Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 11:00:43 am
According to the New York Times, after former FBI director James Comey was asked by Donald Trump to shut down the investigation into Michael Flynn's dealings with Russia, Comey went to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and begged him: don’t leave me alone with Trump again. As it turns out, this wasn't ...

Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 10:45:13 am
YouTube Climate change denier and head of the EPA Scott Pruitt is now lying to the world. Soon to be followed by liar Sean Spicer, who will do some more lying.

Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 11:53:34 am
YouTube It's been reported that Trump plans to withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Accord, which would make the US the only nation that has rejected ratifying the agreements -- except for, you guessed it, Russia. I'll be very surprised if he doesn't withdraw, because this is absolutely what the ...

Mon, May 15, 2017 at 10:52:30 am
White supremacists Richard B. Spencer (L) and Chuck C. Johnson at the GOP convention Politico's Shane Goldmacher has an unsurprising yet still disturbing piece today about the garbage information our so-called president is being fed by his staff. Far right fake news figures prominently, of course, and look who makes an ...

Tue, May 2, 2017 at 10:31:31 am
Things are not going well for Pumpkin Pinochet these days, and he's getting very frustrated at his inability to simply bring new laws and budget deals into existence by his sheer force of will as God Emperor of the United States. Lately he's been whining to the media (while simultaneously bashing ...

Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 4:39:42 pm
YouTube Here's the live video feed of Trump’s “100 Days” rally in Harrisburg, even though I absolutely hate hearing that rotten bastard's voice, because this is going to be a serious festival of denial, Orwellian double-speak, and all-around incoherent bad craziness as he tries to paint his record of failure after ...

Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 10:53:50 am
YouTube This Earth Day, April 22, Earth Day Network and the March for Science are co-organizing a rally and teach-in on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The day’s program will include speeches and trainings with scientists and civic organizers, musical performances, and a march through the streets of Washington, ...

Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 10:56:13 am
Former EPA employee Mike Cox (Family photo) Mike Cox worked for the Environmental Protection Agency for 25 years, and retired last week -- with a blistering letter to the anti-environment ideologue appointed by Donald Trump to head the agency, Scott Pruitt. Cox's letter blasts Pruitt and Trump for their dangerous anti-science attitudes, ...

Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 2:21:16 pm
Vimeo From the new album 'Emergence' out now: http://MaxCooper.lnk.to/Emergence Disc over more about Emergence: http://emergence.maxcooper.net Max Cooper “This chapter comes towards the end of the Emergence story, after all of the physical world around us has been established by following through the action of the simple building blocks of nature. I wanted to finish ...

Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 10:48:22 am
If you read only one editorial today, make it this one from the Los Angeles Times -- a measure of how terrible a predicament the United States is in with an unhinged sociopath in the Oval Office: Our Dishonest President. It was no secret during the campaign that Donald Trump ...

Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 7:39:10 am
At a congressional hearing on climate science Wednesday, Michael Mann lamented that he was the only witness representing the overwhelming scientific consensus that manmade global warming poses a major threat. "We find ourselves at this hearing today, with three individuals who represent that tiny minority that reject this consensus or ...

Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 1:45:41 pm
MP4 Video I could hardly believe what I watched today, as Trump's right wing OMB director Mick Mulvaney explicitly called research into climate change "a waste of money." Future generations are going to curse the Republican Party and this nightmarish Trump regime for many things, but their denial of the biggest existential ...

Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 10:49:54 am
White House counsel Don McGahn is preparing an all-out attack on federal agencies Yes, it can still get worse, folks. Today we have news from TIME's Zeke Miller that the Trump Horror is assembling a high-powered legal team that will launch an all-out attack on the regulatory powers of federal agencies. ...

Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 5:40:53 pm
Well, the Trump Horror is trying again with its Muslim Ban, doing a cursory rewrite and removing Iraq from the list of banned countries, but doing nothing to change the bigoted and un-American intent. I predict it's going to get rather quickly thrown out by the courts again. For what it's ...

Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 2:30:19 pm
Jeremy Konyndyk was the Director of US Foreign Disaster Assistance under President Obama, and he posted this chilling series of tweets yesterday about the ultimate nightmare scenario: the highly likely outbreak of a dangerous disease or virus during the Trump administration. This is terrifying stuff, and it's coming from someone who ...

Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 12:40:13 pm
Stephen Miller joined Trump's campaign in January 2016, but did not gain worldwide attention until last week, as it became clear that this super-conservative 31 year old misanthrope, now a "senior advisor" to Trump, is drafting executive orders like the Muslim Ban. And he appeared on the Sunday talk ...

Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 4:15:46 pm
Image via Shutterstock Security has always been a priority in the design of the software that powers Little Green Footballs. As soon as I began writing the code, back in the Paleolithic Era when we were still using flat files instead of a database, I realized that I needed to spend ...

Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 11:00:35 am
Our article about the missing Judicial Branch link on the White House website triggered a rather large outcry on social media, with nearly 15,000 shares so far to Twitter and Facebook. My original tweet about it was retweeted thousands of times. On the left, the White House website’s footer earlier this ...

Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 7:15:50 pm
On the left, the White House website’s footer earlier this year. On the right, what it looks like today. Notice anything missing? pic.twitter.com/d7o8ceAcch — Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 30, 2017 ReplyReply w/ QuoteImage No reputable web development company would make a change like this in public, by the way. Edits are made ...

Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 10:53:55 am
Cyberstalker and harassment specialist Chuck C. Johnson (who is NOT ME) has been bragging lately about his connections to the Trump administration, even threatening on Facebook to use them to get even with Twitter for banning his Wesearchr scam site. It's difficult to say how extensive those connections really are, but ...

Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 2:36:02 pm
Uncredited image: dailynous.com As I mentioned in my recent post, "How To Nussbaum a Trump", others have pointed out the relevance of Harry Frankfurt's analysis of bullshit to Trump's rhetoric, and a few have alluded to how he might be the first post-modern President. However, given how "truth-challenged" his administration appears ...

Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 10:27:38 am
It's still the early afternoon of day 6 of the Trump Horror, and already the State Department’s entire senior management team has resigned, Mexico's president canceled his planned visit to Washington over Trump's idiotic border wall fantasy, and mayors of large US cities are threatening massive lawsuits over Trump's moves ...

Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 12:00:49 pm
“Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.”-Martin Luther King, Jr. As a student at UCLA, I had the extreme fortune to study Nonviolence and Social Movements under the iconic Reverend James Lawson. In this ...

Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 1:51:11 pm
YouTube Donald Trump came out of his intelligence briefing on Friday and issued a statement that was a blatant, obvious, easily checked lie. We had an article about this yesterday at LGF, and here's Rachel Maddow making the same points: the report released by the Director of National Intelligence does not ...

Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 12:23:45 pm
So Donald Trump had his long-awaited intelligence briefing on Russian interference with the presidential election today, came out and immediately issued a statement claiming hacking had "absolutely no effect" on the election. Note that this isn't what the intelligence agencies say. Not at all. James Clapper testified yesterday that there was ...