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(NOTE: Today's MOMochat is NSFW, in the spirit of Rep. Rashida Tlaib's remarks about impeachment.)Yesterday's historic start of the 116th Congress made MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills a little teary, as Nancy Pelosi (aka NDP) took her oath surrounded by children who came to watch the historic proceedings. And then they got down to business, passing bill...

The MOMocrats are still reeling from all the tumult of the last few days: a stock market tumble and indication of a slowing economy, a president's rash foreign policy decisions and the resignation of the Secretary of Defense, the president's about-turn on a budget deal which may lead to a government shutdown... and Ruth Bader Ginsburg's latest health crisis. MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza...

The MOMOcrats look back at a week that was even more active than usual: From the sentencing memo to Michael Flynn to the three year sentence of Michael Cohen... to Nancy Pelosi's triumphant walk from the White House (and that fabulous burnt orange coat) - Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills have an opinion. Other topics they discussed this week included the mystery of the miss...

With the midterms safely over, Robert Mueller's investigation is back in the spotlight. Last week's heavily redacted sentencing memo suggesting little to no jail time for Michael Flynn did reveal the stunning news that Trump's former national security advisor has been interviewed by investigators a whopping 19 times. Today may give us additional insights as Mueller meets a deadline...

If it seems like the Mueller investigation went dark for the midterm elections, this week was downright lit. MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills discuss all the latest developments in this week's political podcast from the progressive point of view: the withdrawal of Paul Manafort's plea deal and the purported dangling of pardons, Michael Cohen's surprise p...

Yes, the MOMocrats were appalled at the president's behavior in France last weekend, when he skipped the ceremonies commemorating the 100th anniversary of the World War I Armistice (which was the reason he went to France in the first place). They were angry at the White House's decision to yank Jim Acosta's press pass. And they are shaking their heads at the media's preferred n...

Democrats haunted by the ghosts of 2016 were afraid to express too much optimism about the expected "Blue Wave" of yesterday's midterm election... and early last night, as some of the Democrats' most talented candidates came so very close to winning but did not manage to cross the finish line, many expressed dismay that the "wave" was barely a "ripple." But...

We interrupt this midterm election - the most important of the MOMocrats' lifetimes - to talk about the prolonged terrorist attack the nation endured this week, as bombs were mailed to just about everyone in the top tier of the Democratic party, including two former presidents and a vice president. The current occupant of the White House and his followers seemed to think that the whole thing...

This week ends much the way the last one did, with the Senate on the verge of affirming Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. The limited FBI investigation that Judiciary Committee Democrats fought so hard for turned out to be severely limited, to just nine witnesses that did not include Dr. Blasey Ford or Judge Kavanaugh. The agents were also restricted from asking questions about Kavanaugh'...

The MOMocrats started the day planning to talk about this week's extraordinary Judiciary Committee hearing of Dr. Christine Blasy Ford and Brett Kavanaugh - and they were expecting that the latter's Supreme Court nomination would go forward. That did happen - but what Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills did not expect at the start of this week's political podcast fro...

All week long, the pundits were remarking at how "restrained" the president has been in the wake of allegations by Professor Ford against SCOTUS nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Until today, when the president stuck his middle finger in all those pundits' eyes. MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills discuss the week's developments in the Kavanaugh hearings from t...

"Every week, we say it's been crazy. And every week, it gets crazier," says MOMocrat Donna Schwartz Mills. And this week, Karoli and Aliza Worthington agree that it was especially crazy, and it begins at the White House, where the president is reported to be in a volcanic mood after the release of excerpts from Bob Woodward's upcoming new book, "Fear," chronicling a y...

With Labor Day upon us, MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills are focused on the upcoming midterm elections - and they have a lot to say about the candidates in some of the races around the country, including Andrew Gillum, Stacey Abrams, and Beto O'Rourke (who is totally cooler than Ted Cruz, as proven by Texas GOP tweets this past week). The MOMocrats also discuss th...

This week marked a turning point in the Mueller investigation: Almost simultaneously, the jury in the Manafort case turned in guilty verdicts on eight counts - and Michael Cohen turned himself in and pleaded guilty to another eight. This prompted the president to call Cohen a "rat" and a "flipper" -- but as the week wore on, more Trump associates signed immunity deals with the...

It was learned this week that the military parade the president wants so very badly was going to cost the government a whopping $80 million more than first estimated, bringing the cost up to $90 million - and the military said that the parade was going to be postponed until next year. This morning, the president tweeted that he was cancelling it entirely, and he blamed the District of Columbia for...

The last 18 months of Trumpian dystopia have been brutal on the United States and the world, and with the White House panicking as the midterm elections approach and the Russia investigation closes in, MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills think it's going to get worse. So they're going to go all "Drunk History" on the situation this week, by imbibing a...

Every day since he announced his candidacy, the president has waged war on the free press. MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills are aware that this is a classic ploy from the authoritarian playbook. This week, this war escalated as the president increased his pace of rallies. He is putting his weight behind 2018 Republican candidates who kiss his ring - but he's also...

MOMocrats Karoli, and Donna Schwartz Mills are having a hard time remembering that the president's Helsinki meeting with Vladimir Putin was just five days ago. The country was already bracing itself for this summit, which the president decided to have without (a) an agenda or (b) any other staffers present, other than the two leaders' interpreters. We've heard nothing about what was...

Donald Trump told the UK press that the flying of an orange baby blimp in his image (complete with little cellphone) made him feel unwelcome. MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills think we should get an army of blimps to fly over the White House, Mar a Lago, Trump Tower, and every other place the Orange One frequents so he gets the message. He is certainly not welcome in Eu...

FThe MOMocrats' weekly podcast looking at the day's political news from the progressive point of view. Check back here an hour from airtime for a list of the topics. Chances are, there will be some discussion of what's happening in Congress and a reaction to the latest  from lawmakers and candidates. An Engender Media Group production.  Follow us on BlueSky @socalmom.bsky.social @ka...

Some day, maybe we'll understand why Melania Trump wore that jacket on her way to visit those poor migrant kids at the shelter in Texas, which was a weird postscript to a couple of days of Kabuki theater, as the administration reels from the backlash to their atrocious policy to hold hostage the children of people who are trying to find asylum in the United States. MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Wor...

This week has been marred by high profile deaths of designer Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain - and the news that they are just the tip of the iceberg: The CDC says suicides in the US have reached epidemic proportions. MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills can relate. If you are prone to depression, the direction of this country and the world does not offer a lot of hope. An...

The big news yesterday was the cancellation of that North Korea summit. Now, the president appears to be walking that back. In other words, it's just another day in Trump's America. MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills talk about the perhaps dashed hopes for a Nobel Peace Prize and what to do with all those Kim Jong Un commemorative coins... as well as "Spyg...

The mid-term primaries have begun and the MOMocrats are cautiously optimistic -- after all, all the crazy coming out of the White House and the Republican Congress seem to have motivated progressives to vote in non-presidential election years. MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills will talk about all of this week's political news from the progressive point of view: Mic...

Some pundit on one of the cable networks this week surmised that the average tenure for a Trump White House staffer is 6-12 months, so no one was all that surprised with this week's overhaul of the President's legal team, including Emmet Flood, one of the few living attorneys with actual experience defending a chief executive from impeachment. But then there is Rudy Giuliani, who crashed...