The US is NOT “already Socialist.” Also: how to shut down gun nuts with three words. www.charlesbursell.com
Progressives push court reform and DC statehood to fight minority rule while The Repugs advance bigoted anti-trans bills. www.charlesbursell.com
Topics I’ve been avoiding: Woody Allen, Andrew Cuomo, and how sand, yes, sand, is killing the planet. Ugh. www.charlesbursell.com
A damning report on Insurrection Security, reparations legislation, GOP divestment, and ending a tragic chapter in Afghanistan. Also: popcorn salad is not a thing. www.charlesbursell.com
Well-intentioned voters are unwittingly propping up the hard right. To solve the nation’s most pressing problems good people must abandon the center and go Left. www.charlesbursell.com
We can’t train away the hate, it’s time to confiscate every cop’s gun and the power it provides. Demands: traffic enforcement, mental health, and all other non-violent calls should be handled by unarmed professionals, all beat cops should live in the neighborhood they patrol, abolish police unions. Until such laws are enacted, it’s time for private citizens to monitor, witness, record, and when necessary, intervene against police violence. www.charlesbursell.com
Are you seeing sexist “jokes” from your Liberal friends on social media? Also: Aaron Rodgers hosts Jeopardy, going big with the 117th Congress, and pushing for Capitol Attack investigations. www.charlesbursell.com
The brave new world of digital money won’t eliminate its oldest and greatest sin: the massive theft of labor. www.charlesbursell.com
From state races to reconciliation, Gaetz-gate to cringey comedy, Conservatives are faceplanting and it’s damned entertaining. www.charlesbursell.com
Reaction to voter suppression has unleashed a flurry of new alliances among Dems, Repugs, and Corporations that could permanently alter the political spectrum. www.charlesbursell.com
“White?” “European-American?” Whatever we call ourselves (please LOSE “Caucasian”), we’ve got to stop f#&%ing up! Also: more space for non-commercial relationships. www.charlesbursell.com
Joe is leaning Left but his “big and bold” plans fall short of ultimate transformation. Also: Legal weed on the march. www.charlesbursell.com
Origins of "let the cat out of the bag," “caught red-handed,” “butter up” (that’s a weird one) and more. www.charlesbursell.com
The crib, your house and yard, parents and grandparents, images from old-time television… what are your first memories? www.charlesbursell.com
Satan and Lil Nas X’s old soft shoe, atheist inspiration, the joy of sex-positive WAP, and zero tolerance for bigotry. www.charlesbursell.com
Charity will never solve social ills, but Socialism will. Also: Boycotting Coke, UPS, Home Depot, and Delta over Georgia’s Jim Crow. www.charlesbursell.com
State Republicans stage election coup, bigot cops revealed (again), and separating money from work. www.charlesbursell.com
Why a rebirth of civics education is vital to saving democracy and a new report on how to do it. www.charlesbursell.com
Peter Donalds (aka Charles Bursell) shares personal reflections in this pilot episode of a potential podcast series, part memoir, part history, and part treatise. www.charlesbursell.com
We can’t love away or argue away the guns. We have to go hard Left and politically destroy the Patriarchal White Christian Nationalists who breed the shooters and defend the indefensible. www.charlesbursell.com
Democrats have Lefties wondering: Is this real? Can it last? Also, conflicting moods over new Covid infections and vaccine politics. www.charlesbursell.com
Spring reflections on public spaces, retirement, abandoning the car, and the degenerate nature of television. www.charlesbursell.com
Humanities vs trade school, no more traffic cops, and preparing for the next emergency. Also: if money poisons politics does it poison everything else? Of course, it does. www.charlesbursell.com
Upstart news networks, what’s really happening in Portland, rainforest emissions, and rooting for anarchy. www.charlesbursell.com
Topics I’ve been avoiding: Woody Allen, Andrew Cuomo, and how sand, yes, sand, is killing the planet. Ugh. www.charlesbursell.com