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Fresh from his Fascist-promotion forages across Europe, the old slug is back: Bannon presents a typically off-the-rails, democracy-defiant plan to shut down America’s judicial system in order to insulate Trump from legal accountability.

Instead of Trump and the GOP’s constant, unrelenting attempts to humiliate recipients of social services with drug tests, I think Congress seems a more appropriate place to test. We pay these people to represents our interests, and instead they turn … Continue reading →

Even after Koch-puppet Mike Pompeo shamelessly trashed her, she is still willing to coach the abominable Pompeo on how to survive his confirmation hearings. Meanwhile, the real Democrat in the room, Senator Bernie Sanders tells us exactly what Pompeo is: “We … Continue reading →

I mean, as Seth Abramson tweeted, did anyone notice that Trump just said he’d tried to keep Mueller’s investigation “down”??

Don’t worry, we’ll take care of it, we’ll sandbag Mueller’s investigation every way we can–but you don’t blow it by taking the fateful step of actually firing him.

Newsweek’s Shane Croucher interviews Stephen B. Jacobs, who was sent from a Polish ghetto to Buchenwald at age five. He recognizes Trump for the “sick, very disturbed individual” he is, and understands the parallels between Triump’s America and Germany on … Continue reading →

It’s like the head in Glinka’s Ruslan and Lyudmilla, but it’s our President, brutalizing us on a daily basis. Trump doesn’t have a humanitarian bone in his body; he sees Syria as another attempt to vanquish Mueller, and to inflict … Continue reading →

Plans are afoot to build a new hotel right next to the nineteenth-century, immaculately preserved home on East 4th Street. Construction of the hotel tower will, in all probability, cause the old home to collapse. Attend this hearing and speak … Continue reading →

In 1927, Noel Coward heard and heeded and referenced the tom-toms that Stravinsky was pounding as he composed his Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra. In “Dance Little Lady,” Coward channels the seemingly time-immemorial urge to seek some kind of ecstatic … Continue reading →

by society and the “mainstream” media show how sick both institutions are. Every day we discover more about the bunkered, law-exempt fiefdom he’s got going out there, and of course the whole Facebook social engineering experiment is just a warm … Continue reading →