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This Election is About Whether the Majority of White Americans Can Do the Right Thing — For the First Time in Modern History Oct 31, 2020 Member-only Save There’s a simple question that needs to be asked if you really want to make sense of the upcoming American election. Are American white people ready to … Read more

Why America Can’t Break Out of Patriarchy’s Trap Aug 3, 2020 By now, you’ve heard thatAOC was accosted on the steps of Congress by Ted Yoho. He called her a “f***ing b*tch,” publicly menacing and taunting her, trying to bully and frighten her. It’s repellent to anyone who wants a civilized, decent, and modern society, … Read more

A Desperate President. A Secret Police. This is How Trump Steals the Next Election. Jul 21, 2020 Member-only Save Masked men. No badges. Carrying machine guns. In unmarked vans. Snatching people at will.On American streets. In case you haven’t heard, “federal officers” were recently sent to Portland. Nancy Pelosi described them, more accurately, as “stormtroopers.” … Read more

Trump Wants to Use Martial Law to Terrorize Americans — and Steal the Next Election Yesterday, the Mayor of Portland was gassed by the secret police of storm troopers that Donald Trump has sent to occupy the city. Wait. What?Let’s read that sentence again. Yesterday, theMayor of Portland wasgassedby thesecret policeof storm troopers that Donald … Read more

Trump Has Led America to Human Tragedy, Public Health Crisis, Economic Depression, and Social Collapse There’s no other way to say it, so let me just speak frankly. Thanks to Donald Trump’s stunning lack of leadership, America’s in a state thatcan only be described as free fall. Rarely in history has a nation descended into … Read more

America is a Poor Country Now, in Ways that are Likely to be Permanent New Zealand declared victory over Coronavirus yesterday.“Team New Zealand,” as Kiwis refer to themselves, celebrated having a virus free country. America, on the other hand, had close to 70,000 cases.Seventy thousand— and exploding. What theAmerican Idiot has done to Americais to … Read more

2030 Will Be Even Worse than 2020. And 2040 Will Be Even Worse than That. Unless. There’s an old line from a movie called Office Space — do you remember that one? — that I’ve always loved: “Every day since I began work is worse than the day before it.” That’s kind of an apt … Read more

How Bad Will Another Four Years of Trump Be? Unthinkable. Jul 2, 2020 Member-only Save I’m going to say something that you probably already know. Another four years of this —the dystopia America’s becomeunder Donald Trump — isunthinkable and nightmarish. Like I said, you probably know that. Yet I think right about now, everyone could … Read more

Can an Idiocracy Save Itself From Fascism? Jun 28, 2020 Member-only Save I was greeted by the news today thatDonald Trump retweeted a supporter crying “white power!”You might think this is insignificant, just another little ugliness, but I don’t. Trump later deleted his tweet. But of course the damage to democracy had been done, because … Read more

America Has More New Coronavirus Cases than Europe, China, and India — Combined Just how badly has America — or the Trump administration and the Republicans —botched Coronavirus? You know things are bad. But only some global context reveals justhow staggeringly badthey really are. America had 41,000 new Coronavirus cases yesterday.That’s an all-time high.As in, … Read more