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December 2024
21:
Gaza is the test we failed
December 2024
19:
The Democratic Party's relationship with its voters has turned spammy and abusive
December 2024
19:
Energy Secretary Granholm says study shows expanding LNG exports neither "sustainable nor advisable"
December 2024
19:
Earth Matters: Myopians want a return to the days when shooting a wolf made you a hero
December 2024
17:
Covid-19: A review
December 2024
17:
There is one big mystery behind the 'drones' storyâwhy is it a story?
December 2024
17:
Ukraine update: The worst idea since the invasion began
December 2024
16:
The 'bias meter' is the death knell for reliable journalism
December 2024
13:
The unpardonable hypocrisy of Republicans regarding Hunter Biden's pardon
December 2024
12:
Earth Matters: Killer heat adds another notch; Biden designates American Indian boarding school as national monument
December 2024
9:
Pardoning Donald Trump is a fundamentally wrong idea
December 2024
6:
Ukraine update: Russia is in much worse shape than headlines suggest
December 2024
6:
Never say that a single person can't change the world
December 2024
5:
Earth Matters: Solar car parks can generate gobs of electricity and avoid some NIMBY fights
December 2024
4:
Final House Update: GOP 220, Democrats 215
December 2024
2:
Is there ever going to be a liberal, Democratic response to fascism or is it all just performance art?
November 2024
29:
We could virtually eliminate certain cancers. If Trump's anti-vax warriors don't undo that progress
November 2024
29:
Earth Matters: Climate vulnerable small nations blast COP 29 Global South money deal as 'paltry' and 'an optical illusion'
November 2024
28:
How to talk to your uncle about the Climate Crisis
November 2024
28:
House Update: GOP 220, Democrats 214, with 1 race undecided
November 2024
27:
Arizona Rep. Ruben Gallego had the right stuff to win a Senate race by two points in a swing state that VP Harris lost by five points.
November 2024
26:
Musk's threat to buy MSNBC is no joke
November 2024
25:
The I've Got Covid Thread
November 2024
22:
How to read Trump's failure with Matt Gaetz
November 2024
22:
House Update: GOP 219, Democrats 213, with 3 races undecided
November 2024
21:
Earth Matters: Local activists and leaders could undermine Trumpistas' anti-climate, anti-environment moves
November 2024
20:
The Criminal's new anti-immigrant policies will include hate crimes targeting children
November 2024
20:
Our first fundraising drive is here! And here's what you can expect in the next version of Uncharted Blue
November 2024
19:
The No Politics thread
November 2024
18:
And now, our media scrambles to please The Criminal
November 2024
18:
Look up! SpaceX may be NASA's greatest achievement
November 2024
16:
House update: GOP 218 - Democrats 212, with 5 races undecided
November 2024
16:
The Democratic governor of a state Trump won by 30 points puts forth a way forward
November 2024
15:
How Trump can get his way on his dangerous cabinet
November 2024
15:
The word of the hour appears to be 'cowardice,' but 'corruption' is aiming to overtake it
November 2024
14:
Susie Wiles was in a different room at the time
November 2024
14:
GOP has won enough seats to secure House majority, but nine races remain undecided
November 2024
14:
Republicans are on the cusp of making the awful climate news worse. But there's still hope
November 2024
13:
The Criminal nominates sex trafficker Matt Gaetz for attorney general; it may signal all hell breaking loose
November 2024
13:
Putting a Fox News clown in charge of the Pentagon may be The Criminal's most destabilizing move yet
November 2024
13:
If only Democrats would stop talking and start hating
November 2024
12:
Part 1: On Dec. 13, 1981, I woke up into a nightmare as bad or worse than what Trump may do
November 2024
11:
Trump's threats to social media act as preview of his team's incompetent malice
November 2024
9:
Some tips for new users
November 2024
9:
Your next drive: EVs are going to be more expensive under Trump
November 2024
8:
Democrats would have to pull an inside straight to gain control of the House
November 2024
8:
Ukraine update: Putin, Trump, Musk and the new axis of power
November 2024
8:
Trump's team still consider internment camps a top priority. If they open, they will likely never close
November 2024
7:
We need an upendingâand we're not getting one unless we do it ourselves
November 2024
7:
Voters in two states reject the corporate education reform 'civil rights' scam
November 2024
6:
We failed. Now we start over
November 2024
6:
How are you taking your mind off All That? I found a shining ray of kindness in an election-week Netflix binge
November 2024
6:
Shorter Jeff Bezos: I for one welcome our new insect overlords
November 2024
6:
The Billionaires' Coup
November 2024
5:
Election Watch Party: More updates, and more tension
November 2024
5:
Election Watch Party Continues ...
