Nailing It Down

What's the best thing to do after discovering that my multiethnic family has been passing as white since before I was born?

Teach your children well about how America came to be, and don't et them anywhere near Trump's Freedom Trucks.

Doesn't make them any easier to accept but the inhumane, irrational actions issuing from the United States shouldn't surprise us, considering th country was founded by white supremacists.

It seems to me that racism lies at the heart of nearly every major problem we face in the modern world. Let's fix it.

Winning Donald Trump's political endorsement isn't nearly as hotly pursued prize as it once was. Donnie's fading out.

Trump's performance as president since 2024 has been so bad he may have beaten himself and anyone he endorses in 2026 and 2028.

I offered to elevate Google AI to the Supreme Court and it turned me down by Mark Kelley/Nailing It Down

Trump and his hateful christian nationalist pals are going after Americans with disabilities now.

Too late the tech watch But maybe we can get it right with AI by Mark Kelley/Nailing It Down

It's payback time for Donald Trump.

Trump's so "out of it" by now, I wish he'd just go the rest of the way and get off the stage.

Watch out! The disciples of R.J. Rushdoony are on their way to destroying public eduction in the United States, and it's the kids who'll pay the price.

From deep in my pause for reflection about this series, I offer the foundational principles on which the enterprise was begun.

In this blast from the past (2017) the beleaguered host of the podcast laments how little things have changed since Donald Trump first tried to crown himself king.

I can't do this anymore...these guys hve slimed the world and nothing I can think of seems strong enough to remove it and restore our democracy.

Hows your humanity holding up in the age of Trump Talk this quasi scientific test to find out by Mark Kelley/Nailing It Down

Trump's dictatorial efforts to prevent freedom of speech in the US now reqaches all the way to the American Diabetes Association. This has to stop.

Republicans are at it again, spending money to abuse immigrants and taking food away from children.

Despite his attempts to wear us down, Donald Trump's invective and injury to the body politic have just fueled hope for when he's gone.

If I have to choose--which I think I must--between the hope of christian Nationalists and the hope of Dr. King, I know which one I'll pick.

The New York Times sent a professional journalist to interview a computer. Is that a meaningful use of reportorial resources?

J.D. Vance is just an extreme illustration of how completely some states--like Ohio--have completely succumbed to the mendacity of people like Vance and Donald Trump.

Surveys and casual observtion suggest Americans are more rude and uncouth than ever before? Why and how do we fix it?

We'll be able to clean things up quicker after Trump is out of power if we all have high Moral I-Qs. Take this quiz to find out where yours is.

Calling all abolitionists. Jim Crow 2.0 is underway and we need to stop it.

Dont abandon ship my hearty voters Elie Mystal just rode in with some encouraging news by Mark Kelley/Nailing It Down

Donald Trump uses threatens and violent acts against the White House for personal political purposes. Every other President saw such behaviors as a means of unifying the nation behind the purpoe of freedom and democracy.

A federal judge has dismissed the bogus smuggling charges Trump levelled against El Savadoran immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia, but will Trump defy thiis order, too?

Stephen King, the great master of the horror genre, thinks what Donald Trump is doing to America is scarier than anything he's ever envisioned in his novels. Oh, and he predicted Trump wuold rise in "The Dead Zone" nearly 50 years ago!

Trump's war against Iran makes no sense at all. They're government is just like his--run by right-wing religious fanatics.

Donald Trump thought he could silence America's media truth teller but he just made them louder.

How do you define "truth"? How does that match up with the 30 percent of Americans who call themselves Christian Nationalists?

Google AI doesn't think worldwide prayer will oust Donald Trump from the White House. I think it's probably right, and so is hitorian Simon Jenkins. He urges patience.

Donald Trump condemns the people of the African continent as dwellers in "shithole" countries, but their handling of the recent Ebola outbreak, compared to his handling of COVID in the US shows them to be superior to him in dealing with health emergencies.

So whos crazy now Most Americans are not sure two gunmen tried to shoot Donald Trump by Mark Kelley/Nailing It Down

If you don't want to be disappointed, don't look too closely at how America's Fuonding Fathers went about building a democratic nation.

The nicknames the American people hang on their presidents tell you a lot about how they feel about him. In Trump's case, that is mostly not so good.

I hope Donald Trump doesnt discover New York Senator Roscoe Conkling It wouldn't be good for a free press by Mark Kelley/Nailing It Down

Donald Trump is more than a dictator, he's a monstrous human being. And we've got to find a non-violent way to banish him from public life in the United States.

Donald Trump might very well subvert the 2026 and 2028 US elections if we don't find ways to stop him.

If Trump is such a loser why is he still in charge by Mark Kelley/Nailing It Down

If you look closely at what christian nationalists are doing to American children, it looks a lot like child abuse.

Ever feel like you landed on the wrong planet I have that thought a lot these days by Mark Kelley/Nailing It Down

If we want to stop creaton of a christian nationalist country in the US, we better get started cause they're well underway.

The Trump administration has an easy cure for te stiff necks Americans who think for themselves are experiencing--sit down and shut up.

King Donald welcomed King Chrles and Queen Camilla to the White House yestedrday cause he likes white, AngloSaxon heritage, but King Charles delivered a very diferent message to Congress about world unity and peace.

Big time American journalists have decided anyone who doesn't view Donald Trump the way they do is a conspiracy theorist. On behalf of the little people and the little-time journalists, I disagree.

I can't prove Trump had a hand in the attack Saturday night at the White House Correspondents Dinner, but I wouldn't be surprised if he did.

A CBS News reporter had a chance to shout down Donald Trump yesterday, but she genuflected instead. She should have called a Trump Buster.

Was it really an attack on the President at the White House Correspondents Dinner or a PR stunt And will we ever know for sure by Mark Kelley/Nailing It Down