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William Rivers Pitt asks at Truth Out: “From where does the media’s absolute faith in the judgment of a lifelong partisan like Barr derive?”

I was stunned at the way that the Editorial Board immediately understood what a sham the Barr Summary is, while the reporting staff scurried around laying pipe to convey the Trump Con Narrative of Exoneration.

What Trump, Barr and the GOP are trying to pull is a continuation of the cover up, the traitorous attack on America’s democracy and judicial system.

that the Republican senators who voted to confirm Barr are complicit in the scandal: they are co-conspirators. They knew exactly why Trump was installing him as Attorney General. As the weeks and months go by, Trump and the GOP will … Continue reading →

It’s Trump and the GOP’s most brazen scam yet: obstruction of justice now reaches to the highest levels of Trump’s Department of Justice and his specially solicited Attorney General. This is the party that stole a presidency in 2000, then stole … Continue reading →

That uniquely Russian amalgam of the intimately affectionate and the patrynomically deferential was the way that Tchernichova addressed Inna Zubkovksaya when they conversed in my presence. Nothing is ever totally what it seems with Russians. Both Tchernichova and Zubkovskaya knew … Continue reading →

Oil and gas executives–you know, the ones curtailing the future of America’s children–are ecstatic about how easy it is to get the ear of our president. And to direct policy. Jon Queally at Common Dreams details the latest exposure of … Continue reading →

That’s what his desperate professed bafflement about how someone who didn’t run for election can administer an investigation is about. Trump is telling us that he was elected to be dictator. He wasn’t–but he wishes he had been.

Ran into a Nebraska native now living in NYC, who mentioned that the reddest parts of the state suffered catastrophic flooding. Will they now finally get it about climate change?

Jeff Cohen at Common Dreams gives the ex-President credit where it’s due, but also makes clear how Obama’s two terms tilled the ground for Trump. ‘When corporate-beholden Democrats win the White House and implement cautious, status-quo policies while inequality worsens, … Continue reading →