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The Right Wing Wants Misinformation and Manufactured Ignorance, Not Democracy
Manufactured ignorance now thrives in a world of interlacing disasters. This age of consuming catastrophes is part and parcel of an age of survival-of-the fittest economics fueled by the rise of right-wing authoritarianism and political extremists. The ru ...[Read more]
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America’s history wars get serious: Texas GOP wants to dump MLK — and whitewash the KKK
In the infamous 1857 Dred Scott decision, Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney proclaimed that Black people have "no rights that the white man is bound to respect." Today's Jim Crow Republican Party, and the white right more broadly, have taken the spi ...[Read more]
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A pedophile’s best friend is a Trump Republican
Of all the lurid nonsense circulating among conspiracy-addled Republicans, none of their theories is viler than the libel of child sexual abuse that began under the rubric of "Pizzagate" and became the basis of the cult ideology of QAnon. So successful wa ...[Read more]
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How Patrick Buchanan’s 1992 campaign became the blueprint for Trumpism: conservative
When Donald Trump defeated all of the other Republican candidates in the 2016 GOP presidential primary and went on to defeat Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in the general election — even though he lost the popular vote — one of the people who was ...[Read more]
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Trump Supporters’ Anti-Science Crusade Is Threatening Us All
The number of new COVID-19 infections in the country topped 26,500 yesterday, a two-week increase of 111 percent. Experts broadly agree the reasons behind this new infection spike are twofold: (1) The Delta variant of COVID is highly infectious and on the ...[Read more]
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Experts warn of ‘national emergency’ after bombshell report reveals top general feared Trump would stage military coup
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Donald Trump, General Mark Milley, was so concerned the outgoing president would try to stage a military coup he warned the heads of the U.S. Military branches, did daily "check-in" calls with the White Hous ...[Read more]
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Right Wingers Are Taking Over Library Boards to Remove Books on Racism
Since their swearing in on May 19, the new board has wasted no time in imposing its agenda. “Their focus is to change the very nature of the library,” Lynch says. “They’ve already slashed the budget from $7.4 to $5.9 million, fired staff or reduce ...[Read more]
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Furious Trump demanded leaker who revealed he fled to his bunker during protests be executed: report
According to Wall Street Journal reporter Michael Bender's bombshell book, "Frankly, We Did Win This Election: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost, a furious Donald Trump demanded that officials in his government find out who leaked the story that he fled ...[Read more]
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Trump’s Jesus fascists worry experts following report on Christian GOP churches
'Truly Sick" Experts, journalists, and chroniclers of religious extremism are sounding alarm bells over a Washington Post exposé on "a growing Christian movement that is nondenominational, openly political and has become an engine of former president Don ...[Read more]
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Harvard historian explains why Trump’s Jan. 6 insurrection was a ‘turning point’ in American history
In this conversation, Gordon-Reed explains how Donald Trump's coup attempt and his followers' attack on the Capitol represent a much older struggle in America over multiracial democracy and "white freedom." She warns that the events of Jan. 6 pose a funda ...[Read more]
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White nationalists prep for ‘physical’ altercation with security at Dallas CPAC conference
DALLAS —White nationalist and Unite the Right attendee Nicholas Fuentes, de facto leader of the ultra-far-right "groyper" movement, has announced that he plans to attending a Conservative Political Action Conference gathering this weekend in Dallas, ...[Read more]
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