The White House, located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., has housed all our presidents from President John Adams to the current president, Donald Trump.
The sitting president when the White House was constructed was President George...
While right-wing hate media--and even some so-called "left" outlets--are busy making the "Hunter Biden laptop scandal" "Hillary's emails" 2.0, there is a real scandal the media has decided to all but ignore.
Maybe that's because it...
They're at it again.
As if the proposed Senate Republican tax plan did not put enough targets on average Americans' backs, according to multiple reports, the revised bill includes another insult: repeal the Affordable Care Act's, aka Obamacare, individual...
This week, Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered his long-anticipated, unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
No sooner did this happen than Donald Trump--the twice-impeached, authoritarian-leaning, wanna-be autocrat former president of the United States--praised Putin's "brilliant," “savvy,” and “smart”...
In his speech last Thursday afternoon commemorating the first anniversary of the attempted coup against our government, President Joe Biden said:
“Rioters rampaging, waving for the first time inside this Capitol, the confederate flag that symbolized the...
For all out there feeling a little demoralized about the class warfare congressional Republicans and President Donald Trump's administration are waging against us, results from Tuesday's elections should lift your spirits.
Let's start in Virginia where...
Last week, we learned Facebook was preparing to give Congress 3,000 Russian-purchased ads through 470 phony pages and accounts that suggest African American rights groups, like Black Lives Matter, posed a political threat, in an effort to...
A friend shared an article on my Facebook timeline that explained "Why Liberals Are Smarter Than Conservatives" by Satoshi Kanazawa. The article was originally written for Scientific Fundamentalist.
Some of the highlights:
Liberals usually support such social...
While the media diverted some attention away from reporting on the Black Lives Matter protests and the spike in coronavirus cases to focus on Donald Trump's underwhelming Tulsa, Okla. rally on Saturday, two nuclear superpowers...
"You say you want a revolution?"
Well, it might not be far off.
That is according to a study published in Nature tracing characteristics of history's most consequential revolutions.
Using a rubric called the Gini coefficient, scientists from Washington State University and...
Yesterday, as the country was still reeling from the thirtieth mass shooting in the first 45 days of the year, the eighteenth school shooting, I decided to look up how much the Republican, John Faso (NY-19),...
Amid the glaring problems with the Republicans' rewrite of our tax code, there is another issue that should concern us--time.
Is there enough of it to allow America to adjust to the changes since several provisions in...
One week from today, barring any outstanding circumstances (I remember 2000 all too clearly!), we will have a new President-elect. On one side, we have the racist, misogynist, going-to-trial-in-December-for-child-rape, Republican presidential nominee Donald "Grab Them...
“The president of the United States is not well.”
Thus begins Vox writer Ezra Klein's article, "Incoherent, authoritarian, uninformed: Trump’s New York Times interview is a scary read," published last week after President Donald Trump stunned us once again...
Wired's Rusty Ward has put together this awesome video that covers the science of how to brainwash someone. Why is it important to us as liberals? Because many people (myself included) believe that people on...
Comprehensive voting reform Democrats have been promising since reclaiming the congressional majority this year may finally be within our grasp.
HR1, or the “For the People Act,” re-introduced this January, seeks, in part, to:
Include providing voters...
I stumbled across this fascinating chart that depicts all of a person's life changes from birth to death. It was pulled together by the think tank?culturalanalysis.com?and shows some fascinating information.
I'm 48 and I knew I...
Who would have imagined people would have to protest for a free and open internet?
Yet that is exactly what is planned to occur outside Federal Communication Commission (FCC) headquarters in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, the day...
45 Q Anon supporters are running for congressional seats in next year’s mid-term election.
Seriously.
But it gets worse.
Hoping to join them are fellow Trumpistas who participated in the January 6 domestic terror attack on the Capitol intending to violently subvert...
This year will mark 10 years since I left the chamber of horrors that was my first marriage. I didn't realize it at the time, but I was as beaten down as any woman who has...
