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Some of the Science to Be Grateful for This Year

11/22/2023 Rachel Kennedy 0

”Thanks to science, we’ve experienced dramatic shifts in the way we understand ourselves, Earth and the universe in the past 12 months. But the hours, weeks and years people commit to the meticulous research that MORE

Environment

Opinion: “We have woken monsters, and they’re coming ashore. . .” Godzilla Day, 2023

11/05/2023 Rachel Kennedy 0

The beast is born in fire. Once a prehistoric denizen of the deeps, it comes ashore on a tsunami tide, tall as a thunderhead, shrugging off artillery as it bellows a foghorn scream. It stomps. MORE

Fake News

With Rupert Murdoch leaving Fox News, an even more deranged MAGA media is making its move

09/28/2023 Rachel Kennedy 0

“. . . what the Fox competitors offer is a different vision: One where any fact that gets in the way can be dismissed out of hand, and “truth” is whatever the right-wing audience wants MORE

Opinion

Woman Shares Experience of Sitting Behind Lauren Boebert at Beetlejuice

09/14/2023 PMSwithESP 0

There are a few more details coming out of Denver — the Denver Post, to be accurate — in regards to the theatrics performed by U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert during the theatrical production of the MORE

Opinion

It’s Not Up to Democratic Secretaries of State to Keep Trump Off their Ballots

09/13/2023 PMSwithESP 0

The nation’s top election officials say they doubt that they can deploy a largely untested legal theory to disqualify Trump from the ballot under the interpretation of the 14th Amendment — and that they shouldn’t MORE

News

Criminal Defendant Jeffrey Clark Condemns Neal Katyal for Attending ‘Neopagan’ Ritual: ‘Only Path is Through and to Our Lord’

09/04/2023 Ms. G 0

Criminal Defendant and former Assistant Attorney General under TFG condemned MSNBC contributor and former Acting Solicitor General under the Obama Administration Neal Katyal for attending a “neopagan ritual,” Burning Man. On Sunday night, Clark took issue with MORE

Opinion

Ron Filipkowski on Rep. Dan Goldman: ‘Doesn’t Shy Away from Battling the Crazies;’ GQP’s Hunter Biden Nothingburger

08/01/2023 Ms. G 0

One of our favorite Twitter Guys, Ron Filipkowski, now does some writing for one of our favorite Twitter Groups, MeidasTouch. Ooops, I still call them Twitter, my bad: X. I have posted a few captions MORE

Opinion

Lincoln Projects Asks Us To Take Back the American Flag from MAGA

06/02/2023 PMSwithESP 0

The American flag symbolically represents the principles our nation stands for; bravery courage and sacrifice. None of these are principles of MAGA. Trump’s Party selfishly claims this symbol as their own, but it doesn’t belong MORE

Opinion

“The Doom Loop”: Democracy Collides with Republicans’ Minority Rule

04/15/2023 Rachel Kennedy 0

From The Guardian: Opinion poll after opinion poll shows that Republicans are increasingly out of touch with mainstream sentiment on hot button issues such as abortion rights and gun safety. Accordingly, the party has suffered MORE

Opinion

“Melania Trump Just Wants to Be Left Alone, You Monsters”

04/13/2023 Rachel Kennedy 0

From Vanity Fair: “The former first lady and her ever-embattled husband ate Easter lunch among their loyal sycophants at the resort they live in, Mar-a-Lago. Had the former first lady not just been absent last MORE

Civil Rights

April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King assassinated in Memphis

04/04/2023 Rachel Kennedy 0

The night before, Dr. King delivered his Mountaintop Speech saying “I’ve seen the Promised Land…” Tuesday, April 4, marks the 55th anniversary of the assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Despite yearly commemorations MORE

Opinion

Commentary: Why it matters that Kevin McCarthy gave Jan. 6 tapes to Fox News

02/21/2023 Rachel Kennedy 0

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has given Fox News’ Tucker Carlson exclusive access to 41,000 hours of Capitol surveillance footage from the Jan. 6 riot, McCarthy sources tell me. Just so we’re all clear about the nature MORE

Congress

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

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