Difference between Red MAGA and the fractured Rainbow Left

MAGA Nation seems to never have a problem with unity … The bearded man in the image above calls himself “Mike Gee” from Brooklyn, New York. His red New York for Trump baseball cap lets you know what he’s about. This photo was taken last night as he watched the streamed presidential debate from a […]

Quick pre-debate notes about Trump and Biden tonight

what each person should (or must) do … I’ll revisit the debate issues in a later post but wanted to get a few notes on record before tonight’s debate starts. Both candidates have liabilities, which is amazing when considering that one of them is guilty of management malpractice that resulted in over 200,000 dead Americans […]

Trump and taxes: America rewards (wannabe) rich White guys for failing up, but there’s more going on here

We now know what’s behind Trump’s crazy re-election campaign stunts … I need this job / Oh God, I need this / Show. “I Hope I Get It” from Broadway musical, A Chorus Line. President Donald Trump’s tax drama pulls the entire story together for us now: he really, really, really needs his job. I […]

Current raw thoughts about Breonna Taylor, 32 bullets, and no accountable Louisville cops

I neither see nor feel defeat right now … They can crush the heart — sometimes. But never the spirit. The past four years were planned to make the experience feel like eight. While hatching plans to make eight real. Still, they can’t crush the spirit. And I’m not down for 16 more years. Neither […]

Anarchist in Chief Trump threatens to to hold funds from unequal cities he calls ‘anarchist’

A leader who shows up to a problem with a blowtorch instead of water … I live in a New York City neighborhood that’s quiet to the point where I can hear different species of birds — not unless they’re drowned out by the occasional foghorn. Far from being the anarchist jurisdiction that President Donald […]

With Justice Ginsberg gone, Democrats may have realized how badly they played themselves

Investing in Wall Street and ignoring Main Street can lead to bad voter consequences — and here we are … I mentioned that I had more to say about the transitioning of US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, so I’ll start by sharing the collective Liberal freakout that the combination of her vacancy, President […]

Rest in Love, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933-2020)

Radicalized through no fault of her own … I have three broad thoughts about Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s earthly departure that may appear clumsy to place in one post, so I’ll stick to the most obvious one — remembrance — and consider what else to share later. RBG — who fought for social equity until, […]

Nancy Smith — a Mississippi mom — arrested for faking an address to get Tennessee health insurance for her 3 kids

Effin’ health insurance. The war on Black and poor folks continues. Assuming you’re not a sociopath, you have to ask what kind of moral society allows the rich and powerful to fail up the ladder to success — and stack more ill-gotten riches from their clout — while the poor get the entire book of […]

Scientific American — a magazine that endorses no one — endorsed Joe Biden for President

I hope every media outlet is paying attention to this … Earth is traveling through 2020 with smaller mountain ice caps, warmer oceans, a torrid letter run on hurricane names, an American coastline’s slow and inevitable submersion into the Atlantic Ocean, forest infernos that can’t be subdued by dwindling rains, and President Donald Trump picks […]

Sure, Louisville will settle with Breonna Taylor’s family for $12 million — and bury that ugly gentrification story

Using police to Bogart Black folks out of homes for condo projects? Let that play in a courtroom … There was a moment in early July when I knew there wasn’t going to be a Breonna Taylor civil lawsuit against the City of Louisville over her death by police bullets. “Hellll-nah. Ain’t gonna happen,” is […]