Everyone who is not a racist, a grifter, or a nihilist knows that Donald Trump is manifestly unfit to be President. The list of things he should be impeached for is long but today’s news that Trump told the head of the Customs and Border Patrol to close the border and he would pardon him […]
We are in a mini golden age of leftist foreign policy. This mini golden age is sadly not in the implementation of left wing foreign policies but rather in the writing and thinking about what a left wing foreign policy should be. The range of contributions are coming from Democratic candidates for President, to commentators […]
There was a great op-ed in the NYTimes today arguing the the Democrats should stop arguing with Republicans on their terms with regards to immigration. The author, Daniel Denvir argues that: Democrats should follow their voters, who increasingly want more open borders, and reframe the immigration debate by rejecting the very notion that the border […]
Because our racist grifter of a President is afraid that Ann Coulter will say mean things about him if he doesn’t get his racist wall on the U.S.-Mexico border the federal government has been shutdown now for almost a month. On Saturday the dummy President, and supposed excellent deal-maker, offered a 3 year extension for […]
I plan on doing a series of posts investigating how much North Dakota has benefitted from its oil boom, if it has? I leave this as an open question as I am genuinely curious when you add up all the costs and benefits for the state has it been worth it? Of course, “worth it” […]
Because it is winter break and I have some free time before the holiday onslaught of family and food begins, I was tooling around Datawrapper and saw they have county maps for North Dakota (and all 50 states actually). This is pretty cool so I made two maps of the 2012 and 2018 ND Senate races. […]
When I was a kid I distinctly remember my dad having a conversation with his best friend about the “buffalo commons.” I don’t remember the particulars of that conversation but I do remember the general tone of the conversation and I would say that it wasn’t supportive of the idea. The idea of a buffalo […]
One of my hesitations about moving to Texas (in addition to the weather) was that I wasn’t crazy about living in a state of the old Confederacy. Although the Civil War was a long time ago the stench of treason in defense of slavery still lingers in places like Texas. Also living in Texas has […]
Today the IPCC came out with “A Special Report on the Impacts of Global Warming a 1.5C” Essentially, it outlines how bad things will get as the Earth’s climate increases to 1.5 degrees celsius above pre-industrial levels but also how much worse things will get if the Earth warms to 2 degrees celsius above […]
The ascension of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court is a terrible thing for the country but it is clarifying. America is in the midst of a legitimacy crisis. The Republican Party has gone all in on white nationalism (in addition to ensuring the rich pay nothing in taxes and American is continually engaged in […]
