Fifth Thursday Good News on New Years Eve Eve: Bring It!
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View ArticleTruth Brigade: Expanding the Disinformation Echo Chamber
If he will not tell the truth, except when it is for his interest to do so, let us make it for his interest to tell the truth. We can do it by applying to him the same principle of justice that we...
View ArticleTruth Brigade: Common Ground
The Truth Sandwich: Common Ground/Call out Hypocrisy/Real facts and call to Action. Today we are going to review some of the commonest of common ground available to us, starting from Equality before...
View Article00Truth Brigade: Crafting Damned Lie Sandwiches
Truth is the most powerful force in human society. Lies are the second most powerful, and often overshadow truth for a time. Lies that have dominated US history for centuries are gradually crashing...
View ArticleFirst Thursday, 1/6 Good News: It Isn't Over 'til It's Over
Republicans mean it: They want to end Democracy in America, and 1/6 is their day. They mean it when they say that Democrats should be disqualified from voting, and swing state legislatures should be...
View ArticleTruth Brigade: Twitter Testing New Reporting System
Me! Me! Pick me! Yeah, I know, it’s too late for this round, but I want to be in on the next one. I have actual experience in UI design, QA, and tech writing for beginners. My proudest achievement was...
View ArticleTruth Brigade: The Big 2020 Forgery
The Big Lie isn’t big enough. We knew in Dec. 2021 that Republicans had forged papers for bogus Trump electors in WI. Two days ago we found out about forgeries in AZ and MI. Now we are up to five...
View ArticleSecond Thursday Good News: It's Not Their Glass
There are two threads in this Diary. One is corrupt, venal, lying Rs getting caught and put away as a regular and now accelerating occurrence. The other is Democrats getting stuff done in quantity last...
View ArticleTruth Brigade: Seditious Conspiracy Arrests Begin
Many in govt. take an oath to “preserve and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic”. Not to overthrow it. Now 11 Oath Keeper leaders have been charged with seditious...
View ArticleTruth Brigade: Youngkin's Red Meat Priorities
Elections have consequences, and the Democrats who sat on their hands in Virginia this time threw us some doozies. After only two days in office, R Gov. Youngkin made Joy Reid's Absolute Worst last...
View ArticleTruth Brigade: Giuliani & Co. Subpoenas!
Accountability is key, yes? For those who have been complaining that the 1/6 committee isn’t doing anything, a nice present. Now eat your words. Publicly. And remember, the Committee is going public...
View ArticleTruth Brigade: Phone Spam
We all hate phone spam. Republican fake cost-benefit analysis: prosecuting spammers costs too much. Yes, for just one prosecution. But a systematic program of prosecution would get all of those who...
View ArticleTruth Brigade: DoJ Indicts Election Terrorist
The integrity of elections depends on the devotion of election officials and volunteers all over the country. The Big Lie plan depends on terrorizing or replacing them all, or passing laws purporting...
View ArticleTruth Brigade: It's an Invasion—of Jeffersonians!! Halp!!@!
Equality under law is the Great American Promise, stymied for centuries by enslaving human beings and denying their humanity. But those who disagree with that premise are variously moving into the Red...
View ArticleTruth Brigade: FL Man Hates WOKEness & CRT So Much...
The greatness of the US was in the literally Revolutionary program of waking the world up to equality. But the MAGAt answer is only Moar White Supremacism Moar. Nowhere do we see moar of this today...
View ArticleTruth Brigade: Sorry, It's Too Much For Me Today
Otero County NM is investigating the 2020 election based on the Douglas Adams comedy SF classic The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Dems walked out of the confirmation hearing for Ron Desantis’s...
View ArticleTruth Brigade: Cloaked Science vs. Abortion
The Indivisible Truth Brigade has big plans for the new year—Truth Brigade 2.0, we call it. Our first new issue is abortion, but in order to explain how we will do that we first have to dive into a new...
View ArticleTruth Brigade: Cloaked Science Examples
No Truth Sandwiches today. Just science and facts. Genuine science about fake science. When you see something that sounds like it can’t be true, or must be true regardless, always remember that if you...
View ArticleTruth Brigade: Republican Principles, er, Dog Whistles
Republicans are very proud of their Conservative principles, which came down from Edmund Burke, the Father of Conservatism. Unfortunately, the once Grand OP has now come down to nothing but Dog...
View ArticleTruth Brigade: Black History Month Brings Bomb Scares and Nazi Salutes
Race is a fiction, a myth, a social construct. Humans are human, even those who don’t believe it. But we must take such people seriously when they threaten others among us, even with imaginary bombs....
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