2+ day, 7+ hour ago   (601+ words) The Contrarian Sanity in Missouri and Trump’s Cheesy Convention Don’t hold your breath for that $5,000 he promised. Sanity in Missouri. Well, will wonders never cease? The U.S. Supreme Court, without dissent, restored the Missouri Supreme Court decision restoring the…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (319+ words) How did your members of Congress vote on ICE funding? I will show you how to look it up. Go to congress.gov and type in Secure America Act. This is the bill earlier this year that funded ICE with…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (692+ words) The Contrarian MAGA Republicans’ Reign of Chaos Continues Lonnie Bunch retires, Missouri map mayhem, and the GOP convention clown show A national loss. After unceasing, specious attacks on the Smithsonian, Lonnie G. Bunch III announced he would step down as…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (487+ words) Legacy media has certain tropes that it falls back on frequently, no matter what’s going on in the real world. One is “Democrats in disarray.” It shows up all the time. Four years ago, it led news giants to make…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (416+ words) Weeks before the November midterm elections, Democrats are reminding anyone who will listen this Labor Day of the economic pain under the current leadership of this country. People from all walks of life and political parties are deciding who best…...

2+ week, 10+ hour ago   (1027+ words) But in the first year of Trump’s return, that felt like the exception, not the rule. No longer. As we and our allies have won more and more and Trump has lost again and again, things have changed. Recent weeks…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (318+ words) I experienced this arc from a unique perch: 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, where I was among the tech policy staff in the Biden White House. I helped write the AI Bill of Rights laying out basic guardrails for these tools, took part…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (250+ words) In these sorts of free-wheeling environments with combative primary races, Democratic minority leaders can easily wind up in a no-win situation. You can bet that corporate media figures and agitated corporate Democrats, alarmed at Nixon’s socialist affiliation (she joined the…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (240+ words) In some ways, this is good. A competent pro-Trump majority would have enacted laws codifying his tariffs, his cancellation of foreign aid, his mass deportations without due process, and voter-suppression schemes. Instead, federal courts have stymied him again and again…...

1+ mon, 7+ hour ago   (956+ words) The Democratic Party has been dogged by problematic candidates in this election cycle, chief among them the secret–Nazi tattoo haver, racist shitposter, and accused rapist Graham Platner. (Platner denies the rape claim.) But while Democrats have rightly put Platner…...