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Something along the lines of: “Naturally, we condemn the abhorrent actions of Harvey Weinstein. But we will not capitulate to the GOP’s attempt to deflect attention from President Trump’s equally abhorrent treatment of women. We are waiting for the GOP … Continue reading →

If a foreign nation was trying to inflict the damage on America that Trump and the GOP are, wouldn’t we have made a declaration of war by now?

Trump is the marauding bull: his rampage against the Affordable Care Act is treason.

It’s immoral, unnecessary, and ramps up terrorist recruitment. And it’s done with our money and in our name. Andrea Germanos at Common Dreams  describes a bombing campaign gone haywire.

In his endless quest to degrade America, Trump withdraws from UNESCO. “Making it clear,” Rep. Jayapal tweets, “that culture, history, world heritage isn’t impt to him, even if it is to Americans & world.”

How and why does the American body politic tolerate the virus of Donald Trump? He now antes up his assault on our citizens by threatening to pull FEMA out of critically-disabled Puerto Rico, while lecturing it on its debt in order … Continue reading →

Why, I asked someone much more favorably inclined toward the Obamas than I am, are they being so dodgy about Trump while condemning Harvey Weinstein. “Because it’s easy.”

Obama is AWOL when it comes to confronting Trump about what he’s doing to this country, but he and Mrs. O dutifully condemn Harvey Weinstein when the GOP demands. What has the GOP been doing about condemning Trump’s treatment of … Continue reading →

Between Google suppressing progressive news sites like AlterNet, and Twitter genuflecting before a lying demagogue like Blackburn, we’re now seeing exactly what these mega companies mean when they talk about weeding out the wheat from the chaff. Criminally insane Bannon has … Continue reading →

is the latest criminal goon to be endorsed for Congress by Bannon and the Mercers. Heather Digby Parton at Salon contemplates the line-up, with nary a genuine populist sentiment or sympathy among them. She notes Bannon’s plot “to stoke division … Continue reading →