Tag : Informed Dissent

Nancy Pelosi’s husband is expected to recover. American democracy may not | Views + Opinions | Orlando

photo by Gage Skidmore (CC BY-SA 2.0) Two days after her husband was beaten with a hammer, Ron DeSantis called…

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Swing voters can’t seem to connect present events to the instigating events that happened months ago | Views + Opinions | Orlando

click to enlarge screengrab via Fox News You get the government you deserve. On Oct. 13, a 15-year-old boy allegedly…

2 years ago

Herschel Walker wasn’t Senate material even before his latest scandal | Views + Opinions | Orlando

click to enlarge The important thing is not that Herschel Walker paid for an ex-girlfriend’s abortion in 2009, or that…

2 years ago

As next summer’s inevitable debt-ceiling crisis approaches, the petulant Freedom Caucus is already threatening default | Views + Opinions | Orlando

Photo by Gage Skidmore/CC BY-SA 2.0 Speaker McCarthy will soon find himself on Jim Jordan's very short leash. CBS News…

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Leave it to Florida’s Ron DeSantis to utilize overt racism and abject dehumanization as a national political strategy | Views + Opinions | Orlando

Photo by Gage Skidmore/CC BY-SA 2.0 Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis I thought by now I’d lost my ability to be…

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Fewer Americans than ever profess confidence in the Supreme Court. That’s because we’ve seen them for the political hacks they are | Views + Opinions | Orlando

On Sept. 12, 2021, Justice Amy Coney Barrett assured an audience at the University of Louisville’s McConnell Center — named…

2 years ago

Biden’s speech ripping MAGA nation shows he finally accepts that the Republican Party he knew is a distant memory | Views + Opinions | Orlando

photo via White House Official Facebook page It seems that President Biden's recent speech hurt the feelings of the "fuck…

2 years ago

Gov. Ron DeSantis’ Florida is at the vanguard of states giving teachers the finger | Views + Opinions | Orlando

If you’re not familiar with Mark Robinson, you will be soon. A Black Republican who makes up in ambition what…

2 years ago

The extremist positions and jackass bellicosity required to win a Republican nomination are going to cost the GOP seats this year | Views + Opinions | Orlando

photo by Gage Skidmore / CC BY-SA 2.0 Poof! Just like that, Ron DeSantis could find himself boxed out when…

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A precarious democracy can’t afford to look the other way while self-serving authoritarians pour gas on a fire | Views + Opinions | Orlando

Photo by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0 The west entrance of Mar-a-Lago, currently owned by Donald Trump. There’s a lot we…

2 years ago