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Before Frederick Douglass became Lincoln's thorn and partner, he ripped the...
Versions of this essay have appeared previously at Daily Kos. It concludes with excerpts from Frederick Douglass’s famous Independence Day speech delivered in Rochester, N.Y. on July 5, 1852. I am...
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The concept of a new civil war is not, in fact, a purely notional or...
A second US Civil War will not be fantasy football or Call of Duty. It won’t even be Jade Helm or the Turner Diaries even if Trump resembles Huey Long, Buzz Windrip, or Willie Stark."Trump is cultural...
View ArticleThe Absurd -- and Ugly -- Denial of Racism
This piece is running as an op/ed in the newspapers of my very red congressional district (VA-06).***************On so many levels, the big right-wing outrage these days about the assertion that racism...
View ArticleAppomattox without Antietam?
The Spring of 1865 was a very bad time for General Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Army. In late March and early April alone, the Rebels had suffered major losses to the Union Army under Sherman...
View ArticleLarry Elder would be a disaster for CA on COVID-19. We can and must defeat him !
California is a blue state, but in special circumstances it has elected a republican before. Larry Elder is no Governor Schwarzenegger. Governor Schwarzenegger opposes gerrymandering, opposed and spoke...
View ArticleTrump's weird rant praising Robert E. Lee is about changing history
Robert E. Lee has always been the focus of much Southern love. He’s been praised as a god among men by many conservative writers who have lionized him with fake narratives of his life and...
View ArticleThe Civil War Was Rigged? Sore Loser Trump Aligns Himself with Fellow Loser...
Watching someone you care about devolve into ever deeper trenches of mental illness can be profoundly painful. So what is like when when watching it happen to Donald Trump, the most despised occupant...
View Article'The January 6 attack never ended' and remains in a direct line with a still...
January 6 hasn’t ended. The Civil War still hasn’t ended. How many American citizens still live for the wholly discredited and ahistorical revisionist belief that the South went to war with the rest of...
View Article"EPIC" MMT: the most promising & threatening idea since the populist left...
Dear Citizens and Elected Officials:PrefaceDuring President Obama’s very dignified two terms in office, he made a number of statements equating a household’s economics with the Federal Government’s,...
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Holy Days of Obligation, revisited.
My sister was born almost two years before me. November 1st, All Saints' Day, a holy day of obligation. You had to go to church, Mass.I will be 69 on the 29th of this month. And, I may be experiencing...
View ArticleAnti-Vaxxer Allegedly Kills 3: Woman, Pharmacist Brother and Sister-In-Law...
They say that the most tragic element of the Civil War was the actions taken by brother against brother. That the rivers ran red with the blood of siblings who took each others lives on the...
View ArticleBlack 'American' flags at right-wing protests, on front porches vow ‘no...
Far-right extremists over the years have adopted a number of flag designs as their representative banners. First it was the yellow “Don’t Tread On Me” Gadsden flag flown by the Patriot movement and tea...
View ArticleView from the Barricades: The Labor Market
If you're confused by the state of the US economy, you're not alone. Market watchers know that stocks are sending confusing signals. Some "experts" say we are in a recovery, other predict big...
View ArticleParler Chronicles: Mixing it up with some disgusting right-wing insurrection...
Anti-vaxx Chronicles aren’t going anywhere, but it gets to be a grind sometimes. So I will occasionally mix it up with Parler Chronicles, exploring the right-wing Twitter-wannabe social media outlet....
View ArticleTennessee Republican stands in chamber, claims the Civil War isn’t over—and...
Tennessee state Sen. Frank Niceley has been around for a while. He’s the kind of special scumbag that supports big government subsidies for guns but opposed his own Republican governor’s deal to expand...
View ArticleMTG calls AOC a "Communist" who "participated in a Civil War"
Your first response to this news might be “What do I care what that ridiculous troll says?” or “Oh, so you’ve finally discovered wetness in the water have you?”On a certain level, I would agree, but on...
View ArticleOur New Civil War And Jim Crow
The ascendancy of Donald Trump and his overt xenophobia, racism, white nationalism, and outright cruelty gave license to a broad swath of Americans to act out in the same way. Trump verbalized and...
View ArticleAs judge puts thumb on scales of justice, Rittenhouse’s likely acquittal...
We may have an answer for the right-wing “civil war” devotee who asked Charlie Kirk the other week: “When do we get to start using the guns?” Judging from the way the trial in Kenosha, Wisconsin, is...
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"...the Republican Party is mainstreaming menace as a political tool."
The headline is taken directly from an 11/12/21 New York Times article by Lisa LererandAstead W. Herndon :Menace Enters the Republican MainstreamThreats of violence have become commonplace among a...
View ArticleSweden prosecuting oil executives for complicity in war crimes - the first...
The Swedish Prosecution Authority has indicted two oil executives for complicity in the war crimes against the people of Sudan by the former government of Omar al-Bashir. Ian Lundin, chair and...
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