In The New York Times, Jamelle Bouie chastises Virginia Democrats for instantly acquiescing to the grotesquely lawless, partisan ruling of the Virginia Supreme Court.
This Is what Democrats do. This is one of the reasons democracy is hanging by a thread. We need better Democrats. Fast.
Village Preservation’s annual report for 2025 documents that: “Under Mayor Adams, new landmark designations have sunk to an all-time low” in the 60-year existence of the LPC. The Commission instead plays bait-and-switch: the few designations now occurring “overwhelmingly eschew endangered sites in need of protection for sites not in danger and often where designation would have limited or no practical effect.”
A right-wing majority of the Virginia Supreme Court has the audacity to overrule an election and the will of the voters in an attempt to ensure GOP victory in the House.
The once-unthinkable now seems like the only possible response. Jamelle Bouie tweets that “virginia voters should call their delegates and senators and demand that they ignore this illegitimate ruling.”
despite it being a known fact that he was a political actor who had participated in the Republicans’ successful attempt to steal the 2000 presidential election.
has “spent the last 20 years making America nearly ungovernable,” Matt Ford writes in The New Republic.
“Time and time again,” the right-wing Supreme Court majority “has killed off public policy decisions for reasons that appear driven by the court’s own sentiments rather than the law itself.”
And the Democrats have stood by and resolutely refused to reform the court. For too long, they have functioned like declawed kittens attempting to fend off a barracuda’s attack.
every farm community devastated by the bankruptcies that have skyrocketed under Trump, and explain who is doing this to them.
I was just given one; I didn’t know it had been minted in 2023, as part of an “American Women Quarters” Program.
At 92, Sen. Chuck Grassley has decided to end his carer in utter disgrace.
Turns out he’s a full participant in the GOP’s attempt to railroad FBI agents for the purported crime of doing their jobs, attempting to preserve law and order in this country, and remaining loyal to American democracy by not refusing to put Trump beyond the reach of the law.
Grassley released information on the identities, etc. of the agents who dared to defend justice, thus earning them vicious, incendiary attacks by Trump cultists as well as calls for vengeance from the MAMA lemmings in Congress.
Needless to say, there is not the slightest hint of impropriety about anything in the agents’ behavior, but they were lawlessly fired and are now suing the FBI.
130 years ago, the masquerade ball thrown by the Bradley-Martins at the old Waldorf Astoria so appalled the public by its ostentation that it marked the end of the Gilded Age.
Bezos may have done that to the Costume Institute gala. There is no question that this year’s event and its oligarchal overreach was a watershed. The Met should have said No.
Robert Reich crowns him on Substack:”What really puts Bezos at the head of all the other robber barons in this second Gilded Age is his slavish sycophancy toward the worst president in American history.”
