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Musk is either one of the stupidest people alive, or simply one of the most deceitful, but certainly he is one of the most committed to terminating human existence. He tells us that nuclear power is the safest form of … Continue reading →

“I have never seen an industry slower to learn from its stupid mistakes than the American news business,” Lawrence O’Donnell said tonight. But are they mistakes? Or giving the moguls what they demand. “Most of the questions were terrible,” O’Donnell … Continue reading →

harmonize with overwrought and obviously over stimulated windbag Donald Trump’s retailing all his greatest lowlights from his bunker in that moth eaten hangout for international spies in Palm Beach. Trump gives a rally disguised as a press conference and the … Continue reading →

At Talking Points Memo, Josh Marshall writes: “The WaPo was probably the worst culprit, with this headline:  ‘Tim Walz’s military record, National Guard departure get new scrutiny.’ It happily launders the Vance attack line without self-awareness or historical understanding of … Continue reading →

The new supersized developments approved by the usual suspects: Gov. Hochul, Mayor Adams, and alleged progressives like State Senator Hoylman, NYC Council Member Bottcher, et. al.– must  include about one-quarter income-restricted housing—”though these “’restrictions’ could allow incomes well above the median … Continue reading →

1.the actual catastrophe of hundreds of thousands of Americans who died needlessly from COVID because Trump not only bungled, but actively sabotaged the national response. TO: 2.  the gloom-and-doom scenarios Trump claimed would play out if Biden was elected in … Continue reading →

Here basic rights, services, and amenities are treated not as something to which its citizens (all of whom pay taxes of one kind or another) are entitled, as a right as residents, and as a return on their contributions, but as … Continue reading →

In his memoir,  Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy, he rcounts how during his first run for Congress he was counseled to stick to the center, whatever that is.  His response? “It is not my ambition to be in … Continue reading →

In Air Mail, Sam Kashner describes the way that corporate publishing is now circling the wagons around the thorny question of just exactly who really wrote J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy. More than ever, “Success has many fathers [and, of course, … Continue reading →

Why is Speaker Mike Johnson so intimately involved in his childrens’ sex lives? Is J.D. Vance really gay, the way he thought he was, and is that why he hates LGBTQ so much? Why does Trump’s Project 2025 want to … Continue reading →