America This Week — I spent a lovely, hot summer night on my patio last night, with music and current-events-twitter, two of my favorite things. Thursday night, my husband and I went to Summerfest in Milwaukee and saw Eric Church perform. It was fantastic! But yesterday was a great day of solitude after the…

Here come the indictments — I want to take a step back with you and approach this moment in time from a 30,000-foot view. It’s so easy to get bogged down in the headlines flying past us. Sometimes it becomes difficult to see the forest for the trees. Here’s What We Know Vladimir Putin spent decades and billions on…

And the Awe of Living through Big History — The January 6th Committee held its final meeting today. If you haven’t followed the hearings, they were a masterclass in the effective use of Congressional time and resources. Eighteen months, 1,000,000 documents, 1,000 interviews. The work was professional, exacting, and powerful. And it needed to be. We’ve never been here…

The Rise of the Global Alt-Right — Barbara F. Walter’s book, How Civil Wars Start, is a deeply researched examination of the specific conditions that arise within countries before civil wars. …

The Week Since The Midterms — The week since the midterm elections has been filled with historic and occasionally opaque power struggles as the American Oligarchy very noticeably regroup on the world stage, following humiliating losses. In this piece: Democracy Wins Election Highlights Oligarchy Reaction Gen Z Cancels the Boomers Democracy Wins By now, the results are clear…

America This Week: In Tatters or In Charge? — WTF is Happening The attack on Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband has me freaked the fuck out. The QAnon cult radicalized YET ANOTHER person into committing a terrorist act. They attacked the capitol, they attacked an FBI office, some have murdered their whole families. …

The DOJ Filing — Trump’s attorneys filed a motion for “Judicial Oversight and Additional Relief” on August 22nd, fourteen days after a legal search of the resort where Trump now lives. As predicted by legal experts, the motion opened the door for the Department of Justice to file a response that could provide more…

187 Minutes — The season 1 finale did not disappoint. This hearing focused on the excruciating 187 minutes between when Trump learned about the attack and when he finally released the video telling the attackers to stop. …

The Armies — On 12/18, a team of advisors that included Mike Flynn and Sydney Powell paid Trump a visit at the White House. They had lots of theories, but no evidence of fraud. Trump had previously asked Barr to seize the voting machines but Barr said there was no evidence for such…

and the DOJ Investigations — The next hearing is tomorrow, Tuesday, July 12th. The hearing will focus on the extremist militias and Trump ties to those groups. You can watch past hearings or watch live at the Committee’s website. Here’s what we’ve learned so far. Hearing 1 Vivid video and testimony of the horror of that day…

Will We Win? Well shit, we’re in a full-on global fascism vs. democracy war, right after suffering through two plus years of COVID and losing over six million of us. I’m afraid a lot. I’m afraid of more violence in the coming months or years. My antidote: I study. Splashing…

America This Week: February 6, 2022 — Dispatches from the front lines of the Disinformation War: A weekly news roundup for people fighting for the right to be self-governed. The title of this week’s piece is from “All You Fascists” by Billy Bragg and Wilco. It’s World War III peeps, that’s what this disinformation war is, and…

America This Week: 01/30/22 — Dispatches from the front lines of the Disinformation War: A weekly news roundup for people fighting for the right to be self-governed. Props to Meatloaf for the title of this week’s piece. Meatloaf, like so many before him, was misled into believing that denying himself a free, life-saving vaccine was…

America This Week: January 22, 2022 — Dispatches from the front lines of the Disinformation War: A weekly news roundup for people fighting for the right to be self-governed. Shat Pants: The Dark Thriller, “Our Lives” It has been a week filled with relief, terror, and schadenfreude for everyone rooting for our republican form of democratic government. …

How Disinformation Spreads, The Global Threat to Democracy, Seditious Conspiracy — Dispatches from the front lines of the Disinformation War: A weekly news roundup for people fighting for the right to be self-governed. How Disinformation Spreads: Two Examples GOP legislatures have introduced more than 425 bills that would restrict voting access in 49 states. 19 states have already enacted these changes. These bills also include changes…

The First Anniversary of January 6th | Where’s the Middle? | Free Stuff Reflections on the Anniversary of January 6th These pricks really did try to overthrow the government of the United States of America, y’all. Every damn day there are more people cooperating and there is more color on the sedition-paint-by-number and it’s really fucking scary…

Vaccine Enthusiasm, The January 6th Committee, Christmas Spirit From the front lines of the Disinformation War: A weekly news roundup for people fighting for the right to be self-governed. Vaccine Enthusiasm This week, former President Trump stunned some of his supporters when he hailed the COVID-19 vaccine as “one of the greatest…

Justice Advent Calendar | Disinfo Kills: Wayfair Edition| Self Care From the front lines of the Disinformation War: A weekly news roundup for people fighting for the right to be self-governed. Justice Advent Calendar ‘Tis the season of giving and this week’s news brought a relentless drip-drip-drip of the justice storm that is…

The January 6th Committee, Kanye, and Harbingers From the front lines of the Disinformation War: A weekly news roundup for people fighting for the right to be self-governed. The January 6th Committee Trump’s Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows, had a PowerPoint presentation on his device explaining step-by-step how to overthrow the United States government…