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:…
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Angela Davis. H.L. Mencken. Adlai Stevenson.   I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who…

  Lindsey Graham: Sick, Twisted, Flat Out POS Coward   Can we move forward without President Trump? The answer is no. I’ve always liked Liz Cheney but she’s made a determination that the Republican…

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:…

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…

Amos Wilson. Lindy West. Abhijit Naskar.   Justice requires not only the ceasing and desisting of injustice but also requires either punishment or reparation for injuries and damages inflicted for prior wrongdoing. The essence…

It's Who They Are!   Republicans in the House led by Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Minority Whip Steve Scalise said Monday they are going forward with plans to censure Maxine Waters because they…

Robert B Reich. Gary J Floyd. DJ Kyos.   Americans have clung to the meritocratic tautology that individuals are paid what they’re worth in the market, without examining changes in the legal and political…

While former Speaker John Boehner continues on his 'I have a new book coming out' rehabilitation tour, beltway press and media pundits laugh at his wine-flavoured jokes about past and current people in politics…

George Santayana. Adlai Stevenson. Dante Alighieri.   The more pleasure a universe can yield, other things being equal, the more beneficent and generous is its general nature; the more pains its constitution involves, the…

“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…

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…

Benjamin Franklin. Isaac Asimov. Barbara Ehrenreich.   I agree to this Constitution with all its faults, if they are such: because I think a General Government necessary for us, and there is no Form…

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…

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…

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…

Bertolt Brecht. Steve Martini. Robert B. Reich.   The worst illiterate is the political illiterate, he doesn’t hear, doesn’t speak, nor participates in the political events. He doesn’t know the cost of life, the price…

Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Kimberlé Crenshaw. Dolores Huerta. Hanan Ashrawi.   When I'm sometimes asked 'When will there be enough (women on the Supreme Court)?' and my answer is: 'When there are nine.' People are…

When asked at a press briefing earlier this week if the White House will allow the former occupant to continue to receive intelligence briefings, spokeswoman Jen Psaki said President Biden's national security team is…

Establishment Democrats have a not so new favourite expression when it comes to how they feel about the criminal and treasonous actions by Republicans in the House and Senate: 'I feel so sad'. On…