Idaho State Senator Threatens High School Kids with Arrest for Participating in Democracy
The ugly face of Republican authoritarianism.
Two Simple Laws Could Solve America's Epidemic of Violence
Two simple changes to U.S. law, both things based in other laws that we already know and like, could solve most of America's gun violence problem:
1. Treat all semi-automatic weapons in a similar way under the same laws as fully-automatic weapons.
2. Regulate gun ownership and usage the same way we regulate car ownership and usage.
Gun Lobby Shills Ask For More Surveillance Instead Of Needed Gun Control
The meme that I was hearing over and over after the Florida shooting, and I was yelling at the TV, the meme that they kept promoting that was making me so crazy was, "oh, if you see something, say something - we should have been able to see this coming." As if to say that only in the United States do we have people who have mental illness problems. This is just total crap.
Thom Hartmann: We Live in a Country That Has a Totally Corrupted Political System
As the school shooting in Parkland, Florida has shown, what was considered insanely corrupt political behavior 40 years ago is now normal. And you can thank right-wingers on the Supreme Court.
Are ALEC and the Politicians They Fund Complicit in Niklas Cruz's Florida School Shooting?
Why We Can't Privatize Fire Fighters... Again
This should be the metric by which we determine what is public and what is private - public being government-run, we all own it collectively, and private being privately owned, it's owned by capitalists, essentially.
Trump's America First Policy Is Leading America To Last Place in Healthcare
Everybody has the right to education. It's a basic right. Everybody has the right to housing. It's a basic right. Everyone has the right to food. It's a basic right.
Donald Trump's Budget Will Cut Trillions From Social Safety Net To Give Tax Breaks To Morbidly Rich
This is fascinating because the Trumpistas, the Republicans, just released a budget which is going to cut Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, food stamps. It's going to cut everything. It's just right across the board, it's three trillion dollars in cuts over a ten-year period. Three hundred billion dollars a year.
How the GOP Used a Two Santa Clauses Tactic to Con America for Nearly 40 Years
This scam has been killing wages and enriching billionaires for decades.
"The only thing wrong with the U.S. economy is the failure of the Republican Party to play Santa Claus."
-Jude Wanniski, March 6, 1976
Neoliberalism Is Creating a Mental Health Crisis
Meagan Day writing over at Jacobin magazine is quoting from a new study that was published in Psychological Bulletin written by Thomas Curran
Donald Trump Orders Test Of Nuclear Weapons as North Korea Crosses Red Lines
W.J. Hennigan wrote a fairly lengthy piece in Time magazine on the first of February. He writes:
GOP Is Wrecking Your Retirement Savings
The rich get richer, and the poor will never be able to retire.
The #GOPTaxScam was the straw that broke the markets’ back. Here’s why and how.
First, America is hugely in debt (known as “overleveraged” in econ wonkspeak).
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