Reading History
America's End Story? (more…)
How Do I Lie To You; Let Me Count The Ways
1,095 Days - 16, 241 Times See the Fact Checker Database here
Wait! What? Whose Government?
The whole structure of [Hitler’s] government has been aptly dubbed “authoritarian anarchy”. (more…)
Definitions As Reminder
Why Is The World Laughing At Me
NATO Leaders Mock Trump. Leaders of UK, Canada, France and the Netherlands appear to be laughing at Donald Trump at a Buckingham Palace reception on Tuesday evening. Video of the laugh-around here: Read…
Glass Houses: UPDATED FOR POS RICK PERRY
Don't Throw Stones... Energy Secretary Rick Perry To Donald Trump: 'You really are the chosen one'. Really, Rickie? Check out the vid - take a look at your chosen one. You really are a…
News Network Creates ‘Alternative Reality’. Does Fake Takes On Real, Stunning, Scary Stories
“...firewall is holding even in the face of devastating new revelations about President Donald Trump’s abuse of power, as the network’s hosts continue to shield their audience from damning revelations and instead tell them…
Full Force Of Patriot Act In The Hands Of Trump & Barr. What Could Possibly Go Wrong. WTF, Dems!
Buried in a stopgap government funding resolution unveiled by House [Establishment] Democrats Monday is a provision that would reauthorize the notoriously abusive Patriot Act for three months, a move privacy advocates warned would ensure…
Sunday Sermon: A Reminder
Would There Be Anyone Left For You
The Top Six
On the day Turkey’s authoritarian leader was welcomed at the White House - also the day public impeachment hearings of Donald Trump began - we thought it only proper to add Recep Tayyip Erdogan…
Hypocrisy, Meet The Edge Of Sanity
So, last month, 9 October to be exact, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham demanded House committees release all impeachment transcripts from their closed-door depositions. And, said Graham, if refused he would call persons involved before…
“It’s like nothing we have come across before”
UK intelligence officials shaken by Trump admin’s big ask: Help us kill the impeachment inquiry. Trump and Barr have also been asking other foreign governments for help in investigating the FBI, CIA and Mueller…
A Reminder, Repeated
The Crime of Betraying One's Country...
Storm Troopers. USA! USA!
Over two dozen House Republicans stormed a closed-door House Intelligence Committee deposition where Laura Cooper, Deputy Assistant Defense Secretary for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia was to be interviewed by members of three committees involved…
Vile POS, Part Deux
Republican Sycophant U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham Defends Donald Trump’s Vile Rant That The Constitutionally Legal Impeachment Inquiry Is A Lynching: “This is a lynching in every sense” The South Carolina Republican Once Again Shows…
The Shakedown. The Pressure. The Cover Up.
Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif. and second in line of presidential succession) released a “fact sheet” breaking down Donald Trump’s “shakedown” of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, a “pressure campaign”…
Meltdowns, Walk-Outs, And One Great Pic
House Dems Walk Out Of White House Syria Meeting; Trump Had Tremendous, Bigly, Best-Ever-Of-Any-American-President-In-The-History-Of-Presidential-Meltdowns 'Meltdown'
Let’s Do It Again
Speaker Pelosi: "All Roads Seem To Lead To Putin..."
Monday Ménage
Marie Curie. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Buddha. Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. Marie…
Impeachment Inquiry
America, Wishes Can Come True
Less Than 1,000 Days In Office An Unbeatable Record
Oval Office Occupant Does False Or Almost False 13,435 Times Over 993 Days. That’s As Of 9 October, Less Than 1,000 Days In The Office. (more…)
When An Image Tells The Story: Fascists Edition
Sycophant Of All Congressional Sycophants Lindsey Graham Of South Carolina Demands Fellow Senate Republicans Sign A Loyalty Oath To Donald Trump. No, Really... Read Here
Neville Chamberlain Meet Donald Trump
Betrayal for the Kurds. Appeasement for Erdogan. Donald Trump will draw down U.S. military presence in northern Syria to make way for Turkish troops to wipe out the Kurds. Trump’s policy of appeasement toward…
Déjà Vu All Over Again?
