If U.S. democracy falls this century, it will likely be at the hands of a stubby-fingered sack of extra-piquant donkey farts who likely never bothered to read the Constitution he swore to uphold—and certainly didn’t understand it if he did bother. In other words, we’re at the stage in the...
From The Daily Beast: Josh Mandel—the far-right, former Ohio state representative now running for Senate—has recently joined the chorus of conservatives railing against Big Tech. But before he turned against Silicon Valley, Mandel was a Facebook stock investor who made tens of thousands of dollars. And even after he turned...
x Allow me to introduce you to the Governor of Florida… pic.twitter.com/aimVnJhTPD— Wes Davis (he/him) (@WRKwithWes) April 17, 2020 This was from last year and after a full year, he has not learned very much about masks. http://www.abcactionnews.com/… If DeSantis fails to extend the emergency order for another 60 days,...
Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) was born in the heart of the old Democratic south. He is a devout southerner, born in Mississippi, and attended college at both the University of Virginia and Vanderbilt in Tennessee. At age sixty-nine, I believe it is safe to say that the one-time southern Democrat,...
Some big news this week out of Missouri: A Missouri Democrat who works at an organization that fights corporate monopolies on Tuesday became the latest candidate to announce a bid for U.S. Senate. Lucas Kunce, 38, is the national security policy director at the American Economic Liberties Project, an organization...
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 who never liked to make toys and forgot to show up for elf practice because his real dream was to loofah Donald Trump’s hide so he’d stop looking...
The sparse number of actual carbon capture and sequestration projects plus weak carbon markets amplify the problems of the climate crisis yet to be revisited, post-Trump. Two heartland examples in North Dakota and Texas show how there are several interlocking problems addressing the climate crisis that must be included in future environmental policy. More specifically...
Likely there will be Daniel Dale or Aaron Rupar to tweet about the Trump blather. As for the insurrection, it was as if it had never happened. It will shock you how much the it never happened. Tom Cotton inveighed against anti-cop mobs—but only in the context of Portland and without seeming to...
“In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.” ~ Aristotle It is a fact that the biggest threat to our species is not climate change, though it will likely end much of what we experience today, but rather our war on bio-diversity. Bio-diversity is under attack from...
Now those are some tough fighting words: Pennsylvania Lt. Governor John Fetterman is a verified Shakespeare when it comes to crafting articulate, downright eloquent takedowns of the worst GOP members. Take his recent Josh Hawley takedown for example. Fetterman, who just announced a prospective Senate bid, guested on a Daily Beast podcast recently and unloaded...
Declare victory and still try to overthrow the election. Fanfare for the common idiot. Donald Trump on Thursday celebrated the end of 2020 with an upbeat video message where he used xenophobic language to describe the novel coronavirus and claimed that he is receiving calls from around the globe thanking...
Trumpist anti-certifying efforts for the remaining states seem a fools’ errand but Trump and Giuliani seem to be the best fools for it. Regardless, they are chasing some version of an apocalyptic conclusion. x And Bannon talking about it openly on his insane Alex Jones-level podcast. — S.V. Dáte (@svdate) November 18,...
The road back will be long. What is troubling are the 70 million people who voted for hate and cruelty. It is time for healing, as America stops at the brink of neofascism. Biden’s victory speech is at 8pm ET. x POTUS and FLOTUS. pic.twitter.com/KCO8aE4QBw— Pete Souza (@PeteSouza) November 7, 2020 x...
Even Fox News is getting sick of this shit: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has been using his airtime on Fox News to appeal for more money from viewers. But it seems the right-wing network may have had enough. Graham, who is locked in a tight race against Democratic challenger Jaime...
This story supports a group reading of Karl Marx’s Capital Vol 1. This covers chapters 11-14. Set against the backdrop of the Luddite uprisings in the Yorkshire textile industry, Charlotte Brontë’s novel Shirley caused a sensation when it was published in 1849 – under the pseudonym ‘Currer Bell’. Robert Moore is...
Trump will continue to make the pandemic-enhanced recession worse, as Trump suggests he'd leave the country. Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution – Title 18 US Code 1073: x I don't think Putin wants him.— Greg Olear (@gregolear) October 17, 2020 x Jesus. Trump’s doing a comedy farewell tour.pic.twitter.com/v1zir2MUKm — ken olin...
Trump eventually will be directly responsible for a quarter-million deaths from COVID. “We’re actually experiencing more death than we thought we were.” x Excess COVID death study: 75K more died in US than previously recorded#Trump is complicit in the deaths of over 210,000 Americans https://t.co/Nz3RwvzBZq— FreedomExpressed 🌊🌊 (@iPicNews) October 12,...