November 2024
5:
Voter uprising likely to provide several ballot wins on abortion
November 2024
5:
It's Election Watch Party time!
November 2024
5:
Early exit polls indicate that the top two issues for voters are the state of democracy and the economy
November 2024
5:
Kamala Harris has left it all on the field
November 2024
5:
Election Day Open Thread
November 2024
5:
Sixty years ago LBJ went all the way to win a landslide over a dangerously extreme GOP opponent
November 2024
4:
Harris and Trump tie 3-3 in first-in-the-nation midnight vote in Dixville Notch, NH
November 2024
4:
Look! squirrel! Trump's MAGA cultists go nuts over the euthanization of pet squirrel
November 2024
4:
My deep blue community created its own DIY 2024 Democratic Victory Campaign Center
November 2024
4:
Musk insists that his '$1 M giveaway' was just a scam
November 2024
3:
Could Ukrainian-Americans help Kamala Harris secure a victory in battleground Pennsylvania?
November 2024
3:
Harrison Ford says he's endorsing presidential candidate for first time: Kamala offers "a new way forward"
November 2024
2:
At Milwaukee rally, Trump mocks Greek identity of Bucks superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo
November 2024
2:
New York Times concludes it's ok to be racist again, heaves audible sigh of relief
November 2024
1:
Join us on Tuesday for the first Uncharted Blue Election Watch Party
November 2024
1:
How a NY judge enlisted Meyer Lansky to organize Jewish mobsters to fight the Nazis who held the 1939 MSG rally
October 2024
31:
Is he TRYING to lose?
October 2024
29:
Ukraine Update: The next big battle carries real consequences
October 2024
29:
Another brief message from Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos
October 2024
28:
Bezos and Musk: It's all about space
October 2024
27:
Fascism's last piece falls into place: Trump's Madison Square Garden rally is meant to encourage violence, not voting
October 2024
26:
Your next drive: TELO MT1
October 2024
25:
The Israeli election that brought Bibi back should serve as a warning for the Uncommitted Movement
October 2024
25:
Eat. The. Rich. (Metaphorically)
October 2024
25:
Fascism: Bezos, media billionaires block their papers from endorsing Harris in new move to boost the coup-attempting felon Trump
October 2024
24:
And now it's a crisis: Elon Musk's contacts with Vladimir Putin are the stuff of national security nightmares
October 2024
23:
Is the media sitting on a story that would wreck Donald Trump for good?
October 2024
22:
4 out of 5 Republican voters support 'militarized' concentration camps for undocumented migrants
October 2024
22:
Ukraine Update: North Korean troops are just another purchase
October 2024
22:
Elderly dementia patients are being scammed by political fundraisers. Guess which party is the worst offender
October 2024
21:
The post-truth internet
October 2024
20:
Trump at McDonaldsâ(specifically, a closed McDonalds)
October 2024
18:
On Univision, ordinary citizens step in for cowardly journalists
October 2024
17:
Trump's playlist for bizarre song fest was filled with songs often requested for funerals
October 2024
15:
Ukraine update: The end of Pax Americana will cost more than anyone can imagine
October 2024
15:
Trump's 'respectable' voters lie about his plans (and crimes) to dodge accountability for supporting those things
October 2024
14:
FEMA hunting militia member arrested, but leaders escape justice
October 2024
13:
Buoyed by his party and the press, a raging Trump goes full Hitler
October 2024
9:
New poll finds more than a third of Haley voters are ready to dump Trump for Harris
October 2024
9:
Chief Justice Roberts said to be 'shaken,' 'weary' after public criticism of his crap decisions and crooked court
October 2024
8:
Miami TV meteorologist gets emotional as he links climate change to intensifying Hurricane Milton
October 2024
8:
Look up! November could decide the future ... and not at the polls
October 2024
7:
Trump pledges to restore the name of the Confederacy's worst and most hated general to NC base
October 2024
5:
Toxic geysers, zombie wells, and earthquakes: The real cost of cheap gas
October 2024
5:
Trump's fascist 'remigration' policy would destroy cities like Springfield in order to 'save' them
October 2024
4:
Oklahoma prepares to spend tax dollars on a massive gift for Trump
October 2024
3:
The details of Trump's crimes lay bare the corruption of the Roberts Court
October 2024
3:
Ukraine Update: Time is running out to win the war for the future
October 2024
2:
Go and see the snows of Earth. While you can
October 2024
1:
No fact checking rewards the candidate who tells the biggest lie
October 2024
1:
Stupid AI is still smart enough to kill us
September 2024
30:
The newest retail anti-innovation: We'll show you our products, but good luck buying them
September 2024
30:
120 people are dead because of Hurricane Helene, Jim Inhofe, and me
September 2024
27:
Ukraine update: Zelenskyy, Putin, Pokrovsk, and Kursk
September 2024
26:
Cards Against Humanity is suing Elon Musk's SpaceX (and they're going to win)
September 2024
24:
Trump campaign has the wrong Georgia on its mind in digital election ads in the Peach State
September 2024
24:
Trump is getting creepier and meaner by the day
September 2024
19:
Why does Melania Trump want us talking about decades-old nude modeling pictures?
