By Mark | January 5, 2021
I know it’s probably a bit premature, but, if The Economist’s G. Elliott Morris is correct (see below), both Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff have won their Senate run-off races in Georgia today, meaning that control of the chamber will soon change hands, and that Mitch McConnell’s reign of terror will finally be coming to […]
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2020, 2020 election, Donald Trump, Fair Fight, Gabriel Sterling, Georgia, Jon Ossoff, Kamala Harris, Mitch McConnell, Raphael Warnock, Senate, Stacey Abrams, Stacie Abrams, voter suppression |
By Mark | August 21, 2020
TRANSCRIPT: Good evening. Ella Baker, a giant of the civil rights movement, left us with this wisdom: Give people light and they will find a way. Give people light. Those are words for our time. The current president has cloaked America in darkness for much too long. Too much anger. Too much fear. Too much […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2020, 2020 election, Affordable Care Act, anti-science, bipartisanship, corruption, COVID-19, darkness, decency, Donald Trump, Ella Baker, fairness, FDR, George Floyd, Gianna Floyd, Great Depression, health insurance, infrastructure, jobs, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, light, Medicaid, New Deal, pandemic, race, racism, recession, Republican lies, Russia, social security, tax cuts, Trump tax cuts |
By Mark | August 18, 2020
The Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee today released the long-awaited 5th volume of their exhaustive report on Russian interference during the 2016 election. While this volume, titled Counterintelligence Threats and Vulnerabilities, doesn’t appear to break a lot of new ground, it’s good to be reminded once again, especially as we’re headed into another election, that members […]
Posted in Other, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2016, Access Hollywood, active measures, collusion, counterintelligence, Donald Trump, election interference, Hillary Clinton, Hyborian Warlord, Jerome Corsi, John Podesta, Julian Assange, Konstantin Kilimnik, obstruction of justice, Paul Manafort, pussy grabbing, Qanon, Robert Mueller, Roger Stone, Russia, Russiagate, Senate Intelligence Committee, threats to Democracy, treason, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin |
Before I jump into this, there are a few items I’d like to make clear upfront…. First, I truly believe that any candidate still standing in the Democratic field would be a dramatic improvement over Donald Trump, and I intend to support whomever it is that comes out of the convention with the nomination. My […]
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2016, 2020, Amy Klobuchar, Bernie Bros, Bernie Sanders, coalition building, conspiracy theories, Dan Pfeifer, Democratic National Committee, Democratic Party, democratic primary, dirtbag left, Donald Trump, Elizabeth Warren, Ezra Klein, get out the vote, Hillary Clinton, Jim Clyburn, Joe Biden, Latino voters, low-propensity voters, Marianne Williamson, Michael Bloomberg, Nathan J Robinson, Pete Buttigieg, Presidential politics, primary elections, rigged elections, Shaun King, South Carolina, Super Tuesday, swing states, the black vote, voter turnout |
By Mark | February 3, 2020
Once every four years, our collective attention is drawn to the nation’s fourth whitest state, where people, after being interviewed all morning in diners by members of the press, gather in high school gyms to determine, with a series of coin flips and names pulled from hats, who we’ll all get to vote for come […]
