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The Senate Intel Committee should be investigating fake news–beginning with Fox and Breitbart, the fake sources from which you derive your completely ersatz worldview.

The Times exposes the ten Senators and ten Congress members most besotted with NRA cash–alongside their prayer-professing condolences to the bereaved in Las Vegas.

That residential tower nearing completion on 22nd Street is monstrously overscaled, particularly for that block and for the surrounding landmark districts. After the leviathan on 23rd St facing Madison Square–well, there goes the neighborhood.

in the morning is telling him to squirrelishly deflect all attention from the actual Los Vegas massacre, and the NRA’s subsidy of the GOP, via constant effusion over first responders.

Much more convincing than Mick Mulvaney playing a wonk and a public servant: Loren really seems noble in every sense of the word in 1964’s “The Fall of the Roman Empire” An intelligent epic.

No, Mick, your new glasses don’t make you look more credible, and they certainly don’t make you more honest. Josh Marshal notes the absurdity of Mulvaney now stumping for those very same deficits he was so, so concerned about back in … Continue reading →

Hillary’s wonkish prattle and Obama’s bizarrely disengaged tangle of passive constructions and unnamed opposition “folks,” represent the absolute nadir of effective messaging. Simple, clear passionate messaging is what’s required. Names need to be named. “Dumb it down, Democrats,” David Masciotra … Continue reading →

Can you name one thing the Party is now doing that sustains or supports post-natal human life, in America or anywhere else on the globe?

Batshit is perfectly OK with mass murder and domestic terrorism–anything to keep those “rootless white males”–and their guns–on the hook. No you infernal degenerate, Trump turning left on gun control might be not the end, but the beginning of something–something … Continue reading →

It’s not just Trump who’s going straight to hell. McCarter at Daily Kos reminds us that when McConnell mugged American democracy in 2016 and stole a Supreme Court seat, he did so on behalf of the National Rifle Association. “I … Continue reading →