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A Democratic polling organization explored whether the party should try to woo Republicans through their propaganda organ, Fox News. The results are sobering evidence of the power of propaganda. The…

I guess somebody released a trial balloon because this story from a few days ago is getting more play today: Close advisers to former Vice President Joe Biden are debating…

Love him or hate him, no candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination has polarized the party's voters more than Beto O'Rourke. The only one close is also the only one…

According to the WSJ, Biden is worried that his post-announcement fundraising haul is going to look puny compared to Beto and Bernie, so he is rounding up big money donors. But the story could well be a hatchet job by the WSJ, because there is nothing Dem primary voters want less than an old school candidate who is captive of the finance and banking industry.

Over at Vox, Matthew Yglesias points out that the Resistance, the guard dog whose vigilance played such a crucial role as a check against Donald Trump, has gone quiet since…

The pernicious nonsense that is a belief in "meritocracy" appears to be on the decline. Still, we have a long way to go. ...today, a majority of Americans believe that…

CNN has a piece up this morning about Joe Biden's slo-mo campaign rollout. How will Joe sew up the nomination? By naming a vice-presidential candidate quickly plus...ENDORSEMENTS! Biden, who has…

Corporate journalists are typing furiously to try to convince people that a majority of the country wants centrism and unity. Bullshit. Damon Linker at The Week goes after this notion…

One of these two things happened: A) Like all great leaders, Wilmington Mayor Mike Purzycki blamed a staffer after getting heat for retweeting white nationalist trope. B)Twitter is hard. It's confusing. The kids seem to like it though, so... *click* Wilmington Mayor Mike Purzycki's staffer retweeted white nationalist trope by mistake.

Trump's mental impairment has gotten a lot worse. It is now so bad, in fact, that his ongoing hallucinations and delusions are being more widely talked about openly.   “His…

My dislike for Brazile even pre-dates her fucking-up Al Gore's campaign. So this is like the cherry on top of all the BS she has been trading in as a…

The prayerful Senator from Delaware also called on clouds to not be so vaporous, called on quartz to stop being so metamorphic, and called on Root Beer to stop being delicious. Coons, I hate to do this because I know the terrible power of a "calling on" but, I'm hereby calling on you to stop embarrassing yourself.