 538 thinks Trump remains dependent on an Electoral College win. It’s still about GOTV, despite … Read More

AK & SC-Sen: Sabato's Crystal Ball Downgrades Both Races From “Safe GOP” To “Likely GOP”

Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball just released their Senate predictions section. They are identifying Senate races in Arizona, Colorado, Maine and North Carolina as the top four toss up races moving … Read More

GA, MT, ME, AZ, CO, IA & NC-Sen: PFAW Increases It's Number Of Top GOP Targets To Defeat

Received this e-mail today from the People For the American Way: PFAW’s Take Back the Senate Fund has added THREE critical targets to our list of top 2020 Senate races: … Read More

Trump again tried for free live campaign coverage – Media didn't take the bait

The recession has begun, and happy talk continues with the “Mission Accomplished” statement by Kushner to Fox and Friends. There was another WH pseudo-event with the third straight day of … Read More

AntiCapitalist Meet-up Hodge-podge

Below is a collection of things that I’ve been saving up — including the problems of CV-19, MMT, neoliberalism, and other things relating pandemics to the economy. If there’s a point … Read More

“…you wonder how we got to the point where you’re talking about injecting disinfectant.”

At 50,000 dead, Trump may have reached the season finale of the daily COVID Taskforce briefing show and dinner theater. There will be clip shows and re-runs until November, and … Read More

Mediaite Highlights All The Times Biden Was Right & Trump Was Wrong About China & COVID-19

Kudos to Tommy Christopher at Mediaite for highlighting this: President Donald Trump has taken to attacking Joe Biden and the World Health Organization over the coronavirus and China, but a thorough review of Trump’s … Read More

Trump, WHO, and China: A Timeline

I often find, in history as well as in current events, that having a timeline can be very useful in sorting out just what happened and when, and for judging … Read More

GOP’s Coronavirus death panelists urge pulling the plug on grandma

As both the body count and the financial misery from the American coronavirus outbreak continue to grow, the fierce debate over whether, when and how to “reopen” the U.S. economy … Read More

welcome to unhingery: Trump says “Staying at home leads to death.”

Trump is implying he’s saved millions of lives since the death toll won’t be 2.2 million and is so willing to restart the economy that he claims that “Staying at … Read More

AZ-Sen: McSally (R) Can't Stop Getting Caught Lying About Voting To Take Away Your Health Care

She’s not fooling anyone: During an April 2 tele-town hall, Sen. Martha McSally (R-AZ) lied about supporting protections for people with preexisting medical conditions. Throughout her career in Congress, McSally … Read More

Briefing Fact check: Trump claims he “inherited” the faulty COVID test. It was developed this year.

COVID-19 is not like the seasonal flu, among other things. The above chart should end all comments about it being “just like the flu”. Remember that 0.6% of the US population … Read More

Live Blog: COVID Taskforce Briefing – Trump’s 70-day deadly delay will feature prominently

Live Blog below 5:00 PM EDT Members of the Coronavirus Task Force Hold a Press Briefing x READ: White House trade adviser Peter Navarro's memos to President Trump on the coronavirus … Read More

Peter Navarro does the morning shows, sowing disinformation in support of enduring “a lot of death”

Only in the Trump administration can you have a non-economist like Larry Kudlow give economic advice and an economist dispense medical advice. Then again, having Peter Navarro give Trump advice on … Read More

Humanitarianism and Politics

In the wake of the firing of Fox News business host Trish Regan, who labeled the coronavirus an “impeachment scam,” it reminds me more every day of Republican hypocrisy. From … Read More

Trump admits 'crazy' election reforms to ensure participation would kill Republicans' chances

This is what every GOP officeholder knows and fears: If people actually vote in large numbers, they can’t win. Thanks for putting it out there, Mr. Pr*sident. x Trump says … Read More

“When they disrespect me, they’re disrespecting our government” Trump says 100k US deaths are OK

