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Truth is to Fox as sunlight to a vampire, which is why Governor Newsom utterly vanquished Fox carnival barker Sean Hannity. Newsom showed what happens when you go on Fox armed with facts and a refusal to be intimidated.

I can’t wait for the egg-dripping-down-face  by GOP politicians, and penny-dropping-in-mind by the American public we’ll see when it’s revealed that Trump was selling or leveraging his cache of secret documents. Kaitlin Collins: “Did you show them to anybody?” [paraphrase] … Continue reading →

She’s trying to ram through her heinous proposal to lift ALL caps on residential development in this state.  Remember, she’s got to perform for her developer contributors. This is part of a concerted, coordinated attempt to hamstring any check on … Continue reading →

Progressives aren’t buying the president’s snow job on his utterly unnecessary capitulation/collusion with the most reactionary, seditious Republican caucus in history. This is the most humiliating moment of his presidency so far. It could all go downhill from here.  He and … Continue reading →

Council Member Rivera is downtown Manhattan’s doyenne of displacement and demolition, consistently pleasuring the developers who are ruining our city and funding her campaigns, while making ersatz proclamations of new victories for affordable housing. In reality, everything that Member Rivera … Continue reading →

Now they’re going after Social Security and Medicare, after pledging earlier this year that they wouldn’t.

Jessica Corbett at Common Dreams writes that “As the U.S. House of Representatives prepared to vote on President Joe Biden’s debt limit deal with GOP negotiators Wednesday evening, the youth-led Sunrise Movement warned Democrats that the so-called Fiscal Responsibility Act could … Continue reading →

Biden degrades himself, ridiculing legitimate claims about the hundreds of thousands of Americans who will be kicked off food assistance as a result of him caving to the deathmongers of the GOP. And he agrees to shovel more money down … Continue reading →

“There is a really weird kind of identity politics going on in American publishing,’” she said when addressing the Hay festival. Lucy Knight at The Guardian reports.

FRIENDS OF HE EARTH Government and Political Affairs Director Ariel Moger continues: “After initially proclaiming he wouldn’t negotiate on the debt ceiling, he gifted MAGA extremists legislation filled with polluter giveaways and devastating spending limitations. Even Senator Manchin, who has … Continue reading →