September 2024
19:
The Haitian-American US attorney handling the Trump gunman case personifies the American Dream
September 2024
18:
Trump is retooling his campaign into a neo-Nazi battle cry, but Harris is slow to respond
September 2024
16:
As Vance laughs about his racist lies, Trump aims to repeat Jan. 6 violence in Springfield
September 2024
13:
Putin TV propagandists eat crow after debate flop by 'our Donald' but still denigrate Harris
September 2024
11:
Albert Burneko: 'We will never live on Mars'
September 2024
9:
How to kill your tech company: Vice, brunchlords, and the Growth Bomb
September 2024
9:
Uber: In pursuit of god-emperor kings
September 2024
6:
Nearly 90 corporate executives, including one of Rupert Murdoch's sons, sign letter endorsing Harris
September 2024
5:
New York Times publisher dismisses Trump's attempted coup as 'politics,' not an act of horrific corruption
September 2024
4:
Former GOP Texas congressman: My party has been possessed by Donald Trump and needs to be exorcized on Nov. 5
September 2024
3:
Washington Post Editorial Board erases Trump's coup attempt when pondering 'policy' differences between candidates
September 2024
1:
Labor Day: A bonus by any other name
August 2024
30:
Vance's misogynistic attempt to mock VP Harris by comparing her to teen beauty queen backfires
August 2024
30:
The New York Times again both-sides fascist extremism, balancing Harris 'tax cuts' against Trump's mass deportations
August 2024
29:
The reason you're not allowed to campaign at Arlington National Cemetery is because people who aren't you are buried there
August 2024
28:
Elon Musk's new racist chatbot factory runs on, sigh, 18 illegally installed gas turbines?
August 2024
27:
How to kill your tech company (Elon Musk edition)
August 2024
23:
House Republican James Comer: 'Minnesota is not your normal state'
August 2024
23:
Don't talk to me about your 'Little Free Library.' Talk to me about your real, actual public library
August 2024
22:
Even 'Fox & Friends' fact-checks Trump on lie about Harris meeting Putin before Ukraine invasion
August 2024
22:
NYC Councilman Yusef Salaam, one of the exonerated Central Park Five, to speak on final night of DNC
August 2024
21:
Some site updates: bug fixes and a question
August 2024
21:
Media 'factchecking' has devolved into a contrived, Trump-backing farce
August 2024
20:
America's dad Tim Walz gets pranked by his kids during interview at DNC in moment that's gone viral
August 2024
19:
If you want to blame someone for Biden's withdrawal from the race, lets start with AG Merrick Garland
August 2024
19:
Please oh please stop making the future suck (grocery store edition)
August 2024
18:
The US Olympic team reflected the changing face of America that Donald Trump and MAGA hate
August 2024
16:
Fascism and Project 2025: Vought caught on tape boosting 'Christian nationalism,' mass deportations
August 2024
15:
Crowd chants "Thank you, Joe" at first joint Biden-Harris official event since he left race
August 2024
15:
JD Vance said Black Lives Matter was a Jeff Bezos attempt to destroy rival busiâhang on, he said WHAT?
August 2024
15:
Support the 2028 US Olympic team: Vote for Kamala to open the Los Angeles Games
August 2024
14:
Attention, women: JD Vance keeps telling the world what he thinks of you. It's not great
August 2024
14:
Tim Walz has stood strong in support of Ukraine, while JD Vance has been openly hostile
August 2024
12:
Today in Project 2025: Oh lordy, there are tapes
August 2024
8:
Will Donald Trump cut and run? It might be more dangerous if he does
August 2024
7:
Project 2025 aims to purge government and restaff it with movement loyalists. It won't go well
August 2024
6:
The internets respond to the Walz news, and...
