Prominent civil rights leaders, the Revs. Jesse L. Jackson and Bishop William J. Barber II, were among about 200 people arrested outside the U.S. Capitol on Monday while protesting for Congress to end the filibuster, protect voting rights and raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. The Washington Post reports, Jesse Jackson among … Read more
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) said she may yet jump back into politics, teasing the possibility of a Senate run in 2022 against incumbent Lisa Murkowski, Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post reports. Said Palin: “If God wants me to do it I will.”
Saturday was the fourth and final day of the Poor Peoples Campaign’s Georgetown-to-Austin Moral March For Democracy. Hundreds of marchers made their way to Austin, TX, on Saturday as thousands more joined them at a protest for voting rights. At Saturday’s rally, country music legend Willie Nelson led more than a thousand spectators in singing “vote … Read more
Kevin McCarthy thinks he is funny. He is not. He is repulsive and a scum. Over the last eight months, he has taken himself and his party firmly into the Trump Zone in a self-serving attempt and Faustian Bargain to consolidate support among the fringe cult residents in that alternative universe in order to advance … Read more
HBO’s The Wire explained the first rule of a criminal conspiracy: “no f_king notes!” This is why Donald Trump loved the disreputable and disbarred Roy Cohn as his lawyer: he reportedly never took notes, for obvious reasons. The New York Times first reported on Thursday, Trump Pressed Justice Dept. to Declare Election Results Corrupt, Notes … Read more