December 2, 2024

Last night, Jane Mayer of the New Yorker reported that Trump’s choice for secretary of defense, Fox News Channel weekend host Pete Hegseth, had been forced to leave previous leadership positions at the advocacy groups Veterans for Freedom and...

George Orwell and The Founding Fathers

You may want to prepare yourself for the coming Trump administration by rereading George Orwell’s “1984” if it’s been a while.

LGBTQ+ People Are Not Going Back

Last week, Julia Serrano proposed an action for anyone with a social media platform who supports LGBT people. It was intended let Democrats in Congress know how disappointed we are in their failure…

Survey: Donald Trump has been literally causing people to leave Christianity

Was just doing some casual internet browsing and came across this. It’s a couple years old but, with Trump now elected to another four years, is undoubtedly relevant once again. A (gay) ex-pastor of a Baptist church did some of his own research on...

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A Chinese national, charged with fraud by the SEC, just sent Donald Trump $18 million

Chinese Crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun paid $6.2 million for a banana — sold by Sotheby's as conceptual art — and then ate it last Friday.

December 1, 2024

Over the holiday weekend, President-elect Trump continued to name the people he wants in his incoming administration.

Democrats Need to Learn How to Take Credit and How to Blame

Republicans do it with lies. So why can’t Democrats do it with the truth?

Liberal democracy - Digby's Hullabaloo

Fighting for freedom itself Sometimes lost in our strategizing on how to defeat authoritarianism is the need to strengthen liberal democracy itself. Heather Cox Richardson references a Bluesky thread that makes that important point:

Worst People On The Planet - Digby's Hullabaloo

The new team of vipers It remains mind-boggling that grown men and women worship the hapless Wile E. Coyote of American politicians. They attend the would-be strongman's rallies, buy his shitty merch, and mimic his dance to the gay national...

Bros Assert Their Authority - Digby's Hullabaloo

According to this AP story, a lot of women are having to carry around pepper spray on campus these days for fear of being assaulted: It’s a response to an emboldened fringe of right-wing “manosphere” influencers who have seized on...

November 30, 2024

Cas Mudde, a political scientist who specializes in extremism and democracy, observed yesterday on Bluesky that “the fight against the far right is secondary to the fight to strengthen liberal democracy.” That’s a smart observation.

The New Matt Gaetz

It’s tempting to look at Trump’s announcement that he will appoint Kash Patel to be director of the FBI as just another attempt at trolling.