August 2024
5:
Project 2025 isn't dead. It's just transitioning into its next phase
August 2024
5:
G.S. Hans: 'Law professors can't keep carrying water for the Supreme Court'
August 2024
2:
Today in Project 2025: Putting the screws to the Office of Science and Technology Policy
July 2024
31:
Could Clinton have won with 'weird'? No, I think the political media was already in the tank by that point.
July 2024
31:
'Weird' isn't the point. 'Weird' is the path
July 2024
29:
Jamie Dupree: Capitol video shows Republican attempt to deliver fake electors to Senate Parliamentarian
July 2024
29:
Today in Project 2025: Meta's newest public policy director has thoughts
July 2024
26:
Today in Project 2025: Policing the thoughtcrimes of NOAA
July 2024
25:
Josh Marshall: 'It's not like we're looking for deep, dark secrets'
July 2024
25:
Today in Project 2025: Wow, these guys really hated the 1970s
July 2024
24:
Project 2025 calls for the imprisonment of conservatism's enemiesâand the right to declare anyone in America their enemy
July 2024
23:
Kamala Harris is skipping indicted Netanyahu's big speechâand that's a good start
July 2024
22:
Holy heck, it's been 24 hours and Democrats still aren't screwing this up
July 2024
19:
Journalism, or press-led mass hysteria? Probing the 'Biden panic'
July 2024
18:
More than enough blame to go around
July 2024
18:
What do you call tech billionaires who back Trump? Fascists. You call them fascists
July 2024
16:
Biden hints at major Supreme Court reforms in big, big policy shift
July 2024
15:
Trump picks the worst person in the world to be his running mate
July 2024
15:
There's no way to know
July 2024
11:
Internet Kessler Syndrome: Are we witnessing the beginning of the end of the open internet?
July 2024
11:
Kids should get universal free school mealsâand have enough time to eat them
July 2024
10:
Republicans making kids go hungry is predictable. Pay attention anyway
July 2024
8:
When my family went Woke
July 2024
6:
Radley Balko: The Supreme Court's Trump decision is 'its worst decision in my lifetime'
July 2024
6:
Well of course Trump's Project 2025 allies are garbage human beings
July 2024
4:
Remember when the press warned us that Hillary Clinton was at death's door?
July 2024
3:
Fascism: Heritage head says their revolution will be bloodless 'if the left allows it to be'
July 2024
2:
Holly Brewer: SCOTUS 'Turns the president into a king'
July 2024
1:
And now SCOTUS greenlights crimes by (Republican) presidents
July 2024
1:
The New York Times is in the tank
June 2024
28:
Jason Koehler: Has Facebook Stopped Trying?
June 2024
28:
Sleepwalking into fascism
June 2024
26:
Whistling past four graveyards in a row is probably gonna leave your lips a bit chapped
June 2024
25:
It's (not just) the economy, stupid
June 2024
23:
We are ruled by sociopaths
June 2024
20:
Thoughts on the 'Newsletter' feature?
June 2024
20:
Introducing EightGPT, the A.I. built by executives, for executives
June 2024
19:
Republicans can't defend Trump's tariff gaffe, so apparently the experts are all 'Communists' now?
June 2024
17:
Welcome, beta testers and early birds!
June 2024
15:
Say 'A.I.' one more time, I dare you
June 2024
12:
Ed Zitron: 'The People Killing Facebook'
June 2024
11:
Jason Koehler: 'Elon Musk Tweeted a Thing'
June 2024
11:
The rich turn back to Trump (because they're terrible people)
June 2024
10:
Karl Bode: Politico's former owner starts a finishing school for journalists, and there are 'a few red flags'
June 2024
10:
Brian Beutler: 'Democrats should still care how real journalists cover the news'
June 2024
9:
Matthew King on 'Spreadsheet Assassins'
June 2024
7:
The unlikely redemption of Safety Spider
June 2024
7:
Comrades, The Revolution Is Upon Us
June 2024
7:
Noir
June 2024
7:
Prelude to an Execution
June 2024
6:
In Gaza, Israel repeats America's mistakes
June 2024
6:
American liberalism is (again) losing its way
June 2024
6:
Why