Judge Tanya Chutkan says she wants consequences for “a violent mob attempting to disrupt the peaceful transition of power,” but all her sentencing of Matthew Mazzocco does is promote the repression of political dissent.
When I saw the reasoning of Judge Tanya Chutkan for going against the prosecution’s sentencing recommendation and sentencing Matthew Mazzocco to 45 days in prison, particularly the justification of protecting “the peaceful transition of power,” I am reminded of what Martin Luther King Jr. once said in his book “Stride…
Connor Sheets at AL.com has a good piece out about the man who had a heart attack and died at the Capitol riot, with a specific focus on his transformation from union vice president and Obama supporter to gun-touting MAGA diehard. One of Greeson’s former coworkers at the Goodyear plant…
I have a complicated relationship with Glenn Greenwald. I unabashedly admire those who challenge tyranny at great personal risk, and in that respect Greenwald is very much someone I admire. …
It is possible that we reached peak super hero saturation in 2019 with the release of the Avengers: End Game movie, the climatic finale of the Marvel Cinematic Universe that successfully secured Hollywood’s enormous investment in the franchise by breaking all sorts of box office records in addition to the…
There is probably no intra-Left discourse that people are more tired of than the question of identity politics. But exhaustion with the question should not be mistaken with resolution. We have explored the vampire castle: some of us have exited it and others have claimed it as a fortress. But…
On November 24, 2020, a death warrant was signed by Purdue Pharma LP entering into a plea agreement to one charge of dual-object conspiracy to defraud the United States and violate the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDCA), and two charges of conspiracy to violate the Federal Anti-Kickback Statute. While…
Friend and always thought-provoking writer Ryan Cooper has a piece up at The Week today giving a brief but comprehensive of the sheer amount of damage that the Trump administration has done and is continuing to do to the federal government’s administrative infrastructure, and proposes that President-elect Joe Biden goes…
A personal response to Council Member Robert Holden.
Dear Bob,
This is embarrassing to admit but when I was sent your quote in Politico’s story on NYC DSA I didn’t remember who you were. Normally I wouldn’t be embarrassed about forgetting who a politician was because most politicians are uninteresting and not worth the space in my brain…
The mood at the December 16, 1918 meeting of the Board of Supervisors in San Francisco was tense. The main topic of discussion was reinstituting a mask ordinance in the city to prevent transmission of an outbreak of influenza. The plan being discussed had been written behind closed doors by…
The political compass is possibly the most popular political meme across a wide range of political identities and movements. Here is why socialist should stop using it.
One of my favorite jokes to make since socialism has made a comeback was this following parody of the political compass I would send to people when they asked me what my political orientation was or even more precisely where I was on the political compass:
