It's going in the right direction. I mean left direction:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/29/1941407/-Trump-is-repelling-the-very-same-older-white-voters-who-propelled-him-to-victory-in-2016
Important and/or interesting political articles that often don't make the headlines but are worth a look.
Thursday, April 30, 2020
The evidence you need to see regarding Reade and Biden
Well, for the sake of the country, I hope this is true:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/29/1941307/-The-evidence-you-need-to-see-regarding-Reade-and-Biden
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/29/1941307/-The-evidence-you-need-to-see-regarding-Reade-and-Biden
Wednesday, April 29, 2020
New York Times op-ed: Trump and friends didn't just 'ignore' COVID-19, they engaged in a cover-up
Is this treason or just incompetence?
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/28/1941003/-They-didn-t-just-ignore-COVID-19-they-engaged-in-a-cover-up-NYTimes-Op-Ed?detail=emaildkre
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/28/1941003/-They-didn-t-just-ignore-COVID-19-they-engaged-in-a-cover-up-NYTimes-Op-Ed?detail=emaildkre
The two-party system is killing our democracy
I've always been a fan of ranked voting, so I'm on board with this system for reducing political divisiveness:
https://www.vox.com/2020/1/23/21075960/polarization-parties-ranked-choice-voting-proportional-representation
https://www.vox.com/2020/1/23/21075960/polarization-parties-ranked-choice-voting-proportional-representation
Tuesday, April 28, 2020
The Biden Trap
This doesn't look good for Biden...but not voting for him would only help Trump--someone with some 60 allegations of sexual assault and rape, and whose other behavior and policies toward women are deplorable:
https://www.thecut.com/2020/04/the-biden-trap-woman-vice-president.html
https://www.thecut.com/2020/04/the-biden-trap-woman-vice-president.html
Monday, April 27, 2020
Sunday, April 26, 2020
Our love of the cloud is making a green energy future impossible
This is going to be a big problem if we want to fight climate change:
https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/25/our-love-of-the-cloud-is-making-a-green-energy-future-impossible/
https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/25/our-love-of-the-cloud-is-making-a-green-energy-future-impossible/
Kentucky’s gravy train is now in danger, thanks to Mitch McConnell’s heartless greed
We need to keep making it clear that blue states subsidize red states:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/25/1940305/-Kentucky-s-gravy-train-is-now-in-danger-thanks-to-Mitch-McConnell-s-heartless-greed
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/25/1940305/-Kentucky-s-gravy-train-is-now-in-danger-thanks-to-Mitch-McConnell-s-heartless-greed
Why people stick with Trump and Fox News—even when hydroxychloroquine and COVID-19 lies do harm
Doubling down on stupid out of spite:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/23/1939713/-Why-people-stick-with-Trump-and-Fox-when-the-lies-on-hydroxychloroquine-and-COVID-19-do-them-harm
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/23/1939713/-Why-people-stick-with-Trump-and-Fox-when-the-lies-on-hydroxychloroquine-and-COVID-19-do-them-harm
White House reporters kept their cool and kept demanding answers despite Trump's bullying meltdown
Calling out his narcissism:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/20/1938833/-During-daily-press-bashings-Donald-Trump-s-deadly-failures-take-center-stage
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/20/1938833/-During-daily-press-bashings-Donald-Trump-s-deadly-failures-take-center-stage
Maryland agency receives more than 100 disinfectant use calls
Because of Trump's thoughtlessness and stupidity, people are actually considering ingesting disinfectants:
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/coronavirus-updates-china-reports-covid-19-deaths-9th/story?id=70324535
and
https://www.miamitimesonline.com/covid-19_hub/man-drinks-a-bottle-of-rubbing-alcohol-for-covid-19/article_0a2a9cfa-8626-11ea-a76a-07f198b5e75f.html
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/coronavirus-updates-china-reports-covid-19-deaths-9th/story?id=70324535
and
https://www.miamitimesonline.com/covid-19_hub/man-drinks-a-bottle-of-rubbing-alcohol-for-covid-19/article_0a2a9cfa-8626-11ea-a76a-07f198b5e75f.html
Four possible post-coronavirus futures
Well, at least a couple aren't too bad:
