“Biden leads Trump among women, people of color, and former members of the Trump administration.” @WindsorMann “Trump campaign strategy now clear: he’s running against the election itself.” @sbg1 “Is it just me, or did Nixon do a hell of a lot less than Trump at this point?” @chipfranklin
[I can’t resist reprinting today’s entire post from Helen Philpot, she of the wonderful blog “Margaret and Helen“. It is epic. Enjoy! –iron] This old lady took the Trump IQ Test and she is smarter than the President. You can take the test here. Margaret, there is a new test out to determine if you are […]
We have a new commandment: I guess the clothing company Patagonia has had enough. They have started putting a new hidden tag into their lines of active clothing: Many people are buying Patagonia products just to get one (or more!) with the special tag. The best part of this is that it isn’t even overtly […]
Daniel Dale fact-checks claims made by Donald Trump during the ABC town hall. It has gotten to the point that the majority of what Trump says is a baldfaced lie.
I believe that social media has become the most powerful and potent purveyor of propaganda in existence. A memo written by a now-former data scientist at Facebook is full of multiple concrete examples of the company being aware of it being used to spread propaganda, but doing nothing about it. In fact, Facebook and other […]
Donald Trump claiming that he totally downplayed the seriousness of Covid-19 and the pandemic to “prevent panic” is one of the most hilarious things I have ever heard come out of his mouth. If it weren’t for Trump’s incompetence, far, far fewer people would have spread the disease. Did he not think that hundreds of […]
Heatwaves, out of control fires, strong hurricanes, shrinking ice sheets, sea level rise — these are all dangerous effects of global climate change. So how does the Trump administration respond? By appointing climate science denier David Legates to a top post at NOAA, which runs the National Weather Service. The head of NOAA under Barack […]
Last weekend there was a boat parade in support of Donald Trump on Lake Travis near Austin, Texas. But high winds (and too many boats) caused havoc with many boats taking on water, engines stalling, and boats capsizing. Five of the boats sank entirely. Which led to the following faux campaign poster:
I know this article is a week old, but there were just too many things going on that pushed this down in my stack. But you really should read this article in The Atlantic titled “Why Trump Supporters Can’t Admit Who He Really Is“. When I’m talking to various liberal people, a common refrain is […]
Although equally tough to feel sorry for this pitiful senator.
The team that blew open Watergate, Carl Bernstein talks about Bob Woodward’s new book about Donald Trump, Rage. Woodward interviewed Trump 18 times and has recordings of Trump.
The Atlantic, which published the article about how Donald Trump calls soldiers in the military “losers” and “suckers”, has published a follow-up article by David Frum titled “Everyone Knows It’s True“. Frum points out that everyone who is claiming the original article is false is deeply beholden to Trump. While everyone who has actual knowledge […]
In fact, today the Trump administration did something that even flabbergasted me. The first two paragraphs say it all: The Justice Department on Tuesday intervened in the defamation lawsuit brought by a woman who says President Trump raped her years ago, moving the matter to federal court and signaling it wants to make the U.S. […]
Today I learned that Ted Cruz is a huge fan of The Princess Bride. He frequently quotes lines from the movie, and even occasionally has done impressions of characters from it. However, apparently the actors have turned up Cruz’s torture machine to 50 by holding a reunion. In order to see the livestream of the […]
Here are a series of articles about how Donald Trump, Republicans, and right-wing media are trying to destroy our democracy. First is tonight’s article by Heather Cox Richardson. She goes through a list of the things that democracy depends on, and then gives examples of how they are being attacked and even destroyed: The rule […]
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