Category Archives: The Bold and the Badass

It’s official: Bernie is IN!

Posted on February 19, 2019 by Sabina Becker

Unequivocally good news for US progressives (and their friends elsewhere, including up here in Canada): Bernie Sanders is running for president in 2020! As the Rational National (who is Canadian too, BTW — and you really should subscribe to him … Continue reading →

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Who’s going to stop Donnie? Who else…

Posted on February 15, 2019 by Sabina Becker

…but this bright, young, brand-new congresscritter: And the truly amazing (and for the so-called centrists and the mainstream press, scary) thing? Her bold, all-out progressive strategy is working. She scares the shit out of them, and even more important, she … Continue reading →

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Geddy Lee’s Holocaust survival story

Posted on February 5, 2019 by Sabina Becker

Actually, it’s his parents’ story. And, warning — it will make you cry: And they’re both survivors — of THREE camps, in all. In fact, it’s how they met, as pre-teens. And his mother’s mother is the reason the whole … Continue reading →

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Music for a Sunday: A sentiment AOC and Rashida Tlaib can surely agree with

Posted on January 6, 2019 by Sabina Becker

It’s from Puerto Rico, and the title means “I want them to cry”. I’ll leave it to your imagination who “they” may be.

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The idiotic right-wing freak-out over Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez…and Rashida Tlaib

Posted on January 6, 2019 by Sabina Becker

How do you know Donnie’s loyal nitwits are floundering and desperate for any straw to grasp, just to stay afloat? Because the best they can do to discredit one of his fastest-rising progressive critics is to dig up and distort … Continue reading →

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It’s Yule, y’all!

Posted on December 21, 2018 by Sabina Becker

And what better way to celebrate the Winter Solstice than with a bit of good news? Yes, that’s right. Even getting a chunk of her lung removed to halt an early-stage cancer can’t stop the Notorious RBG. Even in the … Continue reading →

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NY subway videographer describes racist incident on the train

Posted on December 16, 2018 by Sabina Becker

Juan Ayala, a.k.a. Plátano Man, relives the moment when he caught a “crazy” racist being “crazy” (i.e., racist) on a New York city subway train car full of Asians. Ayala was later caught on video by somebody else, taking the … Continue reading →

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Bernie battles Bezos…and WINS!

Posted on October 2, 2018 by Sabina Becker

This is fantastic news, but it should only be the first of many such victories. And it won’t happen unless everybody gets in on the fight for fair and living wages. Today Amazon; tomorrow, EVERYWHERE.

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Music for a Sunday: What would Joan Jett do?

Posted on August 19, 2018 by Sabina Becker

She’d get together with Blondie’s own Debbie Harry and make beautiful feminist music that kicks fascist ass! What else?

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The Paliness gets punked

Posted on July 12, 2018 by Sabina Becker

I’m not even a fan of Sacha Baron Cohen, but I can see I’m gonna have to be. He even got the Big Dick (yes, Cheney) to “sign his waterboard”! I think he’s just picked up Michael Moore’s mantle for … Continue reading →