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America has experienced 12 consecutive days of tornadoes
The extreme weather probably has nothing to do with the fact that the atmosphere now holds 4% more water vapour than it did 40 years ago as a result of increasing temperatures. It is just a coincidence. Nothing to see here folks. Whatever we do we shouldn’t overreact. That would be radical.
Cloutier & Delcollo Among Most Endangered R’s In The Country
Failure to provide strong challengers to them would be political malpractice. How endangered are they, you ask? Uh, how about #2 and #6 in the United States when it comes to state senators? Check out this chart: https://twitter.com/BMcM2018/status/1133149608010506240 BTW, if you click on the lefthand chart a couple of times, the print becomes much more […]
Happy Memorial Day
I just re-read the letter Eisenhower prepared in case D-Day failed. He takes full responsibility. Eisenhower was a man in full. He was a member of a generation that saved the world from fascism. The children of that generation thanked their parents by declaring war on the future.
Climate chaos, global oligarchies, student debt bubbles, unaffordable housing, deindustrialization, elimination of worker protections and defined-benefits pensions, deconstruction of public services, etc. Fuck it. If it feels good – do it.
Gallows Construction On Schedule
Aided by a craven GOP and an inept Democratic opposition, Donald Trump has collected unprecedented powers. Most recently he has given his AG and defense lawyer, Bill Barr, blanket authority to “access and declassify any and all classified information from the country’s dozen and a half intelligence agencies in his quest to “investigate the investigators” […]
Highlands Bunker – E16 – They’re Our Neighbors
Ed Note: I think Highlands Bunker is at its best when REV sits down with other like-minded activists and knits the whole fucking thing together. I haven’t listened to this yet, but I think this is going to be one of those.
Listen Here > Highlands Bunker – E16 – They’re Our Neighbors
Activists Stephanie Herron and Maria Beauchamp join RE Vanella in the bunker to talk about Puerto Rico, Southbridge, the plastic bag ban, and how we all have the responsibility to take both personal and collective action to change the world.
Impeachment Pretzel Logic
There’s no point in impeaching Trump because he’ll be exonerated by the Senate, and then he can claim vindication. He will claim vindication if you fail to impeach him, too. He claimed exoneration from Mueller’s report, which did not exonerate him. As with any crime, a failure to prosecute has the same ultimate effect as […]
Happy Memorial Day
It’s coming up on Memorial Day weekend and I’m going to do what the rest of you liberal homos won’t do. I’m having a flag pole party. You didn’t even know it was a thing, did you? Jesus how out of touch unsolid piles of shit are. I’m sure this weekend your pansy asses will […]
Game of Thrones
What to say about a TV show that promised more and delivered less? Maybe it only felt like it promised a lot because of the sick and sad straights that the country finds itself in these days? Maybe the promises were the only ones we invented in our minds as we jumped on the “willing suspension of disbelief” bus like a bunch of drunk and rowdy Spring Breakers on our way to the next wet-shirt contest?
Our lives are not perfect, so we crazily seek perfection in the arts when the next greatest thing appears, or sports when we find a team that we can knit our identity to, or in politics when we find a candidate that is THE one who gets it. But there is no perfect in Art, sports, or politics. There is only the thing that is good right now. There is only the thing that makes us think that things can better. That is the flame we fly towards.
And so T.S. Elliot was wrong. On Westeros as in America, the world doesn’t end with a whimper, or with a bang. It doesn’t end. It just keeps trudges forward. At times violent and terrible and at times beautiful. Always imperfect, but striving.
Onion editor regrets portraying Joe Biden as skeevy yet loveable uncle
For years it was one of the most lighty-amusing running jokes in memedom: The Onion’s ongoing series of stories about then-VP Joe Biden, portraying him as Diamond Joe, everyone’s favorite lewd but obviously harmless shirtless uncle. The editor behind the series regrets it and feels responsible for helping one of the most conspicuously moronic Democrat […]
Highlands Bunker – E15 – The Second Progressive Era
Highlands native Sarah McBride joins RE Vanella in the bunker to talk about some of her experiences in progressive activism as well as the different strategies that are needed, or perhaps not needed, when creating change. Highlands Bunker – E15 – The Second Progressive Era- Mp3 Version Ed Note: This is a great podcast. I […]
Fuck Fox News
Seriously. Fuck that Trump/GOP propaganda bullshit factory. Go on it, don’t go on it, but for the love of SkyDad, stop pretending that it is a legitimate media company. It isn’t.
I Love Bill de Blasio
Unlike Chris Coons and Lisa Blunt Rochester, at least de Blasio gets that the Republic is in the grip of a fucking existential crisis.
I also love whoever the Democrats nominate provided the process is fair and transparent.
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