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Slips an amendment to cripple Mueller’s investigation into the House spending package. Thereby, puts partisan interests above national interests. Why don’t Democrats  call out the current GOP for what it is?

At BillMoyers.com, Erik Alterman flags a study from the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and the MIT Center for Civic Media, that demonstrates the way that “mainstream” outlets followed the lead of the insane right-wing … Continue reading →

“His silent withdrawal has been astonishing and disturbing,” Ralph Nader writes at Common Dreams, and lays out a plan of prudent and targeted action for the ex-President.

Tamara Geva, who married Balanchine in Russia when they were both teenagers, said to me in 1993: “Well, I never thought of him as a genius. I thought he was very good. But maybe I don’t know what a genius … Continue reading →

The 16th century author coined the concept of the Sylph.

The one constant in Bannon’s manic, disordered rhetoric is his perpetual announcement that he is going to wage war on someone/something. Both he and his Breitbart, citadel of fake news, need to be ridiculed, excoriated, and exposed by the Democrats … Continue reading →

Senator McConnell is just so, so ardent a champion of civil rights. And that’s why he cheered John Roberts’ gutting of the Voting Rights Act. Joan McCarter at Daily Kos doesn’t buy the bullshit. “What do you say today, Leader … Continue reading →

New York State Senator Brad Hoylman recently released a report entitled Bleaker on Bleecker: A Snapshot of High-Rent Blight in Greenwich Village and Chelsea. Read it here.

As he once again reveals, this time to Robert Kuttner of The American Prospect, the man’s mind is a cesspool of vicious and incoherent discharge.

Tirelessly opposed to health care for the non-rich, these two have a verminous new way to kick the props out from Medicaid. Alice Ollstein at Talking Points Memo describes it in all its poor-shaming, anti-American, utterly heartless cynicism and moral … Continue reading →