Mon, Feb 1, 2021 at 11:22:28 am
Here's Greg Sargent, making a great deal of sense: Republicans just handed Biden a good reason to go big — without them. Ten Senate Republicans are unveiling their own scaled-down economic rescue plan — with the transparent aim of getting President Biden to negotiate away his own ambitions. The game ...

Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 10:10:07 am
YouTube Do you think filling out the census sounds boring? We have something to help!

Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 10:10:13 am
YouTube John Oliver discusses the census, why it matters, and the consequences of an undercount.

Thu, May 30, 2019 at 11:14:12 am
You may have heard that the corrupt Trump crime family is pushing to get a citizenship question added to the 2020 census. They say it's because they want to "better enforce the Voting Rights Act." This, of course, is yet another scurrilous lie: Census Citizenship Question: Revealed: Memo Shows Trump Officials ...

Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 5:57:11 pm
Beautiful photos--wonderfully positive response to the vicious racism directed at the Cheerios ad earlier this month.. From the site's About the Project page: 2013.06.05 at 1:51 PM Last week, Cheerios posted this new commercial on youtube. It sparked a firestorm of backlash, and (naturally) the comments on the video have been ...

Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 11:54:15 am
The heirs of Andrew at Breitbart.com are working overtime to advance their bizarre racial talking points about the Trayvon Martin case; here's another post from mini-Breit William Bigelow explaining that people of Hispanic or Latino heritage will never be considered "white" by the right wing: Boston Globe Columnist Perpetuates 'White' ...

Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 10:23:29 am
At Glenn Beck's "The Blaze" website, the wingnuts are in full-throated defense mode for George Zimmerman, in an article now titled: Sharpton Calls for Arrest of George Zimmerman After Shooting of Trayvon Martin in 'Self-Defense'. I say it's "now" titled that, because the URL for the story reveals its original title: ...

Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 5:41:57 pm
Apparently, the followers of Andrew Breitbart believe that being Hispanic means you can't be white: MEDIA LABELS HISPANIC MAN WHITE IN SHOOTING OF BLACK TEEN. On Friday night, a young African-American teenager, Trayvon Martin, was shot to death in Orlando by a neighborhood watch captain, George Zimmerman. The media immediately ...

Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 10:08:24 am
Forget everything you thought you knew about Michele Bachmann. Forget her claim that census data could be used to put people in concentration camps. Forget her crazy claim that Planned Parenthood is setting up "sex clinics" in schools, with free abortions for 13-year old girls. Forget her fanatical fundamentalism, and her bizarre claim ...

Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 9:26:22 am
This should come as no surprise after the deranged anti-census agitation from people like Michele Bachmann, Glenn Beck, and Redstate.com CEO Erick Erickson (who publicly threatened to use a shotgun on census workers): threats and violence against census workers this year have more than doubled compared to 2000. So far, ...

Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 10:44:00 am
ACORN sting filmmaker and admitted felon James O’Keefe is trying to peddle another undercover video, this time targeting another enemy of the right wing: the Census Bureau. And once again, he’s editing his videos to make census workers look as bad as possible. Video This is just pathetic. Not even Fox News is ...

Fri, May 21, 2010 at 12:13:42 pm
A member of the far right sovereign citizen movement (and quack mortgage adviser) and his son were shot to death yesterday in Memphis in a gun battle with police, in which two police officers were also killed: Relatives ID West Memphis suspects. A background search using the information from the ...

Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 9:58:33 am
Rep. Patrick McHenry (R) has written a post for wingnut site Redstate.com, trying to convince conservatives to return their census forms; McHenry claims that early census returns are showing that conservatives are less likely than liberals to return their census forms. According to Politifact, however, this claim is false.

Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 12:49:50 pm
Senior editor for The Atlantic Ta-Nehisi Coates puts it all in a nice neat package: Proud Of Being Ignorant. A lot of you have e-mailed me to note that Virginia governor Bob McDonnell has decided to honor  those who fought to preserve, and extend, white supremacy. I don’t really have much to ...

Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 10:28:04 am
Speaking of RedState.com blogger Erick Erickson, he said yesterday on his radio show that if anyone tried to get him to fill out the American Community Survey, he would pull out his wife’s shotgun. ERICKSON: This is crazy. What gives the Commerce Department the right to ask me how often ...

Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 9:43:16 am
Newsmax columnist and wingnut blogger Pamela “Shrieking Harpy” Geller is losing her marbles today over being contacted by census workers, calling them “Census Stalkers.” For the past month I have been called, harassed and visited by a Pamela Childs of the Census Bureau, who was pursuing me for an interview. ...

Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 11:44:41 am
The New York Times has a disturbing article about the far right conservatives in charge of the Texas State Board of Education, and their outrageous attempt to manipulate curriculum development and textbook production for public schools. The social conservatives appointed by Texas Governor Rick Perry (including infamous young earth creationist Don ...