February 3, 2026

Honestly, this illustrates why Boomers need to retire from

national political leadership. Why the fuck are they even responding to this? Sic a lawsuit on this DOJ for harassment and defamation and tell them to fuck off. HRC’s 8 hour testimony did nothing to move any needle towards her favorability rating. Meanwhile, Republicans have effectively said FU to all Democratic Congressional subpoenas. Democrats need to stop playing with Republicans at all. This is a compromise for “civility” with people who would literally like to see the Clintons publicly executed, mixed with ego in that the liberal Boomers want to be seen as the “grownups in the room.” (This is the left’s version of “Daddy’s home”. 🤮 ) We need to stop and wake up to the fact that the old ways of acting in good faith with Republicans are gone - at least for the foreseeable future.

January 15, 2026

Glad to hear someone else noticed he switched hands

with his phone. It was one of the first things that jumped out at me when I watched it the first time. But this is the first time I’ve heard anyone else mention it. I suspect he did it to move his right hand to his holster while Becca was filming him to intimidate her. I don’t really want to watch Renee’s execution again, but it would shed a lot of light on his body language and expressions. I hope they have been able to get the footage to Ellison’s office as part of their investigation.

Edited to add: I posted the above paragraph before watching the video. So interesting that this guy arrived at the conclusion by comparing two different videos at two different times, and I knew it instinctively by watching Ross’s video. What a vile human, a coward, who fled his own crime scene. “Law enforcement” my ass. He’s a state sanctioned murderer.

January 5, 2026

"It's time to put Clintonism on a raft and set it on fire."

Yes indeedy. I have said this for years, that Bill Clinton helped set the stage for redistributing wealth from the people to the oligarchs, and also opened the door to invading Iraq by starting bombing campaigns on Iraq.

I am a Boomer who absolutely feels that Boomers in the DNC sold out the American people by chasing wealth at the expense of economic and social stability. Glad some are waking up, but far too many have taken that neoliberal to the opposite end of the political spectrum and become MAGA, who want wealth for themselves and nothing for anyone who is the "underserving poor" (aka, Black people, immigrants, GLBTQ+, etc.). Nearly 60% of men over 50 voted for Trump this time around. That's a lot of mostly Boomers.

December 30, 2025

Please do not call Native American spiritual leaders "shamans."

Shamans use "magic" and are under the influence of some mind-altering substance when they work. Native Americans don't believe that their spiritual practices involve magic (certainly not more so than transubstantiation in the Catholic Church), and not all (or even most) use mind-altering substances to spiritually lead people, or only use them in specific circumstances and rituals. They prefer to be called by their native language title, which varies across cultures.

If you hear or read something generic about indigenous tribes, customs, and culture (or "wisdom" ), it is most likely bullshit made up by white people. Case in point: the supposed Native American folktale about two wolves fighting has been attributed to "Eskimos", Cherokees, or just "Native American Grandfatther, however, it's a Christian parable that was popularized by Billy Graham in his book The Holy Spirit: Activating God's Power in Your Life (1978). The big tell about it's Christian basis (as opposed to any legit Native American belief) is that the wolves are often described as white and black, with white being good and black being bad. That is a western flex; no native American tribe believed that before colonization.

You may be thinking of the supposed Native American quote, "When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realize that one cannot eat money." It has been traced back to comments made by an Abenaki man from Canada as quoted in a 1972 book, “Who is the Chairman of This Meeting?” However, I've also found it attributed to Cherokee and Osage tribes. Where ever it came from, it in no way dates back to the 1700s.

Edited to correct my Anglophone slip up, as noted in response below.

December 18, 2025

"...the highly respected Board..."

Of Trump appointed syccophants?

Board members like:
- Pam Bondi
- Maria Bartiromo
- Elaine Chao
- Lee Greenwood
- Laura Ingraham
- Allison Lutnick
- Dan Scavino
- President Donald J. Trump
- Usha Vance
- Susie Wiles
and many more degenerates who wouldn't know artistic value if it kicked them in the butt.

..."highly respected..." Oh, yeah, that's absolutely the first thing I think of when I hear the names Laura Ingraham and Lee Greenwood. The only cultural connoisseur missing is Ted Nugent!

December 18, 2025

So, when I see reports like this,

photos of people with Epstein, I am reminded of the First Amendment's prohibition of guilt by association. These photos are released without dates or context. I mean, in Brooks' case, it probably does indicate guilt, by virtue of his writing the article about how releasing the Epstein files was a mistake and didn't disclose that he himself had known Epstein. But Epstein had a sham philanthropic organization that people could be talking with him about, rr real estate holdings. Or whatever rich people talk to each other about that has nothing to do with sex.

Just sayin'... Trump wants to round us all up in a guilt-by-association-with-antif purge. This makes me wary of when our side lines up to demand the same.

December 7, 2025

Reminds me of Let America Be America Again By Langston Hughes

A fantastic poem, where he dreams of being included in the American Dream but is denied repeatedly based on his skin color. Likewise, you are nostalgic for an America that never really was. Of course the recent past was miles better than our current lived nightmare. But the same country that voted Biden in 2020 re-elected the fuckwad in 2024. A good sized chunk of our fellow country folk wanted this nightmare, just to a lesser degree that wouldn’t be personally impactful, like not being able to afford groceries or your green card bride gets deported to a 3rd world country.

