Well hello again, everyone! I have returned from my honeymoon and I am once again ready to start dropping daily truth bombs on all those who may seek to cower behind obfuscating bullshit. Are you ready? Because I’m ready. Good, so we’re both ready. Lets do this. Spoiler Alert- It Ain’t Dead Yet: So, the…
Yesterday’s Vigil didn’t have a single mention of the Alexandria shooting. This was not an accident. Shootings like this are a symptom of so many of the problems we have in America, I needed an extra day to collect my thoughts. Plus, everyone and their mother was already talking about it; there wasn’t much more for…
Cold Comfort, I’m Sure: Did y’all forget about Flint, Michigan? It’d be easy to, considering the circus that has gone on for the past year. Well, if you’ve forgotten, its time to remember. Because to forget would be to ignore our country’s long-standing war against the poor, and to forget this is to condone it.…
Cotton-Eyed Jeff: Well, that went as one might expect. Jeff Sessions appeared before the Senate Intelligence Committee and described in stunning detail how little he remembers. Invoking “rules” of the DOJ that prevented him from discussing conversations with the President, Sessions leaves the audience wondering exactly which rules he’s referencing. Unsurprisingly, he never says. This whole charade of…
Choose Wisely: For those who don’t know, today is Virginia’s gubernatorial primary! Virgina’s current Democratic governor is term-limited and can’t run again, so that opens the field to new challengers. On the Democratic side we have two options: Tom Perriello (the grassroots darling) and Ralph Northam (the current Lieutenant Governor). Digital Left has not endorsed…
Dan Can You PLEASE Stop Talking About Health Care: Ha! No. This is the week to push harder than we’ve ever pushed against this. McConnell is still trying to pass this abomination. Worse still, he’s rushing because he knows it’ll blow up in his face if it takes too long. He needs to try and pass the…
The Great Recession Sure Was Fun, Right Guys?: I remember the day the Great Recession started. I was living in Chicago at the time, getting ready to head to class, but I was frozen in front of the TV watching the Dow Jones plummet a hundred points at a time. It was a surreal thing…
Hailey’s Comey-t: An apt pun, considering this could be a once-in-a-lifetime testimony. Anyway, just about everyone and their mother is fixing to broadcast Comey’s statements and I’m sure we’ll be dissecting it for the next week. And to the surprise of exactly nobody, Trump is planning to live tweet the whole affair. So while I’m sure…
Night of the Living Wage: In what was both a stunning and a refreshing blast of straightforward honesty, both candidates in the Georgia-06 special election clearly stated their positions on a livable wage. Jon Ossoff, the Democrat that we here at DL have supported, stated that he was behind a livable wage; he did not…
Going Carbon Negative: While not exactly political news, I found this to be quite heartening. An industrial facility recently opened in Sweden that actively pulls CO2 out of the air, reportedly at a rate 1,000x more efficient than photosynthesis. This sort of technology would pair perfectly with world efforts to reduce emissions, and if enough…