Tag Archives: Debbie Stabenow

Russia, Russia, Russia… Now that we’ve got a narrative, we can’t let go

By Mark | July 17, 2017

It’s all happening so fast. It’s easy to be overwhelmed. One minute, Kid Rock, in what we can hope is just a bid to sell a few thousand more of his ridiculous “dumbfuckistan” t-shirts, announces a bid to take on Debbie Stabenow for the Senate, and, the next thing you know, Caitlyn “just because she’s […]

Posted in Politics, Rants, Uncategorized | Also tagged adoption, Aras Agalarov, Breitbart News, Caitlyn Jenner, conspiracies, Coretta Scott King, deprograming, Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr., dumbfuckistan, election rigging, Emin Agalarov, fake news, FOX News, Germany, hacking, Hillary Clinton, Hitler, House Judiciary Committee, Idiocracy, InfoWars, Jared Kushner, Jeff Sessions, Kid Rock, Michael Flynn, Miss Universe, money laundering, Natalia Veselnitskaya, New York, organized crime, Paul Manafort, perjury, Preet Bharara, real estate, Rinat Akhmetshin, Rob Goldstone, Russia, Russiagate, sanctions, Sean Spicer, Senate, SF86, tax fraud, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin, voting rights, WWII | 49 Comments

This is the galvanizing moment we’ve been waiting for… Democratic Senators are filibustering, teachers are outside the Capital protesting, and we’re effectively shutting down the offices of those who haven’t yet come out against Betsy DeVos

By Mark | February 6, 2017

[above: Photo by Evan Sutton from today’s protest in D.C. against embattled Secretary of Education nominee Betsy DeVos.] The Senate vote on Betsy DeVos, the pyramid scheme billionaire turned anti-public education crusader who’s attempting to buy her way into Trump’s Cabinet, was supposed to happen today. And, the way things looked this morning, she was […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Betsy DeVos, buying influence, buying politicians, charter schools, confirmation hearings, Dean Heller, Deb Fischer, Department of Education, dismantling of public education, education reform, filibustering, for-profit charter schools, get the money out of Washington, John Hoeven, Pat Toomey, Patty Murray, protests, public education, Secretary of Education, Senate, threats to public education | 20 Comments

Elizabeth Warren gives a preview of the DeVos confirmation hearing in a scathing 16-page open letter to Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Education

By Mark | January 9, 2017

Apparently, it’s not just Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow that’s decided to come out aggressively against Betsy DeVos, Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Education, in advance of the Amway billionaire’s Wednesday confirmation hearing. Earlier today, Senator Elizabeth Warren, who sits on the Senate committee that will be considering Devos’s nomination, sent the candidate a scathing 16-page […]

Posted in Education, Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Betsy DeVos, conflict of interest, dismantling of public education, Elizabeth Warren, ethics, Secretary of Education, Senate Committee on Health Education Labor and Pensions, threats to public education | 11 Comments

If we can’t organize to stop the appointment of Steve Bannon, a known white nationalist, we’re not going to be able to do anything to stop Trump

By Mark | November 17, 2016

Earlier this week, as we discussed a few days ago, President-elect Donald Trump announced that he would be appointing Steve Bannon, the race-baiting head of Breitbart News, his chief White House strategist. And this, my friends, is something that we, as civilized people, who value things like civil rights and diversity, should do everything in […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged #DumpBannon, advice and consent, Alt Right, Andrew Breitbart, Andy LaBarre, anti-Semitic, Brenda Lawrence, call to action, Candice Miller, Cicilline letter, Dan Kildee, David Cicilline, Debbie Dingell, Donald Trump, Dump Bannon Caucus, ebbie Dingell, Fred Upton, Glenn Beck, Harry Reid, Jews, John Conyers, nationalism, neo-Nazi, political correctness, Pravda, racism, Russia, Sander Levin, Stephen Bannon, the press, the shameful state of the American press, threats to Democracy, threats to journalists, Tim Walberg, Van Jones, White House, white nationalism, white nationalist, white supremacist | 50 Comments

Restore the Fourth… Let’s start by holding Levin and Stabenow accountable

By Mark | June 30, 2013

On the Fourth of July, people around the country will be joining together to protest the illegal domestic spying activities of the American government at what are being called “Restore the Fourth” rallies… The reference, of course, is to Amendment IV of the Bill of Rights, which guarantees “the right of the people to be […]