• Mini-Posts

    Donate to Women Senate Candidates

    There are 15 female (blue) candidates for Senate running in the midterms who need our support. With this campaign?You can make just ONE SINGLE DONATION & the money goes directly to all 15 female candidates. We MUST win as many Senate seats as possiblehttps://t.co/fPJd4xFtPK — Alison Greene (@GrassrootsSpeak) September 30, 2018

  • Politics, Schmolitics

    The Year-Long Week

    It’s become common in my circles on Twitter  to joke that time moves extremely slowly in Trumpland, but at the same time the news cycle moves at light speed. Every day, every night, something new happening.   This nomination brawl for Brett Kavanaugh has become all-consuming. I don’t want hard-right, anti-abortion, partisan operative on the Supreme Court. Politically, for me, he’s the worst choice I can think of for women, minorities, the disabled, the poor, labor, and anyone who opposes the issues that the donor class wants. That’s BEFORE all of the allegations started coming out. The events of the…

  • Hot Off The Presses

    Why Silence From Trump and Iowa GOP On Celia Barquín Murder?

    Richards was sent to prison last year only after he tested positive for methamphetamine and marijuana, failed to complete an anger-management course he started four times and didn’t pay court-ordered fees to a halfway house, court records show. Even then, the two-year sentence was reduced to about seven months after credit for good behavior and some jail time already served. After his release, Richards was arrested weeks later for public intoxication. Soon, he was living in a tent in a homeless encampment in the woods near the Coldwater Golf Links in Ames. He told an acquaintance that he had an…

  • Politics, Schmolitics - The Never-Ending Bloga - Twitter

    Get Ready. Long Blog Post Percolating.

    It seems like forever since I wrote anything longer than a tweet. Especially since @Twitter went from 140 to 280 characters. And I’ve stayed off of Facebook mostly to avoid seeing propaganda ads (sorry friends and family). And even “forever” is longer now in the Drumpf era. Today on Twitter, I joked that if dog years are 7 human years, 1 newscycle day is 24 years, and one newscycle year is 14,600 human years. How long ago was it that we thought “One Scaramucchi = 11 days” was funny? I haven’t even touched my desktop computer in months (ie., several…

  • Mini-Posts

    There ARE Adults In The White House

    There is a quiet resistance within the administration of people choosing to put country first. But the real difference will be made by everyday citizens rising above politics, reaching across the aisle and resolving to shed the labels in favor of a single one: Americans. — Read on www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/opinion/trump-white-house-anonymous-resistance.html