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Reflections of 2014
Back in 2014, North Carolina had a Republican primary for US Senate that seemed to illustrate the divisions playing out within the party. Then-House Speaker Thom Tillis was the establishment candidate. Tea Party darling Greg Brannon was a libertarian-leaning physician. Mega-church pastor Mark Harris emerged as the choice of social conservatives. Tillis won the primary handily, in part, because neither…Read More
AI in an Age of Humanity
The beloved 1985 young-adult novel Ender’s Game tells the story of a boy who thinks he’s practicing to kill aliens using a computer simulation, until he discovers he was remotely piloting real ships and hitting real targets all along. Now, in 2026, there is a program at the US Department of Defense called Ender’s Foundry. It exists to simulate battle…Read More
ON THE TRANSITION TO COMMUNISM
Our report on a pro-revolutionary ‘summer camp’ of last August was critical of a discussion that took place there on the transition to communism. It can be read HERE. The comrades who gave the presentation, A and S of the group IDA, disagreed with our report and wrote a reaction which lead to the following debate. December 27, 2025 Hi…Read More
Trump’s Approval Ratings on Inflation Are So Bad, Pollster Had to Redo Graph
Photo: Alex Brandon/AP Pollster G. Elliott Morris expressed shock at President Donald Trump’s abysmal approval numbers in a new poll, remarking that they were so low they “literally broke the scale” of the graph on his data portal. The polling numbers for Trump and the GOP have been brutal as his second term has progressed, with his immigration crackdown cratering…Read More
New Poll: More Than Half Of Michiganders Disagree With The War In Iran
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASENews from Progress Michigan April 30, 2026 Contact: Levi Teitel, [email protected] New Poll: More Than Half Of Michiganders Disagree With The War In Iran Michiganders are also cutting back due to gasoline prices MICHIGAN – Recent polling conducted by Progress Michigan, in partnership with Public Policy Polling, shows that 57 percent of Michiganders disagree with the Trump administration’s…Read More
One Word of Objection or Werewolves of Washington
By David Glenn Cox The bigger they are, the harder they fall. The higher you fly, the greater the crash. Everything in style today goes out of style and is eventually laughed at. There are four states of matter: liquid, solid, gas, and American public. The public says they are so through with Donald Trump. His polling in the low…Read More
Your guide to the L.A. Unified Board of Education District 6 race: Incumbent Kelly Gonez is unopposed
Two-term incumbent Kelly Gonez is unopposed for the L.A. Unified Board of Education District 6 seat. Here is your voting guide. yebri,yaroslavsky,district,race,candidates,people,kuehl,use attorney,officers,homelessness,affordable housing,years,ballots,city attorney,century city law firm Source link www.latimes.comRead More
SCOTUS Guts the Voting Rights Act. This is a Crisis.
April 29,2026 The Democracy Alliance today issued the following statement: “Today’s Supreme Court ruling in Louisiana v. Callais effectively dismantles Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, one the most hard-won achievements of the civil rights movement. It is a body-blow to our democracy and a direct attack on Black political power. Yet, we are not surprised. The right has…Read More
‘Tragic day for the freedom to vote’: Supreme Court guts remnants of Voting Rights Act
This story originally appeared in Common Dreams on April 29, 2026. It is shared here under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license. The US Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that Louisiana must redraw its 2024 congressional map—which created a second majority-Black district to mitigate persistent barriers to equal representation—in a decision that further guts the already tattered Voting Rights Act. The justices ruled 6-3 along ideological…Read More
“Friends, Romans, Republicans, Lend Me Your Ears;
By David Glenn Cox I’m not a big fan of Jimmy Kimmel. I don’t watch his program. I don’t dislike him; he could drink at the bar with us. I didn’t really think his joke about Malaria Trump was particularly funny. Death is rarely ever funny, but I don’t blame Kimmel. I’m not incensed or outraged; we live in extreme…Read More