https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-future-d7e4942f-d939-48b1-9204-f6a51b78c1bf.html?chunk=1&utm_term=emshare#story1
https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-future-d7e4942f-d939-48b1-9204-f6a51b78c1bf.html?chunk=1&utm_term=emshare#story1
It's way worse than feared
A reality check for how long this will be the new normal:
https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-am-83d3b863-c263-4d32-a5f2-eb2de052a75f.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare#story0
https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-am-83d3b863-c263-4d32-a5f2-eb2de052a75f.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare#story0
Friday, April 24, 2020
Republicans rail against 'Blue State Bailouts' while Red America bleeds the country dry
More Republican hypocrisy:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/23/1939763/-Republicans-rail-against-Blue-state-bailouts-while-Red-America-bleeds-the-country-dry
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/23/1939763/-Republicans-rail-against-Blue-state-bailouts-while-Red-America-bleeds-the-country-dry
Home Alone at the White House: A Sour President, With TV His Constant Companion
Just to put the daily routine of incompetence into perspective:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/us/politics/coronavirus-trump.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/us/politics/coronavirus-trump.html
Trump Spent Years Undermining Global Charities Now Crucial To Fighting Coronavirus
Some garnish on Trump's pudding of evil:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-global-health-coronavirus-pandemic_n_5ea08e65c5b6a486d0834dda
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-global-health-coronavirus-pandemic_n_5ea08e65c5b6a486d0834dda
Trump owes tens of millions to the Bank of China — and the loan is due soon
Well, he keeps claiming Biden is beholden to China, and whatever he accuses others of being guilty of doing is inevitably something he himself is guilty of doing:
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/24/trump-biden-china-debt-205475
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/24/trump-biden-china-debt-205475
Trump Ponders Whether Light Or Disinfectant Injections Can ‘Cure’ Coronavirus
How can anyone be so utterly stupid? He HAS to know a lot of his followers believe everything he says, and some of them WILL try drinking bleach, right? And some of them will die. Not that we'll miss them, but their blood is on his hands:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-suggests-injecting-disinfectant-light-fight-coronavirus_n_5ea218a0c5b6d376358c7711
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-suggests-injecting-disinfectant-light-fight-coronavirus_n_5ea218a0c5b6d376358c7711
Wednesday, April 22, 2020
UN food agency chief: World on brink of 'a hunger pandemic'
What the World Will Look Like in 2050 If We Don’t Cut Carbon Emissions in Half
Read this to see what we're fighting for; don't read this if you don't want to get depressed:
https://time.com/5824295/climate-change-future-possibilities/
https://time.com/5824295/climate-change-future-possibilities/
The Lincoln Project Releases New Ad: “READY”
Republicans are now actively spending money on ad time FOR a Democrat:
https://lincolnproject.us/news/ready/
https://lincolnproject.us/news/ready/
‘Another nail in an almost closed coffin’: Trump faces his next coronavirus test
I think it's clear he's already failed this test:
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/21/trump-coronavirus-testing-197839
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/21/trump-coronavirus-testing-197839
Tuesday, April 21, 2020
The Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee has concluded that Russia did in fact aid Donald Trump in the 2016 election
Not that we didn't already know, but it's nice to have this confirmed by a Republican-led Senate committee:
https://twitter.com/travisakers/status/1252612709906034688
https://twitter.com/travisakers/status/1252612709906034688
Monday, April 20, 2020
We are Living in a Failed State
The Democrats aren’t perfect, but they are not so deeply evil and ignorant as the Republicans:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/06/underlying-conditions/610261/
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/06/underlying-conditions/610261/
What the protesters want, and what will happen if they get it
Something to show idiot protesters who are demanding a stop to social distancing and other interventions:
