2021 Archives

The Best of the Rest of the News. — Justice Sonia Sotomayor attached a scathing commentary to the Supreme Court's majority decision to allow a challenge to the "Texas Vigilante Antiabortion law." — You'd think that even Republicans would look at the way Trump ran the White House for his own profit and to the benefit of foreign autocrats, who then recycled money into Trump properties, as a bad thing. Apparently not. — Labor is making a comeback, and it's young workers who've taken the lead. — Thanks to John Roberts and the Supreme Court gutting the unanimously-passed Civil Rights Act in their disgusting and racist Shelby County decision, Georgia Republicans are pulling Black Democrats off elections boards in that state and replacing them with white Republicans — Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows prepared a Powerpoint presentation about how to overturn a legitimate election and keep Trump in power. — Normally when a country is hit with an attack from outside or a natural disaster, people pull together regardless of their political affiliation. Think of America after Pearl Harbor or 9/11. Now, however, Republicans are openly refusing to cooperate with (and even openly sabotaging) President Biden's efforts to get a once-in-a-century pandemic under control. — In the name of fighting inflation, will the Fed repeat what it did to Jimmy Carter back in the day, raising interest rates and crashing the economy just before an election? — Do We Ignore Or Engage Rural Voters? — Eric Boehlert and Michael Moore are offering insights into why the media is so obsessed with the "Biden is failing" and "the economy is a wreck" narratives when both of those memes are exactly, completely 180-degrees out of sync with the truth. — Geeky Science: Now we know why overweight people get worse cases of Covid! — Geeky Science: It's not just for rats — exercise protects the brains of elderly humans, too.