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Mark  Schumer at Daily Kos peels back the civility scam: “While the right punches, the press plays stenographer, and when the left fights back, they declare fighting out of bounds.”

What in the world got into them? Or was this editorial written by a single reactionary, head-in-the-sander or worse, Trump-normalizer? Anti-Trumpists lectured because they’ve had it with Trump’s toxic, inflammatory hate speech and hate actions? Was Huckabee Sanders treated to … Continue reading →

As Jake Johnson notes on Common Dreams: Pelosi and Schumer “didn’t issue a single word of public criticism of their fellow Democrats for voting to deregulate Wall Street and hand President Donald Trump immense spying powers, but on Monday the Democratic … Continue reading →

In another brazenly biased and partisan decision, Roberts’ court says it’s OK to discriminate on the basis of religion and ethnicity. Can we all now agree that Obama’s capitulation to Sen. McConnell’s putsch against the Constitution was a complete disaster … Continue reading →

in Elizabeth von Armin’s The Enchanted April, published in 1922, was “having a a violent reaction against beautiful clothes and the slavery they impose on one, her experience being that the instant one has got them they took one in hand and … Continue reading →

It can’t be too racist or rigged for their satisfaction. Roberts’ gutting the Voting Rights Act was just the beginning. Could the Dems please get out of their consultant-engineered alternate universe and make judicial appointments an election issue?

on the right-wing’s trademark lies and projection. Has your father hate-tweeted any more racist posts, lately, Mme. Press Secretary? We know that your boss has.

we’ll talk about civilitiy.

No laws, no judges, no court cases–just instant expulsion to all who dare try to enter this country. As Hunter at Daily Kos writes: “Fascism requires dismantling the laws barring discrimination, expulsion and (in the case of forcibly deporting asylum-seekers … Continue reading →

to cripple the federal government’s ability to function, the Dems need to make clear that this administration is about crushing this country and destroying as many Americans lives as possible.