Tag Archives: voter fraud

Donald Trump and the fiction that “women are raped at levels that nobody’s ever seen before” along the path of the migrant march from Honduras

By Mark | April 5, 2018

Remember how, a few days ago, our president, after having watched a segment on Fox News about how a dangerous “caravan” of immigrants was making its way to our border from Latin America, took to Twitter to say that we had no choice to pass hardline immigration legislation. Well, in spite of having been informed […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged border wall, caravan, conspiracy theories, Donald Trump, fear, Honduras, immigration, racism, rape, Republican platform, tax cuts, West Virginia | 39 Comments

Elizabeth Warren stopped on the floor of the Senate for attempting to read a 1986 letter from Coretta Scott King about the civil rights record of Attorney General nominee Jeff Sessions

By Mark | February 8, 2017

Last night, on the floor of the United States Senate, Elizabeth Warren, in discussing the nomination of Senator Jeff Sessions for Attorney General, attempted to read a 1986 letter from Coretta Scott King to the U.S. Judiciary Committee about the Senator’s history relative to civil rights. [Sessions, at the time, was in the running to […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Alabama, Attorney General, Coretta Scott King, Jeff Sessions, Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King Jr., MLK, voting rights | 26 Comments

Voter suppression law passes Michigan House, fight moves to Senate

By Mark | December 8, 2016

Remember how I was telling you last week that you really needed to call your State Reps because Republicans were trying to push aggressive, new voter suppression laws through the Michigan House? Well, last night, at 10:00 PM, the Michigan House of Representatives voted 57-50 to approve the bills [HB 6066, HB 6067, HB 6068]. […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Donald Trump, gerrymandering, HB 6066, HB 6067, HB 6068, Jeff Irwin, Jennifer Schlicht, lame duck, Michigan House of Representatives, Michigan Senate, poll tax, Rick Snyder, rigged elections, voter impersonation, voter suppression, Voting Rights Act | 9 Comments

How to survive in a world without facts

By Mark | December 1, 2016

The utter disregard for truth that we’re seeing with Trump isn’t something that’s completely new… I just went through the archive here and found a number of instances over the past decade or so, where we’ve lamented the fact that truth was becoming a thing of the past. Back in 2008, I apparently even posted […]

Posted in Corporate Crime, History, Ideas, Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged Alison Camerota, Barack Obama, Birthers, citizen journalism, CNN, conspiracy theories, Detroit Free Press, fact check, free press, future of journalism, Glenn Thrush, global climate change, Hannah Arendt, Hillary Clinton, House Committee on Science Space and Technology, James Fallows, journalism, Judith Miller, Lamar Smith, lies, lying, Margaret Sullivan, media literacy, New York Times, post-truth, press, Scottie Nell Hughes, swift boating, the future of journalism, The Origins of Totalitarianism, the sad state of journalism, totalitarianism, voter impersonation, Washington Post, Ypsi-Arbor Progressive Book Club | 97 Comments

Trump calls into question the legitimacy of the election, claiming that millions of illegal votes were cast

By Mark | November 28, 2016

Yesterday, Donald Trump, our President-elect, took to Twitter and said the following. “In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide,” he said, “I won the popular vote, if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.” This, as everyone knows, is absolute bullshit. Hillary Clinton’s lead in the popular vote has now surpassed […]