Seth Meyers

Early into the pandemic-- with Trump endangering peoples' lives daily with his lies and misinformation-- I asked a few of the legal scholars I know if he could be sued by the the families of people who followed his false information and died. The answer was the same from each: nope. Fox News, on the other hand, is another story.There has been a great deal of chatter online about class action law suits against Fox for broadcasting a steady stream of coronavirus misinformation-- and not all of it from Trump.

Almost everyone I know is desperate to see Trump defeated in November-- but no one wanted it to be this way.

Rep. Mark DeSaulnier represents a district (CA-11) northeast of San Francisco and Oakland-- most of Contra Costa County: Walnut Creek, Concord, Pittsburg, Danville Antioch, Mount Diablo-- where people are always vigilant to the dangers of wildfires. Mark sits on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and on the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines and Hazardous Materials.

An economic survey for CNBC that was completed before the Ukraine scandal and impeachment mania shows that Trump's job approval rating has continued to collapse and is now at an all-time low for this poll-- 37% approve, 53% disapprove (minus 16).

Like their dear leader Trump, 9% of Americans think there's no such thing as Climate Change. Trump has convinced himself that the Climate Crisis is nothing but a "Chinese hoax. Everyone else, according to a new poll from CBS News, now recognizes that Climate Change is for real and most Americans feel we've got to address it or suffer the consequences.

Auschwitz Revisited by Nancy Ohanian"Trump," wrote Philip Bump in his Washington Post column yesterday, "appears to simply be making the figure up." What figure? Does it matter? Trump makes everything up.

Yesterday, Trump contradicted the NRA and congressional Republicans by claiming his party is coming around on background checks. It was an "optimistic assessment, based on nothing but... empty election strategy.

Anyone think they don't come from immigrant antecedents? Even "Native Americans" just got here-- from Siberia-- before the rest of our ancestors. They probably came looking for a better life... or maybe they were feeling from oppressors. My grandfather came from the Pale with his family when he was a young boy, fleeing Cossacks and tsarist pograms. The U.S. turned his family away but-- for some reason I never quite understood-- allowed my grandfather and an older sister to enter the U.S. The 11 other members of the family wound up in northwest Brazil.

For yesterday's post, Reactionary Blue Dogs And Wall Street-Owned Corporate Dems Want You To Know They're Not Socialists, we looked at a quote from Texas progressive Mike Siegel, running in a gerrymandered red district that goes from liberal north Austin into the deep red exurbs northwest of Houston. Siegel was speaking at an event with Congressman Ted Lieu and VoteCommonGood leader Rev. Doug Pagitt, a progressive evangelical activist.

Cohen's testimony was riveting. But I was shocked to hear an obviously deranged old woman who slipped by the NPR call filter last night. She was unable to complete a single thought and was either severely drug addicted and/or so intellectually impaired that dialing the phone must have been her biggest accomplishment of the month. All she could say is that Trump is her president and Cohen should be sent to jail. The host took her seriously and questioned her as though she had an IQ above 70, which she clearly didn't.