Tag Archives: Secretary of State

With midterms approaching, the evil of the right is on full display

By Mark | October 23, 2018

With the midterms fast approaching, and the prospect of both houses of Congress, as well as several statehouses, potentially flipping, Republicans across the country are becoming increasingly desperate. And, as you might imagine, this desperation is manifesting itself in truly terrible ways. In Texas, with the young, dynamic Beto O’Rourke gaining momentum, Ted Cruz has […]

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Register to vote. Time is running out. And this is fucking important.

By Mark | October 7, 2018

The deadline to get yourself registered to vote here in Michigan is Tuesday the 9th. So, if you’re not already registered, or know people who aren’t, you’ve still got a few days… I was going to say, if you’re a reader of this site, I don’t have to tell you howe important this is, but, […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2014, Adam Zemke, Affordable Care Act, Bill Schuette, corruption, Donald Trump, Eastern Michigan University, gerrymandering, Gretchen Driskell, Gretchen Whitmer, Lena Epstein, midterm elections, Mike Bishop, minimum wage, preexisting conditions, Robert Mueller, Roe v. Wade, Russia, Russiagate, student voting, Taylor Swift, Tim Walberg, uo, Vote Save America, voter registration, voting, Washtenaw Community College | 12 Comments

A few short hours after Secretary of State Rex Tillerson suggests that Russia was likely to blame for the U.K. chemical attack, Donald Trump abruptly fires him

By Mark | March 13, 2018

When I heard this morning that Trump had fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson by tweet, I assumed it was a preemptive measure, hoping to distract attention away from the neck and neck Congressional special election race in Pennsylvania’s 18th district, which, historically speaking, should have been an easy win for the GOP, even before […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged chemical weapons, Conor Lamb, Donald Trump, England, fired by tweet, John McEntee, nerve agents, Novichok, Olga Skabeeva, Rex Tillerson, Rick Saccone, Russia, Russiagate, Salisbury, Sergei Skripal, Stormy Daniels, Theresa May, Vladimir Putin | 34 Comments

A second Christopher Steele memo suggests that the Russians had a hand in choosing our Secretary of State

By Mark | March 5, 2018

I know you probably all want to talk about former Trump campaign aide Sam Nunberg right now, and the epic drunken meltdown that had him calling into, and then visiting, every cable news program there is in order to rant about how Carter Page colluded with the Russians, Donald Trump definitely knew in advance about […]