“There Is a Ticking Timebomb” Republican controlled states across the country are moving more aggressively with their democracy-killing agenda to make voting as difficult as possible in counties where Blacks, Latinos and low-income…
Danger Ahead: Anti-Democracy Drift
Reminders “The radicalization of the Republican Party has outpaced what even most critical observers imagined. We need to grapple with what that should mean for our expectations going forward and start thinking…
Hey Repubs, What Have Ya Got To Lose
The Big Lie Or The Truth. Decisions, Decisions Tuesday, 19 January 2021: "The mob was fed lies, they were provoked by [Trump]." Senator Mitch McConnell on the Senate floor. Tuesday, 18 May 2021:…
Monday Ménage: First Nations Edition
Memorial Ode. Since Time Immemorial. Truth Telling. MEMORIAL ODE / The HAUDENOSAUNEE (The Iroquois Confederacy – The Great League) CHANT Now, listen, Ye who established the Great League, Now it has become old,…
Hey Dems, LizCons Is Not Your Friend. Please, Just Stop!
Swooning Over Liz Liz Cheney voted with the former occupant of the White House 93% of the time. She is anti-everything Democrats (are supposed to) stand for. Just because she did this one…
Will This Nation Survive
Eugene Robinson at the Washington Post sums it up, perfectly: The greatest threat to our nation’s future is not covid-19 or the rise of China or even the existential challenge of climate…
He’s Still At It
Republicans don't like it when voting is easy for U.S. citizens. Because, as we all know, when casting a vote is unrestricted, Democrats out-vote Republicans. So, Republicans, especially at the state level, are passing…
We Love To Hate. It’s You, Not Me
Sixty-Four Percent of Americans Think Social Media Divides More Than Unite A new NBC poll reveals astonishing news: Most Americans who use social media more than once a day think platforms like Facebook…
Danger Ahead
Enemies Of The People It’s hard to overstate how dangerous this is, and what its consequences might entail in the very near future. As Greg Sargent notes, the 'GOP appears to be plunging…
A Free Press Means A Free People
World Press Freedom Day 'Startling Extent of Police Violence Against Journalists' Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press released its annual report on the state of press freedom in the U.S. 5 Takeaways:…
Just Sunday Drivin’
Are We There Yet?
International Workers Day
Happy May Day International Workers’ Day was established to honour lives lost at the Haymarket Affair / Haymarket Massacre that took place in Chicago on May 4, 1886. The confrontation between police and…
THE Image
Madame Speaker. Madame Vice-President.
The More Things Change The More They…
After watching the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing where Democratic voting rights activist Stacey Abrams schools Republicans on systemic voter suppression in this country, I scrolled through my folders holding files related to this…
When An Image Tells The Story: Maxine Edition
Ieshia Evans Getting Confrontational Ieshia Evans is facing straight on a large number of heavily-armed police at a Black Lives Matter protest in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in 2016 following the shooting (multiple times)…
Dictator Wannabe Platform 2022/2024
Florida Gov Ron DeSantis Signs Bill Making Protest A Crime, Allowing Drivers To Run Down Protesters. It's clear this bill is the foundation upon which DeSantis will build his 2022 reelection campaign with a…
America Police Force
White Guy Drags Cop, Lives To Talk About It ........ A 61-year-old white guy from Hutchinson, Minnesota didn't like being told to wear a mask while he was in a home improvement/tools store…
Chaos, Crisis And The Death Of Democracy
Questions and Answers On morning, noon, evening and nightime talk-news shows, recent conversations have centered on the Republican Party's absolute opposition to any and all of the Biden agenda. The leading question among…
Mitch, A Special Place In Hell Awaits You
Hypocrite of the year award, and there's no close second, goes to Republican Senator Mitch McConnell for lecturing corporate CEOs for speaking out against, and one taking direct action against, voter suppression laws in…
Voter Suppression And Corporate $$$$
To date, a few well known large corporations have released public statements voicing opposition, in varying degrees, to the voter suppression laws being enacted in Republican controlled states across the country. At last count…
Think Republican Attacks On Voting Rights In Georgia And Other States Is No Big Deal…
Then Remember This... In 1930, Germany is a liberal democracy. Just four years later, democracy is dead, Germany’s leader is a dictator and the government is in the hands of the Nazis.
The Playbook Reads Familiar
It's Getting Serious, Folks. Georgia Republicans Go Even Farther Right. While Georgia's Republican governor Brian Kemp was signing the now-known-around-the-world 98-page anti-democracy Republican voter suppression bill, state Representative Park Cannon knocked on his closed…
“Is This Patriot Enough”
Lee Wong, American Patriot Lee Wong, Board of Trustees president in West Chester Township, Ohio, showed this week during a regular scheduled hearing what real patriotism looks like. With dignity and purpose, Mr.…
‘Vicious Attack on Voting Rights’
Looks Familiar (Except For The Masks) "Sick" and "Un-American" Georgia governor Brian Kemp signs 95 page GOP voter suppression bill less than two hours after Georgia's Republican lawmakers gave final approval to…
Republicans. Guns. Votes. The Numbers
1 Week. 2 Mass Murders. 18 Dead. Assault On America Lives And Democracy When Democrats passed the Assault Weapons Ban in 1994, the number of mass shootings went down by 37%.…
This Is The United States of America. WTF! UPDATED
A 21-Year-Old Man Murdered 10 People Including A First-On-The-Scene Police Officer On Monday At A Grocery Store In Boulder, Colorado. Officer Eric Talley was 51 years old. He is survived by his wife and…
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