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Talk about flipping the script. Within days, in an historic act of grace, old Joe did the "right and honorable thing" and handed the reins to Kamala,...
Whew. In this quicksilver, "terrible moment," be careful what you wish for. Amidst our pious assertions political violence is always wrong, the tinpot...
In a haunting, ghastly reprise, Thursday saw the funeral of D’Vontaye Mitchell, a black man in mental distress killed by four security guards...
Amidst Democrats' chaos, some perspective for a relative universe. Veering ever further out there, GOPers are declaring "some folks need killing,"...
On a day to celebrate our purported liberty and equality before the law - in a time when that precept is daily profaned - we grieve yet another bitter...
We know it's not much given our SCOTUS-abetted plunge into Christo-fascist authoritarianism, but Steve Bannon, MAGA thug, "legend in his own mind" and...
Hoo boy. For those of you packing for Costa Rica, a few words, mostly not ours, after last night's much-hyped, twisted-as-fuck debacle of an Old White...
In a perfect, brutal metaphor of how much these sanctimonious, shit-ass Christian fraudsters care about the kids they're always frenziedly...
Honoring "a story of absolute moral and physical courage," we mark the 60th anniversary of the murder of young civil rights workers James Chaney,...
This Juneteenth, there's gotta be no better totem of the grotesque lies of MAGA's revamped Lost Cause - just swap out white "Christian" men for...
In discomfiting news for those still inhabiting Planet Earth, we are now through the looking-glass into a place where reality is so weird fantasy...
It goes sickeningly on: Israeli forces just dropped U.S.-made bombs on displaced Gazans, mostly women and children, sleeping in a UN school in...
House Republicans who never learn followed the reality-defying lead of their Felon- In-Chief Monday by harassing and villifying Dr. Anthony Fauci, who...
Wow. Just like the "very innocent" stable genius predicted, it turns out "even Mother Teresa could not beat these charges" - 'cause she too evidently...
With "one supreme act" of dying unquestioning in the name of war, said James Garfield on 1868's first Memorial Day, the fallen showed "the highest...
Apologies for re-visiting GOP lowlifes and their yammering Mad Emperor, but damn things are getting weird out there. Having ended his trial not with a...
As the dystopian movie Civil War sets records depicting the "colorful horrors of the American future" on its current trajectory, we saw the same...
Amidst the ongoing, unfathomable slaughter, hunger, maiming, razing in Gaza at the hands of Israel's "voracious death machine," its leaders now openly...
Happy Disinfectant Injection Day to the survivors who four years ago ignored the "stratospherically insane" advice, even for him, of a demented...
Okay all you naysayers whining shambolic House GOPers aren't doing their job just 'cause they're blocking border solutions, ignoring infrastructure,...
Kudos to Arizona's wingnut Supreme Court, who in their deranged upholding of an 1864 abortion ban so extreme even GOPers are fleeing it have dragged...
Lordy. Our apocalyptic circus of bigots, morons, loudmouths and clowns has stayed in town too long. To wit: a ceaseless GOP House "shit show," racists...
Mournfully - and astoundingly for those of us who so palpably remember it - we mark the 56th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King...
Honestly, we were going to mark the date with a spoof report - light in the darkness! - of Israel razing multiple pavilions at the upcoming Venice Art...
Well that was blessedly quick. Less than a week after NBC said it would pay fascist bootlicker and election liar Ronna McDaniel to bootlick and lie on...
Cruelty upon cruelty: Today is Mother's Day in Gaza, and across the Arab world. Still the slaughter, the wounding, trauma, hunger go on. Israel has...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGJwCUHVgc0 entire last bonkers rally, starting with feckin j6 thugs and donald reading the pledge as he plays...
At the first school board meeting since the assault and death of non-binary student Nex Benedict in Oklahoma, parents and advocates blasted a culture...
As children in Gaza starve and rapacious capitalism, fractured governments and toothless international groups all fail to act, let it not be said that...
Given a fraught political landscape where totalitarian clouds loom, we celebrate House Democrats whose smarts and prowess may yet save us. Thus, did a...
Talk about a tale of two countries: This election year, with only fervid culture wars to offer, a fear-mongering GOP is hating on books, flags,...
Declaring, "We are outraged, we are heartbroken," hundreds of protesters turned out to block Biden's motorcade en route to his State of the Union...
In ghastly images and videos, the world just watched a ten-year-old Palestinian boy starve to death as a result of Israel's crippling blockade of...
Defying fear and cold and threats of arrest, thousands of Russians came to pay their mournful respects to Alexei Navalny, long "living proof that...
Declaring "I will no longer be complicit in genocide," airman Aaron Bushnell set himself on fire Sunday to protest Israel's annihilation of...
CPAC is back! Weirder, shriller, fringier, more paranoid than ever, with many empty seats but God allegedly still on the side of the cranks and...
Fresh off his latest legal triumph - payment due of $355 million - and his yuge win in historians' annual presidential ranking - dead last as Worst....
The grotesque madness of history's first live-streamed genocide persists, with Israel daily committing acts once unimaginable. How to recite them as...
Wow. Just when the times were feeling pretty dark, it turns out love still (sort of) makes the world go round. With his usual grace, the former...
Dear Lord. A blasphemous Super Bowl just broke right-wing brains: Team Soros beat Team Jesus. They sang a Black national anthem, Travis wore a sparkly...
As GOP House leaders trash as "a stinking pile of crap" a border deal that (unconscionably) gives them most of what they've demanded to "solve" a...
There's so much malignant idiocy abroad in the land we don't usually bother to stop and smell the stench. But the travesty of insensate Tom Cotton...
As Israeli atrocities persist - storming hospitals, forcing evacuations, patronizing a right-wing confab bent on expulsion of Palestinians, defying a...
Okay, we know there are far more substantive things going on. But we join the multitudes celebrating Schadenfreude Friday, when the lying, raping,...
Harrowingly, confoundingly, Gaza's horrors grow. Israel kills 250 people a day, attacks hospitals, bombs survivors in tents, blocks over 75% of...