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Commentary: The laptop from hell and other stories: Your guide to 2023 congressional investigations

01/29/2023 Rachel Kennedy 0

“Congressional investigations — replete with camera-savvy grandstanding antics — are the hallmark of divided government, as well as a time-tested ax for chipping away at presidential approval ratings. Republicans are betting their stagecraft will outweigh the fact that MORE

Opinion

Opinion: Football’s problem isn’t the rules, the equipment or the medical care: This sport is lethal

01/15/2023 Rachel Kennedy 0

One month and a day before Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin came frighteningly close to becoming the second in-game fatality in NFL history, he was ejected from the Amazon Prime Thursday night game for an MORE

Opinion

The Gun Safety Movement Was Born Ten Years Ago Today in Newtown

12/14/2022 PMSwithESP 0

The following is based on an opinion piece by Dave Cullen, author of “Columbine” and “Parkland,” from the New York Times. You were right to feel hopeless. Gun safety was a lost cause. The National MORE

Opinion

Hunter Biden’s laptop: The right’s pseudo-scandal industry hopes for another big win

12/06/2022 Rachel Kennedy 0

“Of course it’s a non-issue: Republicans hope to force the media to cover it, and hope to make Joe Biden cry” After a couple of weeks facing off an avalanche of criticism, Musk made a MORE

Opinion

Is America ready to trade democracy for cheap gas? That’s fascism in a nutshell

11/03/2022 Rachel Kennedy 0

“Americans understand that democracy is in dire peril. That doesn’t mean they believe in it, or give a damn.” It is often said that the American people are increasingly polarized on politics. That’s true enough, MORE

Opinion

Only the GOP Celebrates Political Violence 

10/31/2022 Rachel Kennedy 0

“Both parties suffer partisan bloodshed. One glorifies it.” There’s nothing partisan about political violence in America. It has struck Republicans such as Steve Scalise, who was shot along with four others and nearly killed, as he played MORE

Education

Michigan GOP candidate Tudor Dixon wants a new book ban: No divorced characters 

10/30/2022 Rachel Kennedy 0

It’s an idea that reflects the real Republican plan: Education is about social control, not learning Dixon complained that her daughter had checked out a book “about having two different homes” and how the very MORE

Opinion

The United States of the Confederate America

10/06/2022 Rachel Kennedy 0

Support for Confederate symbols and monuments follows lines of race, religion, and education rather than geography. “. … . .though the Civil War was a battle between two regions of the country, sympathy for the MORE

Opinion

How the GOP weaponized ignorance — and how “smart people acting like dopes” stay in power 

10/01/2022 Rachel Kennedy 0

This is a portion of a discussion for Salon yesterday between Dean Obeidallah, writer for Salon and Andy Borowitz who wrote “Profiles in Ignorance: How American Politicians got Dumb and Dumber.” The three stages of MORE

Opinion

Opinion: Ukraine depends on morale, Russia on mercenaries. It could decide the war 

09/18/2022 Rachel Kennedy 0

Ukrainian soldiers feel they are fighting for national liberation, while the Russians appear to lack camaraderie. This contrast is critical The Ukrainian video shows several hundred Ukrainian troops, singing the country’s national anthem in the open air, MORE

Coronavirus

Farewell Dr. Fauci: How the right turned a national hero into a villain in service of Donald Trump 

09/01/2022 Rachel Kennedy 0

Last week Dr. Anthony Fauci, the longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institute of Health announced that he would be retiring at the end of the year after a long MORE

Opinion

Opinion: Republicans and the crisis of “manhood”: Who is really sex-obsessed in America? 

08/28/2022 Rachel Kennedy 0

The Republican Party long ago slipped under the sheets with the religious right to become bedfellows in the culture wars, encouraging bigots, misogynists and Christian zealots to insist that others live by their morals (or lack MORE

Business

Amazon’s Dangerous New Acquisition

08/21/2022 Rachel Kennedy 0

“The company’s purchase of iRobot, the maker of the Roomba, likely has little to do with cleaning floors. “Earlier this month, Amazon announced that it was buying the Roomba vacuum maker iRobot. On the surface, MORE

Opinion

What Was the FBI Looking For at Mar-a-Lago?

