In all honesty, I thought I was done putting up articles for tonight, But when you're a journalist, even a faux journalist like me, you don't make the news, you report the news. And this blew me away. In a very serious story,...
ABC News: Two Buffalo, New York, police officers are now facing criminal charges in connection with the graphic caught-on-video shove of a 75-year-old man during a protest, a law enforcement source told ABC News. Charges against the officer will not be unsealed until...
I think that people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that one for a while. Who knows, maybe it'll work this time   George Carlin When people ask me if I'm an optimist or a pessimist,...
I'm sorry, but right now, I just keep wanting to cry. You all know that I have been following the Derek Chauvin murder trial on MSNBC, basically being homebound. But the testimony of Dr. Martin Tobin literally reduced me...
Please indulge me in a brief sports analogy to lead into the main story. You all know I'm a native Chicagoan, and I was home for all six of my beloved Chicago Bulls world championships. And I saw something watching...
We are seeing something that has never happened in our lifetimes -- unidentified "Federal" "law enforcement officials" stalking the streets of a major American cities, kidnapping innocent civilians, shoving them into unmarked vehicles, and making them disappear for hours...
This will be brief, I promise you. Lawrence O'Donnell just had a magnificent segment on The Last Word, in which he interviewed Jerry Blackwell and Steve Swisher, the two lead attorneys for the prosecution in the George Floyd murder...
Well, isn't this an interesting development. The Kremlin has announced that Donald Trump called Vladimir Putin today. This is not the first time that we have learned of conversations between Trump and Putin from the Kremlin. In recent memory,...
Racists sense the sea change working its way through American society, and they are striking back in their usual stupid, brutish, half-sensate way. We could write stories two or three times daily of some white guy screaming about wearing...
If you didn't catch Donald Trump's latest batshit presser Thursday, it was a classic in delusion and gaslighting, where he predicted that 400 years of systemic racism was going to be solved "quickly and easily." He actually said that....

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