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Space X is such a loser, smoke-and-mirrors figment of investors’ imaginations. But now will Musk begin to pay taxes? Not likely.

Their savage cuts to Medicaid in the Monstrous, Hideous Bill last year weren’t enough, and they’re only just begun!

When he malfunctions in the. middle of trying to pronounce a word. Kyle Kulinski just did, and it was devastating. We can’t have Democratic candidates who won’t take the gloves off. The stakes are simply too high. We need Democratic … Continue reading →

“Celebrities do not exist without publics,” Sharon Marcus writes in her book The Drama of Celebrity, “but publics can and do exist without celebrities.”

“The consciousness that crated te problem cannot be the same consciousness that solved it.” Thus, as we watch the corporate Democratic Establishment wage war on Graham Platner, on David Hogg, on Zohran Mamdani, on anyone who would steer the party … Continue reading →

but Jessica Gigi’s “How to Judge a Book by its Lover” drew me in. It manages to construct stanchions of romance and its vagaries to support a tautly barbed satire of today’s publishing, literature, and media eosystems–as adroitly as Percival … Continue reading →

I’m sure he’ll return the favor.

Hunter Biden is providing a head-on, no-holds-barred refutation of the lies, defamation, and misinformation perpetuated by MAGA as well as by “journalists” like Jake Tapper.

Greg Sargent at The New Republic: “It seems to me Democrats don’t do this kind of hand-to-hand combat enough. They don’t make Republicans deny what’s true about them. They spend. . . their time denying Republican lies about them.” Lieu … Continue reading →

Jean Houston said in 2013: “Look, if you put art back as central to the curriculum, so that a child dances and sings and emotes and incarnates and becomes, and is really cooking on more burners, then a child is … Continue reading →