Donald Trump is on quite a losing streak. He’s so desperate he wants to look in Joe Biden’s ear and make him take a drug test before tonight’s debate. Pretty rich, huh? I’m reasonably certain Biden can get through a Trump debate without drugs … which makes him a better man than I am, because...
Yale Environment 360 notes “just as global warming has propelled the Arctic Ocean past a tipping point which will lead to a largely ice-free Arctic in summer in the coming decades. Wildfire scientists say that rising global temperatures and worsening droughts mean that the world has entered a new era...
Received this e-mail from former presidential candidate, U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D. NJ), in support of Jaime Harrison’s (D. SC) U.S. Senate campaign: Jaime Harrison (D. SC) Some good news I wanted to share with you: a brand new poll shows Jaime Harrison in a virtual tie with his opponent, Senator Lindsey...
Trump’s Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin believes that giving Americans $600/week is overpaying. Here is why he is completely wrong. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin shows he is oblivious to American’s plight Watch the full episode here It is clear that Steven Mnuchin, Trump’s Treasury Secretary does not have a...
From High Times Magazine: The Yale-educated former aide to Rep. James Clyburn, Jaime Harrison, is challenging Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham for a US Senate seat in South Carolina. Harrison is a vocal supporter of cannabis legalization, and recently highlighted the disproportionate way that cannabis laws are enforced upon black...
Cartoon characters without pants might have to drop drawers as SCOTUS finally rules on Trump’s financial records today. There will be an over/under and perhaps even a split difference, but regardless there will be strong, powerful, or even strongly or powerfully Trump distractions. Bigly matters will at least be referenced...
Contradictions heightened this past week, as Trump/Pence continued to disinform the American public. 126,000 people have died. Troubling is a Pew poll that indicates that 40% of Americans think the “worst is behind us” for the pandemic. x President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence have repeatedly attributed the...
Received this e-mail today from Democracy for America in support of Jaime Harrison’s (D. SC) U.S. Senate campaign: This is huge: Polls show Jaime Harrison is TIED 42% – 42% with Sen. Lindsey Graham in the race for South Carolina’s U.S. Senate seat. Grassroots supporters like you have helped Jaime Harrison outraise...
The Atlantic has a good piece out about the upcoming U.S. Senate race between incumbent U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R. SC) and former South Carolina Democratic Party Chairman Jaime Harrison (D. SC). It’s worth the read but Adam Harris emphasizes how Harrison could pull off an upset win: When we...
Much of this narrative still has to play out, but birding, animal cruelty, privilege, Central Park, class, culture, all are part of this bit of meme. COVID-19 has wound everyone up in the hotspots. Which Fox News pundit will take the lead on this. Imagine the counternarrative (he was trying...
Ouch: Wallace Lightsey, a Greenville attorney, is a self-described “moderate Republican” who has given money over the years to members of both parties. That includes $9,500 to U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, the Republican incumbent up for reelection this November. But this year, Lightsey is doing something different: he’s donating to...
Received this e-mail today from former presidential candidate, Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D. IN), in support of Jaime Harrison’s (D. SC) U.S. Senate campaign: Jaime Harrison (D. SC) This November, our country will make a decision about the character of America's future. A lot is on the table — including the...
The GOP’s goal is more about being reelected rather than economic recovery, and their tacit promotion of RW resistance through gun rallies is only a first step “back to normal”. This is happening even if they also tolerate attacks on science by pseudo-scientific propaganda like Vaxxed or Plandemic. Unfortunately, the...
The new normal is already here, at least for another year. BREAKING: Dr. Anthony Fauci tells me he will warn the Senate on Tuesday that Americans will face "needless suffering and death" if the country opens up prematurely. https://t.co/3d2D0lu6c2 — Sheryl Gay Stolberg (@SherylNYT) May 12, 2020 https://twitter.com/jennycohn1/status/1260067698316242944? #Coronavirus update, 5/10,...
I’ve always suspected Donald Trump would be far more upset if someone screwed up his McDonald’s lunch order than if, say, millions of promised (and necessary) coronavirus tests failed to materialize by a self-imposed deadline. After all, Trump can lie about the tests, but he can’t pretend he has an invisible...
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 has been tested for COVID-19. And Howard Dean is the first to announce that he’ll not go on MSNBC as...
