Impractical Proposals

Thoughts on politics and culture

Paul Robeson at a Huac Hearing, June 12, 1956

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Unrealistic Expectations - a series

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"The callous and cynical decision of Republican governors to turn down billions of stimulus dollars that could have helped their states...

"You Better Not F*ck in Texas": Texas abortion ban protest song by Jill Sobule

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FDR Explains It All for You

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Question: When is a democratic majority not a democratic majority? Answer: When it’s a Democratic majority.

Sanders Pushing to Expand Medicare by Lowering Eligibility Age

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"It's the right thing to do. It's massively impactful. It's popular." Sen. Bernie Sanders during an interview  in D.C...

Art - transcendent, transformative, revolutionary

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No impuestos sin representación.

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It is time to put stop to United States colonialism. Like the inhabitants of the District of Columbia, the 2,800,00 people of Puerto Rico ha...

Progressives Urge Biden to Abandon GOP Outreach, Move Swiftly on Bold Package

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"A Republican minority shouldn't be allowed to hold the nation's economic recovery and public health hostage." by Jake J...

Fifty-one or Fight

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"Less than six months before a mob of the sitting president’s supporters would descend upon the United States Capitol, a more solemn cr...

Nancy Pelosi's Inequality Commission Is A Joke (and the joke's on you)

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If they want to get things done for their constituents, Progressives need to act more like the Freedom Caucus. In a closely divided House, t...

Hit the Road, Trump

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Neera Tanden and Antony Blinken Personify the 'Moderate' Rot at the Top of the Democratic Party

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What's so moderate about being on the take from rich beneficiaries of corporate America while opposing proposals that would curb their p...

Joan Baez to Nancy Pelosi

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Thank you, Speaker Pelosi, for not mincing words about the 126 Republicans who joined the lawsuit filed by the Texas Attorney General. As yo...

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George Grosz

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"Thanksgiving in America," Ron Cobb, Los Angeles Free Press (1967)

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13: "I'm the worst number ever." 666: "No, I'm the worst number ever." 2020: "Bitches, please."

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UBI or Die

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Nicholas Powers, writing for Truthout: “I thought Universal Basic Income was a good idea,” said 2020 presidential candidate Andrew Yang t...

Serious problem. Simple solution.

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Dear Joe, It's Mitch McConnell or Your Base. You Can't Have Both.

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by Norman Solomon, Reader Supported News Near the end of his well-crafted victory speech Saturday night, Joe Biden decried “the refusal o...

Where are James Comey and the Russians when you need 'em?

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"Apart from barely squeezing through the swing states to defeat corrupt, incompetent, lying, corporatist Donald Trump , the Democratic ...

Music Break

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In my Chicago days, the soulful pianist John Wright, who never broke through as a natonal star despite four or five albums on Prestige, was...

From the No Comment Desk:

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Full Court Press

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A letter to the editor of the London Review of Books: Frederick Wilmot-Smith writes about prospects for the Supreme Court in the wake of R...

NBC Complete Presidential Election Coverage 1948-2012 - Winner is Announced

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Seven? Eight? Ten?

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Who's counting? Certainly not Aaron Sorkin. Sidebar: ✓   Was Bobby Seale really bound and gagged in court? Did the anti-war activists...

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Best bumper sticker ever?

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Calling The Election: A Brief History OF NBC News Projections | NBC News

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Words of wisdom from Sen. Bernie Sanders:

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In this, the most important election in the modern history of the United States, it goes without saying that during the next 17 days we have...

From the "Suckers!" desk:

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How the taxes on the wealthy have fallen over the past 70 years (USA) The rest of the story: "The Rich Really Do Pay Lower Taxes Than...

They shall not pass!

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This day in 1936, 100,000 residents of East London rallied to force back Oswald Mosley and his Blackshirts. The famous Battle of Cable Stre...

Tales of Empire, Chile edition.

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Charles Horman was an American journalist and documentary filmmaker who discovered evidence of U.S. involvement in the events leading up to...

Bipartisanship, GOP-style

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As I miss the bees and possums and butterflies and songbirds, so shall I miss the small planes lifting from Clover Field, their buzzing whis...

Life After Facebook

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Now we're all 'friends', there is no love but Like, A semi-demi-goddess, something like A reality-TV-star look-alike, Name Si...

Seems fair.

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Sens. Bernie Sanders , I-Vt., Ed Markey , D-Mass., and Kirsten Gillibrand , D-N.Y., on Thursday introduced the “Make Billionaires Pay Act,” ...

Whew

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Susan Rice is being floated so that, when Kamala Harris is chosen, we'll all go, "Thank god. At least it isn't Susan Rice....

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“The apocalypse movies never mentioned all the sitting around.”

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All these women with big hats, sunglasses and masks make the Venice boardwalk look like the site of a convention of Spy vs Spy impersonators...

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I'm really grateful to "The Americans." It has helped to explain my next door neighbors.

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2020

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The fat old guy claims he's a "young, vibrant man" compared to the fit old guy.

With the neolibs once again up top, the opportunities for the left are down ticket

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Joe Biden might want  to tell us what he's going to do as president. From 2016 the regulars should have learned that "Not Trump...

Press Note:

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If only the American media would approach celebrity news with the same sense of proportion and relevance as West Highland Free Press on the ...

The opposition needs to become fierce.

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Only one political division matters, that between the 1% and the rest of us.  2020 will witness the culmination of a political counter-revol...

Hey hey, ho ho, Donald Trump has got to go

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It should be the active position of the left that, though the Democrats have dealt the country a bum deal over the last half century, progre...

Covid

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"Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a port...

Poet and he don't know it

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I never understood wind. You know, I know windmills very much. I have studied it better than anybody else. It’s very expensive. They ...

After November

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Win or lose the presidency in 2020 election, the Democrats are failing as a political party . They're headed for the same encyclopedia e...
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