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Demobots: The Inauspicious Study of Discernible Reality - POLITIFORMERS II
POLITIFORMERS: Robots oh these guys! [ Part I - II - III - IV - V - VI ]Little did you know, but many of our most prominent politicians are actually super-powerful robots, hiding in our midst. This...
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Republicons: Pillage of the Damned - POLITIFORMERS III
POLITIFORMERS: Robots our demise![ Part I - II - III - IV - V - VI ]Little did you know, but many of our most prominent politicians are actually super-powerful robots, hiding in our midst. This series...
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Demobots: The Best and the Shiniest - POLITIFORMERS IV
POLITIFORMERS: More than meets the pie![ Part I - II - III - IV - V - VI ]Little did you know, but many of our most prominent politicians are actually super-powerful robots, hiding in our midst. This...
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Saturday Morning Cartoons: Some Robots Are More Equal Than Others -...
NOTE: Episode VI is brand new material—don’t miss it!POLITIFORMERS: More than an eye for an eye![ Part I - II - III - IV - V - VI ]Little did you know, but many of our most prominent politicians are...
View ArticleNo, Sen. Schumer, don't turn the page. Now is Democrats' chance to attack and...
After Sen. McConnell’s pathetic, lying concession speech, we had this:I would suggest we turn the page. –Sen. SchumerNo, don’t turn the page. Strike now, while the iron is hot! Cement Repbulicans’...
View ArticleThe NYT partly enables the public acceptance of white supremacists
Public allowance for the legitimacy of white supremacists gets a little help from weasel-wordsmithing New York Times authors, editors, and headline writers:Car Hits Crowd After White Nationalist Rally...
View ArticleAtrios lays out the essential question that 2016 poses to Democrats
Leading lefty blogger Atrios (Duncan Black, a.k.a. the “Baby Blue Cherub”) brings up that in last year’s presidential race, while the result was so close that every factor was the deciding factor...
View ArticleExcellent New Yorker article on North Korean leader Kim and nukes gets 2...
The Risk of Nuclear War with North KoreaOn the ground in Pyongyang: Could Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump goad each other into a devastating confrontation?Letter from Pyongyang, by Evan Osnos, New Yorker,...
View ArticlePursuance Project: Society is broken. Run your activism on Barrett Brown's...
Ne’er-do-well and goddamned national treasure Barrett Brown is here to steal your hearts and save your souls. He’s fresh out of the clink from a viciously unjust stay as a political prisoner,* and now...
View ArticleSunday Balk: TIME's Klan(sperson) of the Year
Suborning windup:Eat the Mess: “Impeachment is still off the table,” “These are not the Medicare cuts you’re looking for,” and “Yeah, just maybe if you’d taken women like me seriously at the time...
View ArticleSchumer and Pelosi, make Trump come to you
OK, so he insulted you (as if he ever respected anyone?), and you bailed on the meeting. Good, so far as that goes, although once you agreed to meet at his house, you were damned if you do, damned if...
View ArticleThe Emperor's Old Clothes
Of course we all already knew that Donald Trump is a hateful dolt. That there’s a shrewdness about him, a reptilian drive for dominance that has gotten him to this point, doesn’t change the obviously...
View ArticleAny Congressperson who sits respectfully through the SOTU is enabling fascism
I could go through the “14 signs” of fascism, but if anyone isn’t convinced now, will they ever be? Has everyone forgotten what it felt like the day after the election, just over a year ago? So, given...
View ArticleChuck Schumer in WaPo: I’m in deep denial about the gravity of the situation
Washington Post OpinionsChuck Schumer: What I’m listening for in Trump’s State of the UnionBy Chuck Schumer, Jan. 29, 2018What is it, that Trump is admitting to his abuses and negligences of power and...
View ArticlePerhaps the clearest, most concise explanation of global warming you'll see
There is evidence that the greatly increasing use of fossil fuels, whose material contents after combustion are principally H20 and CO2, is seriously contaminating the earth’s atmosphere with CO2....
View ArticleFor some centrist Democrats, impeachment is still unspeakable... even if...
At a New Democrat Coalition meeting Wednesday, Senator Mark Warner spoke about what to do if Trump fires Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, the official to whom Special Counsel Robert Mueller...