08/10/2022 PMSwithESP 0

The big question remains after the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago — what could they have been searching for? To obtain a search warrant, three criteria have to be met. Someone is under investigation. The warrant MORE

Opinion

Tucker Carlson “Shitting Himself” Scared That His Texts With Alex Jones May Leak

08/09/2022 PMSwithESP 0

Tucker Carlson is “shitting himself” over the possibility that texts between him and far-right conspiracy loon Alex Jones will leak, according to a source close to the Fox News star. Carlson and the raving Infowars MORE

Opinion

What the DOJ Memo really means for investigating Trump

07/20/2022 Rachel Kennedy 0

“If there’s a powerful Democrat who has given his party as much heartburn as Sens. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), it might well be Attorney General Merrick Garland. A party base anxious MORE

Opinion

“White life” and fascism: Republicans Don’t Even Bother Speaking in Code Anymore

07/06/2022 Rachel Kennedy 0

Well, at least they’re finally telling the truth. And why shouldn’t they? Their big plans for America are no mystery. The contemporary Republican Party has become the world’s largest white supremacist organization, and now also MORE

Opinion

Michael Moore Shares His Declaration on Independence Day

07/05/2022 PMSwithESP 0

Activist filmmaker Michael Moore shared a personal manifesto on Independence Day backing women and Blacks, and opposing every single Republican, declaring he “will not shut up” until his goals are met. I, Michael Moore, standing MORE

Abortion

Cancel Independence Day. Whose Independence are We Celebrating?

06/25/2022 Rachel Kennedy 0

I get that we’re gearing up for July, which is the month for Star Spangled Banners, fireworks and the annual parade and festivities reminding us Americans of freedom and independence. But, sorrynotsorry, as a female MORE

Opinion

It’s not Saturday, it’s Caturday; the Day to Honor Felis Catus

05/28/2022 Rachel Kennedy 0

Caturday. A day created on the Internet to honor, celebrate and insult and question Felis Catus, our enemy, our friend, “half in-half out” in the words of Constantine, the comic book character who needs cats MORE

Opinion

Opinion: The breathtaking cluelessness of Elon Musk

05/12/2022 Rachel Kennedy 0

“. . . .Two days after the horrifying events of the Capitol insurrection on January 6, 2021, Twitter announced that it was suspending Trump’s account permanently, in accordance with its policy on inciting violence. The daily clamor MORE

Opinion

Opinion: This Mother’s Day, I want to stop screaming into the void

05/08/2022 Rachel Kennedy 0

Adeline Chen, Senior Producer at CNN, speaks of reproductive rights in the context of her recent miscarriage. For nearly every day of 2022, I’ve become all too aware of the emotional and physical cost of MORE

Opinion

It’s About Time the Free Press Punctured the Supreme Court’s Veil of Secrecy

05/04/2022 PMSwithESP 0

The following focuses on an opinion article by Jack Shafer, Politico’s senior media writer. Two Politico reporters plastered the internet this week with the scoop of their lives, puncturing the Supreme Court’s sacrosanct veil of MORE

Opinion

Expert on Autocracy Says There is One Sure Way to Puncture Trump’s Cult of Personality

04/18/2022 PMSwithESP 0

The threats to democracy by the uprising of authoritarianism cannot be stopped by election defeats alone, says Ruth Ben-Ghiat, an expert on authoritarian leaders. A criminal conviction is the one sure way to defeat the MORE

Opinion

The Hunter Biden Investigation Explained

04/12/2022 PMSwithESP 0

Hunter Biden is causing a lot of trouble for Joe Biden, but where is there legal trouble? Vox broke down the investigation into three topics. Taxes, money laundering, and whether he was a registered foreign MORE

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