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Last week I called Rep. Gutierrez’s office to thank him for his denunciation of General Kelly’s betrayal of the Dreamers. The staffer said how much she appreciated my call “after the onslaught of hate calls we’ve gotten.” This, of course, … Continue reading →

Robert Reich refutes their nonsense: “The United States has the 4th lowest taxes of any major economy. (Only South Korea, Chile, and Mexico ranking lower.) “The wealthiest 1 percent in the U.S. pay the lowest taxes as a percent of … Continue reading →

helped to cost Hillary the election. Not a topic the “mainstream” media seems to want to address, but Glenn Greenwald at The Intercept does.

the Facebook Russia scandal will, hopefully, spare us the spectacle of Zuckerberg and his euphoric, despotic megalomania leaching into bids for elected office. Josh Marshall writes at TalkingPointsMemo: “the political juice of the Russia story is pushing Facebook toward a … Continue reading →

Compared to Batshit’s appalling rewriting of American history to bolster his sick nativism. In the toxic bouillabaisse that is Bannon’s mind, facts are sliced and diced into compliance with his timer-tested recipe for alternate reality. Reality of history? “This is … Continue reading →

It was Henry James, not GB Shaw who said “just connect,” not, btw, “only connect,” as you paraphrased to Charlie Rose. Why don’t you pick up a copy of The Ambassadors and read it cover to cover? It’s a great … Continue reading →

Have you noticed that Bannon is most vehement, most full of bluff, most querulous the bigger the fib that he’s telling?

Kalee Brown at Collective Evolution reminds us that it’s the entire planet now burning and flooding.

Julian Borger in The Guardian reports on White House pressure to cook the books to enable Trump to declare Iran in non-compliance of the 2015 nuclear deal. . . Expect not only Iraq redux, but Iraq squared.

By and large the “mainstream” “news” media refuses to give us that, but Ryan Cooper nevertheless wrote recently in The Week: “The United States is now engaged in its longest period of continuous warfare in its history. With some minor … Continue reading →