She’s too old. She’s too young. She’s too pretty. She’s too ugly. She’s too skinny. She’s too fat. She never laughs or shows joy. She laughs too much and the sound of her laughter irritates me. She controls powerful men. She’s at the beck and call of the elite. She’s scheming and calculating. She’s too gullible and a shill. She manipulated and engineered her husband’s success. She got where she is by riding her husband’s coattails. The high position would give him a lot of power and influence on national and foreign policies. The position is just decorative and holds … Continue reading Wednesday Politics Thread

How it started… While everyone was busy covering Virginia some three weeks ago… And then last night… In Brunswick, where just before Thanksgiving weekend three White men were convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery… Always pay attention to what’s happening on the ground instead of some Social Media Influencer’s threads of bullshit and doom. Have a great Wednesday, Politicadoes! Continue reading But How’s It *Really* Going, Georgia – The Wednesday Politics Thread

Good morning, Politicadoes! A quick reminder of all the good, the helpful, and the meaningful progress for communities long underserved that the newly signed Bipartisan Infrastructure package will bring about: And all this has been done within the first ten months of the Biden-Harris Administration. Now imagine what three more years can accomplish. If there’s one thing we have learned in the last decade is that change is hard work; there are no miracle or quick solutions to years of obstructionism and centering Privilege. The last few months have been a reminder about legislative process, about Congress’s real job with … Continue reading The Wednesday Politics Thread

At a time when Black Maternity wasn’t an integral or meaningful part of Maternal Healthcare or Climate Change conversations in Congress, let alone a preoccupation, then Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) and Representative Alma Adams (D-NC12) introduced in April of 2018 the first ever Black Maternal Health Week Resolution in both the Senate and House, followed by the launching of the first ever Black Maternal Health Week in concert with the Black Mamas Alliance. This resolution, that specifically centered the agonizing challenges of Black Women that reside at the abusive intersection of Medical Racism and Medical Misogyny, forced the conversation on … Continue reading The Momnibus of Wednesday Politics Thread

“But we must accept one central truth and responsibility as participants in a democracy: Freedom is not a state; it is an act. It is not some enchanted garden perched high on a distant plateau where we can finally sit down and rest. Freedom is the continuous action we all must take, and each generation must do its part to create an even more fair, more just society.” John Lewis, Across That Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Future of America (2017) Last night, Democrats gained ground in many places, expected and unexpected. They won big battles, challenging battles, … Continue reading The Wednesday Politics Thread

For the first time ever in United States’ fascinating and passionate history, a sitting President made it openly his mission to center Women and put forth a national strategy with the objective of achieving Gender Equity and Equality. In a land governed by words made law, nothing is of more significance than the language, the specific words used to highlight present and future governing priorities. From declaring White Supremacy as the nation’s top domestic terrorist threat, to shielding undocumented immigrants, to protecting those most marginalized and discriminated against, nothing moves a People more forward than the language its leadership uses … Continue reading The Wednesday Politics Thread

Is anyone keeping count of the many actors – whether low-level or high level, national or international, civil servants or oligarchs – suspected of having conducted, aided, and/or abetted foreign meddling in the 2016 U.S. Presidential elections or the January 6, 2021 insurrection, who have been indicted or whose homes and offices have been raided by the FBI in the last three months alone? Yesterday, Oleg Deripaska, billionaire tycoon, close friend to Russian President Putin and direct beneficiary of one Mitch McConnell’s political agenda and machinations in the last five years, had his home raided by the FBI. Later in … Continue reading The Wednesday Politics Thread

Ever since that lying, conniving, mendacious conman came down the escalator over five years ago to announce his run for, arguably, the highest most powerful office in the world, we witnessed the steady degradation of many institutions once considered as pillars of journalistic integrity. We saw their slow degeneration and transmutation into becoming the conman’s stenographers, amplifying his lies, giving them much credibility while purposely writing misleading headlines on Hillary Clinton’s most rational progressive policies and fact-based solutions; they covered his hate rallies with such relish, centering his most aggrieved fanatics, that they became the most eagerly awaited and sold-out … Continue reading The Dangers of Lack Of Diversity In Journalism – Wednesday Politics Thread

