Here’s an update on the prosecution of the January 6th insurrectionists. Predictably, it centers around plea bargains from mid-tier members of the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers, clearly focused on nailing the top of the food chain in these traitorous …
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Response To Conservative Beliefs
My politically conservative mother asked me to read this article by historian and author Victor Hanson, which I did. I have to say that I wasn’t too impressed; it’s just the normal conservative litany of observations that we hear on …
Biden Succeeding in Ways Obama Didn’t
Obviously, American society has lost a few steps over the past five years when it comes to common sense and discernment of truth. A good example of this is the right’s perception of Joe Biden, a centrist Democrat, as a …
Tagged with: justice and decency
U.S. Justice Department Will Not Tolerate Voter Suppression
Isn’t this what we’ve all been waiting to see? Voter suppression laws that target specific groups violate the 14th and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. It’s about time.
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As Loathsome As It May Be, Donald Trump Is Riding High in Republican Politics
The popular Christian/humanist pastor John Pavlovitz writes: It’s simply demoralizing sharing a country with people who think Donald Trump is someone worth emulating: to be surrounded by that kind of moral inversion every single day, to be continually encountering such …
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Facebook Censorship Enrages Liars, Morons
As one could expect, the people spreading malicious lies on Facebook are having a hell of a time with the fact that FB will not host their BS. Someone wrote: FB has just censored 3 of my posts before the …
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“America First”–Racist, Nationalist Since Its Inception
“America First” and “Make America Great Again” are the two most prominent slogans of Trump and his supporters. Once could argue that they’re not too much worse than “God Bless America,” because it too suggests that there is something exceptional, …
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Where Does the Big Lie Go from Here?
From The New Yorker: In Barry Blitt’s latest Kvetchbook, Donald Trump’s vision of an August reinstatement reaches new level of surreality. (Larger version below) So what happens in the mind of Trumpers when their guy isn’t reinstated in August? What …
Anti-Vaccine Contingent Out of Control
The outside world continues to watch the spectacle of American politics with a blend of sympathy, sadness, and contempt. But in no arena is their revulsion for what’s happening here deeper than our pitiful reaction to the availability of safe …
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Was Trump a Fascist?
Here’s a great article whose author argues that, where Trump’s policies were brutally neoliberal, racist, nativist, authoritarian, and narcissistic, they were not fascist. I won’t try to summarize, except to say that there are, to be sure, different flavors of …
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