The stridently center-left Jewish-Puerto Rican atheist liberal your conservative grandparents warned you about, Justin is also a full-time stay at home parent to an autistic son and a neurotypical daughter, a doting husband, a donor daddy to a lesbian couple, a PTA president, a sci-fi geek and still finds time to write about politics and social issues for a living.
Lost in the fire-hose of news from the Trump shutdown and its humiliating ending for Republicans was a report about the deliberate nature of the disaster at the border: Following reports on Thursday that federal officials forcibly separated thousands more migrant children from ...read more
After getting their asses kicked in an election, most political parties take stock and modify their message to appeal to a broader range of the electorate. And that's sort of what the GOP is doing right now. Instead of whipping up white nationalist hysteria over a nonexistent ...read more
Republicans are desperate. Trump is as unpopular as he's ever been, he just surrendered unconditionally to Nancy Pelosi after a disastrous and unnecessary 35 day government shutdown of his own creation, and he's threatening to do again but this time with the promise of crashing ...read more
Over the five weeks of Trump's idiotic shutdown over a wall he will never build, my wife and I discovered just how much support we had from our friends and family. It was a humbling experience and one we were not expecting. To continue reading this article, please go to our ...read more
The right has made a denying climate change a centerpiece of what passes for their ideology for years. But few of them have made themselves look quite as stupid as Rush Limbaugh. The Midwest is about to be slammed with some of the coldest weather on record and people are going ...read more
On Sunday's Meet the Press, ancient white male Tom Brokaw forgot he was on camera and had an uncensored moment of ancient white maleness where he let us know how little he thinks of the Latino community's ability to assimilate into American culture: “I also happen to believe ...read more
I belong to a secret club. This club gives me special privileges and perks. I'm allowed to breeze through doors that others aren't even allowed to walk up to. I can do things that would make the jaws drop on those who don't belong to my club. Everyone knows about this secret ...read more
When my wife told me this morning that Trump caved to Nancy Pelosi over the State of the Union address and wouldn't be giving it until after his shutdown was over, my first reaction was, "Naaaaah...that can't be right." Trump would never back down over something that public, ...read more
Over the last few days, we've been subjected to a grand "mea culpa" from the media who have suddenly discovered a world of nuance concerning the Covington students disrespectfully mocking a Native American on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. After all, if one watches the full ...read more
Let's get this out of the way: Jacob Wohl is a fucking moron. If you don't recall the name, he's one of the two masterminds behind the disastrous plot to discredit Robert Mueller with a made-up sexual assault allegation. It's not entirely clear why he's not in jail for this ...read more
The eagle eyes at Gizmodo have noticed that several images on President McTinyDigits' social media accounts have been altered to flatter the notoriously vain occupant that puts the "oval" in "Oval Office": In recent months, Trump’s official Facebook and Instagram accounts have ...read more
Over the last few days, the QAnon crowd has been super excited over a new theory that's risen from the fever swamp of stupiditiy that is the right wing fringe: Donald Trump engineered the shutdown so he could fire hundreds of thousands of government workers using something ...read more
It's no secret that the right-wing media hates newly sworn in congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Not just run of the mill, "I hate the left" kind of hate but with the power of a thousand exploding stars kind of hate. This is the kind of hate they reserve for Hillary Clinton ...read more
This past Saturday, my wife Deb and I drove out to the Giant supermarket in Groveton, a neighborhood in the southeastern part of my hometown of Alexandria, Virginia. We were not going to go food shopping. We were going to stand on line at a food bank for federal workers who are ...read more
Over the last three years, we as a country have been struggling to understand exactly what is driving the rage of white Republican voters. The press tried to explain it away as "economic anxiety" and blamed Hillary Clinton for being Hillary Clinton. But Trump's cult continued to ...read more
There are few things as inherently manly as shaving your face. The ritual of a father teaching their son how to shave is a rite of passage. It's when boys become men! Well, not really but it's still kind of a big deal for us guys. Accordingly, men's razor companies have always ...read more
For the past week, it's become increasingly clear that Trump is going to declare a fake "national emergency" to get around Congress because that's the only way out of the corner he's painted himself into. But just as increasingly clear is how excited the right is over the ...read more
Donald Trump is a buffoon but he is incredibly useful for one thing so far: Exposing the worthlessness of right wing economic ideology. He's done such a good job at it that Republicans are going to spend decades rebuilding their facade that tax cuts for billionaires are great ...read more
After last night's ten minute waste of time masquerading as an Oval Office address, news sites put out fact check after fact check. Considering that Trump delivered his usual stump speech filled with the usual lies, this wasn't that hard to do. And yet, the Associated Press ...read more
Tuesday night, Trump may or may not try to declare a "national emergency" at the southern border in order to get around Congress and start the construction of his useless wall. If not Tuesday, then it's more likely than not he'll do it in the next week or two because he'll have ...read more
Jonathan Chait correctly informs us that "Donald Trump Was Never Vetted" yet manages to completely miss the most fundamental reason why this happened: Everyone assumed Hillary was going to win so no one bothered. To be fair to Chait, this was not the only reason and he does an ...read more
Once upon a time, Donald Trump was illegitimately elected President of the United States. White Republican voters rejoiced because they thought this was their chance to let their inner bigot out. No longer would they be embarrassed to spew racial slurs in the street at random ...read more
Back in November, the country (rightfully) lost its collective mind over images of the United States border agents firing tear gas at children. The Trump regime had to go into full spin mode to do damage control and Fox News spent weeks justifying the use of chemical weapons ...read more
On the last day of 2018, there was a fascinating op-ed in the New York Times by Katherine Stewart that sparked an interesting discussion on social media about the religious right. In it, Stewart explains that the religious right does not, in fact, give a crap about democracy or ...read more