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First off, this blog and its author are supporters of the work of Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).  And for a junior House representative to have a chance to speak at the Democratic National Convention … even for a scant minute … that’s big stuff. And by “scant minute,” I mean it.  She’s limited to sixty…

I think that the conservative media had their anti-Kamala Harris attacks ready at the instant.  The moment that Joe Biden selected her to be his running mate – making Kamala Harris the first black woman on a major party ticket; the first woman of South Asian descent on a major party ticket; the first graduate…

There is an old Aesop fable, known as “The Scorpion and the Frog,” and like all of Aesop’s fables, there’s a moral somewhere in the mix.  A scorpion tried to cross a river, and couldn’t – because scorpions can’t swim.  A frog offers to shuttle the scorpion across the river, with the scorpion riding the…

By now you might have heard of this.  House representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez – you know, the person who beat the odds to defeat a ten-term senator and revitalize New York’s 14th District, has been working hard in her freshman Congress stint, despite the misogyny and unabated vulgarities thrown at her. And recently, she received a…

Recently, the owner of the Goya Foods company expressed, at a Presidential press conference, his support for Donald Trump.  The moment he did that, people stopped buying Goya Foods.  There were competing hashtags of #boycottgoya and #buygoya, with other people going into the stores, buying nothing but Goya foods and spices, and then donating the…

It wasn’t an affair.  Let’s get things straight now. Mary Kay Letourneau did NOT “have an affair” with one of her students.  She did not just “engage in sexual relations” with that student.  She raped him.  While he was in sixth grade and she was his teacher. I say this because  Mary Kay Letourneau has…

If you want to see some seriously VICIOUS and ON-POINT anti-Trump videos, you only need to sign up to the Twitter feeds of Medias Touch, a progressive anti-Trump PAC, and The Lincoln Project, a conservative anti-Trump organization. I mean, these potential shorts aren’t just bringing straight fire.  They’re downright nuclear. Example. Putin paid a bounty…

Well, this hasn’t been a great week for Donald Trump.  He lost two Supreme Court cases, one involving the rights of LGBTQ men and women to hold employment without fear of discrimination, and one that prevented DACA men and women from deportation.  John Bolton has a book out.  His niece Mary Trump has a book…