AL-Sen: Kirsten Gillibrand (D. NY) Helps Doug Jones (D) Get Ready To Take On Tommy Tuberville (R)

Received this e-mail just now from U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D. NY) in support of U.S. Senator Doug Jones’ (D. AL) re-election campaign: Sen. Doug Jones (D. AL) Alabama Senator … Read More

Trump brags about wall he didn't build blocking COVID from country with far fewer cases than we have

Hey, guess what! Mexican immigrants spread disease! That’s why we need a wall! Or so says this moist, donkey-brained twit who’s scarcely said a true thing in three and a … Read More

Trump's Rose Garden presser turns into campaign speech with more lies and few questions

Today’s Trump WH presser apparently repurposed his canceled NH campaign speech of 50 minutes, and took 10 minutes of questions. Waste not, want not. Who wants that hour back: Trump produced … Read More

Tom Steyer Raises Money For State Democratic Parties In Nevada, Pennsylvania, Arizona, and Florida

Received this e-mail today from former presidential campaign, billionaire Tom Steyer (D. CA): Our country is at its best when the American people are in charge — and 2020 is … Read More

Is the Trump administration preparing to disappear grim coronavirus stats?

Turns out George Orwell lacked imagination. Donald Trump has already decried our robust (er, 23rd-ranked by number of tests per capita, but who’s counting?) testing regime because it makes him … Read More

Silly Season: Bari Weiss self-expels from the NY Times, because the right people didn't get fired

Of many conservatives who write on the editorial side of the NY Times, the tenure of Bari Weiss was uneven with mainly meta-commentary, but apparently she will have a gig … Read More

Politico, “Joe Biden signals openness to eliminating Senate filibuster”

From Politico: Former Vice President Joe Biden on Monday signaled he would be open to the Senate ending its practice of imposing a 60-vote threshold for most legislation, a positional … Read More

Biden Just Put Up a Great Ad for Texas

Joe Biden just released an ad aimed at Texas: x x YouTube Video as reported by Greg Sargent in the WaPo: Biden is advertising in Texas. That’s ominous for Trump. … Read More

How far have we fallen? This country feels pity for us.

This illustrates how far we have fallen as a country. When a country's behavior reflects what we criticized for third world countries, one is in trouble. We have fallen this … Read More

Krugman Sums Up Trump's Handling of the Pandemic – Mostly

I love Paul Krugman. Reading his columns, even the gloomier ones, is one of the things I look forward to at the start of the day. Today’s column starts with … Read More

AZ-Sen: New OH Predictive Insights Poll Has Mark Kelly (D) Leading Martha McSally (R) 52-43

Some good news today out of Arizona: Retired astronaut Mark Kelly (D) holds a 9-point lead over Sen. Martha McSally (R) in Arizona, a state critical to Democrats' hopes of reclaiming control … Read More

Crystal Ball Shifts 7 States from Safe to Likely GOP; Gravis Poll has Biden with 10% Lead in Florida

centerforpolitics.org/… Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball has shifted ratings on seven states that Trump won easily in 2016 from “Safe Republican” to “Likely Republican”. The states of Alaska, Indiana, Missouri, Montana, … Read More

Don Jr. excoriates his dad in new MeidasTouch ad

I can only assume Junior was actually trying to drag Joe Biden, but everything he says fits the ocher abomination to a T.  Watch: x Don Jr. gives a damning description … Read More

Trout Mask Replica Carlson takes “long-planned (4-day) vacation” – may it be like Bill-O's

Blake Neff, who bragged that he authored the first draft of Tucker Carlson’s programs, is gone and one can only hope that the reader of the final drafts goes as well. … Read More

“Trump's behavior (with COVID) is intentional. He is malevolent. He is a 1st degree mass-murderer”

“He's not just delusional. He is not just narcissistic. Trump's behavior with the coronavirus pandemic is intentional. He is malevolent. He is a first-degree mass murderer.” — Dr. John Gartner, Professor … Read More

Beto O'Rourke Keeps Up The Momentum To Help Joe Biden Flip Texas Blue

Received this e-mail today from former presidential candidate, Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s (D. TX) organization, Powered by People: Did you see this headline? It shows that our work in Texas has never been … Read More

Trump's '1917' COVID references – it couldn't be brain damage for the umpteenth time

His continuing inability to correctly reference the 1918 flu pandemic only tells us a few things best diagnosed by professionals because he “aced” the mistake yet again. x Someone in the … Read More

James Taylor Helps Joe Biden Defeat A Puffed-Up, Self-Absorbed, All-Hat-And-No-Cattle Cowboy

Received this e-mail from singer-songwriter James Taylor is support of former Vice President Joe Biden’s presidential campaign: Joe Biden I'm reaching out personally to ask because this election is the … Read More

Trump tells reporters he is a radical lefty. REALLY!

