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Bernie is right: “Instead of more austerity for the working class of this country, we need to impose austerity on the billionaire class and on Wall Street.” The uber-wealthy have made out like bandits during COVID.

Don Jr. predicts that Biden will fall ill with COVID in order to skip the debates–that tips you off to the fact that Trump will never agree to debate him, will find any excuse not to.

When Janis Joplin heard that Francesco Scavullo wanted to photograph her for a fashion layout, she was “incredulous at first, and then vastly amused,” Linda Gravenites recalled. Myra Friedman, Joplin and Linda came to Scavullo’s East side studio in December … Continue reading →

Come an election, it’s a lead pipe cinch that Trump will: a) lie that a caravan, an ANTIFA posse, some alien group of boogey people is coming to destroy America. And only he can save us! b) lie that middle … Continue reading →

Those are the paraphrased words and the verbatim sentiment expressed to Francis Mason thirty years ago by a production crew hand who worked Martha Graham’s New York seasons. He was grateful for the generous tip that Graham customarily lavished on … Continue reading →

Remember how in “Dryads of West 55th Street” I wrote about New York City Ballet ballerinas putting on the dog whenever they left the stage door? Well, perhaps not always whenever. In the Hollywood Reporter, Mike Connolly wrote on July … Continue reading →

Americans that everything that Trump and the GOP stigmatize as the “radical left” is, in fact, the core Constitutional rights and values of America.

that Trump will never agree to debate Biden. All that sound and fury he and his goon squad have made about wanting an extra debate is noting but Trumpian bluff and bluster. Thus the preposterous demand that Biden submit to … Continue reading →

Joan McCarter at Daily Kos is appalled by the corporate media’s appalling special pleading for Melania: “Melania Trump is a racist birther who is utterly capable of having Jackie Kennedy Onassis’ crabapple trees removed from the Rose Garden just so … Continue reading →

Can’t wait to read Brian Stelter’s Hoax, after watching him on Maddow. These demagogic traitors are actually guiding Trump’s hand at every step of his presidency.