The Constitution says the House can call the Senate into session. Make the...
Neither House, during the session of Congress, shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days– Article I, Section 5OK then, does that not mean that the House could call the...
View ArticleMake Impeachment the Start of National Truth & Reconciliation: Demand...
The impeachment managers have presented a fine prosecutorial case, with video, audio, and textual evidence, along with inescapably logical argumentation and personal entreaties. Their approach could...
View ArticleThe Unbearableness of Not Calling Witnesses When Trying an Ex-Prez Who...
Everyone reading this before the impeachment trial is over, please stop what you’re doing, bring up the contact websites or information for your representative and senators, and message them to call...
View ArticleTell your friends, tell your neighbors: "Deadline for Democracy" rally Wed. 6...
We are in a historic emergency of democracy, as Republicans in all too many states move to disenfranchise voters in order to consolidate racist, oligarchical power. The 2020 election was far too close,...
View ArticleDemocracy Is In Jeopardy! The game you can play with your compatriots
Got a game night video call coming up with your friends?Want to kick off an activism call for voting rights protection with some good hype?Looking for a snappy riposte to a certain senator who doesn’t...
View ArticleWe need progressives to hold strong vs. Speaker Pelosi & corporate Dems on...
Remember a couple weeks ago when Speaker Pelosi struck the deal for a date this week to vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill (formerly the bipartisan infrastructure framework, or BIF) but not on...
View ArticleSinema: Democrats, you made Republican Daddy do it
Among all the smooth-brained gobbledygook, listen to this abuser-enabling perspective (from the 12:46 mark):Efforts to fix these problems on a bare majority party line will only succeed in exacerbating...
View ArticleSpeaker Pelosi and Sen. Schumer pretend not to realize they're abdicating to...
With the nation starving for leadership to stop murderous police violence against African-Americans, leadership to save our lives from COVID-19 and the deprivations it is causing, and leadership to...
View ArticleThis is how democracy dies, with Democratic funding
They’re actually gonna do it. The Democratic-majority House is getting ready to pass a bill—possibly tomorrow—to fund the “Department of Homeland Security,” in the middle of Donald freakin’ Trump using...
View ArticleA "clean CR" would mean Congress funding unfettered USPS sabotage, secret...
Have you stopped to consider what it would actually signify for Congress to pass a “clean continuing resolution?”It would not merely mean that Congress acts to keep the government open and to avoid a...
View ArticleAbsurdly narrow impeachment déjà vu: Once again, expanding the articles is...
Currently, there are four active resolutions of impeachment. Here they are, with their articles in very-briefly-summarized form. (Keep in mind, one way to think of the scope of one article of...
View ArticleThe definitive political speech of our time wasn't on the floor of Congress,...
The first 40 minutes of this video are the extemporaneous thoughts of perhaps the preeminent political communicator of our time. In this recording of her livestream from Tuesday, Rep. Alexandria...
View ArticleThe Constitution says the House can call the Senate into session. Make the...
Neither House, during the session of Congress, shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days– Article I, Section 5OK then, does that not mean that the House could call the...
View ArticleMake Impeachment the Start of National Truth & Reconciliation: Demand...
The impeachment managers have presented a fine prosecutorial case, with video, audio, and textual evidence, along with inescapably logical argumentation and personal entreaties. Their approach could...
View ArticleThe Unbearableness of Not Calling Witnesses When Trying an Ex-Prez Who...
Everyone reading this before the impeachment trial is over, please stop what you’re doing, bring up the contact websites or information for your representative and senators, and message them to call...
View ArticleTell your friends, tell your neighbors: "Deadline for Democracy" rally Wed. 6...
We are in a historic emergency of democracy, as Republicans in all too many states move to disenfranchise voters in order to consolidate racist, oligarchical power. The 2020 election was far too close,...
View ArticleDemocracy Is In Jeopardy! The game you can play with your compatriots
Got a game night video call coming up with your friends?Want to kick off an activism call for voting rights protection with some good hype?Looking for a snappy riposte to a certain senator who doesn’t...
View ArticleWe need progressives to hold strong vs. Speaker Pelosi & corporate Dems on...
Remember a couple weeks ago when Speaker Pelosi struck the deal for a date this week to vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill (formerly the bipartisan infrastructure framework, or BIF) but not on...
View ArticleSinema: Democrats, you made Republican Daddy do it
Among all the smooth-brained gobbledygook, listen to this abuser-enabling perspective (from the 12:46 mark):Efforts to fix these problems on a bare majority party line will only succeed in exacerbating...
View ArticleMeaningful news articles and quotes, Feb. 2024
This post is a collection of links to political articles and social media posts, with quoted passages from them, that I encountered over the past month and found to be particularly significant. Hope...
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