The 2.2 million death toll cited by Trump that would occur without any mitigation will become a meme so that the quarter million death toll won’t seem so high. We’re … Read More

From Zero to 1,000 in 30 Days

February 26, President Trump said to his fellow Americans, “And again, when you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to … Read More

Trump on Fauci: ‘He doesn’t not disagree with me’ …nothing worse than last-minute ideologies

Trump posted this before he went to bed this morning. Probably angry about the threat of wind turbine cancer. x This will never be approved by me, or any other Republican! … Read More

“if they’re bad or they’re sadistic…they should be fired” Latest Trump presser is a book report

Today’s WH COVID-19 presser featured IMPOTUS* rambling through reading numbers of items like field hospitals allocated but not actually delivered, and ad libbing campaign speech rhetoric “people are saying we’re very … Read More

Trump administration is just now thinking about lifting tariffs on medical supplies from China

Donald Trump has been rightly excoriated for dragging his feet when it comes to addressing the domestic spread of COVID-19. So what’s he doing now? That’s right — dragging his … Read More

Wartime President?

After a few weeks of Lieutenant Pence hogging the Trump spotlight, the General has found a way to ambush his own troops. Donald Trump, by his own account, served in … Read More

Is Trump, like Marmite or Vegemite, a spread or is he toast

Perhaps we can see the difference between celebrity Tom Hanks and celebrity Donald Trump in our choice of salty breakfast spread that looks like axle grease. These spreads have much more … Read More

Coronavirus Realities: How Can You Stay Safe And Active?

Coronavirus Realities: How Can You Stay Safe And Active? By Donna Smith, Executive Director – Progressive Democrats of America Pitch In Time and/or MoneyTo Elect Progressives Get On The Phones and/or … Read More

Death, from a Salesman

If the sardonic parody of the title of this piece, were not so serious, it would be funny. The President of the United States by trade and some would say … Read More

same tired Trump viral BS shtick: blaming someone else (foreigners, Dems, something-something)

Who pays $20,000 for a plane ticket, or a Final Four ticket, or an Inaugural ticket, and should you blame some other country for your own incompetence. And Pence and … Read More

Trump's Oval Office address was even worse than you thought

He went out of his way to say the novel coronavirus originated in China and that it was “foreign” (xenophobic much?), and he looked like Mayor Quimby debating Sideshow Bob … Read More

Trump's not even watching his own COVID-19 briefing as he's trying to prop up oil industry profit

Daily WH COVID-19 briefing has questions from the press that are mainly about the incompetence issues. Payroll tax holiday stunt proposed “take two taxcuts…etc.” from Larry Kudlow (remember that middle-class … Read More

Weekly Recap: Urge Sen. Warren To Unify Our Movement!

Weekly Recap: Urge Sen. Warren To Unify Our Movement! By Donna Smith, Executive Director – Progressive Democrats of America We Are A Movement, And Our Movement Will Not QuitHelp PDA … Read More

Trump appears to have just promised to cut Social Security and/or similar programs

You know, those things he said he would never, ever cut: x 🚨 Trump says “we’ll be cutting” entitlements like Medicare and Social Security 🚨 pic.twitter.com/6XRKE9joYz— Pod Save America (@PodSaveAmerica) … Read More

stop with the “revolution vs. return to normalcy” meme, because nothing about Trump is normal

We’re going to see a lot of triangulating until the convention. The Nation endorsed Warren. x Time for Bernie to respectfully show differences w Biden— on Biden’s support for trade … Read More

Fed Makes Emergency Interest Cut to Avert Trump Recession; Stocks Plunge Again

http://www.msn.com/… The US Federal Reserve cut the prime interest rate this morning by 0.5% in an attempt to ward off a recession and market crash due to coronavirus disruptions of the … Read More

