The problem is that Congress has been steadily abdicating power to the Executive in the name of easy reelectability for decades now.  They don’t WANT the power and will do everything they can to not take it.

It’s not just Congress asking this. It’s been proposed since he was still running for president. I signed a couple of those change.org petitions too. I don’t feel like going back to look at the reasoning behind why doing this would be good, but I think it came down to ‘eliminating working people’s debt allows them to…

I saw a short video on YouTube by Daily Gist where it was removed. Seeing a Black surgeon carefully and tenderly attending to a Black woman’s hair and scalp moved me to tears. I was certain her hair was done. He found a way to resolve the problem while preserving what was important to her. It reminded me of the sister…

Eventually white folks will realize that their opinions on a particular subject don’t actually matter.

I remember in law school our crim law prof told us that realistically speaking, the only way someone could successfully “plead insanity” was to have what he called “spots on the brain”, i.e. an actual organic basis for that insanity, and if what she’s saying is right, this guy’s case sure sounds like “spots on the…

Oh shit, Austin Chenge’s on The Root.

That brand name was way overthought. The history behind it isn’t recognizable or significant to most people and it’s not gonna be a catchy name. They should have just made up a completely new name not tied to the past. Something that immediately invokes the thought of pancakes or breakfast would have been a good start…

The only way this could have been better is if he had been wearing bear paws.

Welp, I’ll give his counsel a “E” for effrontery not for effort.

He dehumanized himself with his actions. He and his murder buddies acted like complete animals when they snuffed out the life of an innocent man. Perhaps he should have considered his freedom and the rights of other human beings when he decided to play ride-along with the neighborhood posse unduly deputized to murder…

No. Irony requires intelligence, as does satire. What Fox and the rest of the right wing media have been doing is L Y I N G. Nice try at a straw man, tho.

I have a spare blood pressure gauge I’m happy to send to the murderer-who-is-least-culpable. That will solve his gotdamn problem.

Right? She disowns her daughter for being gay, marches to a racist protest, gets decked in the face, and catches a pink slip when she gets home. All in a day’s work.

It is certainly possible for children to react to their shitty parents by becoming the complete opposite of what those parents tried to make them into.

I was talking about what the mother said, not the daughter.

I’m actually surprised she said “black girl” and not what I would expect someone of her ilk to say.

“I think a lot of it came from the fact that it was just very hypocritical, and what she was doing in this video was incredibly wrong,” she said. “Seeing the video and seeing all the people and the FBI asking for identification of the individuals in the video, I decided after a lot of processing—because, of course,…

Imagine losing your job after being outed as a racist supporter of domestic terrorism, all because your rebellious daughter decided she was too woke for whiteness.

It was one hell of a shot too.  Ashanti Smith needed no windup for that punch.