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.
Republicans are many things. Honest is not one of them. For the past two years, they have been avoiding investigating Trump's numerous scandals and running interference in the investigations they couldn't avoid. They've gone from insisting that nothing happened to maybe ...read more
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Once upon a time, I loathed Christmas. I hated the music. I hated the decorations. I hated pretty much everything about it and I hated that I hated it because I used to love Christmas. And then I figured out the secret to enjoying it again... To continue reading this article, ...read more
Truthout reports on a new recruiting ground for white nationalists of the alt-right: The anti-choice movement. Attacks on reproductive rights are nothing new, but fascist groups’ infiltration of anti-choice groups and recruiting around anti-choice organizing in their genocidal ...read more
Andrew Sullivan is a Never Trumper. He despises Trump and before that, he had begun criticizing the downward spiral he saw the conservative movement entering that led to Trump. But despite this, Andrew Sullivan is, first and foremost, a white conservative male and so he often ...read more
In a meeting that probably could have gone better, Donald Trump, Chuck Schumer, and Nancy Pelosi got into an argument in the Oval Office with Trump repeatedly raising his voice. Mike Pence was also present but apparently remained silent the entire time: President Trump, House ...read more
(image via MSNBC) There's an ongoing debate among the left concerning the Never Trumpers. You know who they are, Republicans who woke up one day and realized that the Republican Party was filled with, well, Republicans.... To continue reading this Members Only piece, please go to ...read more
After decades of the GOP crushing the economy of California with gridlock and a freeze on raising taxes, Democrats took control of the legislature with a supermajority in 2012. They immediately raised taxes and, like magic, the largest state with the largest economy suddenly ...read more
To listen to the right on any given day, you'd think that conservatives are being censored on a daily basis and the First Amendment is dead. Just last week, far-right bigot Laura Loomer got herself booted from Twitter and handcuffed herself to the door of Twitter's headquarters ...read more
Looking back over the wreckage of the GOP from last month's midterm election, we should see a party reassessing itself and wondering what it can do to avoid an even greater pummeling in 2020. Not for nothing, midterms are where the Republican Party tends to shine and ...read more
Monday morning, The Daily Beast published a story with what had to be the least surprising twist since we found out Donald Trump actually was going to be an incompetent president: The organization "No Labels," which ostensibly exists to promote bipartisanship, is almost entirely ...read more
Paul Ryan spent part of Thursday whining about the "bizarre" California elections that saw Republicans get kicked out of seven (seven!) House seats in just that one state. This whining is part of a pattern of Republicans all across the country calling into question the ...read more
According to a recently completed study using the 2016 election as a baseline and the 2018 midterms as a confirmation, Trump has literally, not figuratively, but literally, altered the GOP's base. And I don't mean that he's filled it with white nationalists and open racists. It ...read more
In an attempt to maintain the peace around the Thanksgiving table last week, the Kansas City Star recirculated a column by the Washington Post's Republican opinion writer Marc Thiessen. I stumbled across it on Facebook and the title alone told me exactly what the column would ...read more
Yesterday, as most of the country and the world expressed how appalled it was at the actions of the United States, Tomi Lahren of Fox News tweeted how much she enjoyed children being tear-gassed at the border: I am not going to drag Lahren for her tweet. She's an attention ...read more
It's starting to become cemented into popular opinion that the layoffs facing GM employees are entirely the fault of Donald Trump and his ill-advised (to put it mildly) tariffs. And while I am loath to give Trump even the tiniest of outs after he's shot himself in the foot with ...read more
Just for fun, I spent a few minutes taking The Guardian's "How Populist Are You?" quiz. The first image is of several world leaders and populist politicians including Angela Merkel, Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, and Donald Trump scattered on a chart of how populist they are and ...read more
When I was a kid in the 70s, I was outside riding my big wheels when a dog got annoyed by the sound of the plastic wheel grinding against the concrete and took a bite out of my leg. Since I was by myself, I limped into my apartment building, crying hysterically cause it freaking ...read more
There are two popular depictions of Nancy Pelosi. She is either an establishment Democrat opposed to progress or she's a radical leftist with San Francisco coastal elitist values etc. etc. The first is believed by people on the far left who hate the Democratic Party and don't ...read more
Stop me if you've heard this before: A older white man who dislikes Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party says that the left needs to abandon identity politics and get back in touch with "the working class." [Slavoj] Žižek, a frequent critic of both capitalism and the ...read more
Two years ago, just a few weeks after the 2016 election, I wrote "Yes, You Should Shame Your Trump Voting Relatives At Thanksgiving Dinner." I was still trying to find the words to describe what I knew was coming and I got a ration of crap for it. This was long before the media ...read more
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is doing everything liberals have been begging progressives to do for years. She working with the party. She's staying respectful instead of throwing bombs all day. She's pushing the party to the left without doing her level best to divide it. But ...read more
(Image via iStock) If you search my name and the word "ableist" online, you will find a very angry blog post from 5 years ago about what a terrible person I am for picking on autistic people... To continue reading this article, please go here. As a Banter Member you'll get access ...read more
Not content to hang out online and spread hate speech against homosexuals and transsexuals the old fashioned way, the vicious animals of the right wing have taken their mindless rage into the 21st century and made a video game out of hate crimes: A new video game promoted by ...read more
Among the many rumors flying around Michael Cohen's lengthy interviews/interrogations with Robert Mueller and his team is the possibility that Trump has paid multiple women to have abortions: What, indeed, would Trump's fanatically loyal Evangelical base think of their ...read more