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Trump issues authoritarian call to violence – Lisa Blunt Rochester still happily oblivious
Our rep in Congress continues to assert that Trump does not constitute a major crisis. Maybe if she keeps patiently waiting, one will show up? In an interview with Breitbart, Donald Trump had a not-at-all-subtle message for his opponents. “I have the support of the police, the support of the military, the support of the […]
Don’t allow NRA Stooge, Pete Schwartzkopf, to kill HB63 in the Senate
HB63 does nothing to impact the rights of responsible gun nuts. Opposing HB63 literally means that you support irresponsible gun ownership. This Act revises the crime of “unlawfully permitting a child access to a firearm,” an existing class A misdemeanor under Delaware law. The offense is renamed “unsafe storage of a firearm” to place emphasis […]
Song of the Day 3/14: Van Morrison, “In the Days Before Rock and Roll”
Everybody is familiar with the Van Morrison canon from his classic period in the ’60s and ’70s, but he’s been turning out often-inspired music without a break ever since leaving Them, even if classic rock radio thinks his career peaked with “Brown Eyed Girl.” “Enlightenment,” released in 1990, was Morrison’s 20th LP, and it contains […]
Is Trump still President? Open Thread
Everyone makes mistakes. Smart people fix them, average people ignore them, dumb people pretend that the mistake wasn’t really a mistake. Trump says he intentionally called Apple’s Tim Cook “Tim Apple” as a way “to save time & words” http://hill.cm/7a5NNLi
I love Beto
Another Dem who can easily beat Trump (provided Dems don’t beat themselves) enters the race.
The UK is inching toward sanity
The 308 MPs that voted TO leave the EU without an agreement include a large number of what would be considered Republicans over here. That is to say, there were MPs who voted the way they did because they just want to FUCK SHIT UP ™. Because fucking shit up owns the libs.
If Two Years Wasn’t Such a Long Time
My wife and I have a friend in Lebanon — the country, not the Pennsylvania town — whom we’ve known since the 1970s, when Lebanon’s civil war was still being fought with frequent rocket and mortar attacks. Tony lived in Beirut, once one of the most beautiful cities in the Middle East, where rocket attacks […]
Song of the Day 3/13: Minus the Bear, “Absinthe Party at the Fly Honey Warehouse”
I’m not an absinthe drinker, but the lyrics of this song from Minus the Bear’s first album speak directly to my present situation: Hey, let’s cross the sea and get some culture Red wine with every meal and absinthe after dinner… Sitting on a park bench that’s older than my country The video is by […]
Once Again, Theresa May’s Brexit deal fails
With Theresa May in charge and ceding so much power to the UK version of our #MAGA brainiacs, the UK is fucked. The way forward is categorically ruling out a “no deal EU exit” and holding another referendum on EU membership. She can’t do it though because her majority hangs by a thread which gives the lunatics all the power. I mean, she could – but that would take political guts, and when it comes to political guts, May makes John Carney look like Martin Luther King.
Mayor Pete Fever Grips SXSW Democrats
I said not to overlook Mayor Pete. As usual – I gave you the news weeks in advance of the news. (On that note, that tooth that’s been giving you trouble is not going to feel any better two weeks from now. Sorry.) Re: Buttigieg (Butt-et-jedge) In a 2020 Democratic field already crowded with candidates, […]
Do you want to feel sick?
The story of how the “legal personhood” of corporations came to be will make you throw up.
Even If Justice Is Blind, It Knows the Smell of Money
The light sentence a federal judge handed to Paul Manafort infuriated people who saw giving him only 4 years after his execrable behavior as a travesty of justice. But the truth is that for wealthy defendants, no matter how they acquired their money, lenient sentences are the rule, not the exception. Ken White, a former […]
Climate Change Won’t Wait for Your Incrementalism
Today’s Tom Tomorrow strip sums this all up nicely: Behind all the criticism of the “New Deal of Greenness” lies an inescapable truth: Doing only what is “politically possible” dooms us just as certainly as doing nothing at all. Good work, Sparky.
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