11/23/2022

A Thanksgiving Poem from Indigenous America

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" Indian Mascot, 1959 " by Janice Gould , who was a member of the Concow tribe Now begins the festival and rivalry of late fall, t...
11/19/2022

The Republican House Is Gonna Be Filled with Insanity and Fuckery

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In the wake of Republicans winning the House of Representatives, even by a narrow margin, we got a preview this week of how much we're d...
11/12/2022

Blaming Trump Lets Republicans Off the Hook (and Other Observations on a Pretty Good Election)

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(Started writing this early in the week, but because Covid is still a thing, I've been back in Louisiana with to see a sick, hospitalize...
11/07/2022

Vote Because Fuck Them

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Goddamn, I can't fucking take them anymore, any of them, any of the assorted MAGA racist freaks and moral lepers and violent morons, any...
11/04/2022

Barack Obama Calls Crazy "Crazy" and We Need More of That

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We needed Barack Obama to lay it all out for us: "Imagine if you hire your plumber. You've got an overflowing toilet. It's a pr...
10/28/2022

They Once Blew Up a Classroom Over Textbooks, So, Yeah, There Will Be Violence

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In 1974, in West Virginia, protesters used dynamite and Molotov cocktails against the buildings of their enemies. The protesters were upset ...
10/21/2022

The Questions Republican Candidates Aren't Being Asked Enough (or At All)

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We know that if Republicans win back even one house of Congress, the whole place will become a nightmare of masturbating clowns, all cacklin...
10/15/2022

The Patriotic Case for Jailing Donald Trump

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Thursday's hearing by the January 6 Committee was clarifying in the way that a great closing argument at a trial can be, pulling togethe...
10/06/2022

Herschel Walker Proves That All That GOP Abortion Shit Was a Lie

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I've never seen a grift given away quite as blatantly as it was by right-wing talk thing Dana Loesch (motto: "I was too fucking cra...
10/01/2022

On Mental Health, Like on Everything Else, Republicans Are Always Liars

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In June, during the debate over two Democratic-sponsored bills with mild new rules for purchase and ownership of firearms in the wake of the...
9/24/2022

The Gnawing Anxiety That Trump Will Get Away With All of It

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I can't get past something when it comes to the multiple crimes of Donald Trump, who really was president (something I still can't f...
9/16/2022

Graham and DeSantis Tried to Own But Got Owned

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You know what's darkly hilarious or perhaps hilariously dark or maybe not hilarious at all and just plain dark? I'd bet that Lindsey...
9/09/2022

Abortion Rights and the Lie of "Reaching Across the Aisle"

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Democrats make ads all the time about how they are willing to work across the aisle with the opposing party. (I know some Republicans do, to...
9/05/2022

A Poem for the Laborers

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" Waitress "  by Dorianne Laux (Chosen because Laux is an amazing chronicler of the working class and also in memory of Barbara E...
9/02/2022

Dark Brandon Ascending: Random Observations on a Patriotic Speech

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1. There are a few criticisms to be made about President Joe Biden's speech in Philadelphia last night. For instance, when he said, ...