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Rather than constantly talking about damage to “the planet” or “the environment,” reporters, politicians, and environmental activists need to discuss how this pillage is directly impacting the present as well as future prospects for the human race. The planet can … Continue reading →

That little precept that no  one is above the law in America? It’s a downright embarrassment on the international stage! Talking to The New York Times, Trump spouts his usual bombastic, vainglorious contra-constitutional exhaust. Calls Allen Dershowitz a “liberal Democrat”? … Continue reading →

The shameless old ham actually hauled out that vaudeville trope the right wing reaches for every time we get cold weather. Cold weather = climate change a hoax. NOT, you superannuated cult of con artists.

He must be a double Dutch doozie.

That’s what Rep. Rooney is now saying. As Karli Kuns notes at CrooksandLiars: “This is what fascists do. They call for purges based upon ideologies, assume people cannot do their jobs objectively, and are so afraid of what the facts … Continue reading →

the GOP has been making the inane argument every time there’s a cold patch that somehow climate change or global warming has been disproved, as if the reality-based community was claiming that winter was instantly going to come to an … Continue reading →

have no doubt that Trump was planning to fire Mueller or Rosenstein over the holidays, and only the gauntlet laid down by Sen. Warner and other Democrats, the attention focused by the media  as well as the grass roots, prevented … Continue reading →

If you wanted to know the most perfectly Orwellian incarnation of the Trump administration’s attack on truth, logic, and reality, its white-is-black inversions, try Scott Pruitt’s redefinition of environmentalism as the determination to plunder America’s natural resources. Interviewed by James … Continue reading →

The FBI foils a terrorist plot in San Francisco, while Trump and the GOP look the other way because they are too busy tarring the organization to shield Trump from the rule of law. We are in the midst of … Continue reading →

You thought you’d heard everything. Mitch McConnell, the man who stole a Supreme Court seat, who demonstrates a complete lack of respect for constitutional norms and minority party rights, is now puling about bipartisanship. David Atkins at Washington Monthly urges … Continue reading →