After a solid speech by Joe Biden on policies he said he would implement, Donald Trump made a shocking lefty admission I hope his cult members heard. Donald Trump is … Read More

Claudia Conway gets cancelled by her parents (was her college money held hostage?)

Trump and the GOP's cancel mania still proliferate, because fear, hate, and money rule the roost until November. All that right-wing cruelty comes out, with GOP governors willing to sacrifice their … Read More

GA-Sen A: Ossoff (D) Calls For Law Requiring All Federal Officials Put Their Stocks In Blind Trusts

I like where’s going with this: A few days before she showed up at the state capitol on March 2 to qualify to run in a special election this year, … Read More

Dr. Fauci should join the Biden campaign

Donald Trump is the angel of death. He’s a coronavirus super-spreader and the Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse’s biggest fanboy. The only way his actions make any sense at all is … Read More

Mary Trump freed from Gag Order: expect more dirt to be dished

A judge has freed Mary Trump from a gag order, allowing the president’s niece to speak freely about her family and promote her book. Lots of MSM schedulers burning up … Read More

KY-Sen: Amy McGrath (D), “We need to tackle police brutality, give Breonna Taylor's family justice”

U.S. Senate candidate, Amy McGrath (D. KY), is working to unite her party after her close primary win against progressive challenger, Charles Booker (D. NJ). McGrath stopped in Louisville to … Read More

Trump administration lifts silencer sales ban meant to protect our troops from ambush

Could Donald J. Trump hate our troops any more than he already does? No. No, he couldn’t. Apparently it wasn’t enough for Trump to ignore bounties placed on the heads of our … Read More

What are we Debating?

Two names, Dr. Anthony Stephen Fauci and President Donald John Trump. Dr. Fauci has served as the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984. That … Read More

TX-Sen: Cornyn (R) Gets OWNED On Twitter For Trying To Discredit Experts About Kids Getting COVID-19

Someone need to keep this idiot off of Twitter: x Which ones? https://t.co/E1yuUCqwph— Senator John Cornyn (@JohnCornyn) July 12, 2020 Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) has questioned what experts he should listen to … Read More

AK-Sen: Dr. Al Gross (I) Puts Pressure On Sullivan (R) To Stop Trump From Withdrawing From The WHO

Received this e-mail today from Dr. Al Gross’ (I. AK) U.S. Senate campaign: Dr. Al Gross (I. AK) We're still in the midst of a pandemic — even if President … Read More

Biden will do well to heed the message of pundits like Zerlina Maxwell

Pundit Zerlina Maxwell appeared on This Week with some important advice for Joe Biden after answering a non-related question from George Stephanopoulos. Biden will do well to heed the message of pundits … Read More

J. Rubin Is Moving Away from Conservatism

I used to avoid Jennifer Rubin back in the Obama days, when she could find nothing good to say about the President and nothing bad to say about Romney, as … Read More

MO-Gov: SLU/YouGov Poll Shows A Tight Race Between Mike Parson (R) & Nicole Galloway (D), 41-39

Here’s the latest news today out of Missouri: Our SLU/YouGov Poll shows that the gubernatorial race between Governor Parson and Democratic challenger, Nicole Galloway, is tightening with Parson now leading … Read More

MT-Sen: PPP Has Gov. Steve Bullock (D) Beating Sen. Steve Daines (R) 46-44

Here’s the latest news out of Montana today courtesy of PPP’s latest poll: PPP’s new Montana poll finds that Steve Bullock is the most popular politician in the state and … Read More

WaPo: Trump hits 20,000 lies… Ho-Hum?