In 'Everything Trump Touches Dies,' Few Are Spared
This is an older story, but an example of yet another prominent Republican--Rick Wilson--trashing Trump:
https://www.npr.org/2018/08/07/635978021/in-everything-trump-touches-dies-few-are-spared
https://www.npr.org/2018/08/07/635978021/in-everything-trump-touches-dies-few-are-spared
House Democrats propose $2,000 monthly payments to Americans
Perhaps an actual universal basic income is indeed on its way:
Piers Morgan Says Trump Is Failing America With Self-Serving Briefings
And ANOTHER prominent Republican (Trump's FRIEND, no less) speaking out against Trump:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-piers-morgan-failing-america-cnn_n_5e9d092cc5b63c5b5870ba66
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-piers-morgan-failing-america-cnn_n_5e9d092cc5b63c5b5870ba66
Florida’s economy is collapsing under COVID-19, and only Republicans are to blame
Rick Scott and Ron DeSantis are a couple more Republican assholes who need to be voted out of office:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/18/1929884/-Rick-Scott-s-78-million-unemployment-website-was-designed-to-fail-but-that-s-not-the-worst-of-it?detail=emaildkre
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/18/1929884/-Rick-Scott-s-78-million-unemployment-website-was-designed-to-fail-but-that-s-not-the-worst-of-it?detail=emaildkre
This is how Trump supporters treated nurses in downtown Denver
This is why it's perfectly reasonable to consider Trump supporters to be both stupid and evil:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/19/1938740/-This-is-how-Trump-supporters-treated-nurses-in-downtown-Denver?detail=emaildkre
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/19/1938740/-This-is-how-Trump-supporters-treated-nurses-in-downtown-Denver?detail=emaildkre
This Is Trump’s Fault
Another prominent conservative eloquently tears Trump a new one. This excellent article walks through the timeline of Trump's truly terrible response to the pandemic:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/americans-are-paying-the-price-for-trumps-failures/609532/
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/americans-are-paying-the-price-for-trumps-failures/609532/
Sunday, April 19, 2020
Sorry Hospitals, Trump’s Border Wall Is Getting Another Half-Billion Dollars
Spending hundreds of millions of dollars on something that will do absolutely nothing to help the pandemic crisis:
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/04/sorry-hospitals-trumps-border-wall-is-getting-another-half-billion-dollars
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/04/sorry-hospitals-trumps-border-wall-is-getting-another-half-billion-dollars
The lost month
For those Republicans who are claiming Trump was busy fixing the problem during February...nope, not so much:
https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2020/04/politics/trump-covid-response-annotation/
https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2020/04/politics/trump-covid-response-annotation/
Friday, April 17, 2020
EPA Loosens Rule On Toxic Mercury Emissions As Pandemic Rages
Why not? Everything Trump does seems to be directed at hurting people:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/epa-mercury-emissions-rollback-coronavirus_n_5e98be87c5b6a92100e46ecf
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/epa-mercury-emissions-rollback-coronavirus_n_5e98be87c5b6a92100e46ecf
Thursday, April 16, 2020
Trump planning to scapegoat others if his strategy to 're-open' the country results in more deaths
Because of course he refuses to take responsibility for ANYTHING:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/15/1937452/-Trump-administration-hatching-plan-to-blame-others-if-reopening-country-ends-up-killing-Americans
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/15/1937452/-Trump-administration-hatching-plan-to-blame-others-if-reopening-country-ends-up-killing-Americans
Republicans Endorse Biden
More from the anti-Trump Republicans. It just gives me the warm fuzzies:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/15/1937573/-Republicans-Endorse-Biden
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/15/1937573/-Republicans-Endorse-Biden
GOP Group Dethrones ‘King’ Trump Over Coronavirus Power Grab In Fox News Ad
Another Republican group bitch-slapping Trump:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/republicans-for-the-rule-of-law-king-trump_n_5e97ef3dc5b65eae709f31fa
(Scroll down to see the video.)
