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and Get Lost: pitiful, corrupt, prostrate-before-power White House Correspondents Association. Jake Johnson at Common Dreams highlights some of the best twitter responses to the WHCA’s disgraceful attack on its own institution–the “free” press.

If she and Hoyer don’t get their regressive, reactionary snouts out of those primaries, they can kiss the upcoming election good-bye.

Leave it to Trump’s White House. Snowflake President Donald J. couldn’t screw up his courage and attend the WHCA’s dinner, so he sent his flacks. As Marlow Stern notes at The Daily Beast: “the White House offered up Conway and … Continue reading →

can’t handle free speech and political satire, why doesn’t it admit that it has become a travesty and close down shop?

What about figurative masks? In the sense that every time a performer impersonates someone they are assuming the mask of that alter-identity. Even though in most performing traditions the mask is only notional, and the actor is trying to make … Continue reading →

Maggie Haberman’s petulant snits whenever mistakes in her reporting are corrected need to be curtailed.  If self-curtailing won’t work, adult supervision is required. Learn to admit your mistakes, Maggie–it’s far more instrumental in the end. Kumail Manjiani tweets: “I asked … Continue reading →

Instead of their craven tut-tutting over Michelle Wolf, why can’t/won’t the “mainstream” “news” media do more than call the competing speech Trump made any more ominous than “freewheeling”? Mark Sumner at Daily Kos breaks down just how ominous Trump’s words … Continue reading →

As John Nichols tweets: “American journalism is in crisis, under attack and literally shutting down across the vast news deserts of a country where citizens are no longer getting coverage that is sufficient to sustain democracy. So DC journalists have … Continue reading →

2010, 2014, 2016, one statehouse after another. . . despite their gains during recent special elections, if they put more standard-issue corporate Dems on the ballot in November, they’ll get wiped out all over again. Get your hands off the … Continue reading →

Heaven forfend they might articulate the hope that spiritual values animate public policy.