Rape victim thrown in jail after breaking down in court
A Houston woman in her 20’s who is called “Jenny” was raped and choked by a convicted serial rapist Keith Hendricks. While testifying against him in court, she had a breakdown, became incoherent, and...
View ArticleChelsea Clinton: They 'call her things I’d never say in front of my...
Chelsea Clinton, daughter of former President Bill Clinton and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, sent out a message to supporters of her mother on Thursday morning via email. Here is the...
View ArticleIt's Time We Stop Being Polite About It.
It’s time we stop being polite about what is going on. It’s time we stop sending out the funny memes and making cheap comparisons. It’s time we stop dancing around what is truly, frighteningly,...
View ArticleEzra Klein Scorches Trump
Has anyone posted about this yet? It’s a terrifically direct, comprehensive, and available take down of Trump.Klein goes point by point, through a series of disqualifications, sourcing each with...
View ArticleCharles Kinsey - his patient's life mattered, and a cop shot him
This time, the black victim of a police shooting is not dead. He’s alive and in the hospital telling his story, and the autistic patient he defended is alive as well. x YouTube Video Thanks and hattip...
View ArticleAn Ugly and Dangerous Speech
Some have called it a fact-less speech, that is not strictly true either:CLEVELAND — Donald J. Trump’s acceptance speech here was filled with Trump-like hyperbole and the kind of vague political...
View ArticleKeith Olbermann evaluates Trump with the Hare Psychopathy Checklist
There is a 21+ minute video at the top of the article that starts shortly after the article is opened.The actual sanity test I found is called, by delicious coincidence, “The Hare Psychopathy...
View ArticleMadame Secretary, About Your Veep...
Yesterday, I was moderately concerned about who you were going to choose to put on the ticket with you, and hoping for Liz Warren.Tonight, I do not give an inverted flying fuck with a double twist if...
View ArticleWhat a non-American has learned about the USA in the last four days
The United States of America is a decrepit post-apocalyptic wasteland where roving gangs of marauders target innocent white civilians. Crime is out of control, people are being mowed down in the...
View ArticleMy immediate reaction to Trump's speech
is that between the content and his delivery he has done several things that are very important- he will have been so scary he will drive most of the remaining Bernie supporters to Hillary Clinton- he...
View ArticleI Can't Believe This NYT Article About Trump Is Not A Bigger Story/Scandal
Yesterday, the New York Times reported an indisputable bombshell: Donald Trump has been offering prospective Vice Presidential nominees the chance to run the entire executive office — domestically and...
View ArticleHow I decided to respond to Donald Trump's acceptance speech.
I gave. A lot. Look: I was with Barack Obama start-to-finish in 2007-08. This cycle, I started as a Martin O’Malley supporter, took a detour because my former professor Larry Lessig asked me to pitch...
View Article"The Progressive Case For Tim Kaine As VP"
Now I will preface everything that I am about to say and quote with this, I’m for Xavier Becerra and Elizabeth Warren full bore. Now I admit the rumblings of Kaine have left me with the immediate...
View ArticleTim Kaine is what Clinton's ticket needed: a friendly white guy
As a strategist for Bill Clinton’s first presidential campaign, James Carville made “the economy, stupid” one of the election’s biggest talking points. It’s enjoyed quite the afterlife as a cipher for...
View ArticleWashington Post Full Page Editorial: "Donald Trump is a unique threat to...
The Washington Post has a full page editorial contending that Trump is a “unique and present danger” to our Constitution and democracy. Fair use limits me to just a few paragraphs, but it is worth...
View ArticleTHIS is the world Donald Trump incites: Black woman wakes up to an American...
Mia Frias-Russell posted a truly horrific—almost numbing—video on Facebook July 20, 2016. The post is going viral. This is the scene a young Black woman in Campbellsburg, Indiana, found when she woke...
View ArticleA teacher gets to experience Tim Kaine for the first time
Not me. I already knew him. xThrowback to when I hung out with @teacherken and the potential future Vice President ! pic.twitter.com/a1HTZIaSux— Mrs. Babic (@mrsbabichistory) July 23, 2016It was...
View ArticleSome statements on Tim Kaine from those who know him
which are among the many emails pouring into my inbox yesterday.First, from Rep. Don Beyer, himself a former Lt. Governor (2 terms) of Virginia and a highly possible successor to Kaine:I could not be...
View Article"The Cloak I Was Offering Them Was Identification With My Whiteness"
I was blown away by a Facebook post that came across my feed from a mother named Kate Riffle Roper. A white mother of 3 white children and 2 black children shares her thoughts and experiences in a...
View ArticleAn extraordinary GOP resignation letter.
According to his “About” page...Chris Ladd is a Texan in exile. After growing up in Beaumont and working for more than a decade in Houston, he moved to suburban Chicago, where he is a Republican...
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