View ArticleJan. 29 letter to Mueller: would-be King Dotard the 1st stakes his claim
It remains our position that the President’s actions here, by virtue of his position as the chief law enforcement officer, could neither constitutionally nor legally constitute obstruction because that...
View ArticleAK, RI voter registration due this Sunday, WA due Monday. Call your friends!!...
[Oct. 6: Some states’ information corrected below]Nov. 6th, 2018 may be democracy’s last stand against fascism in America, no exaggeration. Make sure that everyone you know who so much as might think...
View ArticleAZ, AR, FL, GA, HI, IL, IN, KY, MI, MT, NM, OH, PA, TN, TX voter reg. due...
Nov. 6th, 2018 may be democracy’s last stand against fascism in America, no exaggeration. Make sure that everyone you know who so much as might think about voting for Democrats is registered. Have that...
View ArticleThese statewide CA Dem candidates are behind and need your votes: Schools,...
Superintendent of Public Instruction: Tony ThurmondTo say that Tony Thurmond is an accomplished education advocate would be a massive understatement. Just during 2018, his final year this year as the...
View Article"Impeach now" means start the hearings
For the moment, the historic burden rests most heavily on the House of Representatives, and with special force on Congressman Thomas P. (“Tip”) O’Neill Jr., 61, the floor leader of the Democratic...
View ArticleOcasio-Cortez drops in on trans rights fundraiser Donkey Kong Twitch stream,...
It started when this guy went all “pipe down and know your place” to the batch of upstart new Democratic members of Congress, outspoken and diverse representatives who aren’t just taking direction from...
View ArticleIf Rep. Pelosi instead opened impeachment hearings today, would you be in...
Here’s what Speaker Pelosi told the Washington Post:There have been increasing calls, including from some of your members, for impeachment of the president.I’m not for impeachment. This is news. I’m...
View ArticleWe need YOU on the call for impeachment: tomorrow (Tue.) 8:30 PM ET/5:30 PM PT
Attention righteous patriots! The stakes are justice, democracy, and a thriving world against tyranny, mass suffering, and ruin. Our faltering social contract—the Constitution—along with the Democratic...
View ArticleThe tell in Speaker Pelosi’s tweet about the prez’s racism
xI reject @realDonaldTrumpâÂÂs xenophobic comments meant to divide our nation. Rather than attack Members of Congress, he should work with us for humane immigration policy that reflects American...
View ArticleCA-12: 3 Democratic challengers to Rep. Pelosi will debate online 6 PM PDT...
At 6 PM Pacific today (Saturday), Savage Joy of the Real Progressives site* will hold a debate among three Democratic challengers to Nancy Pelosi for San Francisco’s CA-12 congressional seat:Agatha...
View ArticleImpeachment: Our Demands
Demands of the impeachment inquiry to make it a success in making the case to the public that the president is illegitimate to serve, to maximize the chances of conviction in the Senate, and to save...
View ArticleImpeachment: This could all be so different
Where is the unrelenting, overwhelming effort from six or more House committees on all of the president’s offenses and abuses of power?Where are the daily public hearings on impeachable offenses by the...
View ArticleObama wants us to run the 2016 play again in 2020
Obama warns Democrats of moving too far left in the presidential race and alienating voters, Associated Press, Nov. 16, 2019“The average American doesn’t think we have to completely tear down the...
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What it means to impeach narrowly on Ukraine (you can change that!)
[ACTION BELOW] Amidst as well as in the aftermath of the extreme devastation that Hurricane Maria visited upon Puerto Rico, the president left hundreds of people to die and thousands to suffer. He did...
View ArticleIt's not too late to #ExpandTheArticles. A model impeachment hearing shows...
The country needs prosecutorial public hearings before the House and impeachment on all of the president’s major abuses of power:For justice for all whom the prez has seriously harmed and for more...
View ArticleHahaha! Nadler spikes House Judiciary Committee Republicans' little ploy to...
After last night’s opening statements, today was the House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary markup of two articles of impeachment, one on abuse of power and the other on obstruction of...
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What Rep. Pelosi actually meant by "self-impeaching," and why it's important...
