2022 Archives

Russell's entire political career focused on his single-minded use of the filibuster to block Civil Rights and Voting Rights legislation, just like a few well-known senators are doing today... On this Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. day and in this era of reconsidering monuments to people who built their careers on racism, it’s time to rename the Russell Senate Office Building, where 33 senators today conduct their daily business. This is not just a symbolic gesture: follow along with me for a moment. Democratic Senator Richard Russell was most famous as the guy who wielded the filibuster to destroy Civil Rights legislation.

The Best of the Rest of the News. — It's starting to look like Trump may have tried to set up Stewart Rhodes as the patsy to take the fall for the deaths and destruction that Trump incited on January 6th. — Do Democrats Have Something Up Their Sleeve for Voting Rights? — Rightwingers On the Supreme Court May Not Like Workplace Vaccine Mandates But They Love State-Mandated Forced Pregnancy. — Authoritarian Watch: The War on Public Education Continues. — Is Long Covid the Most Under-Reported Problem with Omicron? — Crazy alert: Get This - Conservatives Are Trans-ing Themselves To "Own the Libs?!" — In Good News - Will voters succeed in using the 14th Amendment to bar Sedition Caucus members from running for Congress?

China is looking at their interdependence with us through a national security lens, and we should, too. I’m typing this into a computer made in China, reading it on a screen made in China. The WiFi router that’s connecting me to the internet was made in China, as is the cable modem my internet service provider put in my house. The external keyboard and backup drives are made in China, as are most of the lamps, bulbs and other appliances on my desk. My eyeglasses and the shirt I’m wearing were made in China (the pants are from Malaysia, the shoes from Korea), as is the coat I wear outside. The one medication I take is made in India out of ingredients from China. Meanwhile, this is the year — 2022 — that the government of China has ordered that all “government offices and public institutions” nationwide must “remove foreign computer equipment and software.”

For me, all the proof I need that Trump, if not the biblical Antichrist, is at least a political one, is what he says and does... A listener called into my program yesterday and asked, “Is Donald Trump the Antichrist?” I passed on drawing a conclusion, but then the lines lit up with a steady stream of people over the next few hours offering their “proofs” that Trump was, in fact, the Evil One come to ravage the Earth. That first caller clearly hit a nerve.