Gotta love it!
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/republicans-for-the-rule-of-law-king-trump_n_5e97ef3dc5b65eae709f31fa
(Scroll down to see the video.)
Gotta love it!
Evangelical Pastors Seize Political Opportunity in Coronavirus Crisis
More why religion is stupid:
Wednesday, April 15, 2020
Trump declares himself a dictator. Blue-state governors organize. A breakup is now on the table
This is scary...but I wonder if a two-nations-within-one-nation setup would actually be a great way to test the right-left ideologies:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/14/1937064/-Trump-declares-himself-a-dictator-Blue-state-governors-organize-A-breakup-is-now-on-the-table
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/14/1937064/-Trump-declares-himself-a-dictator-Blue-state-governors-organize-A-breakup-is-now-on-the-table
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Navarro gets slam dunked during 60 Minutes Overtime
This is what happens when you're ignorant and trying to gaslight in this day and age (of video, tweets, etc.):
https://twitter.com/chrisalbertolaw/status/1249544218063908864?ref_url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.dailykos.com%2fstory%2f2020%2f4%2f13%2f1936820%2f--60-minutes-rolls-out-receipts-after-trump-advisor-complains-they-never-covered-pandemic-warnings
https://twitter.com/chrisalbertolaw/status/1249544218063908864?ref_url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.dailykos.com%2fstory%2f2020%2f4%2f13%2f1936820%2f--60-minutes-rolls-out-receipts-after-trump-advisor-complains-they-never-covered-pandemic-warnings
Something about this particular ad is really getting under the Trump campaign's skin
This is an excellent model for how to attack Trump successfully:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/13/1936922/-Something-about-this-particular-ad-is-really-getting-under-the-Trump-campaign-s-skin
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/13/1936922/-Something-about-this-particular-ad-is-really-getting-under-the-Trump-campaign-s-skin
Monday, April 13, 2020
Fox News host hits back at Trump over Chris Wallace criticism: 'Enough'
I just love seeing stuff like this. And The Hill is a conservative website, too:
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/492446-fox-news-host-hits-back-at-trump-over-chris-wallace-criticism-enough
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/492446-fox-news-host-hits-back-at-trump-over-chris-wallace-criticism-enough
How Mitch McConnell Became Trump’s Enabler-in-Chief
He's still ahead, but his allies are getting angry with him and his challenger has a good shot:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/20/how-mitch-mcconnell-became-trumps-enabler-in-chief
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/20/how-mitch-mcconnell-became-trumps-enabler-in-chief
Op-Ed: Get ready for the recovery of the 1%
The government protects the already wealthy, not so much those who are struggling:
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/09/op-ed-get-ready-for-the-recovery-of-the-1percent.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/09/op-ed-get-ready-for-the-recovery-of-the-1percent.html
He Could Have Seen What Was Coming: Behind Trump’s Failure on the Virus
Democrats MUST make use of this info in the elections:
California declares (rhetorical) independence from the undemocratic Trumpian States of America
It's nice living in a state with so much clout:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/10/1934848/-California-declares-rhetorical-independence-from-the-undemocratic-Trumpian-States-of-America
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/10/1934848/-California-declares-rhetorical-independence-from-the-undemocratic-Trumpian-States-of-America
Putting the various pandemics into perspective
NOTHING compares to the Spanish flu:
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/fxucds/for_everyone_asking_why_i_didnt_include_the/
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/fxucds/for_everyone_asking_why_i_didnt_include_the/
Could the Pandemic Wind Up Fixing What’s Broken About Work in America?