There’s a popular misconception out there about the meaning of “self-impeaching,” one not exactly discouraged by Speaker Pelosi herself (quite the opposite). It’s that when she said of the president...
View ArticleCongress can stop this madness: impeach now, again, on reckless war & on...
Think of what it would mean to the world, to Iran, to Iraq, and to ourselves if Congress officially declared the president fit for removal for his bloodthirsty, reckless, unconstitutional act of war....
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Impeach again. Immediately. On Iran, and on everything.
Trump’s War Against Iran Is an Impeachable Offense What the president has already done justifies a third article of impeachment. BY BRUCE ACKERMAN,* The American Prospect, JANUARY 6, 2020The...
View ArticleOnward to the debate on Sunday
Where we’re at:3979 pledged delegates (771 additional superdelegates who can vote on the second round)1991 delegates needed to win outright with a 50% +1 majority on the first round1651 delegates...
View Article"If this thing boomerangs," an all-too-American tale
Woman killed by alligator in SC was doing homeowner’s nails, by JEFFREY COLLINS, AP, May 5, 2020The woman attacked and killed by an alligator in a gated community along the South Carolina coast was...
View ArticleImpeach again, House Dems. Lead the country, don't leave us to fascism.
We’re seeing an almost unfathomably destructive vacuum of leadership at the national level. To be abundantly clear at the outset, don’t count me among the painfully numerous Democratic politicians and...
View ArticleSpeaker Pelosi and Sen. Schumer pretend not to realize they're abdicating to...
With the nation starving for leadership to stop murderous police violence against African-Americans, leadership to save our lives from COVID-19 and the deprivations it is causing, and leadership to...
View ArticleThis is how democracy dies, with Democratic funding
They’re actually gonna do it. The Democratic-majority House is getting ready to pass a bill—possibly tomorrow—to fund the “Department of Homeland Security,” in the middle of Donald freakin’ Trump using...
View ArticleA "clean CR" would mean Congress funding unfettered USPS sabotage, secret...
Have you stopped to consider what it would actually signify for Congress to pass a “clean continuing resolution?”It would not merely mean that Congress acts to keep the government open and to avoid a...
View ArticleAbsurdly narrow impeachment déjà vu: Once again, expanding the articles is...
Currently, there are four active resolutions of impeachment. Here they are, with their articles in very-briefly-summarized form. (Keep in mind, one way to think of the scope of one article of...
View ArticleThe definitive political speech of our time wasn't on the floor of Congress,...
The first 40 minutes of this video are the extemporaneous thoughts of perhaps the preeminent political communicator of our time. In this recording of her livestream from Tuesday, Rep. Alexandria...
View ArticleThe Constitution says the House can call the Senate into session. Make the...
Neither House, during the session of Congress, shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days– Article I, Section 5OK then, does that not mean that the House could call the...
View ArticleMake Impeachment the Start of National Truth & Reconciliation: Demand...
The impeachment managers have presented a fine prosecutorial case, with video, audio, and textual evidence, along with inescapably logical argumentation and personal entreaties. Their approach could...
View ArticleThe Unbearableness of Not Calling Witnesses When Trying an Ex-Prez Who...
Everyone reading this before the impeachment trial is over, please stop what you’re doing, bring up the contact websites or information for your representative and senators, and message them to call...
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Tell your friends, tell your neighbors: "Deadline for Democracy" rally Wed. 6...
We are in a historic emergency of democracy, as Republicans in all too many states move to disenfranchise voters in order to consolidate racist, oligarchical power. The 2020 election was far too close,...
View ArticleDemocracy Is In Jeopardy! The game you can play with your compatriots
Got a game night video call coming up with your friends?Want to kick off an activism call for voting rights protection with some good hype?Looking for a snappy riposte to a certain senator who doesn’t...
View ArticleWe need progressives to hold strong vs. Speaker Pelosi & corporate Dems...
Remember a couple weeks ago when Speaker Pelosi struck the deal for a date this week to vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill (formerly the bipartisan infrastructure framework, or BIF) but not on...
View ArticleSinema: Democrats, you made Republican Daddy do it
Among all the smooth-brained gobbledygook, listen to this abuser-enabling perspective (from the 12:46 mark):Efforts to fix these problems on a bare majority party line will only succeed in exacerbating...
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