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Trump has done everything he can to incite and encourage the kind of violence we just saw in Nevada. And the GOP has followed him every step of the way.

The Republican House rolled back Obama’s rule keeping guns out of the hands of the mentally ill. Joan McCarter at Daily Kos reminds us. Remember when the Republicans voted against an assault weapons ban? Barbara Morrill at Daily Kos reminds … Continue reading →

It really doesn’t matter where it is, but he’ll take North Korea. Anything to distract from RussiaGate. And he’ll send us over the cliff with it.

In a saner time, he and his administration of second-story men and women would have been run out of this country by now. Once again, he reaches a new low for his presidency and for the history of electoral politics in … Continue reading →

That leaves you both super-saturated and rapacious. That was my experience of Costco in Yonkers.  I’d only been to the one in Northern Westchester and that was a decade ago. Of course I felt really exclusive when they asked for … Continue reading →

Lifelong welcher Donald J. Trump has been giving unseemly and inappropriate lectures on debt service to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, thus setting in place, Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo warns us, the blueprint for him to insist PR … Continue reading →

At Daily Kos, Walter Einenkel itemizes Price’s every frightful sabotage of the Affordable Care Act. Dr. Price does not believe in affordable health care.

AlterNet is one of many independent news sites and aggregators that is suffering because as it states in an editorial, “Google and Facebook—which are not media companies, do not have editors or fact-checkers, and do no investigative reporting—are deciding what people should … Continue reading →

Got to grasp every penny in those six hundred millions, right? This may be Trump & the GOP’s most audacious con yet. On the Senate floor, Senator Wyden takes apart their windfall for Trump, Cohn, and the “parade of millionaires” … Continue reading →

He made quite a spectacle of himself at the dinner he threw for members of the radical right-wing elite the other night.