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LEERING DEATH’S HEAD SCOTT PRUIT
Handpicked by the Libertarian Fascist Kochs, the Secretary of the Environmental Protection Agency smirks that smirk as he presides over a gut renovation of the EPA, turning it into the best friend America’s polluters ever had. Pruitt’s flack dares to … Continue reading
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CLUELESS TRUMP MOUTHPIECE NIKKI HALEY
ballyhoos the military strikes that Trump will take to distract from RussiaGate. She may have no knowledge of what she’s talking about, but she knows a TrumpCard when she sees one. And the “mainstream” media will cheer him on.
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A QUESTION ABOUT JEAN-MICHEL
Why is Basquiat’s bisexuality so constantly ignored or suppressed? The Guardian interviewed a number of friends on the eve of a big retrospective in London and only ex-lover Suzanne Mallouk mentions it. Jean’s bisexuality wasn’t peripheral to who he was; … Continue reading
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LET’S FACE IT
Silicon Valley’s sachems are megalomaniacal, uncultured, democracy-adverse, and obsessed with not paying their taxes and getting as much government subsidy as possible. In The Guardian, Evgeny Morozov asks, “Dou really want to surrender your privacy so that Mark Zuckerberg can … Continue reading
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THE TRULY OBSCENE MICK MULVANEY
Not a scruple in his body, not one drop of integrity or honesty. He lies, cheats, dupes a path toward the destruction of as many American lives as possible–and tells Americans to pay him for it. In Politico, Michael Grunwald … Continue reading
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SENS. GRASSLEY AND GRAHAM ON BOARD WITH TRUMP
The two are now launching a monumental distraction campaign that will attempt to pivot public attention away from Trump’s obstruction of justice to Comey’s allegedly premature exoneration of Hillary. Lest you forget, GOP operatives in the guise of people’s representatives, … Continue reading
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TRUMP BEGS US TO GIVE HIM A TAX CUT
And if Senator McCaskill thinks it’s in her interests to play along, primary her.
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TIM COOK DARES TO CLAIM A MANTLE OF MORALITY
Government’s dysfunctional here in the U.S., he says, so he and all the other moguls have to step up [take over]. Our government might be less dysfunctional, Mr.Cook, if you committed less tax evasion and our economy might be in … Continue reading
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BIDEN LEAVES OUT SOMETHING
In The Atlantic, the ex-VP asks how we could have ignored as potent ground for Trump “the hopelessness and despair that has grown up in the hollowed-out cities and towns of Ohio and Michigan and Pennsylvania and the long-forgotten rural … Continue reading
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THE OLD ACT HAS GROWN TIRED
Trump’s Fascist rally in Phoenix was under attended and the audience underwhelmed. Perhaps it’s time to add some flying monkeys to the bill. Or why not hire a descendant of Heinrich Hoffman to orchestrate the events?
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