(16 comments) SHARE        Thursday, March 26, 2015
BREAKING: WikiLeaks Leaks TPP Draft!!! This is an advanced January 2015 version of the confidential draft treaty chapter from the Investment group of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) talks between the United States, Mexico, Canada, Australia, Malaysia, Chile, Singapore, Peru, Vietnam, New Zealand and Brunei Darussalam. The treaty is being negotiated in secret by delegations from each of these 12 countries, who together account for 40% of global GDP.

(119 comments) SHARE        Monday, May 29, 2017
Mike Pence Is Toast: Anonymous Letter To WaPo Shows The Role Of Eric Prince In Trump-Russia Mike Pence Is Toast: Anonymous Letter To WaPo Shows The Role Of Eric Prince In Trump-Russia

(38 comments) SHARE        Sunday, August 23, 2015
Climate Change: Don't read this if you don't want to know how bad it is ...the tipping points have tipped.

SHARE        Saturday, August 18, 2018
John Dean to White House staffers: 'Get out!' John Dean knows a little something about awful, criminal, paranoid presidents with berserk rage boners for the popular Democratic presidents who preceded them.

(68 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, February 18, 2015
If You Want Well-Adjusted Children, Bring Them Up Without Religion If You Want Well-Adjusted Children, Bring Them Up Without Religion

(5 comments) SHARE        Saturday, December 27, 2014
A Decent nation Would Have Impeached Bush and Obama The administration of George W. Bush committed a number of actions, some of which are likely criminal, some of which expand the powers of the executive beyond credible fidelity to the constitution and some of which are just plain offensive regardless of their legality. Pres. Obama, who followed Bush into office, made some show of reversing some of the policies of his predecessor But kept others creating a culture of impuni

(10 comments) SHARE        Sunday, June 21, 2015
The difference between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton in one paragraph. Politico is out with a great article exploring the historic relationship between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton.

(8 comments) SHARE        Sunday, July 16, 2017
Republican voters turn against book learning as the party's enstupiding accelerates A majority of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents (58%) now say that colleges and universities have a negative effect on the country, up from 45% last year. By contrast, most Democrats and Democratic leaners (72%) say colleges and universities have a positive effect, which is little changed

(30 comments) SHARE        Sunday, December 28, 2014
"Americans Are Sick to Death of Both Parties: Why Our Politics Is in Worse Shape Than We Thought" If nothing else, I hope this post makes Democrats (at least) think real hard about what the hell they're doing; meanwhile, many (again, no links; no need to call out anyone) have already opted to become stenographers for the Democratic Party status quo's "inevitability meme," at least when it comes to our country's 2016 presidential politics.

(44 comments) SHARE        Monday, October 19, 2015
Why I no longer support Candidate Sanders ...when your blind loyalties to one candidate over another can affect the quality of life and well-being of not just this nation's citizens, but also people all over the world, it starts to become a frightening spectacle of word wrangling and rationalizing that's so insane, it's surreal at times.

(1 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, December 31, 2014
About the strange behavior of officers after they killed Akai Gurley, Tamir Rice, and Eric Garner When someone is killed, few things tell you more about how the the person who did the killing thinks and feels about the deceased than what they choose to do in the immediate aftermath of the killing itself.

(10 comments) SHARE        Saturday, May 20, 2017
Preet Bharara's Russian Money Laundering Case Abruptly Settled, Raising Eyebrows This is the case that Preet Bharara as the Manhattan US Attorney was working on when he was abruptly fired by Donald Trump back in March. The trial was supposed to start tomorrow and witness testimony was expected to shed light on how Russian dirty money gets laundered. Through real estate. Expensive Manhattan real estate. Now that avenue of information gathering has been shut down. Two lawyers also died.

