As in, while bitching to Hannity about shooting a mugshot for Fulton County officials, he did it, and ergo, folded like a cheap suit.This is nothing new about Trump. It's Trump on Jan. 6, 20… Read More

Almost as much disgust as a wingnut citing Martin Luther King's color of their skin as an excuse to junk affirmative action and pretend it worked, or if you're a Black wingnut like Clarence… Read More

With Trump getting a mugshot, complete with #BlueAnon gloat, in the news recently, and the appearance that Nikki Haley took the inside lane among Never Trumpers at the Republican debate last… Read More

In the one hand I have shit; in the other, I have Ken Paxton! First, state Senatecritters like Charlie Geren, as well as Housecritters on the GOP side who voted for impeachment, don't like D… Read More

At least not yet. Let's look at that Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment:Section 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President… Read More

To quote Nancy Reagan's most famous line, that should be your answer on most of these. I'll give an overview of the whole schmeer here, with breakouts for at least some in days and weeks ahe… Read More

Per Lizzie Warren, who took an ax, and gave a Cherokee 40 whacks, vs. wingnut trollmeister farm owner Elon Musk, on Ukraine and Starlink?First, to go beyond Josh Marshall responding to a slo… Read More

So, Dr. Leana Wen reportedly has COVID for the third time, and a column where she talks about lingering pneumonia but does not actually use the word COVID about herself is being used by COVI… Read More

Yet more, from Harper's, on how, after early post-election promises, how Zelensky refused to further confront corruption (being faced down by oligarchs that had helped get him elected) an… Read More

Off the Kuff documents the conclusion of the Paxton impeachment trial, and then reacts to the verdict. (My own take on the verdict is here.)SocraticGadfly offers up reviews of two politics-t… Read More

I was calling out Ken Burns for promoting American exceptionalism in his PBS documentaries (mockumentaries?) more than 15 years ago.But, the photo above, from this Pro Publica piece not actu… Read More

Dems in the Lege talk about "weak consensus" in the party (shock me) ahead of Strangeabbott's special session on school vouchers. I'll await the turd-polishing by state-level #BlueAnon pu… Read More

Yes, r/politics, the alleged all US political news website (it's not, I have experience of that), which is really, with many posts, little more than a #BlueAnon circle jerk.Take this one, ab… Read More

That would be, of course, former president Donald Trump, suing former MI6 officer Christopher Steele, he of the "Steele Dossier" and the alleged but non-existent "piss tape" and other artifa… Read More

I'm talking about the Senate dress code, or now lack thereof, and now returned again, flap.Clothes may make the man, or woman; they do, also make the class distinctions.And? If you don't wan… Read More

SocraticGadfly offers up a trio of national and international presidential-related items. He starts with Ralph Nader jumping into the lesser evilism tank, goes to an overview of Trump suing… Read More

I think I'm going to do more "bare links" plus minimal commentary bulletin board stuff like this, on this and other political issues, from now through the election next year.Anyway, first?Wa… Read More

Started this a couple of days late, but here we go. Again, these are not all from September, but the top 10 by viewership for the month. Old posts will be indicated as such.No. 10? I called… Read More

Lufkin Legiscritter Trent Ashby is begging voters to support growth for growth's sake (much of the Texas "economic miracle" along with Ill Eagles and earl), the theology of the cancer cell… Read More

A couple of weeks ago, Seymour Hersh wrote on Substack: "A YEAR OF LYING ABOUT NORD STREAM" (sic on the all caps).And, my title, without the screaming all-caps header, is because it was eigh… Read More

Spyfail: Foreign Spies, Moles, Saboteurs, and the Collapse of America’s Counterintelligence by James Bamford My rating: 5 of 5 starsMUST read if you're not in the US duopoly political… Read More

I was planning on posting this a week or two ago, but a variety of other things giving me a full blogging plate made me wait. And West's announcement that he was ditching the Greens to run i… Read More

Credit where credit is due to Elon Musk IF he follows through on his promise. Last Saturday, Musk said he would extend Starlink connectivity to internationally recognized aid organizations… Read More

Dear Leader has said "nobody's hands are clean." He didn't explicitly include his own, and like some fellow leftist types, it would be easy to scoff at him talking around an issue, as the… Read More

Reminder: Texas Progressives stand with Gaza despite Genocide Joe and despite an Israeli cabinet member's talk of nukes.  BlueAnon may have thought I was talking about Wallbuilders' Dav… Read More

The title piece in the headline comes from Mondoweiss. It's a great piece. That said, while it's written specifically about the current situation with Israel, it applies to about all of Amer… Read More

 When he was at the Washington Post, Froomkin actually had something to say, so I added his Presswatchers to my blogroll.It's leaving.Froomkin has become nothing but a #BlueAnon shill… Read More

Quo vadis vouchers, Switek asks at the Trib, even as Strangeabbott released an endorsement list of House Rethuglicans. No voucher foes got one, but the four flip-floppers on the last bill, i… Read More

#AbandonBiden is the hashtag a group of Muslim-Americans are trying to get trend, and not just trend on social media, but trend in the real world 11 months from now.For the dickheads like Ma… Read More

Kate Cox appeared to have a "win" with a Travis County district court approving her to have a seemingly medically indicated abortion and cutting through the surely deliberate "fog" at the… Read More

On behalf of Kate Cox, fuck the Texas Supreme Court.With more, Off the Kuff writes about the emergency lawsuit that would have allowed a Dallas woman to get an abort… Read More

Yeah, Kelsey Grammer may be a MAGAts member, and said so to the Beeb before Paramount+ folks cut his interview short. But, contra Kuff, that is no less a reason to watch a Frasier reboot t… Read More

Robert Reich thinks that Harvard's donor class, namely its Zionist members, risk fueling actual antisemitism by chasing out President Claudine Gay. This:As a Jew, I also cannot help but w… Read More

As normal,  these were the most read items of last month, but not necessarily written last month, and I'll note posts that weren't "fresh."At No. 10? I said, on behalf of Kate Cox, fuck… Read More

Don't let anybody tell you it's fundagelical Christians vs other Christians. Not even scholar of religion Ryan Burge. Don't let him, or even more, #BlueAnon Dems, riffing on him, tell y… Read More

Off the Kuff writes about the Supreme Court of Texas hearing the appeal on the gender affirming care ban and putting a temporary pause on Ken Paxton's depositions.  SocraticGadfly looke… Read More

All posts in the 10 most read of January actually were from last month.No. 10? A personal roundup of oil and gas pollution and infrastructure issues.Ninth? A Texas Progressives roundup of ea… Read More

I had heard the news about that so-called pseudo-pharmacy in the White House last Friday, but didn't pay attention until I saw Ambien trending on Twitter and #BlueAnon bagging on Ronny Jacks… Read More

Caught snatches of the live argumentation in front of the Supreme Court on NPR. Here's one of the stories from Thursday. SCOTUSBlog has more.A few thoughts, with an intro before that.First… Read More

Josh Marshall, as all the #BlueAnon vervently faithful know, as well as leftists like me, is proprietor of Talking Points Memo, one of the top Blue MAGA go to sites for news analysis.Well, t… Read More

First, the America as failed/-ing state is, I think, going to become a semi-regular, occasional, series of blogging.Second, as is my wont, it will look beyond twosiderism to some degree. It… Read More

Nine months or so after the Reddit "strike" (and ensuing hypocrisy by the moderators at r/NBA and perhaps elsewhere) over Reddit putting the dinero squeeze on third-party mobile apps in lead… Read More

THIS corner of the Texas Progressives Alliance stands in salute to the memory of the late Aaron Bushnell, acting in idealism like the Buddhist monks during the Vietnam War. We also remind #B… Read More

First, the steak: Wallbuilder Joe claims he regrets calling an Ill Eagle an illegal. No he doesn't, but at least some #BlueAnon will drink that Kool-Aid. Good fucking doorknob, folks;… Read More

I'm surprised they're this open about it, but there you are.They've already got much of the MSM in their pocket, so don't know how much work they'll have to do.I've written about Jill Stein… Read More

If Andrew Cockburn is going to do a thin update of his Harper’s piece from a year ago that I refuted at that time, then I shall do the same, as we await the likely inevitable result of… Read More

The Texas Medical Board has partially punted on clarifying exceptions to the state's anti-abortion laws. Not surprising, and in this case, I don't totally blame them. At the federal level, a… Read More

April Fool's Day! But, don't get fooled by the MSM.The NYT blames a "post-pandemic malaise" for affecting 2024 electoral politics. Funny, you folks didn't say that in 2022. It wouldn't be an… Read More

I "understand" (well, I actually don't want to understand the dude) why quasi-BlueAnon conspiracy theorist, and general batshit crazy conspiracy theorist, Jim Stewartson, believes that Havan… Read More

Contra Robert Paxton, who Corey Robin says wrote "the book" on fascism, I reject the idea, espoused by Paxton three years ago, that Jan. 6, 2021 made Trump a fascist.It's not whether the Cap… Read More

That, the header, is the main reason, other than her own hypocrisy, I keep bagging on Green Party presidential candidate and likely nominee Jill Stein. The "her own hypocrisy," of course, be… Read More

Charles Kuffner of Off the Kuff as in the organizer of the Texas Progressives: Zionist by silence over saying nothing about the DPS crushing of pro-Palestinian protestors at UT. Nor, at that… Read More

Because a regular Easter isn't good enough! SocraticGadfly’s NewsletterYou HAVE purchased, and ARE reading from, your Trump Bible, are you not?Specifically… Read More

Apparently, though I didn't see anything at Independent Political Report, Libertarian National Committee head Angela McArdle invited her Luciferian master, RFK Jr., as well as Donald Duck Tr… Read More

I'd heard plenty about this nuttery when it first broke, per the New York Times story.Via Orac, I'd heard about Stephen Colbert's jokes.And, yes, via Orac (setting aside his deep-fried #Blue… Read More

I'm a secularist, so no thoughts and prayers, or tots and pears, for people in Valley View, but yes, sympathy for the families, remembrance of the dead, and finally, recognition of the frail… Read More

Dr. Brad Wenstrup is probably less wingnut than many GOP Housecritters. But, at the same time, he's ex-military, ie, Nat-Sec Nutsacks™ material. Dr. Raul Ruiz is is certainly among ide… Read More

Yes, it is D-Day, and France's President Macron pissed off other NATO members last month by inviting Russian representatives, though not President Putin, the the 80th anniversary.As I said o… Read More

This one's for you BlueAnons who complain that the mainstream media treat Diaper Don with kid gloves.We start with a tweet by Nathan J. Robinson about a NYT article in which he noted it's De… Read More

Our newest Supreme Court justice got a bit of hagiography treatment last week.As pictured at left, the details of that photo will be explained near the bottom. All nine justices, essentially… Read More