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The measure of someone’s character is best taken not in the times of success, but in times of adversity. Since Donald Trump's life took a pronounced turn for the worse after the November 6th elections, Americans have been afforded their first real...

Something’s up in right-wing-noise-machineland.  And beyond.  See all the updates. With the addition of Jill Stein and my familiarity with horseshoe strategy, I’m inclined to think now that the Twitter silences are somehow related to Mueller...

My view of life today, after seven days of evacuation living, is vastly altered. One week ago on Wednesday, I griped about PG&E advisories that “Out of an abundance of caution we may proactively turn off the electricity in your area due to a Red...

In case anyone has forgotten, Nancy Pelosi has been a more effective legislator than the last three GOP House speakers combined. Her crown jewel is having passed a healthcare bill in 2010 that extended insurance coverage to 20-plus million more...

Donald Trump has been noticeably, well, aloof the past few days, skipping World War I commemorations and generally Twitter-pouting like a spurned teenage boy. Now, the Los Angeles Times has the inside scoop on Trump’s dour mood as of late. ...

Yosef did so much for Kossacks at this site prior to the elections; he certainly did for me in cutting down on research time and directing my personal efforts. I think it would be nice if all the folks who were positively influenced by him would say a...

Campaign Action On Monday, a federal judge in Georgia ordered a delay in certifying the state’s election results until Friday. The ruling cited the fact that thousands of provisional ballots have not yet been counted by election officials, as well as...

Been reading a great deal about the issues around who will be the next Speaker of the House.  About Nancy Pelosi and those who oppose her. What is blatantly obvious is that Trump and the GOP do NOT want her back as Speaker.  What has become equally...

The most destructive wildfire in California history incinerated the bucolic Sierra foothill town of Paradise, California and only the Pacific ocean could stop the Woolsey fire that exploded across ...

Bodycams, dash cams, cell phone cameras—they’re the tools we use to hold police accountable these days. But too often, the footage shows violence already inflicted upon citizens, and it’s far too late to help the victims. Not so with the case of Grace...

Jemel Roberson was protecting a  bar, Manny’s Blue Room, in the Chicago suburb of Midlothian, from an angry drunken customer. Jemel Roberson, 26, was working early Sunday at Manny’s Blue Room ― a bar in the predominantly black Chicago suburb of...

A few days ago the NRA made one of it’s notoriously poor announcements.  Remember, this was on the heels of yet another week of mass shootings. As you might imagine, opposition to this nonsense was swift and ruthless.  Yelling at the medical...

The reason that Ronald Reagan’s support of trickle-down economics was so frustrating to most Americans was that it was so obviously a money-grab ploy by the wealthiest entities and individuals in our country. George Bush Sr. gave it the name “voodoo...

Democrat Kyrsten Sinema’s lead in Arizona’s Senate race continues to grow as the votes are counted. Republican Martha McSally led in the early counting, but Sinema took the lead Thursday night and hasn't looked back. As of Sunday evening, Sinema’s lead...

You read that diary title correctly. As the Florida recount continues and the Senate and Governor’s races further tighten, Democratic attorney Marc Elias just tweeted out this unbelievable news. The sitting Governor, corrupt Rick Scott, wants...

I’ve long since realized there’s no point in fighting Trump supporters online. It’s sort of like playing tetherball with your dog. You’ll win every round, but your dog will think he’s winning and will never, ever, ever give up. But it can still be...

Mediaite has a story reporting how Joe Scarborough re-acted to one Trump’s latest lying tweets: Joe Scarborough read a few words of the tweet, before stopping himself: “You know what, no. We’re not going to read — Just take it down. What a liar....

There is a flurry of articles in the major news media along the lines of “What will Democrats do now they have taken the House?” and “What will the Democratic agenda be?” After I read as ...

Poor Donald Trump. He keeps looking for the second coming of Roy Cohn. “Where are my killers? I need a killer,” he has been heard to bemoan. Jeff Sessions absolutely was not his killer. Sessions was a vast disappointment. Then Trump was going to hire...

It’s not quite the indictment that everyone is waiting for, but Mother Jones is reporting that one of Trump’s top EPA officials has been indicted in a bribery case that’s connected to now-former attorney general Jefferson B. Sessions III. The...

Tremendous news! Late on Saturday night, after the latest batch of votes to be counted extended his lead, the Associated Press called the race in California’s 48th Congressional District for Democrat Harley Rouda. With this win, Rouda has defeated none...

Donald Trump crowed at one point that the White House on his watch was, “a finely tuned machine.” Yeah, and so’s a nuclear reactor until you pull the rods out too far. Mira Ricardel, deputy to National Security Adviser John Bolton, evidently got into a...

Every election, the same photos surface: voters standing in hours-long lines to cast a vote that they have the constitutional right to cast. It's usually the same counties, from one year to the next.

I’ll keep this short, because this is unfolding faster than I can type. Theresa May, PM of the UK presented her new Brexit deal to her cabinet. Their response was to resign en masse. While many are pro-Brexit, others clearly are not, per the BBC’s...