The rate of lies doubled as soon as Trump began the Ukraine shake-down and the Mueller Report was thwarted. Try to remember the lies of the Obama administration, just as a … Read More

TX-Sen: Looks Like John Cornyn (R) Is Trying To Rat F*** This Week's Democratic Primary Runoff

From Huffington Post: x Here's the TV ad that @JohnCornyn's campaign is going up with tomorrow, similar to the attack ad that it first ran against @RoyceWestTX last summer: pic.twitter.com/05NBUzO12U— … Read More

Notes from the Silly Season: COVID and Trump's weird gait

Trump's plague ship of state runs aground on the sand bar of the DNC platform committee because intra-party division may yet disrupt party solidarity.  A month out from the Democratic National … Read More

ME-Sen: Bangor Residents Register Voters By Throwing Sen. Susan Collins (R) A Retirement Party

I like this: x Some Bangor residents are throwing a retirement party for Sen. Susan Collins. “We are hosting a party because we need to feel some hope for a … Read More

Joe Biden Has The Momentum To Expand His Electoral Map As More States Sour On Trump

The New York Times has a great piece out about how Democrats are eager to not only help Joe Biden take out Trump but also want him to expand the … Read More

In searing obituary, woman blames our feckless leaders for her father's COVID-related death

Ask Donald Trump and his loyal enablers about his coronavirus response and they’ll tell you how fantastic it’s been. It’s a bizarre stance, and basically the equivalent of BP taking … Read More

TX-Sen: Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D. MA) Gives MJ Hegar (D) A Boost Before Tuesday's Runoff Election

Received this e-mail today from former presidential candidate, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D. MA), in support of MJ Hegar’s (D. TX) U.S. Senate campaign: x YouTube Video Something's happening in … Read More

#PardonMeTrump wears a mask once, his minions praise him for waiting 100 days and 135,000 deaths

The mask wearing photo-op was a ploy to divert attention from his other troubles like Russian bounties, retaliation against Alex Vindman, and the Roger Stone clemency. And then there’s his … Read More

CO-Sen: “A fellow Republican asks — where did Cory Gardner’s (R) integrity go?”

Former U.S. Rep. Claudine Schneider (R. RI), founder of the organization, Republicans for Integrity, has started calling out U.S. Senate Republicans up for re-election for losing their integrity by putting … Read More

Graham Agrees to Have Mueller Testify to Senate

Looks like “Leningrad Lindsey” Graham may be setting up a trap — for himself: Sen. Graham says Mueller may be invited to testify in wake of op-ed on Trump’s commutation … Read More

This new Donald Trump Jr. book cover is eminently mockable

x Do you think we should tell @DonaldJTrumpJr that there’s a typo on his book cover? He means “the Democrats’ defense of the indefensible.” pic.twitter.com/SVSEiThDjn— Garrett M. Graff (@vermontgmg) July … Read More

IA-Sen The Daily Beast, “The Woman Who May Send Joni Ernst (R) Back to Castrating Pigs”

Margaret Carlson at The Daily Beast has a must read piece on U.S. Senate candidate, Theresa Greenfield (D. IA), and her upcoming race to unseat incumbent U.S. Senator Joni Ernst … Read More

After Maria passed in 2017, Trump suggested selling Puerto Rico in its greatest moment of need.

“Quit being so emotional, Elaine, it’s not about the people, it’s about the money.” Mick Mulvaney to Elaine Duke, acting director of Homeland security in 2017. Of course, he did. … Read More

After Maria passed in 2017, Trump suggested selling Puerto Rico during its greatest moment of need.

“Quit being so emotional, Elaine, it’s not about the people, it’s about the money.” Mick Mulvaney to Elaine Duke, acting director of Homeland security in 2017. Of course, he did. … Read More

Finally, pundit lays the demise of Americans to COVID-19 on Trump

MSNBC Pundit Michael Beschloss provided the best narrative that describes the president's complicity in the COVID-19 fiasco that killed tens of thousands of Americans. Michael Beschloss puts COVID-19 blame on … Read More

cancel culture is like cultural marxism: nonsense, but Trump will sell you their snake oil

Trump’s tweeting more gibberish replete with nonsense and continues to tank the economy built by the previous administration. Ever the opportunist, Trump would have signed off on the recent “Justice and … Read More