(6 comments) SHARE        Sunday, July 26, 2015
90 Year Old Legendary Speaker of the House Jim Wright Denied Texas Voter ID Card 90 Year Old Legendary Speaker of the House Jim Wright Denied Texas Voter ID Card

(11 comments) SHARE        Sunday, May 3, 2015
NYTimes: Conservative Economics and Income Inequality Are Literally Killing Us. What's most shocking about these statistics is not how unhealthy they show Americans to be, compared with citizens of countries that spend much less on health care and have much less sophisticated medical technology. What is most perplexing is how stunningly fast the United States has lost ground. Government support for Americans in the bottom half turned out to be too meager to hold society together.

(4 comments) SHARE        Monday, December 22, 2014
Infrastructure advances in the rest-of-the-world will blow your mind. Infrastructure advances in the rest-of-the-world will blow your mind.

(4 comments) SHARE        Sunday, February 22, 2015
Top 10 reasons to vote Republican Why would anyone vote Republican? Well, here are 10 reasons.

(11 comments) SHARE        Saturday, September 26, 2015
Four Reasons to Anticipate PostCapitalism You know, postcapitalism -- the coming period of existence after the capitalist system has run its course, after Bernie Sanders' "political revolution" has outstripped Sanders' current promises, and brought us to a world in which we can actually do something about our situation without dragging around the profits system like a giant millstone?

(11 comments) SHARE        Monday, August 31, 2015
Neil deGrasse Tyson owes us an apology: GMOs just got real on NEJM A new article in the New England Journal of Medicine throws down the gauntlet on GMO apologists. GMOs, Herbicides, and Public Health

(19 comments) SHARE        Saturday, May 30, 2015
The Thundering Failure of the Democrats I'm a Tom Joad democrat, a prison reform democrat, an anti-poverty democrat and a pro-justice democrat - so the party left me a long time ago...and they never looked back as they went chasing after the fat checkbook crowd.

(13 comments) SHARE        Monday, June 15, 2015
So...this is why we don't get to hear about good cops. Because they get punished for doing things right

(1 comments) SHARE        Thursday, February 26, 2015
What happens when you tax the rich and raise the minimum wage? Meet one of USA's best economies When Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton took office in 2011, Minnesota had more than a $6 billion dollar deficit and an unemployment rate of 7%. Today, Minnesota's unemployment rate isnow below 4% and they have a budget surplus of over $1.2 billion dollars. How did Mark Dayton do this?

(6 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, May 5, 2015
TX Republican Lawmaker Wants Women To Carry Nonviable/Deceased Fetuses To Full Term Last week in Texas, a Republican lawmaker proposed an amendment so outrageous, that even some of his own GOP colleagues were repulsed.

(6 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Best Creationism come-back ever? Creationism by the numbers & Jesus hung out with dinosaurs.

(2 comments) SHARE        Monday, August 24, 2015
Now that Bernie Sanders is taken seriously, supporters must get real A recent article at OpEdNews titled Loving Bernie, But Getting Real is a must-read for all Bernie Sanders supporters. In the many posts I've written on Sanders, at one time or another I have alluded to the issues James Quandy brings up in his article. The article will make the most ardent supporters of Bernie Sanders really upset.

(3 comments) SHARE        Thursday, November 5, 2015
25 Unfounded Myths Being Spread About Bernie As the political revolution continues to build steam, increasingly some Clintonites are really getting aggressive and deliberately spreading myths that need to be debunked. We have hit stage 3 of Gandhi's progression: First they ignore you, then they mock you, then they fight you, then you win. Here are the most common myths and why they are wrong.

(1 comments) SHARE        Monday, March 2, 2015
Whose history is women's history? Why is a Women's History museum being held up?

(3 comments) SHARE        Monday, March 16, 2015
Opposing GMOs is not automatically antiscientific I no longer oppose all GMOs. I would rather see that each proposed genetically modified organism be properly assessed for its impact on our health and the environment. That said, I still oppose almost every GMO in food production or forestry.

