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July 12, 2024Once every four years, Republicans gather for what can only be called the most anti-worker event on planet Earth – the Republican National Convention. At this event, they will nominate anti-worker candidates, make anti-worker speec
July 11, 2024After a rough week and a number of calls for him to leave the race, Joe Biden is punching back. He’s been everywhere, and he’s been dialed in for every event, defiantly saying he’s not going anywhere. We discuss this and more with
July 10, 2024In America, we are all equal under the law … at least, that’s what the script says. But in reality, our Supreme Court has decided that some rich folks are simply more equal than the rest of us, and the script we’ve been following f
July 9, 2024In every election cycle, the pundit class tells us that “This is the most important election of our lifetime.” But this time it is likely true, since never in our history has the choice between freedom and authoritarianism been so c
July 8, 2024As we celebrated another 4th of July, we did so fully aware that it could be our last as a democracy. That’s scary talk, but it’s not an exaggeration – we really are on the brink of authoritarianism, even if our legacy media refuses
July 5, 2024After last week’s debate, Dems have a very real dilemma on their hands, but it seems that they’re also split on the subject of solutions to the problem. And with an authoritarian dictator waiting in the wings, there’s not a whole lo
July 4, 2024As much as we hate to say it – it’s time to have the conversation. With Biden’s candidacy in an uncertain place, The Supreme Court taking us back to the days of King George, and Trump waiting in the wings to burn down what’s left of
July 3, 2024With its recent immunity ruling, the United States Supreme Court has announced itself as a partisan entity entirely owned by big money corporate interests, so much so that they are willing to install a king to replace our presidents
June 20, 2024Elections have consequences, but none are so drastic as those that might have been. For example, if the 2016 election had gone the other way, we would probably be living in the last months of the second Clinton term. We’d likely ha
June 19, 2024While all we see in our corporate media is doom and gloom and anger and division, the reality is that, while working families are struggling in this economy, the economy itself is booming. The problem is not how we turn the economy
June 18, 2024If the American right does one thing well, that thing is selling junk to its true believers. And they’ll buy anything, from Trumpy Bears to gold sneakers to foreign-made red hats. And considering that the GOP has no platform and ha
June 17, 2024Anyone paying attention knows that there is a big difference between how the two campaigns for President of The United States are being covered by our bought-and-paid-for corporate media, and those paying close attention know that
June 14, 2024Unions and workers (particularly immigrant workers) are common targets for right-wing politicians. And now that election season is upon us, those attacks are ramping up. Chris Kobach, Attorney General of Kansas, is leading the char
June 13, 2024Election season is always full of lies and promises that will never be kept. But this year, the candidates on the right appear to be trying to set records for empty rhetoric. Yet, for some reason only known in the boardrooms, our c
June 12, 2024Trump is losing it. Anyone who listens to him speak can’t help but come to this conclusion, or something very close to it. As he appears more and more unhinged each day, we are forced to ask the question “Is this tired old demagogu
June 11, 2024The GOP is rolling out plans for what it calls a “post-Constitutional” America, and it’s just as terrible as one might expect. We will discuss this, and also talk about DC corruption with Brody Mullins, author of “The Wolves of K S
June 10, 2024It’s graduation season again, and whether it’s high schoolers heading off to college or college grads finishing their academic careers, we are thinking about the worlds they are entering, and how unnecessarily difficult their journ
June 7, 2024Now that the GOP has taken away abortion rights, they’re planning to go after contraception next. That’s right, if the bad guys win in November, they’re going after birth control next. And if they win, we are going to have a lot mor
June 6, 2024Florida Republican Congressional Candidate Anthony Sabatini says he’s running so he can “imprison as many Democrats as possible.” In Kansas, the state Supreme Court just ruled that voting is not a right according to their Constituti
June 5, 2024All over America, the GOP is ramming through all kinds of really unpopular legislation, and in most cases, they are paying no price at all for doing so. Why is this so? It’s simple. The GOP took voters out of the equation years ago
June 4, 2024Now that the verdict has been read and absorbed by the American public, it’s time to discuss the effects that verdict will have on the American people, on the way we vote, and on how we see ourselves now that we have successfully he
June 3, 2024There’s really only one headline in America today, and for good reason. Trump has been found guilty on all 34 charges, and for the first time in American history, we have charged, tried, and convicted a former President of The Unite
May 31, 2024Lewis Hine was an American sociologist, and he is best know for a series of photographs he took during the years close to the turn of the 20th century. The images depicted the conditions common to America’s working children at that
May 29, 2024Donald Trump celebrated Memorial Day by ranting on Truth Social about “Human Scum,” the “Radical Left,” and the “Trump Hating Federal Judge” presiding over one of his many criminal trials. It’s a message that would have ended any po
May 30, 2024All over America, forced labor is alive and well. We force kids into meat packing plants. We force convicts to work for major corporations as a condition of their incarceration. Why do we do this? For the same reason we do everythin
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