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…
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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…
When An Image Tells The Story
Democracy Dies In The Home Of The Once Brave
Oxymoron: Republicans – Free Fair Elections
'Blatant Partisan Power Grab': Wisconsin GOP Attempts to Seize Control of State's Elections “They're not dismantling democracy in secret. They're doing it right out in the open” Wisconsin Republicans, at the urging…
Friday Serenade: Nancy With The Hammer
Governing, Or At Least Trying To, Versus Fear And Loathing Led by Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, Democrats passed President Joe Biden's landmark $.17 billion Build Back Better bill. The…
Monday Ménage: Edition Politics Politicians and The Political Machine
Martini. Floyd. La Follette. We live in a time where increasingly our national leaders are more like dons of crime than statesmen, where notions of plausible deniability replace truth, and claims that politicians…
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…
When A Image Tells The Whole Sad Story: Part Infinity
Top Democrats Spend Weekend Talking Amongst Themselves While Mitch McConnell And Top Republicans Wait In The Bushes, Ready To Pounce, Ready To Eat Dems' Lunch. Again! (more…)
Da Dems…
Prescription Drug Reforms Are Out Of The Spending Deal, At Least For Now No reforms would be a major setback for Democrats, a big victory for the drug industry — and a loss for…
Wednesday WayBack: Choices, Still. But For How Long
Early Thoughts On the American Coup of 2024 A warning about the very possible nightmare yet to come Background: Message from the Manila Hotel The message for democracy offered from the Manila Hotel…
Shrinking Into Nothingness
In an opinion piece on Tuesday at The Guardian, Robert Reich poses a familiar, and some may say inevitable, Democratic Party policy outcome: Is Biden's entire agenda about to shrink into nothingness? While Dr.…
Similarities? Undeniable!
School Board Protests Are Not Grassroots Movement, Are Not Spontaneous Conservatives are disrupting school board meetings by shouting, using Nazi salutes, and even physically assaulting anyone they disagree with. But these attacks are anything…
Mr President, Whattaya Gonna Do
'No issue is more important than voting rights'. Agreed! “Let’s be clear: Obstructing the Freedom to Vote Act was as subversive as state voter-suppression actions to roll back access to the vote, as…
Friday Serenade: Blue Skies No More
Where Did All The Blue Skies Go ~ In Face of Planetary Emergency, Long Awaited U.S. Report Denounced as 'Pitiful' Failure "Finding consensus between those who see or don't see our climate reality is…
Ahmaud Arbery: Never Forget
Jury selection began Monday in Georgia in the trial of three white men charged in the death of Ahmaud Arbery, who was fatally shot as he was jogging in their neighborhood in February 2020.…
Monday Ménage: Edition Compromise. The Compromisee Always Gets The Short End
Cavanagh/Gershman. McClure. Rossiter. George [H.W.] Bush has spelled out an economic agenda for his New World Order. It is an agenda that would prove enormously lucrative to a few thousand giant corporations. And it…
Wednesday WayBack: SCUM vs SCUM
Republican Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa at a Saturday rally received endorsement for reelection from the former guy. Yeah, OK. Said the former guy (TFG): "We have with us tonight a great American patriot,…
Monday Ménage: Mixed Bag With A Plus One
Twain. Milne. Rousseau. Haudenosaunee. In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at…
Left Where? Why?
Rising from the tradgedy that is America, we see today few willing to find solutions but many quite willing to find blame. Much of the blame for the current state of America - leveled…
Friday Serenade – The Insanity Dance
Biden Gives Democrats a Green Light to Weaken the Filibuster for Debt Ceiling Votes After previously opposing such a move, President Joe Biden on Tuesday said it is a "real possibility" that Democrats will…
Wednesday WayBack: Profiting From Hate
AT&T, the largest telecom provider in the United States, has been funding at least 90% of far-right One America News (OAN) since the channel launched in 2013. The channel struggled for sustained viewership until…
What Do They Have In Common
Joe Manchin, Democratic Senator West Virginia; Krysten Sinema, Democratic Senator Arizona; Matthew Gaetz, Republican Representative Florida; Mike Pence, Republican former Vice-President; Mitch McConnell, Republican Senator Kentucky. BLOWHARD: 1. A very boastful and talkative…
The Pandora Papers Shine A Big, Broad, Bright Spot Light
From the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists ICIJ The reporting shows how the United States, in particular, has become an increasingly attractive destination for hidden wealth, although the U.S. and its Western allies condemn…













