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A SICK JOKE: THE KOCHS CALL TRUMP DIVISIVE
The Sociopathic Siblings have done more than just about anyone to rip up this country. “xaxner” at DailyKos cartographs the landscape of the tragically, cosmically absurd inhabited by the Kochs.
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TRUMP MAY START WAR AS EXCUSE TO DECLARE MARTIAL LAW HERE AT HOME
Thomas Hartman at Common Dreams reminds us that: “as George W. Bush noted to his biographer Mickey Herskowitz in 1999, war gives a president political capital. Bush even thought he’d get enough political capital from invading Iraq (this was before he was … Continue reading
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IF THE RED-STATE DEM SENATORS
are too stupid to be able to explain to their constituents how Brett Kavanaugh will retract every individual and collective right they may now still enjoy, Sen. Schumer should simply de-priorittize their re-election campaigns.
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MEH ONE WAY & THE OTHER ABOUT THE OBAMAS GOING TO BEYONCE
But why won’t they go to something classical??
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KAVANAUGH WILL BE A CATASTROPHE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY
Political operative and right-wing fanatic Brett Kavanaugh must not be confirmed to the Supreme Court. “This is a battle for our rights, our country, and our lives,” Cici Battle writes at Common Dreams.
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TRUMP’S APOCALYPTIC POLITICS OF DISTRACTION
To save himself from Mueller and prevail in the midterms, all Trump thinks he needs to do is bomb another Islamic country populated by people with skin darker than his. He’s got Iran in his sights, and it may happen … Continue reading
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GRAND CORPORATE HORIZONTAL AJIT PAI LOOKING OVER HIS DECOLLETE
Sam Seder discusses Jared Kushner’s quid pro quo with Sinclair Broadcasting right before the 2016 election, and how Ajit Pai is getting skittish about the ghosts of Sinclair bribes past. . .
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APPROPRIATE
Tomorrow I’ll be signing Dancing on Waters at the Nutmeg ballet school in Torrington, CT. Tcherinichova’s son Alexei teaches there, and Elena herself used to guest-teach there sometimes. They built their own fabulous facility there nearly two decades ago, and … Continue reading
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PSEUDO-FLOOZIES & NAZIS & FAT-FACED BULLY BOYS AT FOX “NEWS”
I almost plotzed, sure that I was now living in the Soviet Union, as the bus passed and I saw it sported a photo of some of Fox’s most deplorable “news” commentators, with the legend “Real News. . . Real … Continue reading
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WE CAN NOW EXPECT JIM JORDAN
in his usual teeth-clattering fake frenzy, insist that the wrestlers who’ve come forward to accuse him of utter indifference to the welfare of the teammates he was overseeing, are actually Russian spies who are trying to remove Trump from office … Continue reading
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