Traditional media outlets frequently have on Trump surrogates, apologists, spokespersons, bullshit artists—whatever you want to call them—to give the party line their side of the issues of the day. Progressive news sites like Daily Kos criticize these...

Campaign Action The sitting president of the United States is out of his mind. In an interview with the Daily Caller, he was reduced to ranting like a talk radio caller: you can practically hear the tinfoil crackling on his head as he adds a third...

Yesterday, former West Virginia congressional candidate Richard Ojeda—a Trump-voting, pro-gun Democrat—announced his bizarre candidacy for U.S. president. For some reason, some progressives cheered, as though THIS is what America needs now, as if there...

Stan Lee died today.   Many know him only as the co-creator, with talented artists like Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, of many of the great Marvel Comics superheros.  But, he was far more than that.   Stan Lee was a great teacher of liberal values...

Tal Kopan and Sarah Ravani write: President Trump will visit California on Saturday to meet with people who have suffered losses in the state’s wildfires, the White House said Thursday. “The president will travel to California this Saturday to...

This is being underreported and should be blasting far and wide !   There are answers that WE the People and that includes all of the US need to know.    Jazzed came up with this and most of America does not even know about it. Have you heard of...

I’m surprised Facebook isn’t being talked about on here yet.  So much that I decided to write my own diary about it, which will be my first!  Yay me! And, I guess that just reveals to you how much I dislike Facebook. The unfortunate part is I got off...

At least nine people are known dead and over a quarter million have been evacuated as the combination of gale-force winds and microscopic humidity drive walls of flames across both ends of California. Whole communities have been burned down, residents...

The State of Maryland will file for an injunction with Judge Ellen L. Hollander of the Federal District Court for the District of Maryland later this morning to prevent the elevation of the wannabe television pitchman Matthew G. Whitaker on the grounds...

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is showing the way forward to a more progressive House Democratic leadership, meeting with Congressional Progressive Caucus members and committing to elevate progressives to spots on key House committees. On top of...

Donald Trump has been extraordinarily petulant the past several days. Sure, even on a good day the guy is basically a spastic colon getting a Sriracha enema from a firehose, but even casual observers have noticed a crescendo of pique overwhelming the...

The general consensus seems to be that opposition within the Democratic caucus to re-electing Nancy Pelosi is hardening, making her quest to regain her position as Speaker of the House more difficult. According to reports, there are at least 10 members...

You might want to put some champagne on ice, just in case. Today could get very interesting. Let me say that if any investigation is leak proof, it is Robert Mueller’s. However, it’s common knowledge that he had done lots of work and that he was...

It’s official! Democrat Andy Kim has turned New Jersey’s 3rd Congressional District blue, unseating the architect of the Obamacare repeal, Tom MacArthur. Kim had declared victory last Wednesday, after thousands of mailed-in ballots swung the election...

So much for that effort by the unindicted co-conspirator to get his guy in at the helm of the much diminished House Republicans. Trump's guy, Freedom Caucus founder and child molestation enabler Rep. Jim Jordan is not going to be minority leader. ...

OK, so lately I have been reading a good bit about Nancy Pelosi and her status as the “boogey-woman” of the right and her supposed causing of garment rending on the left due to her “baggage” and I wanted to get this on the record. Nancy Pelosi is...

Donald Trump currently is in France with First Lady Melania Trump, on a visit where he’s behaving in ways sure to offend Europeans and Americans alike. Again. Despite his excitement about celebrating the end of a war, Trump abruptly changed his...

If there were a God, Mitch McConnell would have been reduced to a pile of smoldering ash years ago. After this op-ed at, where else, Fox News, God would sweep up those ashes, reshape and reanimate the remains, just for the pleasure of sending another...

A former Alabama State Trooper has shot the district attorney for Alabama’s 17th Judicial Circuit, Greg Griggers, directly in the face, in what is being described as an ambush attack. Griggers is expected to survive. The shooter, Steven Smith, Jr., was...

What a dumba**.

We have come a loooooong way since Jack and Jackie Kennedy took Paris by storm and all of France became enthralled to the Sorbonne-educated First Lady, who acted as translator for her husband and Charles DeGaulle. (By the by, Melania Trump claims to be...

Much has been written about trump’s failure to attend the memorial ceremony at the Aisne-Marne American cemetery outside Paris on Saturday due to, as John Kerry eloquently put it, raindrops. On Sunday, trump (and putin) declined to join world leaders...

Election officials in Maine tabulated the results of the country's first-ever instant runoff for Congress on Thursday, determining that Democrat Jared Golden defeated Republican Rep. Bruce Poliquin ...

Well, well, well. Now we know why the GOP has been trying so hard  to keep votes from being counted in Arizona.  As famously said: by Paul Weyrich, father of the Heritage Foundation,  “Our (GOP) leverage goes up as the voting populace goes down..” ...

Oh! The Irony! Assange’s Lawyer outraged that today’s ‘confidential’ information about his client has been made public (emphasis mine): Barry J. Pollack, one of Assange’s attorneys, said, “The only thing more irresponsible than charging a...