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667,000 and Counting: In America, Fucking Remember
SAY WHAT? - At 3 a.m. Tuesday, in what its creator likens to a much-needed "collective sigh," volunteers began planting the first of 66…
SCOTUS Is Definitely Not A Bunch of Partisan Hacks Says Partisanest Hack Ever
Because irony isn't quite dead yet, SCOTUS Judge Amy Coathanger Barrett gave a Very Earnest speech Sunday about the integrity of the…
An Unwillingness To Abide Lost Cause Idolatry Any Longer: Robert E. Lee Comes Down At Last
SAY WHAT? - After 131 ignoble years, officials in the former capital of the Confederacy have finally taken down the massive 12-ton stat…
It Looks Heroic, But You Broke Us
SAY WHAT? - Grisly milestones, one after the other. On Tuesday, the U.S. hit 40 million COVID cases since the start of the pandemic, wit…
Grand Bargain’ of Workers’ Compensation Under Siege
SAY WHAT? - The COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve been told, changes everything and that may include one of California’s oldest social support s…
Leaving the Bitter Graveyard of Empires: In Afghanistan, Everything Is Crying
SAY WHAT? - America's forever war - misbegotten, intractable, fatally awash in hubris - is over. Contrary to "incandescently self-righte…
Repugnant, Still: Hunger for the Blood of Black Citizens
SAY WHAT?-As our macro horrors drag on -- surging plague, burning planet, grim detritus of a senseless war - it's cold comfort to learn…
I Will Build A Great Wall That Will Be Impenetrable, Except For Saws, Wind, Breaches, Ladders and Now Monsoons
SAY WHAT? - A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, a malevolent clown promised a country that didn't want it a "perfect" and "beaut…
What Courage Looks Like: Birds Of No Nation
SAY WHAT? - Despite U.S. assurances of "safe evacuation" for Americans and their allies, reports from Afghanistan describe harrowing scen…
Profiteering From Vaccine Inequity: A Crime Against Humanity?
SAY WHAT? - Early in the pandemic, Pfizer announced an intention to profit from its covid-19 vaccine.1 In the first three months of 2021…
'Hard to Imagine Worse Idea': Biden to Resume Fossil Fuel Leases on Public Lands and Waters
SAY WHAT? - Climate groups are expressing deep concern following an Interior Department announcement Monday that the Biden administrati…
A Third of the Country Has Finally Achieved Herd Stupidity, and It's Killing Us
SAY WHAT?-Behold, if you dare, dumb white privilege at its most lunatic.
OMG WTF: We Told You So
SAY WHAT? - The new apocalyptic report by the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), released on a day that saw 500,000…
Grifters Gonna Grift!
SAY WHAT? - Grifters gonna grift, whiners gonna whine. Now the biggest fattest saddest losingest grifter and whiner of all, having conti…
To Make the World A Human Dwelling Place For All: I Can't Believe What You Say Because I See What You Do
SAY WHAT? - Honoring the loss and the inestimable gifts left behind, we mark what would have been the 97th birthday of James Baldwin - …
Frankly, This Is America. It Shouldn't Be, But I Guess That's the Way Things Are
SAY WHAT? - Whew. On the scorching first day of the Congressional investigation into the Jan. 6 MAGA insurrection, four Capitol cops - fo…
The Stupid Is Killing Us: You Do Not Know What You Are Talking About, Quite Frankly
SAY WHAT?-Amid rising COVID cases, falling vaccination rates and a persistent flood of crackpot hogwash a timid media terms "misinform…
Court rules that care facilities have a free speech right to misgender transgender elders
SAY WHAT-California appellate court ruled that requiring elder care staff to use the correct pronouns for transgender and non-binary peop…
California Republicans wanted to honor Nancy Reagan for a year. This bi Democrat wasn’t on board.
SAY WHAT?-California Republicans introduced a measure to honor former First Lady Nancy Reagan’s centennial birthday for an entire year…
