Politifact is out with its annual lie of the year. It’s really all part of the same Big Lie from too many sources to choose just one, but all of them come from anti-democracy seditious insurrectionist Republicans. The 2021 Lie of the Year: Lies about the Jan. 6 Capitol attack and its significance: Shortly after … Read more
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver nailed it last night. NSFW language (hey, it’s John Oliver).
Lincoln Mitchell, who teaches in the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, writes at CNN, Manchin and Sinema are hurting their party more than any Republican ever could: After a failed, all-day scramble to get the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill passed on Thursday, President Joe Biden’s legislative agenda is in jeopardy … Read more
Update to Mark Your Calendar For The Latest Apocalyptic Prediction, And Prepare To Have A Good Laugh (excerpt): We have a date certain. Mark your calendar to be totally disappointed, you MAGA/QAnon cult freaks. This is next Friday, by the way. Zachary Petrizzo got a little bit ahead of himself at Salon. So, hey, it’s … Read more
Back in January, shortly after the MAGA/QAnon seditious insurrection in Washington, D.C., a Neo-Confederate “Lost Cause” Texas Republican state legislator Kyle Biedermann filed a ‘Texit’ bill for election on whether state should secede from the United States: As promised, District 73 state Rep. Kyle Biedermann submitted legislation calling for a statewide election on whether Texas … Read more