Thom Hartmann explains why the shutdown continues. The Republicans in the Senate have the votes to end it. He writes: — The GOP’s dirty little secret exposed, courtesy of Donald Trump: Republicans in the Senate could have ended the shutdown anytime they wanted. Ever since the shutdown started, I’ve been shouting into the wilderness that […]| Diane Ravitch's blog
Michigan is one of several states being sued by the DOJ for refusing to share unredacted voter rolls with the agency.| Articles – Truthout
The DNI shows how far she'll go to politicize intelligence to help Donald Trump.| Mother Jones
They get everyone fighting a fake revolution so that nobody thinks about fighting a real one.| Caitlin Johnstone
By Jonathan Eberle | Republicans have expanded their voter registration advantage over Democrats in Arizona to 333,255 registered voters, according to the latest October 2025 report released by the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office. The newest data shows Republicans now total 1,603,141 registered voters (35.63%), compared to 1,269,886 Democrats (28.23%). Another 1,625,968 voters are registered […] The post Republicans Expand Voter Registration Edge In Arizona Ahead Of 2026 Election firs...| AZ FREE NEWS
Trump-GOP's refusal to negotiate on health care subsidies is a Dickensian death panel: "If they would rather die, ...they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population." The post Trump’s GOP Death Panel in Progress appeared first on emptywheel.| emptywheel
The shutdown has entered its fourth week of political stalemate, making it the second-longest in US history.| Articles – Truthout
Several days ago, Politico wrote about the scurrilous text messages shared by Young Republican leaders. When Vice President jD Vance was asked about the chat, he said in effect, “Boys will be…| Diane Ravitch's blog
The nominee reportedly wrote that the “founding fathers were wrong that all men are created equal.”| Articles – Truthout
A leaked MAGA chat is revealing that a Trump administration nominee for a whistleblower agency has reportedly used a racist epithet in texts, called for MLK Jr. Day to be "tossed into the seventh circle of hell," and says he has "a Nazi streak," according to a Monday report from Politico.Paul Ingras...| Raw Story
Victor Davis Hanson ranked President Donald Trump in the top five best U.S. presidents when he joined Mark Levin Saturday night.| The Daily Signal
This is how the Republicans begin to dismantle the First Amendment.| The New Republic
Senate Democrats don’t have to separate the crackdown in Los Angeles and the Republican bill in Washington. The latter will allow for more of the former.| The American Prospect
By Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell ~ Conservative youth organizer Charlie Kirk laid the groundwork for President Donald Trump’s historic presidential victories, supporters recalled in the wake of his t…| PA Pundits International
By Olivia Pero ~ Vice President JD Vance joined “My View with Lara Trump” Saturday where he discussed everything from his best-selling book “Hillbilly Elegy” to whether he will run for president in…| PA Pundits International
This cannot be what President Donald Trump had in mind.Authorities made an arrest in connection with the heinous assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. The suspect is Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old white, male Utah State University student, the son of registered Republican voters from t...| Raw Story
Abbott pledged that public schools would be kept fully funded, and he couched his support...| San Antonio Express-News
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History is filled with reminders that enemies of democracy rarely interpret promises to forgive and forget as reasons to unite and heal.| Crooked Media
It's time to look in the mirror, America: We chose catastrophe — there's no one else to blame| Salon.com
It’s yet another Trump action that also hurts his own voters.| South Side Weekly
Polling report on reactions to Texas lawmakers attempts to redraw the state’s congressional maps.| Navigator
There’s a shameless stunt at the heart of the Texas redistricting fight. It’s not the quorum-break.| Mother Jones
The GOP wants to fund billionaire tax cuts—and let disabled Americans pay the price.| Mother Jones
Dugan will appear on the ballots as a Republican thanks to write-in voters in May. By Melissa S. Finley| Broad + Liberty
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz and other Texas Republicans are lobbying President Donald Trump to...| Houston Chronicle
Here’s the text of a memo obtained by The New Republic, written by Philip Hegseth, senior adviser to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and DHS liason to the Department of Defense.| The New Republic
House Republicans didn’t even want to allow debate on whether the Trump administration should be required to release the files.| The New Republic
“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.” — FDR, Inaugural Address, J…| Envisioning The American Dream
The Trump administration says there’s been a serious increase in assaults of ICE agents. Here are the actual numbers.| The New Republic
