On Irony
June 11, 2019
Tree planted by Trump and Macron dead: “Friendship tree” planted by Presidents Trump and Macron at the White House last year has died - CBS News
On Security & Power
May 31, 2019
2019-05-31 Discourses Remind you of anything? “For the Roman people conferred the consulship and other great offices of their State on none save
On Elizabeth Warren:
April 27, 2019
politics
Barring exceptional circumstance my (not yet confederate) money’s on Warren as the one to tackle ole Deranged Donny. She’s the only candidate on my
On Foreign Emoluments, Or: How to Purchase an Entire Political Party
April 18, 2019
politics & essays & ideas
Trump hotels exempted from ban on foreign payments under new stance | US news | The Guardian “A narrow justice department interpretation of the
America Gets a Lot of Shit.
March 26, 2019
ideas & misplaced_hope
And much of it is well deserved. Much of it is not. Quite a lot of it seems to miss a fundamental point: America acts like it’s different from the
On Beating Back Evil
March 17, 2019
news & ideas
The general argument in the Democratic party right now is over what sort of candidate we need — a big swinging progressive or a moderate. That’s
Trump Issues Warning to Opponents: ‘It Would Be Very Bad’ If His Military, Police and Biker Supporters Got ‘Tough’
March 14, 2019
news
Yet another example of Trump encouraging violence in his supporters (you know: like the one who sent pipe bombs to Democrats in the mail, or the one
Trump Tower Trafficking Two
March 13, 2019
RUSSIANS MAY HAVE LAUNDERED MONEY THROUGH TRUMP ORGANIZATION AND PRESIDENT COULD BE ‘COMPROMISED,’ CONGRESSMAN SCHIFF SUGGESTS Okay. We’ve reached
Felicity Huffman Arrested Today for Elite College Bribe Scheme; Lori Loughlin Charged — Update
March 12, 2019
#tags: news Good. Everyone should be held accountable, no matter how talented they are nor how correct their politics. Believe in ideas not people
Another Fucking Think Piece
March 10, 2019
I don’t think that any rational citizen is out there arguing that capitalism itself is somehow objectively foul. That’s a strawman argument. What
Republican Misinformation
March 9, 2019
The decision not to debate on Fox is shortsighted and could hurt the party and its candidates. The pullquote: “Ms. Mair is a Republican strategist.”
It’s Time to Establish a Baseline
March 7, 2019
thesis & post
This shitshow needs a thesis statement, and so here’s one that’s as good as any: The goal of society must be to improve the quality of life for all
Gaetz
February 28, 2019
news
Yesterday’s lecture closed with a rhetorical question, but today we were lucky enough to get a real answer anyway! The question was “I wonder who
It’s a Great Day for America Everybody
February 27, 2019
news
In a Monday morning appearance on Fox News, Donald Trump, Jr., insisted that the president’s 2016 campaign team has been unfairly targeted by a
A Pre-Emptive Us Strike on Iran Would Be One of the Worst Blunders in American History, and Trump Officials Are Seriously Considering It
February 26, 2019
news
After the 2015 international agreement known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA, placed strict limitations on Iran’s nuclear
Garth Ennis Is Always Right
February 21, 2019
news
‘I am dreaming of a way to kill almost every last person on earth’: A self-proclaimed white nationalist planned a mass terrorist attack, the
On Geo-Political Tumult
February 19, 2019
news
On this episode of THE GOP: A STUDY IN CLINICAL PROJECTION Remember this little kerfuffle: Hillary Clinton Totally Sold Uranium to the
The Scourge of Voter Fraud
February 18, 2019
news
On this episode of THE GOP: A STUDY IN CLINICAL PROJECTION North Carolina Election Board Finds Evidence Of Significant Fraud To Help GOP Candidate
The Warzone Formerly Known As Chicago
February 17, 2019
opinion
Today for something a little different, we’re going to address a scary Fox News standard: Black on Black Crime!!!!! Especially in Chicago!!!!1!! So.
It’s All Opera, Baby
February 17, 2019
posts & ideas
There are stories like THE SOPRANOS that do the work to humanize and shade the majority of characters bumped off on-screen, the kind of stories that
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