Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 11:30:05 am
Donald Trump's cabinet and agency picks are almost universally horrifying (if you aren't an extreme right wing loon), a wildly unqualified crew of billionaire former Goldman Sachs executives, retired generals with strange ideas, and now -- a far right Congressman from South Carolina with ties to the John Birch Society. ...

Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 2:13:32 pm
The "Russian election hacking," @AmbJohnBolton asks: "false flag?" Your view? Watch: https://t.co/3UCnV6tEQT. I anchor @Foxnews 4 pm EST. — Eric Shawn (@EricShawnTV) December 11, 2016 ReplyReply w/ Quote And now, here comes another face from the past you were hoping you'd never see again, John Bolton, telling Fox News host Eric ...

Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 8:20:05 pm
YouTube These guys remind me of the Brecker Brothers. Seriously excellent. This Funky Knuckles song "Me Too" from their latest record "New Birth". Grab "New Birth" on iTunes: http://smarturl.it/FunkyNew_iTu Scoop up a physical copy: http://bit.ly/29mmsC7 Wes Stephenson - bass Cedric Moore - composer/drums Caleb Sean McCampbell - keyboards Frank Moka - percussion Phill Aelony - guitar Ben Bohorquez - ...

Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 6:15:09 pm
If you're not familiar with the utterly deranged delusion called #PizzaGate that's burning up the right wing's Twitter and Facebook bandwidth these days, here's a story with the full background. All you really need to know is that the far right is caught up in a conspiracy theory that a ...

Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 8:10:27 pm
YouTube The Funky Knuckles: Wes Stephenson - bass Cedric Moore - composer/drums Caleb Sean McCampbell - keyboards Frank Moka - percussion Phill Aelony - guitar Ben Bohorquez - saxophone Evan Weiss - trumpet This movie was made possible because of the hard work all of these people put in. Thank you!! Andy LaViolette - director of photography Ben Bohorquez - ...

Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 12:06:18 pm
Bloomberg reports that far right propaganda site Breitbart "News" has now lost the Kellogg Company as an advertiser, as more ad providers and networks become aware of the hateful content, racism and antisemitism in which Breitbart traffics. This follows a move to stop advertising on Breitbart by major ad supplier AppNexus. ...

Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 5:09:16 pm
YouTube Tom Huizenga | November 18, 2016 - Classical music observers say we're living in a golden age of string quartets. It's hard to disagree when you hear the vibrant young players in New York's Attacca Quartet. They revere the old school, having recently completed a performance cycle of all 68 ...

Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 8:15:52 pm
YouTube Bob Boilen | November 14, 2016 - I wasn't alone in patiently waiting for new music from John Paul White. His singing and songwriting as half of The Civil Wars was heartfelt and beautiful. This summer, a new album finally came, and Beulah was a quietly understated gem. This ...

Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 2:22:07 pm
Iframe The election of Donald Trump has set loose some very dark forces in this country. The white supremacist/neo-Nazi organization with the innocuous-sounding name "National Policy Institute" held a conference last weekend at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington DC. Today The Atlantic posted this video of the event, and it's absolutely spine-chilling ...

Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 12:24:59 pm
Vimeo Short legs. Big city. https://www.instagram.com/madma x_fluffyroad/ made by: bryan reisberg (& Maxine's owner) camera: owen levelle voice: jon st. john

Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 11:52:23 am
YouTube John Oliver devoted his entire show last night to the thing. You know the thing I'm talking about. Yes, that thing. One of his main points is something we're all going to have to take to heart: we must resist the inevitable attempts to normalize the Trump presidency and the white ...

Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 5:49:37 pm
Meathead: Mike Cernovich Just when you thought the right wing had hit absolute rock bottom, they break through the other side of the Earth into an entirely new dimension of derp, accusing Hillary Clinton and John Podesta of Satanism. Yes, I said SATANISM. Booga booga! What century is this, again? This reeking garbage ...

Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 4:42:28 pm
The white supremacist rot has now eaten so far into the conservative movement that one of the leading Fox News "entertainers" is tweeting images that come directly from the ugly troll sewers of 4chan and the white supremacist blogs they feed. Case in point: Journalism is DEAD IN AMERICA! pic.twitter.com/50ZBOTvfHy — Sean Hannity ...

Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 9:23:13 pm
YouTube Joe Bonamassa and Mahalia Barnes just tear it up, in their version of this classic John Hiatt song.

Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 11:13:56 am
Donald Trump is ranting away on Twitter like a complete lunatic again today, boasting that he's going to "teach" disloyal Republicans, and bragging that "the shackles have been taken off" and he can now go hog-wild. So we have that to look forward to. Despite winning the second debate in a ...

Sat, Oct 8, 2016 at 1:28:19 pm
Republican politicians are bailing out on Donald Trump like rats deserting a sinking ship today. Donald Trump should withdraw and Mike Pence should be our nominee effective immediately. — Senator John Thune (@SenJohnThune) October 8, 2016 ReplyReply w/ Quote If Donald Trump wishes to defeat Hillary Clinton, he should do the only thing ...

Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 10:54:34 am
Former GOP Rep. Jim Leach (Photo by Tim Schoon) A group of former GOP congress critters, appalled at seeing their party fly off the rails and nominate Donald Trump for president, has issued a letter condemning the tiny-fisted fascist as “manifestly unqualified” for the office. Donald Trump, “a man who makes ...

Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 2:29:24 pm
By all accounts Hurricane Matthew is going to be a monster storm with winds up to 140 mph, and the governor of Florida is strongly urging people to evacuate coastal regions as soon as possible. More than 100 people have already been killed by the storm in Haiti, and warnings ...

Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 11:20:58 am
In Mike Pence's defense, we wouldn't want to defend Donald Trump, either. #VPDebate pic.twitter.com/Z2jV6FNzFl — Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) October 5, 2016 ReplyReply w/ QuoteVideo When I saw Mike Pence denying and dodging and pretending Donald Trump never said those ugly things Tim Kaine quoted verbatim in last night's debate, I knew it ...

Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 10:44:07 am
YouTube Probably the fairest assessment I've seen of the various scandals, fake or otherwise, hanging around the candidates in this weird, weird election.

Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 2:48:37 pm
It's not just Trump followers, or just a few of his campaign staffers. The far right extremism, racism and hate speech runs through the entire organization: Racism and talk of religious war: Trump staff's online posts. WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump's paid campaign staffers have declared on their personal social ...

Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 5:38:29 pm
YouTube It's time for some music, after another totally whacked out week of political bad craziness, and what better way to soothe your soul than the sweet sounds of Amos Lee? From his new album Spirit. Vaporize (Official Video) Song available on the new album Spirit Download Here: http://republicrec.co/AmosLeeSpiritAlb um Listen on Spotify: ...

Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 12:58:05 pm
YouTube Here's the ad just released today by Donald Trump, predictably brimming with fear-mongering xenophobia and barely veiled racism. It's an attack on Hillary Clinton that relentlessly demonizes immigrants, of course, and as Right Wing Watch points out, one of the citations it uses is sourced to the Center for Immigration ...

Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 6:30:19 pm
State Department spokesman John Kirby The entire right wing universe is crowing delightedly about today's State Department news briefing, in which spokesman John Kirby said the US had "leveraged" the re-payment of the $400 million owed to Iran for decades to make sure US prisoners were released: State Dept. confirms $400 ...

Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 1:27:25 pm
One of Donald Trump's five foreign policy advisers, Joseph Schmitz, is being accused by senior intelligence and Pentagon officials of antisemitic comments and Holocaust denial. And the hits just keep on comin'. The revelations feed two themes that his opponent Hillary Clinton has used to erode Trump’s credibility: That he is ...