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TUCKER SUPPLIES TITTLE-TATTLE TO JOURNALISTS WHO THEN IGNORE HIS BETRAYAL OF OUR COUNTRY
I mean, all Carlson needs is a babushka and he’d be the dead ringer of one of those classic village yenta ladies. Carlson’s gossip induces reporters to look the other way as he trashes them and our country on Fox … Continue reading
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BIPARTISAN BETRAYAL
The both-sides-of-the-aisle infrastructure collaboration turns out to be counter to Biden’s proposal in virtually every way: rather than make wealthy corporations pay their fare share, it is a frightful conspiracy to strip America of its infrastructure asserts, selling them to … Continue reading
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THE MURDOCHS WILL DO ANYTHING TO HELP TRUMP, INC.
Thus the fact that Murdoch-owned Harper Collins is going to publish Jared Kushner’s account of his years in the White House, which as an embodiment of sham will rank with Young Chatterton and the fake Howard Hughes autobiography conjured by … Continue reading
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THE PROSPECT OF AMERICANS BEING ALLOWED TO VOTE
reduces the Republicans’ rhetoric to a heap of rubble: strung-together word salad litanies of people working for justice whom their followers are trained to hate and movements for justice that they’ve made into hate triggers for their easily-manipulated constituencies.
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TRUMP’S ANTI-SEMITISM
Once again, as he does on a daily basis, Trump booby-traps truth and logic, this time by daring to claim that a No vote to Trump is a vote against Israel. How dare this fairground monstrosity impugn American Jews this … Continue reading
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IT’S ALWAYS BEEN A PROBLEM
In Willa Cather’s “Training for the Ballet: Making American Dancers,” a piece she wrote in 1913, she interviews Mme. Pauline Verhoeven, the new director of the Metropolitan Opera’s ballet school, who says that “High-kicking is not only ugly and disgusting … Continue reading
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IT’S TIME FOR DIANNE FEINSTEIN TO GO INTO ASSISTED LIVING
Addled, living in a dream world, Sen. Feinstein continues to insist that there is no threat to voting rights in this country, and announces that she opposes ending the filibuster, that ensuring that her party and its leader will accomplish … Continue reading
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BARR & TRUMP’S FIFTH COLUMN REMAINS IN PLACE AT THE DOJ
Is Attorney General Garland going to continue to allow Barr’s traitorous goon squad at DOJ to subvert justice and democracy?
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APPALLINGLY BIPARTISAN
It seems that the major priority of the bipartisan gang’s new infrastructure proposal is to continue to shield incredibly profitable corporations from paying taxes.
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EPAULEMENT
and so much more. Watch this and swoon: Alla Shelest coaching a young dancer in Les Sylphides. “It’s everything I believe in in about four minutes,” a dancer told me.
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