By Your Ever-Humble Correspondent I have been informed—by polite society, no less—that swearing is a vulgar habit unfit for the refined. Which is precisely why I hold it in such high regard. For if the refined wish to abstain from such verbal pleasures, I say, let them. It
Apparently, my new Facebook profile picture — a rainbow fist and the words Screw Calm and Get Angry — offended the delicate sensibilities of a man who decided it was his sacred duty to lecture me on “being civil. Let’s get something straight: these are not civil times. Civility is the
Dear Mr. Couchman, Thanks so much for your condescending little love letter about Trump’s $9 billion in “spending cuts” and the “painful consequences” of Biden’s economic policies. Always a treat to watch billion-dollar donor-backed organizations pretend to care about the daily struggles of working families. Let’s break
Dear Reader and Subscribers, There’s a quiet truth in the quote: “I can’t go back to yesterday… because I was a different person then.” It comes from Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, a tale of transformation and perspective. And whether we’re tumbling down rabbit
Dear Elected Officials, Let’s get one thing straight: you work for us. The people. Not your donors, not your party, not your lobbyist golf buddies — us. And we are watching. We are fed up. And we are, frankly, wondering if a single spine still exists among you. We didn’
Fellow Patriot, Of the many degradations that have torn the fabric of American society in our lifetimes, one of the most damaging is the concept of DEI (or “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion”). This pernicious political concept is designed mainly to punish and debilitate Americans based solely on the color of
Sixty years ago this week, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law. It was one of the most powerful and transformational civil rights achievements in American history — born from the blood, sweat, and bones of Black Americans who were beaten, jailed, and murdered for demanding the
Beginning in January 2025, Executive Order 14173 formally rescinded Executive Order 11246, effectively eliminating affirmative‑action obligations for federal agencies and contractors. This reversed more than fifty years of requirements to proactively promote workplace diversity . Within days, the Justice Department issued new guidance discouraging DEI programs in private and public
Trump responds to his failure to create jobs by firing the U.S. labor statistics chief Confronted with evidence of his own failures, the president could've changed direction. He instead found it easier to fire his labor statistics chief.Aug. 1, 2025, 3:09 PM EDT By Steve
from Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor “Friends, Sorry to intrude again on your day, but this is urgent. I spent much of the 1990s as Secretary of Labor. One unit of the Labor Department is the Bureau of Labor Statistics. I was instructed by my predecessors as well as
“ Hitler’s rumored plans to oust the Reichsbank chief came amid a massive purge of the Weimar Republic’s civil service. Senior officials who had served for decades were fired. Hitler assigned his chief lieutenant, Hermann Göring, to clean house in Prussia, the largest of Germany’s 17 federated states.
Let’s stop pretending. This is not politics as usual. This is not another “Oh that’s just Trump being Trump” moment. What we are witnessing is a calculated, systematic assault on our civil rights—led by a man who never believed in equality to begin with and is now