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Almost. (You know how I value nuance.) The Editorial Board and/or Bezos apparently consider Trump attempting a coup to be an “official action.” A new low. Former Post columnist Philip Bump Blueskys: “I spent more than a decade at The … Continue reading →

A major lieutenant in Trump’s not-so-slow moving coup, Pam Bondi’s C-list histrionics reminded us, as if we needed reminding, how subversive this regime is, how contemptuous of America and our democracy. They really are defecating on our nation. And no … Continue reading →

I’m reading Lewis’ It Can’t Happen Here, a fictionalized, quasi-verite (FDR is a character) chronicle of a fake populist fascist’s takeover of America. Lewis understood America to a T: “There’s no country in the world that can get more hysterical—yes, … Continue reading →

This was one prong of their all-out attempt to get Trump re-elected. Stephen Prager at Common Dreams surveys the gathering outrage.

we might remember what D.D. Guttenplan said in The Nation last May: “Identifying, conditioning, and credentialing the ruling class is what Ivy League universities are for.” But, still, we expect them to stand up for freedom of thought and expression–for … Continue reading →

Dye her hair blonde and have plastic surgery in order to look like the army of MAGA media zombie women. Evince hyperventilation as she accuses Trump’s political opponents and his victims of malfeasance. Play victim the moment her lies are … Continue reading →

Triump lies constantly, but we have to take it seriously when he said that Harvard is going to forfeit their status to conform to the Trump agenda that wants to denigrate higher education and insists that education should be primarily … Continue reading →

Our current Supreme Court majority is the most corrupt, anti-democracy, and partisan in our history, and one of the most heartless. They proved that today when they clawed back the legal status and green lighted the deportation of thousands of … Continue reading →

that people could live without limbs but not without a torso, a center–by way of explaining the importance of an expressive torso in his work? Of course you do. It’s in my 1995 interview in Ballet Review with his assistant … Continue reading →

Would his seething, insatiable rage at America and his chronic duplicity be at quite the same level on the Richter scale that it is now? The muddled, amorphous identity confusion at his core has made him particularly ripe for fascist … Continue reading →