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At Common Dreams, Corbin Trent is gobsmacked by the brazen complicity of the media in hawking the insane actions of untreated alcoholic and war crimes enthusiast Pete Hegseth, and drug-abusing psychotic Donald J. Trump.

Instead we had David Plouffe and his team of corporate deadbeats. They were the “A team,” according to David Axelrod, whose advice nearly wrecked Obama’s first term.

Yes American servicemen will obey illegal orders. War criminals Trump and Hegseth are now making our troops subject to legal prosecution.

“The preservation protections we have fought so hard to secure for our neighborhoods are under threat like never before,” declares Andew Berman, Executive Director of Village Preservation. “The Real Estate industry and government leaders [emphasis mine] are teaming up as … Continue reading →

(so brilliantly dramatized in James Graham’s Ink). Sell-out hack Tony Dokoupil assures CBS viewers (of whom there will be fewer and fewer) that “elites” and “academics” (i.e. people who know what they’re talking about) are now going to sidelined on … Continue reading →

Jack Smith’s calm, courteous yet firm responses to the Republicans on the Judiciary Committee with the fleering and the sneering and the fake outrage from Trump deputies Pam Bondi, Kash Patel, Corey Lewandowski. Kristi Noam when questioned in similar circumstance.

In American history has there been anything more absurd than Trump’s attacks on mail-in voting? One would think the thing to do for those corporate TV interviewers who platform him would be to bring up how he himself votes, but … Continue reading →

on the Supreme Court has succeeded in largely taking down American democracy. In Mother Jones–I need to renew my subscription–Pema Levy and Ari Berman describe how. And shame on Obama, Biden, and the Democrats for letting it happen.

Steven Haff writes: “Thank you for posting the information you know about Jonathan Watts. I was a ballet pianist at the San Francisco Ballet School in the early/middle 80’s when Jonathan was a instructor there. I have not real contacts … Continue reading →

You might want to refer back to the 1989 miniseries “The Nightmare Years,” to compare the way Trump does it to the way that the Third Reich did. Spoiler alert: not much difference. The fawning obsequiousness of the “press” as … Continue reading →