Some possible things to look forward to:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/upshot/coronavirus-future-work-america.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/upshot/coronavirus-future-work-america.html
Friday, April 10, 2020
Golf Kept Trump From Focusing On COVID-19, Not Impeachment, Zings GOP Group In New Ad
The Lincoln Project is a Republican organization that wants Trump and his sycophants GONE. They're doing it with great ads like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHjJydZO99A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHjJydZO99A
After COVID
A lot of interesting data in here:
https://mehlmancastagnetti.com/wp-content/uploads/After-COVID-Mehlman-Q2-2020.pdf?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam&stream=top
https://mehlmancastagnetti.com/wp-content/uploads/After-COVID-Mehlman-Q2-2020.pdf?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam&stream=top
Thursday, April 9, 2020
America last: Rep. Porter has receipts showing Trump chose a quick buck over American lives
Trump is the intersection between corruption and incompetence:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/8/1935508/-America-last-Rep-Porter-has-receipts-showing-Trump-chose-a-quick-buck-over-American-lives
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/8/1935508/-America-last-Rep-Porter-has-receipts-showing-Trump-chose-a-quick-buck-over-American-lives
Monday, April 6, 2020
Interactive Media Bias Chart® 5.0
Here is a much better version of the Media Bias Chart, since it's interactive and allows you to select just the media source you want:
https://www.adfontesmedia.com/interactive-media-bias-chart/?v=402f03a963ba
https://www.adfontesmedia.com/interactive-media-bias-chart/?v=402f03a963ba
The Coming Red-State Coronavirus Catastrophe
Well, well. There's a possibility the pandemic will take out a lot of Trump voters simply because of their stupid culture wars and stupid politics:
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/daylightatheism/2020/04/the-coming-red-state-coronavirus-catastrophe/
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/daylightatheism/2020/04/the-coming-red-state-coronavirus-catastrophe/
How biased is your favorite news source? This chart will tell you.
This is where to check to see if your media source of choice is biased:
https://bigthink.com/politics-current-affairs/media-bias-chart
https://bigthink.com/politics-current-affairs/media-bias-chart
America needs to plan now in case Trump loses in November — but refuses to leave the White House
And this is horrifying, showing how evil Republicans can get:
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/america-needs-to-plan-now-in-case-trump-loses-in-november-but-refuses-to-leave-the-white-house/
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/america-needs-to-plan-now-in-case-trump-loses-in-november-but-refuses-to-leave-the-white-house/
‘It's a shit sandwich': Republicans rage as Florida becomes a nightmare for Trump
This is very encouraging for showing voters how incompetent Republicans are:
https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2020/04/03/its-a-sh-sandwich-republicans-rage-as-florida-becomes-a-nightmare-for-trump-1271172
https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2020/04/03/its-a-sh-sandwich-republicans-rage-as-florida-becomes-a-nightmare-for-trump-1271172
Robert Reich: 12 Myths About Taxing the Rich
Of course these are spread by Republicans:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnoLAMHwf2I&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnoLAMHwf2I&feature=youtu.be
Instead of just flattening the COVID-19 curve, can we 'crush' it?
Saturday, April 4, 2020
The Trump administration just changed its language about the Strategic National Stockpile on an HHS website to jibe with Jared Kushner's claim that this isn't for the states
Extreme toadying, as well as subverting the purpose of the department:
https://twitter.com/AaronBlake/status/1246102757003722752?s=20
https://twitter.com/AaronBlake/status/1246102757003722752?s=20
Friday, April 3, 2020
Trump’s breakdown
May this successfully sink him for good:
https://www.politico.eu/article/us-president-donald-trump-breakdown-coronavirus-pandemic/
https://www.politico.eu/article/us-president-donald-trump-breakdown-coronavirus-pandemic/
Wednesday, April 1, 2020
Trump Rollback of Obama Mileage Standards Guts Efforts on Climate Change
What a petty, vindictive, childish and irresponsible bloatbag:
https://time.com/5812995/trump-rollback-vehicle-mileage-standards/
https://time.com/5812995/trump-rollback-vehicle-mileage-standards/
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