My birthday present on December 7, 2018: the United States Department of Justice alleged in writing - almost certainly with corroboration in its back pocket - that Trump directed Cohen to violate campaign finance laws. Then, two days … [Read more...]
New “Gutenberg” text editor drops on WordPress …
It's new to all of us. Have fun experimenting with the various "blocks". I suspect that most of the things you need will be available if you click the "plus" sign in the upper left of the editing screen. Most of the time, all you'll … [Read more...]
Harvard gives respect to drug dealers, oligarchs and child rapists.
Ok, at least after 200 years Harvard publicly talks about it's long tragic history with slavery. And it's been widely reported that Harvard has been profiting off the deaths of a generation of Americans lost to the opiate epidemic, thanks … [Read more...]
Ocasio-Cortez Gets It!
"Time to walk the walk," She Tweeted.... "Very few members of Congress actually pay their interns. We will be one of them." I was not aware that so many interns were not paid. A study by Pay Our Interns last year found that only 3.6 … [Read more...]
Patrick not running for POTUS
In spite of some of his old pals seeming to push him that direction, and in spite of the support of Obama insiders, our former Gov is not running for President. There was some considerable skepticism of a Patrick run on this very site, … [Read more...]
How corporate was that Harvard Kennedy School “orientation”?
Every two years, the Harvard Kennedy School of Government holds an "orientation" for new members of Congress. Several of our new members of Congress, including MA-9's new star Ayanna Pressley and MA-4's Lori Trahan, protested outside. I … [Read more...]
Judge Joseph L. Tauro, a giant in the treatment of the developmentally disabled, dies at 87
(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog) Retired U.S. District Court Judge Joseph L. Tauro, who oversaw the upgrade of the institutional system of care for the intellectually and developmentally disabled in Massachusetts for decades starting … [Read more...]
Until We #AbolishICE, Don’t Trust ‘Em
Since the victory of Trump* we have seen ICE agents and their leaders openly engage in ethnic cleansing in America. From the ICE agents who made arrests on private property without a warrant, to the private prison with nooses paid for by … [Read more...]
R. I. P. President George H. W. Bush
By the time most of you read this I'm sure there will be plenty of news articles with details, but just a couple minutes after midnight the networks pre-empted their programming to report the passing of our 41st President at the age of 94. … [Read more...]
The New Coke: The New Politics of Seth Moulton and No Labels
"We need New Politics because our current politics isn’t working." — Congressman Seth Moulton In the 1980s, Patrick Caddell, pollster for Gary Hart's presidential campaign, parlayed the idea of a "new idea" into one of the biggest … [Read more...]
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