Fucking idiot: Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) deemed a potential national shelter-in-place order amid the COVID-19 pandemic an “overreaction” on Thursday. An increasing number of public health experts have recommended residents be ordered to stay home in an effort to help contain the rapid U.S. spread of the virus. Cornyn argued...
Now that it is almost a certainty that Senator Bernie Sanders will never become the President of the United States—although my timing is off; is it time to take a sober look at where he wanted to take the country? The rank and file Republicans get hung up on labels...
Apparently Alan Dershowitz got insulted when he claimed he had a perfect sex life, and forensic psychiatrist Bandy X. Lee thought it verged on delusion like his buddy, IMPOTUS*. Darn those tweets and darn that tendency to lawfare. This may have seemed like symmetric media messaging because Dershowitz and Trump were sharing...
And what seems clear now is that Greenland is no longer changing in geological time. It is changing in human time. Jon Gertner, Yale Environment 360 ...
Thanks to President Trump and his transparent and perverse desire to enrich his golfing buddies in the fossil fuel industry and to accelerate the climate crisis, the U.S. is the most notorious climate criminal in the world right now. But the Aussies are giving us a run for our money....
Salvation is a post-apocalyptic film set in the year 2018. It focuses on the war between Skynet’s machine network and humanity, as the remnants of the world’s military have united to form the Resistance to fight against Skynet’s killing machines. Christian Bale portrays John Connor, a Resistance fighter and central...
Maybe Lindsey’s idea to convert himself into Trump’s boot licker wasn’t such a hot idea idea after all. Although Lindsey Graham is still currently the favorite to win in this safe Trump state, he is trending downward after several major embarrassments. On the flip side, Democratic challenger Jamie Harrison has been steadily...
The New York Times is just out with the latest bus driver: The Moustache himself: Bolton Objected to Ukraine Pressure Campaign, Calling Giuliani ‘a Hand Grenade’ The effort to pressure Ukraine for political help provoked a heated confrontation inside the White House last summer that so alarmed John R. Bolton,...
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator and Presidential Candidate, Cory Booker (D. NJ), in support of Jaime Harrison’s (D. SC) U.S. Senate campaign: Team, I’m grateful to be here today in South Carolina alongside my good friend, Jaime Harrison. I’m not sure if you know this, but Jaime and I go way back....
Received this e-mail from U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D. VA) in support of Jaime Harrison’s (D. SC) U.S. Senate campaign: If we are going to take back the Senate next year — and I believe that we can — Jaime Harrison is going to be a big part of getting us there. So I'm...
Received this e-mail from U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D. IL) in support of Jaime Harrison’s (D. SC) U.S. Senate campaign: I’m writing to you today to ask you to make a donation to support Jaime Harrison, the Democratic candidate for Senate in South Carolina. Jaime is hands down our best...
Received this e-mail today from Rep. Adam Schiff (D. CA-28) in support of Sara Gideon’s (D. ME) U.S. Senate campaign: Rep. Adam Schiff (D. CA-28) Brett Kavanaugh should not have been confirmed to the Supreme Court. Almost one year ago, we heard the courageous and gut-wrenching testimony of Dr. Christine...
So remember Brett “Bart O’Kavanaugh” Kavanaugh? He’s on the Supreme Court now because he screamed a lot at one of his hearings and the FBI did at most a 1/16th-ass investigation of the sexual assault and attempted rape claims against him. Today, in a feature on Kavanaugh accuser Deborah Ramirez, who...
Received this e-mail today from the Progressive Change Campaign Committee: Nobody has abandoned their values and become more of a Trump suck-up than South Carolina Senator Lindsay Graham. He plays a starring role in our new TV ad calling out national Republicans for being silent in the face of Trump's racism...
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D. OR) in support of Jaime Harrison’s (D. OR) U.S. Senate campaign: To take back the Senate, we need to fight hard everywhere there's an opportunity. And one of our best opportunities is in South Carolina, where we have a real...
Received this e-mail today from Democracy for America: x YouTube Video Exciting news: You know Lindsey Graham. He's the Senator who frothed at the mouth in anger over how horrible Brett Kavanaugh was treated by Dr. Christine Ford during the Supreme Court hearings. He's the Senator who said Trump is...
In solidarity, Russell Greene and Mike Hersh for Alan, Mike F., Janis, Dan, Dr. Bill, Kimberly, Bryan, Deb, and Shayna—your PDA National Team Join Us Mobilizing For The Green New Deal! The political moment arose quickly, and Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) / People Demanding Action activists once again rose...
