Remember "Defund the Police?" It was quite the catchy slogan and let's face it, police brutality which has a long and ugly history of being directed disproportionately towards minorities needed (and still does) addressing. But defund police? Conservatives used...
You know the old saying about people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones? Apparently Bobo the Clown aka (for a while yet) Colorado Representative Lauren Boebert has forgotten it. If she ever learned it in the first...
Trump advisor and Big Lie/Jan. 6 promoter and participant Peter Navarro has just lost his appeal.  Convicted of Contempt of Congress and sentenced to four months in prison like any Trumpkin Navarro appealed. His argument was that Executive Privilege...
It's been an enjoyable Friday watching Trump (and his evil spawn) getting reamed in NY Civil Court. Not to mention pending criminal prosecutions of Trump. It remains to be seen if SCOTUS will keep the brake pedal down on...
Ever since Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced his intention to "reform" Israel's Supreme Court (reform as in strip it of power) there have been widespread and large protests.  For a while it seemed to have worked as he "suspended"...
Pennsylvania Senator Elect John Fetterman promised to try to bury the filibuster on the campaign trail this fall and he took a big step towards fulfilling that promise today by hiring Former Harry Reid Staffer, and sworn enemy...
“When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.” (Brazilian theologian Dom Helder Camara.) In browsing my newsfeed this morning I was startled...
The impact on non-whites of SCOTUS overturning precedent and gutting affirmative action is huge news today.  It should be.  Chief Justice John Roberts famously, in my view petulantly wrote in his decision gutting the Voting Rights Act that the...
A movement does exactly that, it moves forward a specific distance, then stops. A revolution has a way of always coming back around, in your face!   Tommy Lee Jones   Under Siege Elon Musk has always been considered as a revolutionary sort of...
Is the China/Russia "marriage of convenience" perhaps headed to divorce court?  At the very least it seems they are in couples therapy. And, as so often happens when marriages have troubles money is either the cause or the issue...

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