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THE MEDIA MOGULS HATED BIDEN

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

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JAMES BALDWIN AT 100–MORE RELEVANT THAN EVER

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

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TRUMP WANTS AMERICA PARALYZED BY POLIO AGAIN

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

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PETER THIEL, VANCE’S SUGAR DADDY, DOESN’T THINK WOMEN SHOULD BE ABLE TO VOTE

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

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TRUMP USES NOT ONLY GOEBBELS’ PROPAGANDA TECHNIQUES

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

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IN NYC, THE PUBLIC INTEREST IS ALWAYS THE LAST CONSIDERATION

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

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J.D. VANCE AND REPUBLICAN PARENTS

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

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CORPORATE MEDIA IS COVERING UP TRUMP’S CHRONIC PRAISE OF DICTATORS

which is his incontinent admission of how he would rule this country. The corporate media says nothing.  Jamison Foser points out that the “reporters” at The New York Times have stayed moot, while only columnist Maureen Dowd made a fleeting … Continue reading

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TRUMP AFRAID THAT EVEN THE LIKES OF TAPPER AND BASH WON’T RIG THE DEBATE ENOUGH FOR HIM

So he rages that his next debate embarrassment must be powered not by ABC but by the full blast of fascist Fox Propaganda.

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BIDEN’S MISTAKE, IF INDEED HE MADE ONE

was to not continue responding to Trump’s vicious, defamatory lies. “The former guy,” doesn’t cut it, not with this population. He needed to call out Trump by name, over and over again. He naively thought that the American population would … Continue reading

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