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is proving too much even for the feckless European Union. Steven Erlanger and Benjamin Novak discuss in the Times how the EU has no choice but to impose consequences for Orban’s authoritarian transformation of Hungary.

which translates in Kayleigh McEnany’s feverish, venomous little mind to “upscaling testing.” McEnany lied to the public every single day she was in the White House, then said that Jesus would never have let her lie, is now part of … Continue reading →

Will they ever, ever learn?

then uses his money as a battering ram to undermine democracy and impose his policy choices. The latest case in point is the nuclear reactor he’s building in Wyoming, for which, once again, he has conscripted elected officials to enable … Continue reading →

That’s anecdotal, but I think statistics will back me up. You know, statistics based on fact, not the misinformation and disinformation on global warming provided by the GOP and the oil companies, or the say-one-thing-and-do-another that the Biden administration is … Continue reading →

Belen Fernandez at Common Dreams is appalled. Shouldn’t we all be? Don’t forget how much of our tax dollars went to prop him up; in return for which, he refuses to pay it back in the form of contributing his … Continue reading →

Watching the very black, very funny “Don’t Look Up,” I thought of what Janis Joplin said introducing “Mercedes Benz” at her final concert: “This is a song about our entire social, political, and religious set up. It covers the whole … Continue reading →

He wants to be governor or even president. He’s not going to be: his outrageous corruption, the irrevocable damage he has done to New York City’s landmarks, architectural heritage, our neighborhoods and our skyline will not be easily explained away. … Continue reading →

Grandma Lobenthal had to be using her decades-earlier vaudeville training to execute this stunt. It was somewhere around March 1975. I was going to Stuyvesant High School, eight blocks south on First Avenue from where my father’s parents lived in … Continue reading →

“The Young Turks” goes ballistic on the obscene absurdity of corporate media spinning Manchin’s betrayal of Biden and of Manchin’s own constituents as a legitimate or moral response to Manchin claiming his feelings were hurt by something or other.