GOP Takes Dump On America, Again 'Former U.S. President Donald Trump and former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo praised Russian President Vladimir Putin's strategy in Ukraine. Pompeo, in a February 18, 2022 interview,…
Monday Ménage: Edition Presidents, With a Plus 1
Harding. Eisenhower. Carter. Obama. There is something inherently wrong, something out of accord with the ideals of representative democracy, when one portion of our citizenship turns its activities to private gain amid defensive…
Friday Serenade: Doesn’t Have To Be Like This
War. Threat of War. Injustice. Child Poverty. ~ Reports in Russian state media of explosion in Donetsk amid fears of plan to trigger invasion The explosion follows multiple warnings by the US and others…
Friday Serenade: American Experiment, Crushed By Minority Rule
We Have Journeyed Far From Here ~ Supreme Court Blocks Biden The Supreme Court blocked the Biden administration from enforcing its emergency rule mandating that workers at large businesses get vaccinated or undergo regular…
The United States of America
History Is Teacher; We Learn or We Perish. Near the end of 1923, an odd, self-absorbed little man was arrested and charged with sedition and treason for his part in what became known as…
Wednesday WayBack: White Nationalists and Their Motherland
Moscow Mitch McConnell's outrage yesterday at Democrats' radicalism – fighting for the right for every eligible citizen to vote – is not anything new. Far-right Republicans have long turned to Russia and the former…
McConnell’s Big Fear: If You Let It, Democracy Works
McConnell Thinks Fighting For Voting Rights Is 'Radicalism' - And Not The Good Kind U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday laid bare his reasoning for vehemently defending the use of the…
Adolph DeSantis Has Storm Troops Arrest, Detain Citizen – ‘Cus He Felt Like It
Floridians, If You Don't Bow Down Or If You Speak Out, He's Coming For Ya ~ This is what fascist leaders do to their public to instill fear in them. A peaceful elderly Black…
America: Looking Back, Looking Forward
I have been accused of being too negative, too doom and gloom, about America. So, let's compare America, with images, for the years 2016-2020, 2021, and what we can expect in this new year…
An Image: Only In America
Is this a Great Country or What???
Stand Down
Military Suicide Rates Are At All-Time High Suicide rates among active-duty military members are currently at an all-time high since record-keeping began after 9/11 and have been increasing over the past five years at…
Wednesday WayBack: Insecure Domestic Tranquility; The Road To America’s Ruin
As part of his long-game manifesto to disrupt America's domestic tranquility, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell openly urges the current unhinged disruptor having his moment, coal multimillionaire Corporate-Democratic Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia,…
Treason. Sedition. Insurrection. Attempted Coup. Yeah, It’s All Of That.
Names. Dates. Times. Places. We already knew that a large number of Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives had tried to overturn the free and fair election of 2020; and some continue this…
Williams Signs Off
Anchor ends his nightly Show “The 11th Hour” with a look back on his time with the network ~ After 28 years of peacock logos on much of what I own, it is my…
I’m OK. Really…
Health Advocates Sue to Force FDA Decision on Petitions to Ban Phthalates in Food ~ While FDA delays, children and adults consume dangerous levels of endocrine-disrupting chemicals in foods. Health advocates represented by Earthjustice…
Friday Serenade: No Mandates For Manly Men. But For Women, Yeah, Mandate Life And Death
POS GOP Reject Vaccine Mandates for Men, But Same Cowards Demand Pregnancy Mandates for Women One way to explain these contradictions in Republican ideology is sexism. Right wing ideology is about male power and…
Adults. Guns. Kids. Guns. Mass Murders. America’s History. Guns!
Parents Of Oxford High School Shooting Suspect Charged With Involuntary Manslaughter Ethan Crumbley's mother and father face charges in the wake of a Michigan school shooting that left four students dead and seven people…
Wednesday WayBack: Backsliding In The USA
On Monday, the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) published results of a study that finds the United States of America is a “backsliding” democracy. “The visible deterioration of democracy in the…
Backsliding, It’s All The Rage
“This year we coded the United States as backsliding for the first time, but our data suggest that the backsliding episode began at least in 2019” No American – woke or unwoke, engaged or…
Monday Ménage: Edition Power, Corruption, Excesses and Idiots
Goodman/Howe. Zinn. Miller. Democratic power springs from an enlightened electorate. The neglect of this possibility in America – the failure to protect and advance it with new form and content during a century…
America Has Come To A Fork In The Road. Will The Supreme Court Choose The Path That Saves Or Ruins The Democracy
The sitting justices face a once-in-a-lifetime crisis of legitimacy that could determine the future of the US Courtesy of Guardian News & Media Ltd. Author: Gary Gerstle Common sense suggests that America ought to…
Friday Serenade: Exhausted, Frustrated, But Not Lost
A participating member at DemocraticUnderground.com posted a truthful, and, yes, haunting essay on his frustration with the current state of affairs in the United States. He asks the question: Anyone else just utterly exhausted,…
Reminder: The Past Becoming Our Present
But There's Still A Chance To Alter Our Course, It Must Be With Every Move We Make This is sick behavior from Rep. Paul Gosar. He tweeted out the video showing him killing…
Voter Fraud! Voter Fraud! Voter Fraud! Oh, Never Mind, The Republican Won
Hypocrites Hucksters and Hacks Over a month ago, Republicans were planning their end-of-the-cycle strategy for the Virginia election for governor. It was simple. Not new, but simple. As election day got closer right-wingers…
Dem Rep. Cori Bush Takes Down That Phony Little Joey
Democratic Representative Cori Bush of Missouri did not hold back (she rarely does) when on Monday she told the country just what she thought about Democratic Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia and his…













