Can anyone answer this one for me? It seems clear that Donald Trump's strategy in criticizing Jeff Sessions is to get him to quit as AG so that Trump can appoint someone else as AG who will agree to fire Robert Mueller. I get that. It … [Read more...]
Collusion Is Not a Crime
“We do not get our opposition research from spies, we do not collaborate with Russian spies, unless we want to be accused of treason.” --Richard Painter Trump Russia Scandal is like a connect-the-dots picture that will later be colored … [Read more...]
Welcome to Watergate 2.0 (A Thread Starter)
No two ways about it. James Comey screwed up (in) the 2016 election. My informed belief: he spoke about reopening the investigation into Hillary Clinton to short-circuit a leak from the FBI's New York Field Office. I'm holding onto this … [Read more...]
DOJ Regularly Asks Hate Group for Input on Immigration Cases, Censures Attorneys for Calling Them Out as Hate Group
As an immigration attorney, I am DEEPLY disturbed by the letter Maria Sacchetti revealed in the Washington Post yesterday. Disciplinary Counsel at the Executive Office for Immigration Review, the DOJ sub-organization that runs the … [Read more...]
Inchmeal: A Progress Report on the Russia Connection
inchmeal: by inches; little by little FBI Director James Comey testified before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence today. Open, public testimony is less informative than closed testimony, but they aren't completely … [Read more...]
Trump is using the ‘shock doctrine’ to become a corporate dictator, but it’s not really working
[Note: I tried to insert an image here of the cover of Naomi Klein's book, "The Shock Doctrine," but nothing seems to show up.] From the continuous barrage of propaganda emanating from President Trump and his administration, it seems … [Read more...]
Breaking the bubble
Sometimes politics can trick us into seeing our neighbors as enemies. While I am prepared to stand up for progressive values and fight against the normalization of hatred in the Trump era, I think we can all do a better job of … [Read more...]
Why the Russian election-hacking scandal of 2016 is at least as bad as, if not worse, than Watergate
(Cross-posted from DailyKos) During the 2016 election campaign, Donald Trump charged that Hillary Clinton’s alleged email scandal was worse than Watergate. But, as we’ve seen many times, Trump tends to project his own guilt onto … [Read more...]
Warren nails her theses to the Dems’ church door
We can insist all we want that Donald Trump won due to voter suppression and because he opened the floodgates of racism and misogyny. But the obsessive focus on those arguments puts us in danger of missing the real lesson to Democrats from … [Read more...]
Patriots Day roundup: hilarity around the political spectrum
Call it a special Patriots Day edition of the Weekly Joke Revue, or call it just another day in our increasingly absurd excuse for political discourse. Whatever it is, it's pretty funny. Today's topic: the presidential race. We … [Read more...]