“Our ultimate goal should be to restore bipartisan faith in our voting process by assuring all Americans that their votes will be counted, secured and protected”. Senator Joe Manchin in Washington Post op-ed offering…
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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…

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…

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…

  "Second Amendment does not guarantee the right to carry firearms outside the home"   A Ninth Circuit panel ruled Wednesday that Americans have no expected right to carry guns in public, reversing a…

  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%.…

Another Mass Murder In America   UPDATE / 2021.03.20 Say Their Names: Soon Chung Park, 74; Hyun Jung Grant, 51; Suncha Kim, 69; Yong Ae Yue, 63; Xiaojie Tan, 49; Daoyou Feng, 44; Delaina…

No Honour Twelve Republican members of the United States House of Representatives voted this week against a resolution to honour police with the Congressional Gold Medal for their actions during the deadly riot and…

In my vision of a perfect world, the insurrectionists who took part in the deadly storming of the U.S. Capitol on 6 January are prosecuted, sent to prison, and become every Big Bubba's Percy.…

Damn, Soon... (FOR CONTINUITY SEE PREVIOUS POST) During a House Judiciary Committee hearing on violence on Asian Americans, Republican Representative Chip Roy of Texas felt is was the righteous American thing to do to…

простаков   Declassified Intelligence Report released to the public says Russian President Vladimir Putin authorized "influence operations aimed at denigrating President Biden's candidacy and the Democratic Party, supporting Trump, undermining public confidence in the…

I'll Turn The Senate Into A “100-Car Pileup” - Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.   McConnell added, “I want our colleagues to imagine a world where every single task, every one of them, requires a…

UPDATE: A correction (via CNN) A White House official, National Economic Council Deputy Director Bharat Ramamurti, tweeted on Sunday to try to correct the inaccurate criticism of Salazar. "I've seen some confusion on this.…

* BFD. One Not Like The Other * Just about every person in the world by now knows about the Democrats' $1.9 trillion Covid relief package, and, yes, it was a big fuking deal…

US 45th in annual index Reporters Without Borders   Wait now, that's 45th out of 180 countries ranked in the index. But, on the upside, that's plus 3 spots from last year. Yay! The…

The Good . The Bad . The Other Stuff   1562 - Kissing in public banned in Naples (punishable by death). 1926 - Bertha Landes elected 1st woman mayor of Seattle, Washington. 1959 -…

Frances Harper. Shirley Chisholm. Florynce Kennedy.   I envy neither the heart nor the head of any legislator who has been born to an inheritance of privileges, who has behind him ages of education,…

Democrats Fake Making Up To Pass $2T Package The Senate on Saturday passed the American Rescue Plan, President Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill. After stalls by right-wing Democrat Joe Mancin of West Virginia…

  "To be clear, Senator Manchin is choosing to vote against his constituents, but clearly support his donors." Democratic Rep. Marie Newman of Illinois.   "… The [right-wing] Democrat paralyzed the entire Senate for…

Representative Zoe Lofgren, Democratic member from California since 1995, was and is still really pissed about what happened on 6 January 2021. So, Rep Lofgren went to work to expose House members, state by…