Posts by Alby

Despite Trump's best efforts to create a distraction -- Your Leader averted the nuclear disaster that he ginned up in the first place! -- people, meaning the media, are starting…

A federal judge has revoked Paul Manafort's bail after Robert Mueller brought the court evidence of his attempts to tamper with witnesses while he was free. Manafort's lawyers argued for…

The headline comes from this story about the ways gun manufacturers already are working on products designed to circumvent bans on bump stocks and other after-market products that turn legal…

Republican primaries around the country demonstrated that the GOP is now a fully-owned subsidiary of TrumpCo, as pro-Trump troglodytes swept aside old-school Republicans across the nation. Maybe the party should…

Rand Paul is a dick. If there was ever any doubt, it was dispelled by sentencing documents stemming from his neighbor's rib-breaking attack on the ideological little weenie, which leave…

I linked yesterday to a column by Yanis Varoufakis, the leftist organizer who briefly served as finance minister in Greece before resigning in protest. Here's a longer interview that spells…

More evidence that Trump is a giant toddler: For years, his habit after "reading" documents is to tear them up and throw them away (yeah, that's not an incriminating habit…

I'll cut to the chase: Anything Trump says about why he sabotaged the G7 meeting is bullshit meant to cover up the real reason: He wouldn't cross Putin with the…

Quinnipiac ran a poll asking people if NFL players have the right to protest on the playing field. The top-line story is that 58% of Americans say they do. But…

David Corn of Mother Jones makes an important point: The media is missing the story in how it reports the Trump-Russia scandal. Much of the media framing of the Russia…