These 3 White Women From Detroit Need to Go to Jail for Their Racism
I know this is going to sound like a radical idea but it's time that white people who call the police on black people for the crime of existing while black start facing serious legal penalties. This kind of shit can't be allowed to go on without consequence:Throughout 2017 and ...read more
Trump Escalates His War Against American Journalists
Donald Trump's war on the news media reached all new depths this week. It doesn't take a lot of sleuthing to see how the brutal torture and murder of The Washington Post's Jamal Khashoggi has Trump's fingerprints all over it. Indeed, as we learn more and more about the story, it ...read more
Even Michael Cohen Is Urging People To Vote Democrats In The Midterms
In a brief interview with CNN today, Michael Cohen, president Trump's former attorney, urged people to vote Democrat in the midterms to prevent his former boss from wreaking more havoc on the nation. "Here's my recommendation," he told MJ Lee. "Grab your family, grab your ...read more
Republicans Shamelessly Running On Key Obamacare Policy They Tried To Destroy
Despite having desperately tried to destroy Obamacare and replace it with, well, nothing, Republicans are now using President Obama's signature policy to try and win elections. NBC outlined today the breathtakingly hypocritical strategies of several Republicans running in close ...read more
A "Good Catholic" Pharmacist Denied Medication to a Woman Having a Miscarriage
In their zeal to turn America into New Gilead, the anti-abortion, anti-woman right is now putting the lives of women in danger to satisfy their own egos:An Ionia woman is demanding that Meijer discipline a Petoskey pharmacist and implement a company-wide policy for how ...read more
Joe Biden Is Right, Democrats Must Not Impeach Trump If They Win The House
Former Vice President Joe Biden told "CBS This Morning" that he hopes Democrats do not try to impeach Donald Trump if they retake the House of Representatives after the midterm elections in November."I hope they don't. I don't think there's a basis for doing that right now," ...read more
An Open Letter to Brett Kavanaugh
Congratulations. You made it. And in grand style. Only a little over half the country thinks you’re a lying alcoholic rageaholic rapist prick. The important thing is exactly half the Senate was willing to look the other way. The country that let O.J. walk for murder allowed you ...read more
MEMBERS ONLY: The American Narcissistic Celebrity Complex
Over the past few days, two deeply damaged celebrities have injected themselves into the public discourse (again), pledging their support for another deeply damaged celebrity, who happens to be president of the United States. These appearances were not coordinated or even overtly ...read more
Here Come The Independent Voters, And They're Not Happy With Trump
For just a moment, try to ignore the fact that the following allegedly independent voters made colossal errors in judgment by voting for Donald Trump in the first place. Yes, they were successfully duped by a despot whose entire career, reaching back to the 1970s, has been all ...read more
Sorry Trumpers, It Turns Out Elizabeth Warren Really Is Part Native American
So we have to actually do this. Elizabeth Warren, or "Pocahontas" as president Trump derisively likes to call her, is in fact part Native American as her DNA test results show. Senator Warren made the results of her DNA test public today, which shows “strong evidence’’ that she ...read more
The 'Due Process' People Are Back To Hating Due Process Again
I'll confess here at the outset: my tolerance for Donald Trump and all of his accompanying cruel whimsy has reached an all new low. Chiefly, the shit flinging, without any real accountability for it, is overloading my logic circuits to the point of seizing up -- to the point ...read more
MEMBERS ONLY: The War On Your Mind (And What You Can Do About It)
Over the past few weeks, I've been feeling completely overwhelmed with the sheer amount of information coming at me from every angle imaginable. Granted, I have just moved house (with a young child this is twice as stressful), but the non-stop scandals coming out of the White ...read more