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:…
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…
Monday Ménage
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…
Is This The End Or The Beginning
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…
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…
Monday Ménage
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…
Faux Outrage. It’s What They Do.
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…
Monday Ménage
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…
History As Reminder: GOP Jobs Edition
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…
Monday Ménage
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…
Joe Manchin, Pretend Democrat
“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…
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…
Monday Ménage
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…
Pissing At Windmills
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…
Day 51: Government Working
President Biden Signs American Rescue Plan Into Law A Few of the Details here (more…)
US Press Ranking 2020: Still Not So Good
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…
Monday Ménage
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,…
Oh, We’re Back To Hope. Yay?
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…
Monday Ménage
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…
A Reminder The Day After 43 Republican Senators Cast Their Vote For A Different United States Of America
Ain't History Something (more…)
Monday Ménage And A Plus One
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…
C’mon. Do We Really Need A Review
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…
Don’t Be Sad, Boys And Girls. GET MAD!
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…













