Striking new research, published this month in Science Daily, shows that people who lived in Democratic states and counties had an 11% reduction in mortality over a twenty year period from 2000 to 2019 (pre-COVID). Significantly, the study controlled for factors like race, age, exercise and pre-existing health conditions. According to NPR’s Allison Aubrey, “the …
A new line of inquiry emerged during the House Select Committee’s second January 6th hearing on Monday: did Donald Trump use his Big Lie to swindle his small-dollar donor base out of hundreds of millions? The answer is not so simple. In the 18 months since Mr. Trump left office, one question has dominated conversation …
Laughing his way to the Bank: Trump’s Big Lie Grift Read More »
In explosive testimony before the House Select Committee investigating the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6th 2021, top officials from Trump’s inner circle made it clear that Trump knew he was lying about voter fraud in the 2020 election, or, was ‘disconnected from reality.’ In the first two hearings, the committee demonstrated beyond any …
Barr: Trump is Lying or is Disconnected From Reality Read More »
It’s a question that feels somehow inevitable, (however cynical it might be). As my colleague put it in a post of ours in late May, “could it be that alien life came to earth in search of intelligent life, found that the dominant species knew it was intentionally destroying their planet […] and simply turned …
No Sign of Intelligent Life: A Great Salt Catastrophe Read More »
After four years of crafting policies aimed at addressing the Fox News headline of the moment, it seems that Floridians are finally starting to see through their glass-jawed Governor. In new likely-voter polling released this week by FiveThirtyEight, Ron DeSantis, Florida’s Governor since 2018, trails probable challenger Charlie Crist by 2 percentage points. Primary Details …
New Poll: Maybe Floridians Aren’t (Totally) Crazy After All? Read More »
Weighing in Thursday on a crowded Arizona Senate primary, Former President Trump once again endorsed the most unapologetically racist candidate in the field. Blake Masters has made headlines for everything from comparing having to disclose his campaign donors to kristallnacht, to claiming that the fault for gun violence in this country belongs to “Black people, …
To the surprise of no one, Trump endorses another bigot Read More »
Right now there’s overwhelming criticism of the police response to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas and there’s no question that the police response was a failure. What is overlooked in the discussion of the police response, however, is that increasingly Republican lawmakers, in a rush to relax any remaining gun control …
The GOP must be betting their voters have a pretty short memory. Because a single news cycle, maybe two, tops, seems to be about the modern GOP’s attention span for discussing gun violence. Which, actually, sort of makes sense. What if Republicans actually acted on their “solutions?” Imagine a world in which GOP leaders like …
In Aftermath of Massacres, More GOP Hypocrisy and Deceit Read More »
It was a sort of a rainy Memorial Day weekend where I live this year. The playgrounds were empty, and the red and yellow sun-umbrellas in the city’s beer gardens were drenched. But it was a springtime kind of rainy—where the downpours and sudden hail were punctuated by brief, brilliant moments of clear blue sky …
As the calendar flips to June and the country moves deeper into the primary season, it’s easy to forget about primaries that have already come and passed. But with a week to go before the next slate of states heads to the ballot to cast their votes, we thought we’d check in on the undecided …
Republicans Mired in PA Recount; Shapiro Focuses on General Read More »
