From Ebola to Trump: The deep roots of Russian Interference
With news of the Russian assault on our democracy now breaking daily, my mind keeps returning to the following quote at the outset of War of the Worlds: "...Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are...
View ArticleScientific Study: A Mere *Picture* of a Black Person Can Anger A Trump Supporter
Seriously. Just a Picture.A fascinating study was recently reported in Vox and The Root. And the conclusion of that academic study(1) is, as the title sadly suggests, that a mere photograph of a black...
View ArticleSurprise! Cassidy-Graham may end up preventing single payer too.
With all the horrors in Cassidy-Graham, and Senator Graham’s melodrama that his monstrosity is the only thing standing between America and socialism, a peculiar meme that has long simmered on the left,...
View ArticleWhy FL just got High Speed Rail
As a Pinellas County native, I have been waiting 25 years for the announcement heard today: $1.25 billion would be granted for construction of a Florida high speed rail link. Estimated to cost $3.5...
View ArticleGood News for... Florida High Speed Rail!
Back in January 2010, I wrote a diary offering the political explanation for why Florida was granted $1.25 billion for a High Speed Rail line between Tampa and Orlando, as people understandably...
View ArticleProgressives win if Obama loses in 2012
Barack Obama has failed progressives in every arena. Although it'd be preferable to unseat Obama with a primary challenger in time for 2012, because none has stepped forward (tic toc...), it would be...
View ArticleGenocides do not begin with killing. They begins with words.
Words matter.Growing up Jewish, although not really that religiously so, the Holocaust has always been a part of my life. From the earliest memories of Hebrew School and Sunday School, there was the...
View ArticleWhat Early Nazi History Can Teach Us About Treating Trump Supporters
The iconic photograph was taken by Mrs. Rachel Posner in 1931, from her window in Kiel, Germany. Rachel Posner was the wife of the town’s Rabbi, Akiva Boruch Posner. From the Posner’s grandson(1):“It...
View ArticleThe story of last night is that women, not progressive populists, are winning.
There is a pernicious myth that Democrats only road back to power is through progressive populism, a vision best summarized as the combination of anti-establishment sentiment with (far) left policies,...
View ArticleObama Saved Them. Trump's Killing Them. They Don't Care.
Perhaps I am optimistic, in a time when it is very hard to be optimistic, but I do believe that there will be another Democratic President after Trump. I also believe that President will have to clean...
View ArticleThat sound you just heard? It was the cracking of the patriarchy.
I love the silence of snowfall. Sure, blizzards can howl, but there is something so pleasing about how a heavy snowfall can muffle the sounds of nature.Trumpists like to call us snowflakes. For people...
View ArticleMeanwhile, Democrats are Accomplishing Something Amazing in California (with...
California recently surpassed the United Kingdom (😮!) to become the World’s fifth largest economy, if measured separately from the united states. Since the Great Recession, California has added 2...
View ArticleGrey Lady / White Supremacy
Daily Kos user TomPasked a very important question just a few days ago: Yeah, what’s up with that indeed? TomP is referring to hit pieces in the New York Times on Andrew Gillum and Stacey Abrams that...
View ArticleRepublicans Aren't Hypocrites (They're So, So Much Worse)
If you’re like me, you’ve found this to be a particularly infuriating news cycle. Especially considering that just a few days ago, Trump’s campaign advisor and long time friend Roger Stonewas indicted...
View ArticleIt's Here! Green New Deal Calls for National High Speed Rail! (More Photos)...
The Green New Deal published back on February 7 supports the $2 trillion infrastructure investment called for by the American Society of Civil Engineers, plus a National High Speed Rail (HSR) Network...
View ArticleCA Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) Moves Quickly to Help Kill Green New Deal 😠
The rollout of the Green New Deal was just February 7, so it’s extremely frustrating that five days later, during the State of the California Address, California Governor Gavin Newsom moved to kill it....
View ArticleElizabeth Warren: Break Up The Big Tech Monopolies!
Elizabeth Warren continues to be an incredible asset to the ever growing field of Democratic Candidates for President. I don’t believe in the theory of the Overton Window, just in whether the people...
View ArticleBeto O’Rourke: #LockThemUp and Pack The Courts
I don't subscribe to the theory that there are too many candidates for the Democratic Nomination. To the contrary, I theorize that a virtue of such a large and diverse field is the ability to...
View ArticleElizabeth Warren: Markets Without Rules Are Theft!
From the inimitable Charles P. Pierce in Esquire: xElizabeth Warren should say this line every day for the rest of the campaign: https://t.co/gTQDVAX6Zapic.twitter.com/cOWWpd4e4Z— Charles P. Pierce...
View ArticleCory Booker: A Guaranteed Job for Everyone Who Wants One
This story actually starts almost a year ago, but there is so much news about polls and fundraising totals, I want to ensure the amazing progressive policies being championed by all our wonderful...
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