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So, no, Kamala Harris’s former support for the stupidly-named Defund the Plice is not going o hurt her–as long as she doesn’t play defensive.

CEO-whisperer Andrew Ross Sorkin was on some cable show relaying that the kingpins of finance are now supporting Harris but wish that she would move to the center. There was, of course, no follow-up, because there almost never is. News … Continue reading →

His rhetorical tactic is to act as if  democracy was a burden we should thank him for removing from us.

for appointing an Attorney General, Merrick Garland, who began enforcing anti-trust regulations, which no Democratic or Republican president had done since Reagan. Media consolidation has devastated our communications landscape, but the behemoths just want ot keep on gobbling up everything … Continue reading →

In a 1964 interview with Playbill, Baldwin was asked, “Does our  theatre reflect the truth about 1964 America?” Baldwin replied: “We see in the theatre what most people think Democracy is, but Democracy is not that simple. Unfortunately, the only virtues … Continue reading →

It’s extraordinary the way that MAGA, which has now completely subsumed the Republican party, has weaponized its cult members against their own survival. One of the many ways that Trump is such an existential menace to this country is his … Continue reading →

I wonder what he thinks of a woman running for president? Will Vance try to strip the franchise from women–or only childless women?

but his demagogic gestures. I am convinced that Trump studied old clips of Hitler and his accomplices as he honed his gestural persona, if we can even call that pastiche, i.e. garble, that. Oh, that upraised finger daring to implicate … Continue reading →

First, the City keeps the Tony Dapalito recreation center closed for four years without any significant repair work, depriving New Yorkers from all over the city of an essential resource. Now it says it must be demolished because the cost … Continue reading →

are doing everything they can to destroy their children’s futures by advocating for an uninhabitable planet Earth, and yet Vance thinks that they should be allowed extra votes and thus further accelerate humanity’s demise due to the fact that they … Continue reading →