NYT: Trump's obsession with antifa hobbled feds' response to far-right threat

If Donald Trump truly had a magic Sharpie, he could create a Froopyland in his own image and live there forever. In that enchanted land, tropical storms would go wherever he … Read More

Post-riot Quinnipiac poll: 75 percent think democracy under threat, 52 percent want Trump removed

Our last two Republican presidents were all but tarred and feathered and run out of town on a rail. I can’t imagine why anyone would want another one. It’s like … Read More

It is January 1, 2021 . . . and our biggest national threat remains the Republican voter.

It is a new year.  Trump’s days are specifically numbered.  Hope of effective Covid vaccines remain in the air.  And, yet . . . CNN reports that “At least 140 House Republicans … Read More

It Is Well Past Time To Confront The Truth Of The Republican Party's Threat To Democracy

Watching the depressing and alarming spectacle of 17 Republican states joining Texas’s bad faith, frivolous Supreme Court application to overturn the election in favor of Trump, I am reminded that … Read More

Trump declares Twitter a national security threat because it's more important than Iran for 53 days

Trump’s doing nothing about the continuing rise in Covid cases, and is spending his time at golf and continuing to sow chaos on the path to the bunker. Meanwhile the … Read More

Add a climate change enhanced fungal threat to this season's flu and COVID outbreaks.

Candida Auris is an emerging fungal disease that COVID 19 is threatening to force with additional infections because it is common in hospital settings. It is difficult to control the … Read More

“…the biggest threat to the rule of law” is not 'organized, violent leftist terrorism', but Trump

Ryan Lizza tries to convince us that Trump is a formidable debater because horse race, even if Trump is a mudder. When the track gets wet, and his finances are below … Read More

Trump in ABC town hall, touts 'herd mentality' (or herd immunity) in ignoring pandemic threat

“Let's understand what this is: Donald Trump has confessed, on tape, to the greatest and most deadly lie in all the long history of the United States bar none.” — Steve … Read More

Oklahoma City threat legacy: there are no stochastic lone wolves

Other than Trump’s deliberate mass-casualty response to COVID-19, there was an earlier event that had similar malevolence. This is not about “antifa” as a threat, rather it is the continuing, intergenerational … Read More

DHS Says White Supremacy is Country's Biggest Threat

DHS is drafting its annual threat assessment report, and Politico got hold of the draft: DHS draft document: White supremacists are greatest terror threat White supremacists present the gravest terror … Read More

CO-Sen: Denver Post, “Cory Gardner (R) poses a threat to safe and legal abortion”

Anna Ramirez Crawford, board chair for the Women;s Lobby of Colorado has a good op-ed piece out in the Denver Post that goes after U.S. Senator Cory Gardner’s (R. CO) … Read More

Vote Vets: NDAA Trump Veto Threat ad

up today For context, Trump has threatened to veto the National Defense Authorization Act, the legislation that funds DOD and includes a pay raise military service personnel, if it in … Read More

Boogaloo: DHS warns increased threat of RW domestic terror

Wear a Hawai'ian shirt, go to jail…Tulsa did have in attendance the anti-government gun-toting version of Proud Boys called Boogaloo Bois. Fortunately they chickened out on a mission to foment conflict … Read More

How will Trump's rallies be covered the second time – now that they are also a public health threat?

Trump is pressing to resume shortly his regular “rallies” — with thousands packed in an arena despite the Covid pandemic.   This brings to mind the wide, post-mortem soul-searching among the … Read More

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D. NY) Helps Joe Biden Take Out An Existential Threat To This Country

Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D. NY) in support of former  Vice President Joe Biden’s presidential campaign: Donald Trump is a coward, a pathological liar, and … Read More

'Unprecedented Threat' from climate change enhanced locust swarms plague, East Africa.

If you're asking when climate change is going to “happen,” you're really asking when's it going to happen to “me,” because it's already happened to many other people. Eric Roston … Read More

'Unprecedented Threat' from climate change enhanced locust swarms plague East Africa.

If you’re asking when climate change is going to “happen,” you’re really asking when’s it going to happen to “me,” because it’s already happened to many other people. Eric Roston … Read More

POTUS* is a “continuing threat to Democracy” – the end of the Trump era begins

It has come to this, despite complaints that it’s all happening too fast while Trump refuses to follow the law. As Speaker Pelosi prays for Trump, so should we pray … Read More

Did You Know That Elizabeth Warren Is a GREATER Threat To The Country Than Donald Trump?

That great Republican sage from Utah — Mitt Romney — gave an interview in which he basically said that conservative Republicans think that a President Elizabeth Warren would hurt the country more … Read More

Oregon: (R) Senator-in-hiding Makes Death Threat, Gets Militia Support [Upd4: Militia disavowed?]

So, yeah, Oregon. Where there’s an increasing chance of an armed standoff between the government and… the government. First, a little background. As of the last election, the Democrats enjoy full … Read More