Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 11:48:44 am
In addition to all the other bad craziness surrounding everything Donald Trump does, we're about to be treated to the spectacle of a sitting US president being sued by several black protesters for inciting violence against them last March at his rally in Louisville, Kentucky. A federal judge has rejected ...

Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 2:33:55 pm
Donald Trump's paranoia is increasing to dangerous levels, as more and more trash fires erupt in his administration. And in time-honored right wing demagogue fashion, he's demonizing the press and the media. Today he took his unsecure Android phone again, in the middle of the afternoon, and posted two tweets in ...

Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 11:50:15 am
Alexandre Bissonnette, suspect in Quebec City mosque killings (source: Facebook) Six people were killed last night in a terrorist attack on a Quebec City mosque. Right wing blogs and media instantly jumped to the conclusion that Islamists were responsible for the shootings, as they always do. But today we're learning more about ...

Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 3:35:27 pm
YouTube Gotta tell you, folks. This is hard to watch, knowing that the man following President Obama into the White House is Obama's polar opposite in so many ways: a thin-skinned, insecure yet egomaniacal, vindictive, vengeful, utterly dishonest 70-year old racist baby-man with a Cabinet full of extremists and white supremacists. The ...

Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 12:00:49 pm
“Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.”-Martin Luther King, Jr. As a student at UCLA, I had the extreme fortune to study Nonviolence and Social Movements under the iconic Reverend James Lawson. In this ...

Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 11:21:00 am
We're coming down to the wire, folks; the Electoral College meets on Monday to decide whether this country will put its fate in the hands of a thin-skinned pathologically dishonest narcissist with fascist tendencies and ties to white supremacists, and his cabinet of billionaires, generals and creationists. A full-page ad ...

Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 11:59:13 am
Well, Twitter has explained to Vox why they reinstated vile white supremacist Richard Spencer. And the explanation makes this situation even more awful, because they didn't suspend his account in the first place for his white supremacism or racist hate speech, or for inciting harm against minorities. They suspended Spencer because ...

Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 5:09:16 pm
YouTube Tom Huizenga | November 18, 2016 - Classical music observers say we're living in a golden age of string quartets. It's hard to disagree when you hear the vibrant young players in New York's Attacca Quartet. They revere the old school, having recently completed a performance cycle of all 68 ...

Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 1:49:55 pm
Anyone who's aware of the vile content that's standard fare at Breitbart "News" probably won't be surprised by this development. AppNexus Inc., a major advertising technology provider, has barred Breitbart News from using its ad-serving tools because the conservative online publisher violated its hate speech rules.  AppNexus scrutinized Breitbart's website after U.S. ...

Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 8:04:46 pm
YouTube With all the other awful stuff in the news about Donald Trump's impending takeover, you might have missed this disturbing sidenote: Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway went on Fox News today and issued a veiled threat of legal action against Harry Reid. And of course, when challenged she denied that's what she ...

Sun, Nov 6, 2016 at 11:04:35 am
Right wing blogs are all screaming this morning about the "assassination attempt" at yesterday's Trump rally in Reno. Jim Hoft, the Stupidest Man on the Internet, is leading the charge as usual with post after post at his illiterate blog calling the man involved, Austyn Crites, an "attacker," a "perpetrator" ...

Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 6:44:14 pm
SoundCloud So today, Donald Trump's surrogate son Eric actually said, in public, that David Duke 'deserves a bullet.' (CNN)Eric Trump said on Thursday that former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke deserves "a bullet." "Ross, it's disgusting and by the way, if I said exactly what you said, I'd get killed for ...

Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 9:34:09 pm
YouTube In music, we can escape the cruelties of the world or face them. There's no wrong way about it, but recently the members of Drive-By Truckers, a band that's long toed the line between a good time and a hard look at life, found they could no longer work ...

Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 9:38:22 pm
YouTube Latino journalist Jorge Ramos brings us a disturbing, sobering look at the dark forces that have always been on the fringes of American society -- but are now newly empowered by the presidential candidacy of Donald Trump. From the Ku Klux Klan to the so called alt-right movement, white supremacist ...

Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 11:12:08 am
YouTube Donald Trump appears to have some kind of dim realization that by refusing to say he'd accept the results of the election, he's really stepped in a bigly pile of tremendousness. Practically every major newspaper and media site is calling him on the carpet for this today, in a chorus ...

Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 4:32:39 pm
After saying earlier today that he was not sorry for his tweet saying motorists should run over protesters, blogger/law professor Glenn Reynolds is now apologizing for it, sort of. It's one of those "I'm sorry you misunderstood me" non-apology apologies. And the reason for this is because he apparently nearly lost ...

Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 11:35:02 am
The University of Tennessee Knoxville's College of Law Dean Melanie Wilson has issued a statement denouncing "Instapundit" Glenn Reynolds for his ugly tweet encouraging violence against protesters, and UT Knoxville Chancellor Jimmy G. Cheek has supported Wilson's statement. This is the statement by Dean Wilson: “I am aware of the remarks ...

Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 5:38:21 pm
Donald Trump has really been working on his "African American outreach" effort lately, because he dimly recognizes that having zero percent support is probably bad, and today we learned the next step in this outreach initiative to blacks and minorities: a nationwide stop-and-frisk policy. He thinks it worked out great in ...

Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 12:02:31 pm
YouTube Keith Olbermann is mad about this, and he should be. Everyone should be. Honestly, it's a disgrace that the media and much of the public don't seem to care about one of the worst things Trump has been doing.

Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 5:26:02 pm
a katz / Shutterstock.com Donald Trump Jr. has blocked the LGF account after we revealed several of his associations with antisemites and white supremacists, but we have ways to see what he's tweeting anyway -- and today he tweeted something so ugly and yes, deplorable, that I did an honest to ...

Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 3:49:01 pm
YouTube Speaking in Miami on Sep 16, 2016, Donald Trump said Hillary Clinton's bodyguards should "drop all weapons," then "let's see what happens to her." This isn't the first time he's unsubtly suggested violence against Hillary Clinton. Trump: She wants to destroy your Second Amendment... Guns, guns, guns, right? I think ...

Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 10:44:07 am
YouTube After another week of violence and mayhem, it's clear Hillary Clinton's controversial assessment of Trump's fans was, well, generous.

Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 5:02:20 pm
Video We had video last night of a Trump supporter assaulting several protesters at his rally in Asheville, North Carolina, but today the full story of the violence at this rally is coming out, including a report that one of Trump's thuggish fans punched a 69-year old woman in the face. ...

Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 11:58:35 am
Well, now we know what the news cycle is going to be like for the next few days: Clinton falls ill during 9/11 memorial service in New York. The Stupidest Man on the Internet, Jim Hoft, has already tweeted ten times about this, and is yelling hysterically in all-caps at his ...

Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 6:09:19 pm
The anti-choice fanatics associated with video fraudster David Daleiden are now trying to get access to the personal information of employees, scientists and researchers at the University of Washington’s Birth Defects Research Laboratory, because their work involves fetal tissue. Thankfully, a federal judge has granted a temporary restraining order to ...