SHARE        Monday, January 26, 2015
The day the Klan messed with the wrong people some great stories of dealing with the KKK

(3 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, July 12, 2017
Don't look now, but Democrats just flipped two more seats from red to blue Tuesday night Tuesday night Democrats flipped two historically Republican legislative districts in Oklahoma -- House District 75 and Senate District 44. Both seats had been in GOP hands since before they were both redrawn in the last round of redistricting in a state that Trump won last fall with 65 percent of the vote

(3 comments) SHARE        Friday, December 19, 2014
It Wasn't Just Torture, It Was Experimentation on Human Beings The American people have become blase about the idea of torture. But how do they feel about the fact that the CIA did human experimentation on the helpless prisoners held in their dungeons?

SHARE        Tuesday, August 28, 2018
Trump's 'new trade deal' with Mexico isn't new: It's NAFTA wedded to the TPP Though there's no deal. Negotiations actually appear to be only a bit further along than Trump's "deal" for North Korea to denuclearlize, and most of what's in the proposal is a thin coat of paint over the NAFTA agreement that Trump has railed about for years.

(4 comments) SHARE        Monday, August 3, 2015
Psychologist openly admits he trains police officers to shoot first and ask questions later Psychologist openly admits he trains police officers to shoot first and ask questions later

(1 comments) SHARE        Friday, November 28, 2014
The questions no one asked St. Louis prosecutor Bob McCulloch The questions no one asked St. Louis prosecutor Bob McCulloch

(2 comments) SHARE        Monday, November 30, 2015
In wake of terrorism in Colorado Springs, Carly Fiorina proves herself a psychopath Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina is a psychopath. This isn't new or surprising information; she has been a psychopath for apparently her entire professional life, and she is running for president behind numerous other psychopaths who would be hard-pressed to collectively summon enough basic human decency to fill a coffee tin. But it is something that needs again to be said

(2 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Florida Photographer Loses Client Over Marriage Equality; Responds Brilliantly the best part is at the end of this story

(1 comments) SHARE        Monday, July 10, 2017
Australia's ABC Excoriating Reporting on Trump & the G20 We've learned that Donald Trump has pressed fast forward on the decline of the United States as a Global Leader He managed to isolate his nation, to confuse and alienate his allies and to diminish America

(7 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, April 30, 2013
The grace of atheists saved me, followers of Republican Jesus turned their back on me Who are the ones with morals and who are the ones who lack them? My experience is the atheists are the ones who cared about me, the progressive Christians are the ones who serve their fellow man and community. I don't know what moral coda the social conservatives follow, but it bears little resemblance to anything Jesus taught, it bears little resemblance to the basic human decency amply demonstrated by my godless amoral peers

SHARE        Thursday, April 29, 2021
Ex-Georgia deputy boasted of charging Black people with felonies to make sure they lost their vote As less and less white people support voter suppression and more and more people of color organize around gaining political power, our country has once again reached an inflection point. Republican operatives across the country favor voter suppression laws.

(3 comments) SHARE        Monday, February 8, 2021
A complicit Republican Party readies to deploy bogus defense against Trump's impeachment The Republican Party is deploying some of the very same lawmakers who perpetrated a giant election fraud lie to assure the nation that impeaching Donald Trump is unwarranted, unfair, and unconstitutional.

SHARE        Saturday, January 2, 2021
Manhattan district attorney escalates Trump financial probe The Washington Post cites "people familiar with the matter" to report that the Manhattan District Attorney's Office has now hired a forensic accounting firm to help in its long-running investigation of Donald Trump's past and present business dealings....

(1 comments) SHARE        Sunday, April 16, 2017
On the Necessity of Disagreeable Women and Imperfect Critiques of Feminism As we all know, the idea that a woman has to be perfect in order for her voice to matter is a sexist, regressive notion, yet it is often other women who enforce this idea.

SHARE        Wednesday, May 5, 2021
Judge orders release of secret memo in which Barr laid out his decision not to prosecute Trump On Monday evening, Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the United States District Court in Washington, D.C., issued a ruling concerning former Attorney General William Barr's summary of the Mueller report. That ruling makes it clear that Barr's summary is...