Polling report on Americans’ views of Medicaid cuts in the Republican tax bill.| Navigator
The virulence with which Republicans — including a number of […]| The Bipartisan Press
Polling report on the perceptions of the budget bill recently passed by House Republicans.| Navigator
By Fred Lucas ~ President Donald Trump declared it the “most successful 100 days” in American history. “They all want to come back to Michigan and build cars again. You know why, because of our tax…| PA Pundits International
Donald Trump’s defense for accepting a $400 million private jet from Qatar is that Ronald Reagan did the same thing. Here’s the truth.| The New Republic
60 Minutes has looked into the records of the immigrants deported to El Salvador’s megaprison. They’re not who Trump claims.| The New Republic
If you think mass protests can’t combat evil, remember what we did in the 1980s.| Mother Jones
Pretty alarming!| The New Republic
Poppy explores why British egotism is misplaced this election cycle, and the reality is that Britain is not void of threatening Trump-like politics| The Gryphon
b. traven Donald Trump will soon leave the White House, either on his own, or escorted by authorities. As the song says, he’ll “go where the goblins go, below, below, below.” It&#…| The Contrary Perspective
ROSS PEROT LEFT 100 MILLION OF HIS FORTUNE TO THE TRUMP 2020 CAMPAIGN| Word-Drum
Donald Trump appears to have been celebrating Project 2025 from the very beginning, according to a recently unearthed video.| The New Republic
By Rylie Oswald John Kenneth White, author of Grand Old Unraveling, talks about combating political conspiracy theories during election season in a Author John Kenneth White talks about combatting conspiracy theories in a digital age.| University Press of Kansas
In its first official platform since 2016, the Grand Old Party (GOP) slashed all mention of its gun policy positions.| The Reload
Former Ohio Democratic Party head David Pepper has a dire warning: Rigged state legislatures are destroying America| Salon
This is what happened when MAGA people thought I was one of them.| Mother Jones
“Wilhoit’s Law” was coined by a different Frank Wilhoit.| Slate Magazine
I'm still processing last night's "debate" in my head, but I'd just like to say this: Did Mitt Romney actually call his kids liars on one of the most-watched shows on national TV? Since when was such behavior acceptable?| Moderates of all Nations, Unite!
I recently found out about a blog titled Smirking Mitt Walking Away from Stuff. The title explains it all: photographs of significant events, with the image of Mitt Romney, smirking as he walks away from reporters after accusing President Obama of "sympathizing" with the people who murdered our Ambassador in Benghazi, pasted onto them. So now we have Smirking Mitt Romney Walking Away From: our troops, firehosing of civil-rights demonstrators in Alabama, his own Bain Capital record, demonstr...| Moderates of all Nations, Unite!
Today is Tuesday, September 11, 2012; and just like that Tuesday eleven years ago, it's a beautiful sunny morning, with barely a cloud in the sky, and the first serious hint that summer is over, vacation time is over, and it's time to retire the shorts and sandals and put on warmer clothing.| Moderates of all Nations, Unite!
Only one day after a Congreswoman was critically wounded and six others (including a nine-year-old girl) were murdered in cold blood, our so-called news media are already reverting to their reflexive practice of mindlessly shielding both themselves and their Republican clients from an honest discussion of the causes of this latest mayhem.| Moderates of all Nations, Unite!
Following is a comment I posted elsewhere. Sorry for the hasty post...| Moderates of all Nations, Unite!
I have spent the better part of a month pondering what to make of the House Education and Workforce Committee’s December 5 public flogging of the presidents of Harvard, the University of Pennsylvan…| After Class
This is a list of how US Representatives voted on Net Neutrality in 2018: Credit to reddit user truefalseequivalence Senate Vote for Net Neutrality| Chris Bergerons Tech Blog
I've always known that the belief that Republicans are "better" or "stronger" than Democrats in the area of foreign policy is a myth, and has been since 1941, if not earlier. (Democrats: WW-II and the Marshall Plan. Republicans: McCarthyism and Iraq.) I've also known that today's Republican Party…| motherwell.livejournal.com
Happy New Year everyone! It's 2012, the year when Obama the Antichrist is supposed to bring about the end of the world. You Israelis are getting shitloads of US aid, no questions asked, thanks to our loony-right End-Times bigots, so you'd better step up and do your part to fulfill their apocalyptic…| motherwell.livejournal.com
On the one hand, it is perfectly obvious by now that the factors that drove Jared Laughner to fire into a crowd at a political event Tuscon, AZ, killing six, were purely psyciatric, and not at all political. If there's a political agenda to be discerned from his words and actions, it is one wholly…| motherwell.livejournal.com