Anyway, here’s Hughes’ poem.
———————————————————
Let America be America again.
Let it be the dream it used to be.
Let it be the pioneer on the plain
Seeking a home where he himself is free.

(America never was America to me.)

Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed—
Let it be that great strong land of love
Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme
That any man be crushed by one above.

(It never was America to me.)

O, let my land be a land where Liberty
Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath,
But opportunity is real, and life is free,
Equality is in the air we breathe.

(There's never been equality for me,
Nor freedom in this "homeland of the free.&quot

Say, who are you that mumbles in the dark?
And who are you that draws your veil across the stars?

I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart,
I am the Negro bearing slavery's scars.
I am the red man driven from the land,
I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek—
And finding only the same old stupid plan
Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak.

I am the young man, full of strength and hope,
Tangled in that ancient endless chain
Of profit, power, gain, of grab the land!
Of grab the gold! Of grab the ways of satisfying need!
Of work the men! Of take the pay!
Of owning everything for one's own greed!

I am the farmer, bondsman to the soil.
I am the worker sold to the machine.
I am the Negro, servant to you all.
I am the people, humble, hungry, mean—
Hungry yet today despite the dream.
Beaten yet today—O, Pioneers!
I am the man who never got ahead,
The poorest worker bartered through the years.

Yet I'm the one who dreamt our basic dream
In the Old World while still a serf of kings,
Who dreamt a dream so strong, so brave, so true,
That even yet its mighty daring sings
In every brick and stone, in every furrow turned
That's made America the land it has become.
O, I'm the man who sailed those early seas
In search of what I meant to be my home—
For I'm the one who left dark Ireland's shore,
And Poland's plain, and England's grassy lea,
And torn from Black Africa's strand I came
To build a "homeland of the free."

The free?

Who said the free? Not me?
Surely not me? The millions on relief today?
The millions shot down when we strike?
The millions who have nothing for our pay?
For all the dreams we've dreamed
And all the songs we've sung
And all the hopes we've held
And all the flags we've hung,
The millions who have nothing for our pay—
Except the dream that's almost dead today.

O, let America be America again—
The land that never has been yet—
And yet must be—the land where every man is free.
The land that's mine—the poor man's, Indian's, Negro's, ME—
Who made America,
Whose sweat and blood, whose faith and pain,
Whose hand at the foundry, whose plow in the rain,
Must bring back our mighty dream again.

Sure, call me any ugly name you choose—
The steel of freedom does not stain.
From those who live like leeches on the people's lives,
We must take back our land again,
America!

O, yes,
I say it plain,
America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath—
America will be!

Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death,
The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies,
We, the people, must redeem
The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers.
The mountains and the endless plain—
All, all the stretch of these great green states—
And make America again!

(1935)

November 27, 2025

The only info we have is from Kash Patel.

No one has seen or heard of this alleged trans friend/lover, no agency has talked with them except for the FBI. I personally think he was a straight-up rightwing nut job and this story was created to cast shade on anyone LGBTQ+ just to have a “leftist” boogeyman to blame.

Also, some rightwing folks *are* okay with LGBTQ+ folks. At least white ones. Especially younger rwingers who have basically grown up under Ogberfell. About 40% of Republicans support gay rights, so it doesn’t mean this guy was on the left politically.

September 13, 2025

I didn't know this, thanks for sharing.

Of course this is what the MAGA Republicans want, it’s straight from the Fascism 101 playbook.

What I find interesting, though, is as bad as social media can be, it is also serving as a news delivery service that makes it difficult for MAGA to control the narrative. In Germany, people could only read newspapers and listen to news on maybe 2 radio stations. Today we can watch events unfold in real time, from 20 different cell phone angles, and watch their shameless lies about violent transgender people, Muslims, women, imaginary pedophiles (while supporting actual pedophiles), and most terrifying of all, “The Militant Left,” unravel in a text notification less than 5 minutes after the news hits the wires, direct from the wires, reaching millions of people immediately. They get away with this with their base in small settings where they control who enters and only speak to the faithful. It’s harder when they try to take the message national.

This in no way implies we still don’t have to fight like hell as they try to pull every trick in the book. I’m just saying, as fast as this is going down, it’s hitting some guardrails.

July 12, 2025

This isn't a new tactic. After Hurricane Katrina,

in Mississippi, I worked with a legal aid group that was helping immigrants who had signed up to work recovery. They promised housing and meals but they put them up in a place that looked a lot like the photos I've seen of Alligator
Alcatraz. The people "housing" them fed them undercooked food, took all their identification, let alligators out at night to patrol the barracks to keep anyone from leaving the premises, and then, after working in toxic clean-up jobs for a month or so, ICE came in and mass deported the lot. Then the next round of immigrants came in. It was awful and inhumane. And Republicans have been getting off on this cruelty for at least the last 20 years.