Fed Panics and Cuts Interest Rate to Avert Trump Recession; Stocks Plunge Again

http://www.msn.com/… The US Federal Reserve cut the prime interest rate this morning by 0.5% in an attempt to ward off a recession and market crash due to coronavirus disruptions of the … Read More

Once again, Trump insists nobody knew a thing that everybody knows

For the umpteenth time, Donald Trump urges you to join him in his jaw-dropping ignorance: x Trump learns that tens of thousands of Americans die of the flu every year, … Read More

Trump COVID19 Presser needs fact-checks as he dismantles the national pandemic preparation system

Trump’s Katrina is coming. The global economy will be making a downturn with the coronavirus COVID-19. Trump just had another lie-filled presser claiming it will all get better and that … Read More

is there a bubble for responding to a pandemic

Like financial bubbles, health epidemics also appear to be based on implausible or inconsistent views about the future. Trump could double-down on his inaction and use the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic to implement … Read More

We’re Under Attack! Will You Help Us Fight Back?

We’re Under Attack! Will You Help Us Fight Back? In solidarity, Mike Hersh for Alan, Mike F., Dan, Janis, Donna, Deb, Dr. Bill, Kimberly, and Bryan—your PDA National Team Pete … Read More

Nina Turner dispels & explains the Bernie Bro trope.

Nina Turner, spokesperson and national co-chair of the Bernie Sanders did not hold back as she dispelled and explained the Bernie Bro trope. Why the Bernie Bro trope? x x … Read More

Warren Buys Ad In Sheldon Adelson’s Paper Telling Him How Much He’ll Pay Under Her Wealth Tax

Love this: x The day after the debate, Elizabeth Warren bought a full page ad in Sheldon Adelson’s newspaper saying Sheldon Adelson will pay $2.3 billion the first year of … Read More

“Mine is the greatest economy?” No Don, it's the sixth out of the last ten

Trump’s economy is only the sixth best of the last ten presidents, and Trump has squandered the growth created in the previous administration as he has never achieved his promised … Read More

The week in Disinformation: $6 billion dollar wall versus $5 ladder

x Smugglers are now using camouflaged ladders to get over Trump's multi-billion-dollar wall. How much do they cost? $5.https://t.co/2AKj7tGow0 pic.twitter.com/Ovm7j0kETV — Mark Elliott (@markmobility) February 16, 2020 Smugglers in Juárez … Read More

Weekly Recap: Help Us Erase Trump!

Weekly Recap: Help Us Erase Trump! In solidarity,  Mike Hersh for Alan, Mike F., Dan, Janis, Donna, Deb, Dr. Bill, Kimberly, and Bryan—your PDA National Team   Pitch In To … Read More

Trump must go, regardless of who wins primary debates or elections

The first blush of commentary after the New Hampshire debates looks relatively conventional, even as small movements up and down in polling have occurred. MSM is far too obsessed with … Read More

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 Parscale described it as “fighting … Read More

Fact-checking the SOTU, “a manifesto of mistruths”

SOTU was simply an expanded campaign speech that included a few stunts like a reunion, a scholarship award, and a medal presentation. His speeches have tended to lies, this SOTU is no … Read More

The reports of Trump's “strong economy” come from being given a stronger one that he's squandered

Trump may have been squandering Obama’s strong economy. (2018) “The benefits of this strong economy and sound financial system have not reached all Americans.” Economists call them leading economic indicators because they measure … Read More

Trump in Iowa, “They want to kill our cows. That means you're next.”

​The unhingery continues as Trump counterprograms impeachment with a speech in Iowa. Trump threatens that AOC and Democrats will kill Iowa cows and then kill Iowans. x Trump tells Iowans AOC … Read More

TODAY 3PM ET; Noon PT: How To Win The Climate Struggle

TODAY 3PM ET; Noon PT: How To Win The Climate Struggle photo: Climate Activists Demand the Declaration of a Climate Emergency, (Takver • CC BY-SA 2.0) In solidarity,  Mike Hersh … Read More