It’s a low bar, but America must become at least as functional as the NFL!

-- How the "Rules" Determine if Criminals Become Politicians - It’s a low bar, but America must become at least as functional as the NFL! (1)

Rep. Mark Pocan and others were stopped from inspecting Gaza during a recent trip to Israel and Palestine. What are they hiding?

Justice Gorsuch Is An Anti-Masker. Justice Gorsuch reportedly refused to mask up, even though he was asked to, despite Justice Sotomayor’s health concerns. This shows why Gorsuch proves Dems should "stack the court"

Will America look the other way on the GOP’s New Election Police? Voter fraud isn’t real, but, election fraud is very much real and alive & that’s exactly what DeSantis and the Texas GOP are proposing -- right out in the open

Richard Wolff was asked what happens if a fascist like Trump takes over the White House again. What Happens if a strongman government destroys what is left of American democracy? Professor Wolff response is shocking.

Why are conservatives confused about how America and Democracy came to be such peril?

American Journalism is dying... But Brian Karem says we can revive it...

The morbidly rich have taken over politics, nobody trusts anybody, violence is up, gun sales have exploded & our nation experienced its first armed assault from traitors within since the Civil War

Biden Is Shedding the Support of His Base—and That Could Be Bad for Democracy. Has the Democratic base had enough of Joe Biden? His approval rating with Democrats is dropping significantly. How will that affect the mid-term elections in 2022?

Now that Covid is becoming endemic - Oakland students are leading the way. Oakland students threaten to boycott classes unless school district meets covid demands.

-- How America Became Unraveled

How American democracy itself will be on the ballot in coming years, as Republicans embrace Trump’s Big Lie, and politicians like Stacey Abrams make the fight for voting rights central to their political strategy. Plus, how the new right-wing “supermajority” on the Supreme Court will further endanger voting rights.

When MLK came to Birmingham in 1963 a group of white clergy published an open letter in the newspaper asking him not to demonstrate. King was speaking directly to these "white moderates" in this searing letter he wrote from his jail cell. Thom reads Martin Luther King's Letter From a Birmingham Jail.

Thirty three senators have office in the Russell Senate Building named after a man whose entire political career focused on his single-minded use of the filibuster to block Civil Rights and Voting Rights legislation, just like a few well-known senators are doing today...