On 1 October 1974, five of Richard Nixon’s cabinet went on trial for conspiring to derail the Watergate investigation: U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell, Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, Kenneth Parkinson, Robert…
Someone Is Not Having A Good Day
Support For Impeachment Grows. Up 10 Points In One Week. Majority Now Approve Of Impeachment. (more…)
Democracy Coming To The Best Of The Worse
(more…)
Monday Ménage: Democracy Edition
John Pilger. Simone Weil. John Adams. The major western democracies are moving towards corporatism. Democracy has become a business plan, with a bottom line for every human activity, every dream, every decency, every hope.…
Politics & Policy
Constitutional America???
~~~
Dead By Cop
Black, Native, Latino Americans Are Killed At A Much Higher Rate Than White Americans
~~~
Hey, US Ed, History Calls
The invasion by Europeans of the ‘New World’ saw the First Nations population go from around 15 million in 1500 to just over 200,000 in 1900. (U.S. only. Does Not include data on First Nations Peoples of Canada).
~~~
Project 2025 & The Military
~~~
Shrewd, SlipUp, Or Just Plain Stupid …
In a meeting with hundreds of U.S. generals and admirals: “It’s unacceptable seeing ‘fat generals and admirals’ in the halls of the Pentagon, and leading commands around the country and the world. It’s a bad look.” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
Ebony McMorris, reporter for American Urban Radio Networks (AURN): “Mr. President, what are your plans for—” McMorris began (one of the few Black reporters in the WH Press Corps). “Quiet. You’re really obnoxious,” said Trump. “I’m not obnoxious, but I’m trying to ask you what about your plans for Memphis, Mr. President?” “You are really obnoxious,” said Trump (president of the USA).
“I think she’s a disgraceful person, you know, I think she’s a disgraceful person, a loser. It’s amazing the way people vote. I know it’s people from her area, maybe of the world, I don’t know. They got here and they vote her in. I don’t know. It’s hard to believe. But I think she’s a disgusting person.”
That’s the President of the United States of America making remarks about seated member of the House, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), to reporters in the Oval Office.
‘If Republicans don’t block voting rights, Democrats will allow “child molesters” and “illegal aliens” to vote and Republicans will be out of power for years’. Ted Cruz, Republican U.S. Senator from Texas. Same Ted Cruz who voted to force changing legal votes of Electoral College. Went so far as to incite an insurrection.
Simple Reminder
Stuff…
News Disorder, It’s A Thing I’m always tired because at night I can’t sleep unless I watch the news. Then I watch the news and can’t sleep.
Your Tingly Leaving You know that tingly little feeling you get when you like someone? That’s your common sense leaving your body.
Don’t Wanna Know It is possible to lead a cow upstairs – but – not downstairs. Question: Why in the hell would you want to take a cow upstairs? Wait, no, don’t tell me. I don’t want to know.
Kane’s Clinic
Wheel In The Sky
Journey From their album, Infinity – the first album with Steve Perry on lead vocals. Released January 1978.
Going Back Home
Sherman Robertson From the 1998 Rockin’ Blues album (CD) Going Back Home
Out Of The Rain
Etta James From her 1990 Soulful Blues album Stickin’ To My Guns
Dreams
Brandi Carlile * From WFUV LIVE CD (FM 90.7 in the Greater New York City area). Originally on her 2009 folk-rock album Give Up The Ghost.
Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
Marvin Gaye Originally On His Landmark 1971 Album What’s Going On
Amigo De Verdad
Gipsyland from their album Viva La Musica. Recorded in Cancoon Studio Paris and DreamHouse Studios London.
Destination
Great Music. Great People.
Visit Daily
