2021 Archives

Things seem bleak, but it’s that very bleakness that history tells us produces movements to overthrow psychopathic oligarchs. Thom Hartmann 1 hr ago 7 Image by Brigitte makes custom works from your photos, thanks a lot from Pixabay Share Democrats thought they’d come up with a solution, or at least a good start toward a solution, to the crisis of climate change — one that would also create millions of good paying jobs to revive the American middle class after the Covid shock. It was all in their $3.5 trillion infrastructure bill. And then came the headline: Kyrsten Sinema Just Threw an Unexpected Wrench Into Biden's Infrastructure Plans, quoting the Democratic senator saying, “I do not support a bill that costs $3.5 trillion.”

White supremacy, racism & the rest of America subsidizing Red states weren’t just realities in 1787: they’re alive and well today & Hawley and his white supremacist buddies want to keep it that way. Former-slave-state Missouri Senator Josh Hawley doesn’t want America’s white children to be exposed to the simple reality that slavery was not only legal at the founding of our country but was, in several places, written into our Constitution. And that the rest of America subsidized the slave-owners’ states and continues to subsidize them to this day.

The best of the rest of the news. — “But it was just theater!” Counties that went along with Donald Trump’s Big Lie that the election was stolen from him are now discovering (as they were warned) that when they turned their voting machines and ballots over to unqualified, uncertified Republican-affiliated hustlers for “audits,” their equipment would lose its certification and must be replaced. Now they’re facing huge bills to replace their voting infrastructure, while also facing possible prosecution should Merrick Garland’s Justice Department ever decide to finally start holding Republicans accountable for their crimes. (It’s a clear and felonious violation of federal law to hand over ballots or machines within 22 months after a federal election.) Nonetheless, even more Republicans around the country are trying to repeat the stunt in an effort to further erode faith and confidence in American democracy so when, in 2022 and 2024, they start using their new “election integrity” laws to throw out huge numbers of ballots from mostly-Black districts people will think it’s normal.

The only way to deal with parasites is to remove them from their host. It’s time to expand Medicare to all Americans so we can dislodge these healthcare parasites from our body politic. Parasites attach themselves to your body and suck your blood to feed themselves. Most, like ticks and mosquitos, while they may provide food for birds, bats and other animals, seem to provide no direct benefit at all to humans. That “no benefit” equation goes double for the latest parasites who have attached themselves to the backs of Americans and are rapidly draining us of our economic blood: health insurance companies.