Why are The Stoneman Douglas Students So Good At This? Their School Actually Educated Them.

“The students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School returned to class Wednesdaymorning two weeks and moral centuries after a tragic mass shooting ended the lives of 17 classmates and teachers. Sen. Marco Rubio marked their return by scolding them for being “infected” with “arrogance” and “boasting.” The Florida legislature marked their return by enacting a $67 million program to … Read more

Trump’s former White House adviser coincidentally sold off all of his steel-related stocks last week

On Thursday white supremacist in chief Donald Trump annoucned that he would be announcing tariffs on steel and aluminum sometime soon. One of the many swamp creatures Donald Trump invited into the White House was billionaire investor Carl Icahn—who became Trump’s “special adviser on regulatory matters” at the beginning of Trump’s term in office. For Icahn that … Read more

How Facebook May Have Destroyed Our Democracy—For Good

The Russians simply applied the techniques they’d already been using on their own citizens to the 2016 American presidential campaign, taking full advantage of the fact that no one would be able—at least until after the fact—to track their meddling due to the sheer inundation of postings targeted to specific pro-Trump voters. And America did … Read more

America may be galloping toward authoritarian neo-fascism

“Here, President Trump defined ‘fake news’ the way Joseph Stalin defined ‘enemies of the people’: if they offer a slightest objection to his rule they must be wrong,” Kruscheva told the Washington Examiner. “And they must be silenced.” Nina Kruscheva, an international affairs professor at New York’s The New School and granddaughter of Soviet leader … Read more

Gullibility

Imagine for a moment being so gullible that you could actually believe the following things: That Trump is a Christian in any meaningful sense at all, or cares even the tiniest little bit about religion and morality. That there was actually some sort of plot to stop people from saying Merry Christmas. That Trump has … Read more