Bonjour Politicadoes! In case you’re still wondering if Ed Mullins is an ardent and fervent supporter of the Conman, he was and still is very openly, but also, pay closer attention to that pic in the top tweet posted above and what Mullins made sure to include behind him while being interviewed by Fox News: That’s a Qanon mug. How much of a disgusting bigot is Ed Mullins, you might wonder? Let the Representative of New York’s 15th District and first openly gay Afro-Latino elected to Congress, Ritchie Torres, explain: Also, “It was not immediately clear why the FBI targeted … Continue reading The Wednesday Politics Thread

Politics is a violent sport not for the weak of heart. You have your different players, your big bullshitters full of bravado who bully and threaten everyone, talk real big but always end-up underperforming or even hindering their own teammates’ performances. You have the eager rookies confident in their potential, hoping for that magical moment that will showcase their strength and savoir-faire, but still green to the more intricate strategies that win you not just a few games, but a whole season and the big trophy. And then there are the real players, the ones that feel the game all … Continue reading The Wednesday Politics Thread Needs More Popcorn

It took the persistent national coverage of the disappearance of a White, blonde young Woman for the country to come to a few key realizations: • Men are still killing their partners instead of simply letting go and moving on with their lives; • Far too many cops are still in bad need of training, not only in recognizing the signs of domestic and mental abuse, but in also handling situations of abuse accordingly instead of coddling the fragile entitled feelings of abusers, therefore further abetting the violence done against victims; • Society at large is still conditioned to protect, … Continue reading The Wednesday Politics Thread

Good morning, Politicadoes! First things first, just in case you missed it: After months of peddling lies to an already disarrayed base, amplifying dangerous anti-science propaganda, pushing incompetent, unqualified, self-hating xenophobic, anti-Black nazi-loving grifters, the most unhinged faction of the Republican Party lost yet another attempt at subverting the will of the majority. The most frustrating part of this recall endeavor is that it forced the State of California to spend over $250 million on a travesty. Its only accomplishment was giving a national stage to shady characters while openly making a mockery out of democratic norms, and there will … Continue reading The Road To Meaningful Greatness – Wednesday Politics Thread

After spending a good portion of 2020 and 2021 pretending that Covid-19 is a hoax, resisting every precautionary norm to stop the spread of that hoax, opting to ingest horse deworming paste as preventive cure and treatment of said hoax, causing themselves temporary blindness, uncontrollable tremors, hallucinations, confusion, to shit the internal lining of their intestines in public, liver failure, coma, and death, White Supremacy has now moved on with great interest to Brazilian viper venom and organizing pilgrimages to radon-filled mines just so they don’t take a proven-effective and free vaccine. White Supremacy is self destructing and it is … Continue reading The Dire Consequences of Coddling Privilege – Wednesday Politics Thread

The biggest frustration for commonsense people who believe in, and follow the science has always been the propagandists intent on distorting information in order to amplify wariness of a political party that has stopped centering White privilege decades ago, the year Civil Rights were signed into law to be precise. The tragedy today isn’t just in the racism, the rabid anti-Blackness, the transphobia and all the ugly irrational phobias controlling many lives, it’s in the intentional willingness to hurt themselves and their loved ones in order to “own the Libs”. Sometimes, you hope Karma would just get to it already, … Continue reading The Wednesday Politics Thread

“It was many, many years ago, when we would visit the little town of Troy, visit Montgomery, visit Tuskegee, visit Birmingham, I saw those signs that said: White Men / Colored Men White Women / Colored Women White waiting / Colored waiting. I would come home and ask my mother, my father, my grandparents, my great grandparents, “Why?” They would say, “That’s the way it is. Don’t get in the way. Don’t get in trouble!” But one day in 1955, 15 years old in the 10th grade, I heard about Rosa Parks. I heard the words of Martin Luther King … Continue reading Wednesday Politics Thread Gets In Good Trouble