Progressive Political News

Ah, Mr Bernard Sanders, the communist, misogynist, crude politician who only white people could vote for. Supposedly. While Sanders has never been too popular with the Hillary Clinton "Still With Her" crowd, he has managed to drum up an extremely high level of grassroots and young voter support, being seen as talking truth to the Democratic Establishment while not having the colossal levels of contradiction of Donald Trump's faux 'populism' - finally a politician who could see the strain that years of failed neo-liberal and conservative governance had put on poor and middle-class workers, and a credible, principled messaged to boot. Sanders began as a fringe political figure, outside of Vermont state politics, Bernie wasn't a household name by any stretch of the imagination. All the while endorsing Socialism and attacks on Wall Street and tax-dodging corporations elevated the Vermont Senators message to the forefront of the US political limelight. His opp...

Ann Coulter, the 'delightful' conservative talker who brought the world such gems as: Don't allow the handicapped into America, Gun Background Checks lead to 'extermination' or claiming that Soccer "morally decays America". Among of all this stupidity she throws in her favourite hobbies - bashing Immigrants and writing books about Liberals. Kind of ironic how she claims people who simply aren't Republican and do not agree with her way of thinking are brainless yet the height of her thinking capabilities is to say that kicking a ball around a pitch is somehow a morally corrosive blight on the country. After a truly horrific time going through the Twitter account of Ann Coulter (shoot me), and three tweets in she has Retweeted a video of a Muslim man committing vandalism of art/statues at a church, a Retweet of Tucker Carlson asking "what's in it for us" in terms of accepting immigrants, the tweet after that is once again a reportin...

The short answer to this question is - hell no . These are two characters who could not be more different as one prefers to feed the poor while the other takes away Meals on Wheels from the elderly. Personally, I believe Donald would be closer to the Old Testament God as opposed to the New Testament God, as is evidenced by Trump wanting to kill the families of terrorists (innocents) and God killing people he deemed evil via a flood. God chose a man who wanted to do the VERY DEFINITION OF TERRORISM? God chose a man who wanted to kill innocent people? Blow me. Donald Trump and God, a comparison only the craziest right-wing political 'thinkers' can make, whether or not you believe in God the disparities are clear as day and to compare a man who mispronounced "Second Corinthians" as "Two Corinthians" to our supposed creator, is just laughable. Now if you are a religious person, you have the belief of God being responsible for all of mankind, thus be...

After having a 2am Twitter argument with some people behind accounts with fake profile pictures - you know the type - on the topic of abortion rights, I noticed something incredible from these particular lovely humans on the pro-life side of the debate - they HATE facts. Oh and Science too, they hate that stuff. I personally wasn't going to use this blogs twitter page to engage with many people but something compelled me to tell them that women should be able to control their own bodies, because some people literally disagree with that statement. As I was reading an ABC Politics tweet regarding the Tomi Lahren pro-choice debacle, I happened to see a reply essentially stating that this person with the fake picture believed it's 'hard to be a conservative advocate and find killing babies acceptable' and havoc engulfed my Twitter feed moments later. As I responded with what I thought was a particularly witty comeback of, 'Also hard to advocate for small governmen...

Political commentator and Team Trump professional bullshitter Jeffrey Lord decided to compare Donald Trump to Martin Luther King Jr - yes we are comparing a man who brags of grabbing women's private parts to a champion of the fight for civil rights - Lord actually gets paid by CNN to defend Trump, but who even thinks of this crap? "Think of President Trump as the Martin Luther King of health care," Mr Lord somehow saying this with a straight face as he defends Trump's action of attempting to take away Obamacare subsides from the poor. How noble of him. Martin Luther King Jr is a hero whose fight for equality ended up costing him his life, a man who used non-violent protest in order to promote the voices of the people who were treated as being unequal. This is a man who was at the forefront of a revolution on the way we perceive the issue of race and working towards ending the suffering of African Americans who were treated as sub-human simply for being born with dar...

In one corner we have Harvard University, which is widely regarded as one of the best learning institutions in the world according to the ARWU World University Rankings, whose notable alumni include Presidents ranging from 2nd to 44th, these are: John Adams (2nd), John Quincy Adams (6th), Rutherford B. Hayes (19th), Theodore Roosevelt (26th), Franklin D. Roosevelt (32nd), John F. Kennedy (35th),  George W. Bush (43rd) and 44th President Barack Obama while his wife Michelle Obama also attended the University 3 years earlier. To make this fight even more lopsided, Harvard has also produced greats such as Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the Founder of Microsoft Bill Gates and the Founder of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg. This list also neglects to mention the countless economists, historians, mathematicians and scientists, which obviously shows that Harvard is responsible for producing a number of the greatest intellectuals of our time. In t...

As someone who hails from a low income family who couldn't always afford the required amount for school lunches and used a Free School Meals Program, a story about children who are not only in the same boat but are being humiliated for being in the same situation I found myself in only a few short years ago really hits home. Lets start with the positives, New Mexico Appleseed, which is a non-partisan, non-profit organization who, in their own words, are trying "to bring forward systemic change that yields permanent or long term improvement for the poor and underserved", announced a bill called The Hunger-Free Students Bill of Rights (SB374), that will shield children from unnecessary punishment because their family has been unable to pay their school meal debt in the state of New Mexico. The Bill was co-sponsored by Democratic State Senators Linda Lopez and Michael Padilla and passed a 30-7 vote in the Senate at the beginning of March, having passed the...