What’s Pompeo been up to?
While Donnie has been dominating the country's attention the Waddler has been very busy chewing at the wiring and setting up booby traps for the incoming administration. Here's some comment…
Tommy Tuberville, meet the Constitution. Constitution, Senator Tuberville.
Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville has an idea about how to make next week's inauguration as safe as possible: Just move it to a few weeks later! "We probably could have…
Josh Hawley, Christofascist
In today’s Republican Party, the path to power is to build up a lie in order to overturn democracy. At least that is what Senator Josh Hawley was telling us…
Worse Than Treason
“We are what we pretend to be,” Kurt Vonnegut wrote in the opening of his 1962 novel, Mother Night, “and so we must be careful what we pretend to be.” Republicans…
This Is the Cost of a Failed Impeachment
The memory of impeachment is back with a vengeance this week. Though Biden beat Trump, the president continues to try to overturn Biden’s victory. In a phone call on Saturday…
How can Democrats fight the political influence of right wing talk radio?
In 2016, right-wing talk radio gave Donald Trump the boost he needed to put him in the White House. The hosts loved him and promoted him relentlessly. The same goes…
Maddow Blog | Trump lawyers switch gears, claim fraud is ‘undetectable’
After publishing a tweet in the morning about the "massive evidence of widespread fraud," the president and his controversial lawyer released a court filing making largely the opposite point: "Despite the chaos…
What do the Democrats need to do to win the two Georgia Senate seats?
Everyone I talked to in Georgia says there are two keys to winning those races in January. One is preventing that drop-off in votes cast in a runoff, and reassembling…
Trump v. New York: A look at the case and how the Supreme Court may rule
The New York case turns on a memorandum Trump issued in July, which provides that “for the purpose of the reapportionment of Representatives following the 2020 census, it is the policy of the United…
1A: How President-Elect Joe Biden Plans To Fight The Climate Crisis
Many analysts and experts think that President-elect Joe Biden’s early cabinet-level appointments signal a change in how America is going to approach climate change. The former vice president has appointed…
With the assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Israel and Pompeo look to tie Biden’s hands on Iran
If the Iranians retaliate, giving Mr. Trump a pretext to launch a return strike before he leaves office in January, Mr. Biden will be inheriting bigger problems than just the…
The present legal woes of Nicholas Sarkozy may be a blueprint for what Trump can expect in the future
The parallels between Sarkozy and Trump are striking, and one of them is that their electorates found their in-their-face presidential styles tiring. They were both retired after one term. In…
For the Democrats, the state legislature elections were pretty much a bust, what happened?
Here's some of the better analysis I've come across, the conclusions are not necessarily in agreement, but speak to the divisions we are seeing in the Party on what went…
Impeach Bill Barr
A failure to hold Barr accountable when he is so obviously conniving with Trump to meddle in the processes of counting votes and certifying results would signal to the American…
Maddow Blog: Cowardly Republicans remain quiet following Trump’s election threats
Donald Trump and his team haven't been subtle about their plans for this evening and the days that follow. "[W]e're going to go in night of, as soon as that…
GDP rebounds by 33.1 percent; new unemployment filings continue at historic high levels
“The obvious caveat is that when you drop 30 percent and gain 30 percent, you’re still below where you started,” said one analyst. The GDP numbers appear quite remarkable but…
The Murdochs deserve to be held accountable for peddling disinformation
HERE’S A TRICK question about the controversy over Hunter Biden’s laptop: Who’s most to blame for giving this pseudo-scandal more attention than it deserves? The New York Post for publishing the…
Trump’s Search For October Dirt Falls Flat
While Trump and company continues to search for a big October Surprise for the 2020 campaign, it seems they are hell-bent on going lower than ever before. First there was…
Promises made, promises broken: How Trump Betrayed the Autoworkers of Youngstown, Ohio
***Ms. G's notes: The Rolling Stone has always published excellent investigative journalist articles; the article I sourced is just one of many. If you have the time, read it. In…
New England Journal of Medicine Calls For US Leadership to be Voted Out
The New England Journal of Medicine released an unprecedented editorial on Wednesday that rebuked the leadership of the Trump administration in the COVID-19 pandemic, and called for Americans to vote…
Trump and his Covid diagnosis: Should we have empathy for the world’s least empathetic man?
This is what Robert Reich has to say on the matter. For about a minute today I found myself feeling sorry for Donald Trump. The poor man is now “battling” Covid-19…
If Donnie goes down for his tax shenanigans, so should Sailor Moon
For four years, Donald Trump’s tax returns have been the white whale of political journalists and the most sought-after material of any presidency this side of Richard Nixon’s Watergate tapes. Naturally,…
The Media Learned Nothing From 2016
We’re seeing a huge error, and a potential tragedy, unfold in real time. That’s a sentence that could apply to countless aspects of economic, medical, governmental, and environmental life at the…
Trump and Bill Barr are quietly executing an assembly line of death row prisoners.
Donald Trump and his partisan sidekick William Barr have found a new secret ingredient to deflect attention from the coronavirus, economic depression and racist policing. After a 17-year hiatus on…
Congress to launch investigation into Mike Pompeo after brazen RNC speech
The Kansas Republican claimed Donald Trump had strengthened NATO, which was the opposite of the truth. Pompeo insisted Trump's failed policy toward North Korea was a success, which was pitifully untrue.…
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