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As any number of commentators have noted, Trump’s lying is getting more and more reckless, hyperbolic, and shameless. We didn’t think it was possible. But being the target of so much of it, Biden simply cannot continue to ignore it. … Continue reading →

Thomas Meaney, reviewing Rick Perlstein’s Reaganland in The Nation last July: “At some point during Reagan’s rise to power, American capitalists became conscious of the new reality. Their action changed shape: from profit-seeking and industrial production to predation, in Robert … Continue reading →

Trump’s ever-widening gyre of depravity must be condemned by the Democrats. The Republicans’ abandonment of decency and patriotism should be a major campaign issue in the midterms.

That won’t happen, of course, because Trump only gives interviews to suck-up outlets like Fox “News” whose hosts sit there poker faced as Trump launches into monologues that are lies from one end to the other. It’s clear, however, that … Continue reading →

telling it to Fox “News” which must be forced to listen to the truth occasionally. “Next year, we may see a larger Democratic majority as people understand that what Donald Trump is doing today — and the man has blood … Continue reading →

The Republicans, who want to turn America into the Stalinist USSR, complete with book banning, berate over-qualified nominee Saule Omarova for the sin of growing up in Kazakstan in a family persecuted by Uncle Joe.

You know, it’s one thing when you’re singing, “Gangway world, get off of my runway.” It’s another when you’re flailing through tired diva-demagogue moves in a stemwinder attack on anyone in government who dares to try to do anything for … Continue reading →

Writing in The Guardian: “We have to find a new art and a new psychology to penetrate the apathy and the denial that are preventing us making the changes that are inevitable if our world is to survive. We need … Continue reading →

Rep. Boebert is a vile, treasonous domestic terrorist who participated in Trump’s January 6 coup attempt. Rep. Omar’s no-holds-barred riposte to Boebert’s defamatdory incitement was right on.

Now he’s promoting a dangerous new type of nuclear reactor. The public is once again being gulled by Gates, and scientists are coming forward to denounce his blinkered obstinancy. All nuclear energy is dirty and toxic, producing poisonous waste that … Continue reading →