On Thursday, a Texas state Judge ruled Texas abortion law’s enforcement mechanism unconstitutional, but then unbelievably did not issue an injunction. The status quo here is Roe v. Wade and Casey v. Planned Parenthood: a woman has a constitutional right to make reproductive decisions for herself in consultation with her medical provider, and it is … Read more
The Never Trumpers in the Republican Party have had since 2015 to form a new conservative political party. They have failed to do so because they suffer from the delusion that the party’s descent into Trumpism, the new American fascism, is only temporary, and that they could take back the party with the defeat of … Read more
The January 6 MAGA/QAnon seditious insurrection at the Capitol more particularly was a white Christian Nationalist seditious insurrection. Thomas Edsall of the New York Times wrote in January ‘The Capitol Insurrection Was as Christian Nationalist as It Gets.’ (excerpt): It’s impossible to understand the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol without addressing the movement that … Read more
Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) chairs the GQP House Freedom (sic) Caucus – which truth in advertising would require it to be called the GQP House Fascist Caucus – and after the January 6 insurrection has been dubbed the GQP Sedition Caucus. Just to review, Rep. Andy Biggs has some splainin’ to do to the new … Read more
Our prima donna senator emerged from hiding in her chicken bunker since last Friday, speaking to reporters Tuesday in Tucson — after touring migrant facilities with the anti-immigrant Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, earlier in the day — Sinema had a short response when asked why she missed the vote on the January 6 Commission. Sinema on why she skipped … Read more