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AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION ENABLING AMERICA’S RUIN
Dr. Bandy Lee tells DC Report at Raw Story: “One of the reasons why the American Psychiatric Association’s silencing of mental health experts under the Trump administration was so alarming was because it stripped the public of its one defense … Continue reading
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I GOT ABOUT 3 PAGES INTO “HILLBILLY ELEGY”
before I realized that J.D. Vance’s right-wing agenda was going to warp the entire tale. The book went back to the library soon after. Now Vance is ranting to the squinty-eyed stupidity of Tucker Carlson in an attack on universal … Continue reading
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GREAT ADDRESS BY REP. BOWMAN
On behalf of the Working Families Party, Jamaal Bowman responds to Biden’s speech, saying the right things and giving the President credit, but also insisting that we need to do more, we need to do better. There was a time … Continue reading
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WHO WOULD BELIEVE A WORD KELLYANNE CONWAY SAYS?
And wouldn’t you know it, Simon & Schuster has just signed a book deal with her. As if Pence wasn’t enough.
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THE NEW YORK POST SINKS EVEN LOWER
I’ve written for them, so I can tell you first hand: Man, are they low. And they keep plunging altitudinously. Reporter Laura Italiano may be complicit, but atleast she has finally jumped ship, after being ordered to write a fake … Continue reading
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BARRETT IS A RADICAL RIGHT-WING JURIST W/O ETHICS
as demonstrated by her refusal to recuse herself from a case brought by her dark-money funders. And Penguin/Random House is spending two million dollars to give her a platform from which she will attempt to whitewash herself.
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FOX “NEWS” MUST BE SHUT DOWN BY THE FEDERAL GOV’T
It is a menace to the public health. Twisted, grotesque sociopath Tucker Carlson reaffirms his hated of America by advocating violence against citizens who protect themselves, their children and the body politic by wearing masks.
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GATES EXPLOITS HIS FOUNDATION TO ADVANCE MONOPOLY VULTURE CAPITALISM
Even in the middle of a pandemic. Alexander Zaitchik in The New Republic describes “How Bill Gates Impeded Global Access to Covid Vaccines.”
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NEEDS TO BE SAID
Reviewing in The New York Times Book Review Mark Harris’s biography of Mike Nichols (he recommends it) James Wolcott starts off by saying, “Individual genius is a group accomplishment.” This needs to be repeated every hour on the hour to … Continue reading
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TRUMP IS STILL ACTIVELY TRYING TO STEAL THE LAST ELECTION
He comes out with yet another Hail Mary golf swing endorsing the vote-tampering heist going on in Arizona, where the GOP-controlled legislate has somehow been allowed to get their paws on last fall’s ballets and voting machines, then turning them … Continue reading
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