Category Archives: #trumpresistance

Sunday Funday: Memorial Day Edition

About 5 minutes Follow Rachel Maddow as she weaves her tale of the corruption in our current government as we see the Dear Leader and his administration bow to the whims of a certain foreign leader. Then watch as she … Continue reading

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Redo on Samantha Bee’s History of “Pro-Life”

Last week we had the insane passage of copycat laws around the country with the express purpose of the de facto stoppage of legal abortions. Iowa, which was once a national leader in things like education and non-partisan selection of … Continue reading

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Government Waste Joni Should Target

Just got another of Joni Ernst’s comical “Make ‘Em Squeal” missives. I honestly wonder if she ever reads them herself. Well at least this month she took aim at everybody’s go-to punching bag for “showing-you-are-serious-about-waste-and-fraud” the Pentagon. By golly, you … Continue reading

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Julian Castro: Community At The Core

  NBC News, MSNBC and Telemundo will host the first 2020 presidential primary debate in June of 2019. This is the seventh in a series of BFIA’s coverage and commentary of the announcement speeches by the declared Democratic candidates for … Continue reading

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Sunday Funday: Uterine Support System Edition

Sam Bee teaches sex education to senators: (10 minutes) Women will now be reclassified (hat tip to Mike Lukovich for this term) as “Uterine Support Systems.”  It is certainly too bad that humor can’t get through to the Trumpist Party … Continue reading

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Farmer Off The Trump Train

You may have seen this video from CNN earlier this week.  CNN’s Kate Bolduan interviews Ohio farmer Christopher Gibbs. Gibbs is having a very hard time understanding the sense of Trump’s tariff policies, as I am sure many farmers are. … Continue reading

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Kamala Harris Campaign Seeks Iowa Interns

https://www.thegazette.com/subject/news/government/kamala-harris-campaign-launches-paid-internships-in-iowa-20190510 Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris is launching a program in Iowa that pays interns $15 an hour to become involved in the campaign and recruit and train supporters. According to the campaign, the “organizing fellows” will be deployed across … Continue reading

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Jay Inslee: Climate Leader For President

NBC News, MSNBC and Telemundo will host the first 2020 presidential primary debate in June of 2019. This is the fourth in a series of BFIA’s coverage and commentary of the announcement speeches by the declared Democratic candidates for president … Continue reading

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Sunday Funday – Happy Cinco De Mayo Edition

Randy Rainbow takes on Bill Barr (4 minutes, but hilarious) Kind of strange that we will be having a holiday that celebrates Hispanic heritage where many of those celebrating would be people who would be more than happy to drive … Continue reading

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Barr Sucks Up Attention; DOJ Continues Assault On ACA

The eyes of much of the politically attuned folks of this country were watching William Barr lying, misleading and omitting in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday, doing his best to fill his role not as America’s top cop … Continue reading

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