Florida governor Ron DeSantis has banned mask mandates in his state. Read that again. He didn’t mandate masks, he didn’t ban venues from opening without mask mandates, no for DeSantis the problem isn’t the virus, it’s combating the virus. Governor Abbott has similarly banned mask mandates in Texas making it…

While Republicans are raving about ‘stop the steal’ and invading the Capitol building as they do, there are some details that are getting overlooked. Republicans actually far outperformed in the election compared to the polling. In fact they did so to a wildly improbably degree. In 27 House races marked…

McConnell was exhilarated at the thought of finally being free of Trump. This is according to an Apr 25, 2022 Forbes article. “An exhilarated” McConnell raised the possibility of removing Trump from office using the 25th Amendment, which allows the vice president and a majority of Congress to declare the…

In recent weeks the GOP and Disney have been going to war. Florida Republican governor DeSantis signed a bill to revoke Disney’s special status as owner and local government of a part of Florida. A CNBC.com article from April 22, 2022 said “Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday signed into…

Joe Biden’s POTUS twitter feed on Mar 28, 2022 had this quote “My father had an expression: Don’t tell me what you value. Show me your budget — and I’ll tell you what you value.” So first I raise the question, what does Joe Biden care about? I refer of…

Republicans are quick to tout the myth of an individual pulling himself up by his bootstraps. They are also quick to demand the poor surmount any obstacle Republicans choose to put in their way to vote. …

The Jan 6th select committee, in a rare instance of competence, found something interesting and disclosed it to the public. As early as Nov 5th 2020 Donald Trump Jr. was done with democracy. (Probably much earlier but this is per the text message the committee disclosed.) Daddy’s little dictator texted…

For Dem leadership, in a metaphor somewhat inspired by the image I found on Upsplash, an energized base is like an electrified jellyfish, powerful but potentially painful if grasped. The Democratic party, or perhaps the Left generally, is a sprawling multifaceted thing. It is after all, the party of Manchin…