Sunday, May 18, 2025

IT'S GOOD TO BE ABLE TO CRITICIZE YOUR OWN SIDE, BUT NOT WHEN THE ALTERNATIVE IS FASCISM

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There's a book review I read more than twenty years ago that I think about a lot in reference to American politics and the dire state of...
Saturday, May 17, 2025

WAS IT A COVER-UP IF EVERYONE KNEW WHAT WAS ALLEGEDLY CONCEALED?

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Here's an excerpt from a post I found at Reddit, in the Bulwark subreddit: Like many of you, I’m starting to get sick of Jack Tapper’s ...
Friday, May 16, 2025

ONE MORE TRUMP VICTORY IN THE BATTLE TO MAKE OFFENDING REPUBLICANS ILLEGAL

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I know this looks like one of those Trumpian "distractions" that establishment Democrats believe they should ignore, but the regim...
Thursday, May 15, 2025

IS THE SUPREME COURT GUNNING FOR BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP? NATIONWIDE INJUNCTIONS? DUE PROCESS? ALL THREE?

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I said back in January that I believe the Supreme Court will throw out birthright citizenship. The Supremes might not rule that way in the...
Wednesday, May 14, 2025

WE HAVE NO WAY OF KNOWING WHETHER A BIDEN WITHDRAWAL WOULD HAVE SAVED THE DEMOCRATS IN 2024

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Next Tuesday is the publication date for the new book by CNN's Jake Tapper and Axios's Alex Thompson. The book tells us that the De...
Tuesday, May 13, 2025

DONALD TRUMP, AN ELITIST TAKING HANDOUTS

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Most of the time, Donald Trump seems good at messaging, and at creating bamboozlements that distract us from news stories that are bad for ...
Monday, May 12, 2025

THE PRESS NEEDS TO ACKNOWLEDGE SECOND-TERM TRUMP'S CORRUPTION THE WAY IT (MORE OR LESS) LEARNED TO ACKNOWLEDGE FIRST-TERM TRUMP'S DISHONESTY (updated)

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In Donald Trump's first campaign and first term, the mainstream media resisted describing his falsehoods as lies . The press did point o...
Sunday, May 11, 2025

TRUMPWORLD AUGMENTS REAL FASCISM WITH FAKE FASCISM

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You might be aware of this story : President Donald Trump's acting U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia was spat on by an irate wo...
Saturday, May 10, 2025

THE RISE OF FASCISM AND THE TABLOIDIZATION OF GOVERNMENT

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Now they're talking about suspending habeas corpus . Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff who orchestrated President Tr...
Friday, May 09, 2025

NEW U.S. ATTORNEY JEANINE PIRRO SIGNED THE FRAUDULENT TAX FORMS THAT GOT HER HUSBAND A FELONY CONVICTION -- WHEN SHE WAS A D.A.

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The new interim U.S. attorney for D.C. is Jeanine Pirro, one of President Trump's favorite Fox News stars. You probably know about her ...
Thursday, May 08, 2025

IS J.B. PRITZKER THE ONLY DEMOCRAT WHO UNDERSTANDS POLITICS IN 2025?

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Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker is really good at this . Gov. JB Pritzker on Wednesday signed an executive order that formally restricts the...
Wednesday, May 07, 2025

PUNISHMENT IS ALL THEY WANT

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This tweet from a little-known Illinois congresswoman has 21,000 likes and counting: The first person to be sent to Alcatraz should be Ant...
Tuesday, May 06, 2025

MARIE GLUESENKAMP PEREZ'S CONTEMPT FOR DEMOCRATS IS HOW WE GOT TRUMP

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In the latest episode of Ezra Klein's podcast, he interviews Marie Gluesenkamp Perez , a Democrat who was running a bicycle repair shop...