Jimmy Fallon on Jimmy Kimmel

Rep. Liz Cheney's speech on Donald Trump's TEREACHERY

"The Electoral College has Spoken." Senator Mitch McConnell

Trump is a Socialist for the Rich

Gordon Sondland - Expert on Quid Pro Quo

In 2016 a wealthy hotel-chain-owner, Gordon Sondland, donated $1 million to Donald Trump's inaugural committee. Then, in 2018 he was asked by Trump to be the U.S. ambassador to the European Union. This is the guy trying to convince us there was probably not any quid pro quo by the President with the, I'll give you the money to buy Javelin anti-tank missiles, if you "do us a favor though" publicly available transcript.  Sondland is also the, "I suggest we stop the back and forth by text" about Ukraine guy. To reiterate, the guy who gave Donald Trump a million dollars then got a job as the ambassador to Europe is lecturing us about quid pro quo...

This kind of pay-to-play ambassador gig is not new. Just recently I was Googling my old 305 C-Street neighbor, Scott Brown (Elizabeth Warren's senatorial predecessor) and realized he is now the ambassador to New Zealand. Wonder how he landed that job? Also, I was just listening to the book Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter and heard the story of Maxwell Henry Gluck who was a wealthy clothing-store-chain-owner who donated heavily to the Republican party in the 1950's and was subsequently appointed Ambassador to Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka). Sondland; a Gluck for our time.

Twenty Dollar Bills

Harriet Tubman stamp from Dano Wall on Vimeo.

New Reporting on Trump Culpability

Speaking out of both sides of his mouth.

Compare Trump from less than a week ago in the (video below) to today (video linked below).




And here he is today, in light of the attempted bombing of prominent liberal politicians claiming "Acts or threats of political violence have no place of any kind in the United States of America."

Carol Anderson, Emory University Professor, on the Daily Show

Matt Damon SNLs Brett Kavanaugh

"Who wouldn't have written a letter like that" ~Senator Bob Corker

Michelle Wolf at #NerdProm

Fighting the Good Fight

I recall my father undergoing a major change in attitude about climate change 10 years ago after he attended a screening of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth at the Chautauqua Institution. The data combined with Al Gore's persuasive argument led my Dad to give up his vision of signing natural gas leases on his 114-acre plot in Cattaraugus County and instead sign a lease with a wind-turbine development company. 4 years after my dad has passed and our family is sill benefiting from this legacy. And now, Al Gore has an update for us.

Sanders on Trump: "that kinda crap is not gonna work in the United States of America"