Writing at CommonDreams.org, Thom Hartmann asks the question on the minds of many Americans: Will US Turn Away From Fascism and Abandon This GOP Death Cult Before It's Too Late? Hartmann: The current Republican…
Friday Serenade: AWWH, Jeff, It’s Over
Back when Donald Trump was a washed-up businessman, with a checkered history of bankruptcies, racism and failed real estate projects, it was Jeff Zucker, then the president of NBC Entertainment, who decided to resurrect…
Wednesday WayBack: Tripping All Over Themselves
A number of leading Republican senators are tripping over themselves trying to hide from questions about Trump's promise at a recent Texas rally that if he's elected in 2024 he will pardon the January…
Friday Serenade: When Worlds Collide
He is famously among the most ornery, uncompromising and capricious of blue-chip legends ~ Neil Young’s battle is principled – and comfortable In pulling his music from Spotify in protest over Covid misinformation, the…
Monday Ménage: Edition Social Media, News, Librarians
Wylie. Aral. Vonnegut. The first tool of authoritarian regimes is always informational control—both in the gathering of information on the public through surveillance and the filtration of information to the public through owned…
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…
Prez Gave His Speech. It Was A Nice Speech. We Like Nice Speeches
President Joe Biden on Tuesday gave a speech in Atlanta endorsing eliminating the filibuster for the passage of voting rights bills. The speech had its moments. But speeches alone will not save U.S. democracy.…
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…
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…
Unguarded Moments
The Resemblance Is Uncanny ~~ Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell: I am "100 percent" focused "on stopping" President Joe Biden's administration
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,…
Manchin Once Again Tells Us Who He Is. It’s Really Time To Believe Him
POS DINO Manchin – The Senator Who Doesn't Give A Fuck About Anyone But Himself, And His Corporate Sponsors After months of negotiations, after months of promising he was negotiating in good faith, coal…
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…
Wednesday WayBack: Press Freedom ——— End To The Allusion
Entering A New Reality Upon the ruling by U.K.'s High Court to allow the extradition to the U.S. of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, questions about a free press in the United States of America…
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…
Friday Serenade: Repubs Playing With Their Ding-A-Lings
208 Republicans Playing With IT, They're Not Protecting Our Democracy It seems simple enough – you want to protect our democracy or you don't. Unfortunately, but not surprising, 208 House Republications voted they do…
President Joe Biden Warns That U.S. Democracy In Decline
THEN DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!!! At Thursday's virtual Summit for Democracy, President Biden repeated warnings from the International Institute of Democracy and Electoral Assistance that the United States is among the growing number of…
Wednesday WayBack: Yes, History Repeats; A Short Reading List
A Little Obsession Is Good Obsession Received a couple of e-mails recently suggesting I might be obsessed with the idea today's Republicans are a Nazi-like political party. Well, I think 'obsessed' could be an…
It’s In The Playbook. They Like The Playbook
Who Has The Balls??? Kevin McCarthy, Republican representative from California – he's called House Minority Leader – once again shows the world how much of a coward he is and how little he cares…
Buh Bye
Statement from CNN: (5:09 PM · Dec 4, 2021·Twitter for iPhone) Chris Cuomo was suspended earlier this week pending further evaluation of new information that came to light about his involvement with his brother's…
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…
Silence From Republican Party Leaders Speaks Volumes, Loudly
Sometimes Fear Is More Than A Lifestyle Choice Kevin McCarthy's silence on out-of-control House members of his Party engaging in full-on harassment, threats, and abuse of Democratic colleagues is not that difficult to…
It’s True. Money Can Buy You Just About Anything Or Anybody
Fox Host Demands Her Money's Worth From SCOTUS Fox News and Ted Cruz admit they paid a lot of money to have Roe overturned and now are threatening "their" Supreme Court. (via Crooks…
Don’t Play With My Last Nerve
And The Day Begins...
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…














