When former president Trump and pals were spreading their lies about how the election was stolen, an important part of their story was lies about two companies that produce voting equipment: Smartmatic and Dominion. These companies responded separately by filing libel suits against Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Mike Lindell, and Fox News, including lots of …
My latest Op-Ed for NBC News is here on the NBC site, or you can read it here: If your policies are unpopular with most voters, and if your party narrowly lost an election because of a voter surge, and if your own party’s demographics are shrinking, what do you do? Do you change your …
Several people have asked me how I feel about the filibuster. That will make this a short blog post because it’s an easy answer. I dislike it. Who does like it? Those who want to obstruct and make federal government fail so government functions can be privatized. Who doesn’t like it? Those who want to …
I’m still out here camping in the desert, so I almost missed the meltdown on social media when members of the Republican Party basically took Putin’s side when Putin challenged Biden to a debate. Yesterday I thought it was just a stupid troll when I told you about the person on my Twitter feed who …
I’m out here camping in the desert, and wrote a blog post. Actually, I recorded another video (that’s easier) and turned the content into a blog post. I’m here: My husband took he first picture. I took the second. You can see he’s a serious photographer. I’m saying, “Where’s the button I’m supposed to push?” …
Journalist Ben Kesling said this: I’ll add that Finland (which declared independence from Russia in 1917) knows a thing or two about fighting Russian disinformation campaigns, and they have successfully resisted disinformation campaigns. It’s not a coincidence that the same people who spread disinformation are not interested in funding public schools. While doing research for …
Here’s my latest Op-Ed for NBC. If you read all my posts, this may seem repetitive, but my editor at NBC wanted me to write this up for her, and who am I to say no? You can read it on the NBC Think site here. I also cut and pasted it here: A simple …
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. . . they’re dangerous. What’s going on right now is that there is a pernicious effort across several states to make voting more difficult. The Republican Party has evidently decided if fewer people can vote, they’ll win. The move to make voting harder is based on the lie that there was widespread voting fraud. …
I’ll start with how and why right-wing extremists outrage their own people. Keeping their own people outraged is a fascist strategy. Yale professor Timothy Snyder calls it Sadopopulism. The formula works like this: Modern fascists leaders need to hurt their own constituents. You can’t have a white grievance party if the constituents are not grieving. …
This is the kind of thing people say to me often on Twitter: Fact: Republicans use hardball tactics. Remember when Mitch McConnell, then-Senate Majority Leder, refused to consider Obama’s nomination for the Supreme Court because it was March in an election year. But when Trump was president, he jammed a Supreme Court appointment through in …
