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Chin-tao Wu in her indispensable Privatising Culture: Corporate Art Intervention Since the 1980s: “The attempts of the Reagan White House to reduce the federal arts budgets, despite opposition from significant elements in Congress, did not abate during Reagan’s two terms … Continue reading →

Everyone in Trump world manifests that classic authoritarian duality: complete, groveling subservience to the Leader, contempt and vitriol spat out at the population that Leader wants subjugated. That means us, America.

I mean, talk about elitism. Brooks blames the working stiffs for succumbing to the class war that elevated Brooks and others of the same ilk. Josh Bivens at the Economic Policy Institute tries to explain reality to David Brooks. He … Continue reading →

as a red flag to a bull. It enrages him.

Or, more likely, she knows that her GOP talking points are bullshit but just doesn’t care and is going to spout them anyway–as we saw today, with her pathetic default to GOP dogma and its hostility toward American democracy and … Continue reading →

Tomorrow, Friday, at 11:30 a.m. outside 14-16 Fifth Avenue, the two historic brownstones within the Greenwich Village Landmark District, containing rent-regulated apartments, that developers want to tear down to build another tower for the rich.

continues the right-wing’s traitorous accusations against Democrats. Aah, Lachlan Murdoch, weren’t you going to clean up the Fox “News” freak show?

Joy Reid showed a clip of Trump in the 2016 debates screaming at Lester Holt when Holt confronted him with the fact that he was for the Iraq War before he was against it. The sheer belligerent vociferousness of Trump … Continue reading →

The sick sadist in the Oval office gaslights Iran– as if they didn’t have enough problems already. Trump levied blistering sanctions on the Iranian people because Obama’s Iran agreement was working too well. Obama is someone who created himself–as much … Continue reading →

with his scurrilous deprecation of anyone who won’t bow down to our Fearless Leader. As did Nikki Haley and all the rest. Turns out, the dilapidated old defamation nag didn’t make it around the track even once. So Collins and … Continue reading →