The Uses of Outrage Paul Krugman, The New York Times, FEB. 27, 2017 People demonstrating in New York last Monday. CreditHiroko Masuike/The New York Times  Are you angry about the white nationalist takeover of the U.S. government? If so, you are definitely not alone. The first few weeks of the Trump administration have been marked by huge […]

On Tuesday, House Republicans Will Betray Their Oaths, Their Country, And The American People. Republican leaders Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan. First posted on Daily Kos Feb 26, 2017 10:09am EST by Dartagnan Next Tuesday, on February 28, 2017, the United States will witness the what may be the single greatest act of collective treachery by its elected […]

Rep. Darrell Issa Suggests Trump-Russia Inquiry Needs Special Prosecutor, Not Jeff Sessions “You cannot have somebody who was on the campaign and who is an appointee,” the GOP congressman says. BLOOMBERG VIA GETTY IMAGESRep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said on “Real Time With Bill Maher,”  “You’re going to need to use the special prosecutor’s statute and […]

The Supreme Court Just Advanced A Lawsuit To Nullify The 2016 Election BY GRANT STERN Published on Occupy Democrats February 23, 2017 A longshot legal petition to nullify the 2016 federal elections based on the Constitution’s “Guarantee Clause” just moved forward at the Supreme Court this week, after last week the Trump administration declined to reply. Our Supreme Court set the […]

Beware the Trump brain rot: The cognitive effects of this administration’s actions could be disastrous Democracy isn’t all that’s at risk under Trump’s agenda. There’s a 5-point attack happening on our nation’s minds   First posted on Salon By SOPHIA A. MCCLENNEN Thirty years ago one of the most famous public service announcement ad campaigns […]

The Trump Administration’s Not-So-Benign Neglect While we’re watching the scandals du jour, the president and his top advisers are dismantling the federal government. This post first appeared in Slate By Phillip Carter This week, President Trump delighted his base with a pledge to treat deportations like a “military operation.” There were also reports that his […]

(A change of pace, first published February 19, 2017 in Newsday.) By Larry McCoy After years of playing basketball and setbacks from torn hamstrings and ligaments, I have finally made an All-America list. No, I’m not on it, but all my doctors are. Topping the list is my Primary Care Physician (PCP), an Iranian-American Jew […]

The Trump administration today took another major step in the direction of creating The Trump Press, a national press exclusively guaranteed to flatter Donald Trump. And Trump himself, in a separate speech, repeated the charge that the news organizations that don’t flatter him — he calls them fake — are “enemies of the American people.” […]

White House blocks news organizations from press briefing by Dylan Byers and Sara Murray   @CNNMoneyFebruary 24, 2017: 2:31 PM ET  CNN and other news organizations were blocked Friday from an off-camera White House press briefing. There was no immediate explanation from the White House.  The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and Politico were also […]

Arizona Senate votes to seize assets of those who plan, participate in protests that turn violent From the Arizona Capitol Times By:  Howard Fischer, Capitol Media Services  February 22, 2017 , 5:11 pm Claiming people are being paid to riot, Republican state senators voted Wednesday to give police new power to arrest anyone who is involved in […]