Mitch “Moscow Mitch” McConnell, Senate Majority leader (Republican-KY), said during a radio interview that people who gave him the nickname “Moscow Mitch” are not-nice hard-left people who just want to smear him. Hey Mitch,…
It’s In The Cards
Donald Trump likes to boast about his deal-making genius, about how he always comes away with the best deals in the history of deals. Well, as we have all witnessed over the past couple…
Bat-Shit Crazies
Five Year Anniversary Today. Remember When Republicans and Their Buddies In Corporate Media Went Bat-Shit Crazy and Tried To Create An End-Of-The-Republic Scandal Because President Obama Wore A Tan Suit To A Pressor? And…
Shit Ya Can’t Make Up…
Wednesday morning, hours after declaring people of Jewish faith disloyal to America and having a total lack of knowledge if they voted for Democrats, Donald Trump agrees he is the ‘Second Coming of God’…
Democracy, Use It Or Lose It
This unprecedented racism, bigotry and proto-fascist agenda that Donald Trump is trying to shove down America's throat has unleashed the resistance that will dethrone him. Tom Morello
Reminder…
The Crime of Betraying One's Country
Monday Ménage and A Plus One
H.L. Mencken. George Eliot. John Kenneth Galbraith. The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins,…
“As We Sit Here”
In the 24 hours since former special counsel Robert Mueller warned lawmakers about Russia’s past, present (they’re doing it “as we sit here”), and future meddling in America’s elections, of course much has been…
Choices 2020
Hmmm… Number Four
"Reference has been made to his “unpunctuality, his erractic work routine and his failure to keep appointments - a source of much embarraassment to party officials who usually found him in the late afternoon…
Hmmm… Number Three
“In an effort to strengthen his hold on the party and to purge it of unreliable elements, Hitler established the Committee for Examination and Adjustment (Untersuchungs--und Schlichtungs-Ausschuss). This body, which came to be known…
Hmmm… Number Two
“Most of the ‘intelligentsia’, apart from the minority of intellectuals forced into emigration, needed no terror to make them fall in line with Nazi ‘Gleichschaltung’ (or ‘coordination’). Indeed, ‘self-coordination’ applied to many sections of…
Hmmm…
The whole structure of [Hitler’s] government has been aptly dubbed “authoritarian anarchy”. (more…)
Monday Ménage
Stacey Abrams. Ana Navarro. Frederick Douglass. When marginalized groups finally gained access to the ballot, it took time for them to organize around opposition to the specific forms of discrimination and mistreatment that continued…
Into The Streets
A Vigil to End Human Detention Camps On Friday 12 July 2019, Lights for Liberty, a network of activist organisations, is bringing together thousands of Americans to detention camps across the country, “into the…
It Must Remain The People’s 4th
Yeah, Still Growing…
Since taking office, Donald Trump has turned lying into an art form. UPDATES: 794 Days, Over 9,179. And Growing. Latest At 801 Days 9,451... Latest At 828 Days 10,111 and Still Growing... Latest At…
America In Crisis
On the day before Memorial Day, a day when we honour those who served and those who paid the ultimate sacrifice, there is no way in hell we should pay respect to this POS…
Statement Of Fact
The Trump administration’s indictment of Julian Assange under the Espionage Act of 1917 is “a fundamental threat to press freedom in the 21st century”. Freedom of the Press Foundation Executive Director Trevor Timm issued…
When An Image Tells The Story: White House Edition
Yeah, He Was There…
Boston Red Sox Manager Alex Cora Did Go To The White House
The Demagogue’s Playbook
‘Divide and conquer’ is one of the oldest strategies in the demagogic playbook: keep the public angry at each other so they don’t unite against those who are running off with the goods. ...…
It’s Getting Serious, Folks
Yeah, It’s A Thing: Trump Won’t Cede Power If He Loses In 2020. “Some warn Trump is already laying the groundwork to contest the 2020 election results should they not go in his favor”. …
Someone Remind Him And His Party
And what you’re seeing is a dictator in the making. David Cay Johnston, journalist and biographer of Donald Trump.
Same Topic, Different Story, Same Image – 3
Propaganda machines in all totalitarian countries habitually depict the dictator as the saviour of his people from some danger real, or more usually imaginary, and as the man of action who decides what is…
Same Topic, Different Story, Same Image
Donald J. Trump and his team have now openly declared that he is above the law rather than, as our Constitution provides, a public servant whose duty is to faithfully execute the law. His…
McConnell: The Fix Is In
The Battle Goes On... The House of Representatives voted 232 to 190 to pass the Save the Internet Act to restore net neutrality. All 190 no votes were cast by Republicans; one Republican voted…













