Harnessing the ghost in the machine: Data science for voting rights (for...
We at Insightus are currently busy organizing a conference, coming later this year to Durham, North Carolina, to bring activist defenders of voting rights from across the South together with...
View ArticleHow Can Facts Trump Ideology?
Written by Dr. Gleb Tsipursky, Intentional Insights Co-Founder and President. ________________________________________________________________Extensive evidence emerged in recent days that Donald Trump...
View ArticleShaming does not work
The GOP has been running a destructive cult for decades. Many GOP followers are under the influence in this cult. This cult now has a defacto leader: Trump. Trump is Jim Jones and the core followers —...
View ArticleToday's word: Puerile. With regards to my high school Latin teacher.
Puerile (pyoor’ al or pyoor’ile) - from the Latin “puer” meaning boy.Definition: Childish; silly; immature; trivial.Use this word in a sentence: “Donald Trump is the very definition of puerile.”I’ve...
View ArticleWhat is the message in Texas? It is scary. How did it get that way?
I LIKE CANDIDATES THAT TELL ME SOMETHING THAT IS GOING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE TO ME ~ANN RICHARDS Kelly Macias wrote a sobering piece, Politics in Texas provide insight into how the rest of the nation...
View ArticleBooks Go Boom! — 40 Words You Don't Yet Know
Words Placed Precisely in a Mosaic of Meaning“I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose,—words in their best order; poetry,—the best words...
View ArticleA reason to believe—and why this is important to the Democratic Party
I get that we can’t run Bernie Sanders in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District. I get that you have to start where people are rather than where you want them to be. I get that people don’t vote based...
View ArticleFascist Logic and the Developmental Unfolding of Conservatism
The starting premise of any true democracy must be that all citizens are equally citizens. Anything less than equality of citizenship renders the assertion of democracy absurd. A vote is a vote; it...
View ArticleDemocrats Should Use Trump Populist Rhetoric in the 2018 election Cycle
I don’t know if I can still include myself as a loyal member of the Democratic party because of its ties to corporations and the finance industry but I will have nothing to do with the Republican party...
View ArticleHow Liberals and Conservatives Miscommunicate
At this moment in time there is probably little need to point out how divided and polarized our country is – particularly in the realm of politics and social affairs. On both sides of the aisle, people...
View ArticleWords Matter and These Words from Trump are Dangerous
Remember the old episode of “I Love Lucy” where Lucy and Ethel get jobs in a candy factory.They’re assigned to an assembly line where they’re supposed to wrap the individual candies in paper and then...
View ArticleTo all of my Republican friends and relatives (yes, I have some), I have a...
I know that you have Core ValuesAfter all, I grew up in the 1960s, and I have heard and read the Republican motto my entire life:Smaller Government, Lower Taxes, Strong DefenseTo be honest, for a long,...
View ArticleThe New Quinnipiac Poll has results that should disturb everyone and motivate...
A Rec List diary by durrati https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/8/2/1686345/-New-Quinnipiac-POll-Has-Trump-s-Approval-Down-7-Points-to-33 focused on Trump’s approval rating falling 7 points since the...
View ArticleThe President's Body Language Negated His Rhetoric
A small observation, but one I’ve not seen anyone else make:In threatening “fire and fury” in response to “threats” from Kim Whichever, the president of the United States looked terrified and utterly...
View ArticlePLEASE: WORDS MATTER -- To defeat the Racists and Bigots we must win the...
hummingbird4015 I learned one lesson in law school (1972-1975) that has stood the test of time. Through 25 years of legal practice — including a three-year stint at the Department of Justice as well...
View ArticlePartisanship, Propaganda, and Disinformation: Online Media and the 2016 U.S....
Harvard study published today. I’ll save my commentary until I finish going through it but thought I’d go ahead and bring attention to it. dash.harvard.edu/…In this study, we analyze both mainstream...
View ArticleWant to push back against these white supremacists, including the one in the...
Free Speech is the original American InventionThis Labor Day weekend (September 1st through 4th) citizens around the country will be celebrating their Constitutional right to free speech by posting...
View ArticleDear Friends and Arguably Fellow Americans... An Open Letter to the GOP...
Dear Sirs, As you know, things are going badly wrong right now, with every indication that they’re about to get a whole lot worse. How much worse of course none of us can really know, although it’s...
View ArticleEcopocalypse Now, Patriotism & Obama as President of the Nation We Were...
I heard someone once say that Barack Obama wasn’t so much the President of the nation that we were as much as the President of the nation that we were supposed to be. I thought of that while writing a...
View ArticleThe Awesome Power of Cardboard, Paint and the First Amendment
I started putting signs on freeways after the Bush V. Gore decision. They were large, heavy things made from scrap wood or old doors that I’d chain to overpasses with cheap bike locks, usually in the...
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