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JIM RISCH DEMANDS THAT AVRIL HAINES FORMALLY TELL US HE IS LYING Avril Haines is the current US DNI. Jim Risch is a US Senator (R) from Idaho, and member of Senate Intelligence Committee. Read the post for an interesting examination of a recent hearing where republicons on the committee royally for...

Interesting discussion on Morning Joe on Friday about how the US has an economy at approx. 26 Trillion, the EU has an economy at approx. 25 trillion, China is at 17T and Russia is at 1.7T. Common Russians subsist on 800 rubles a month while the kleptocracy rides around in $700 million yachts. Taxes ...

Speaking of election interference... The Most Successful Man on Fox News Is Almost the Dumbest. This Is Not a Coincidence. On any given weeknight on Fox News, at any given moment on the two programs he hosts—The Five, a panel show that airs at 5, and Jesse Watters Primetime, his solo joint, which ai...

With Mark Warner, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee saying he is "much more concerned" about Russian interference in the upcoming US Presidential election...Marcy Wheeler's comprehensive look at what went on in the 2016 AND 2020 election cycles is enlightening, and a fascin...

What country should we want Bart?I'm ho ping you reply when you wake up from your nappy poo. Oh, i don know. How bout a country where we don't base important jurisprudence on the literal written words of a bunch of 18th century white slaveowners? They created a government system the likes of which ...

‘Plain historical falsehoods’: How amicus briefs bolstered Supreme Court conservatives Princeton Professor Robert P. George, a leader of the conservative legal movement and confidant of the judicial activist and Donald Trump ally Leonard Leo, made the case for overturning Roe v. Wade in an amicus b...

ANOTHER MAGGIE HABERMAN NYT STORY COVERS UP OLEG DERIPASKA’S ROLE The reason it matters that Trump brought in Paul Manafort to work on his campaign again for “free” this year is that in 2016, Manafort shared the campaign’s strategy with his long-time business associate Konstantin Kilimnik, who (acc...

Nope, it's called Google, maybe you've heard of it. 8-) Googling "Biden Staff Abuse" brings up NOTHING OF THE SORT OF THING YOU ARE ALLEGING, CRADLE. Not a stitch of reporting saying Joe Biden is abusive to staff. NADA. One of Jill Biden's aide got a couple articles posted for staff probl...

It is also now absolutely clear, in the record of a criminal trial, that Trump was doing personal and Trump Organization business in the White House (putting aside the grifting bribe center established a few blocks away). He spoke with his CFO "everyday." Signed checks on TO accounts and ...

It's a hard topic, i know Cranky. Care to take a position on Originalism as it's being practiced today at the SCOTUS? .. I think the founding fathers gave us a unique constitution. Our nation has the ability to amend the constitution when the need arises. The nation sure as hell doesn't need a bunc...

It's a hard topic, i know Cranky. Care to take a position on Originalism as it's being practiced today at the SCOTUS?

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GREAT essay by the inimitable Dahlia Lithwick about how rightwing activist, extremists in the legal community and, unfortunately, now dominating the US SCOTUS have twisted the "originalist" notion of interpreting and "enforcing" the Constitution beyond reasonable recognition. How...

They've been backing themselves into a political corner so long they're up on their toenails now and teetering on total collapse. Look no further than the fact that the Trump "base" is calling the shots in every way at this point...from the hypocritical "evangelicals" to the brow...

I wasn't cranky until I read your post. Your just a born agitator aren't you? :D Just pushing back again on your attempt to normalize the statement "How many people do you know that don't trust the government anymore?" There is ONE PARTY causing that statement to enter the discourse, and ...

The military at Kent State, that being the National Guard had no business on campus that day. The National Guard does a number of good in local communities. Who in the hell feels comfortable with soldiers with M1 rifles shoulder to shoulder in a defensive line. That is not what they train to do. Th...

THE DOJ IG BACKLOG ON BILL BARR’S BEHAVIOR When Bill Barr lied to Kaitlan Collins about being pressured on specific investigations like the Hunter Biden one last week, he offered up the Roger Stone sentencing as a purported counterexample. BARR: No. He did not directly pressure me. Yes, as I say, h...

The conclusions Cranky reaches are clearly NOT being discussed on NBC. That just isn't true even a little bit. WHAT about this jumbled word salad makes ANYone think it has any validity whatsoever?? Thanks for the early morning FLP belly laugh. Your side is already chipping away at the founding fathe...

The Last Thing This Supreme Court Could Do to Shock Us ...and yet, this story is, somehow, VERY SHOCKING! For three long years, Supreme Court watchers mollified themselves (and others) with vague promises that when the rubber hit the road, even the ultraconservative Federalist Society justices of t...

Read the WAPO piece SC posted in the 2024 thread...which explores the underlying reasons so many people seem ready to return an obvious insurrectionist to the White House. YES, it has A LOT to do with White Supremacy and White Christian Nationalist ideology. It also talks about why the wealthy are c...

From the TRULY scary NYT piece that Seacoaster posted above... ...the right-wing justices seemed impervious to the urgency of the matter before them. “I’m not focused on the here and now of this case,” Justice Brett Kavanaugh said. “I’m very concerned about the future.” But the here and now of this ...