As you see displayed every single day, the fringe loonies of the GOP do not understand what's at stake with each issue before the House and Senate, other than it's an opportunity to bleat and baa how the American...
Donald Trump breaks laws like the yous and mes crack eggs, open mail, i.e., we don't think about it. We just do it. Today he really outdid himself. He sent out both his batshit manifesto declaring the "old Republican Party...
It seemed funnier than hell at the time. But maybe that was because the time was so goddamned dark and bleak. This was the bad old days of the spring and early summer of 2020, when the coronavirus was...
Less than 24 hours have passed since the New York Times dropped its latest Trumpian bombshell, this one describing how the Department of Justice set about obtaining digital records of Democrats and their aides and families from Apple, with...
Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and somebody absolutely corrupt to begin with who gets power suddenly becomes a madman. All in all, we are lucky that the guardrails of democracy and the rule of law held as well...
I just realized this when I was looking at some poll cross tabs the other day. The GOP is in a whole lot worse trouble than I thought they were, which means that they're in a shit load more...
Four years of Donald Trump left us all numb. It's intriguing now to go back and see Trump's rude buffoonery juxtaposed against the statesmanship of Joe Biden, combativeness next to calm, insecurity besides assurance. One is a press conference...
The split senate that we have, with Kamala Harris able to cast a tie breaking vote, is not the automatic rubber stamp that some people wish it would be. Neera Tanden is probably one of those people right now,...
You know how you're always being told to never rely on early results as a predictor of final outcomes? Well we passed that stage with the Georgia runoff elections with dizzying speed. Let's take a look at how this...
Another day, another weird development in Trump world. Come along as we play connect-the-dots. Less than ninety days ago, there was a major shake up at the Voice of America when Michael Pack, one of Steve Bannon's filmmaking buddies, took over as head...

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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. In fact, it's the only thing that ever has.

— Margaret Mead