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on the Supreme Court has succeeded in largely taking down American democracy. In Mother Jones–I need to renew my subscription–Pema Levy and Ari Berman describe how. And shame on Obama, Biden, and the Democrats for letting it happen.

Steven Haff writes: “Thank you for posting the information you know about Jonathan Watts. I was a ballet pianist at the San Francisco Ballet School in the early/middle 80’s when Jonathan was a instructor there. I have not real contacts … Continue reading →

You might want to refer back to the 1989 miniseries “The Nightmare Years,” to compare the way Trump does it to the way that the Third Reich did. Spoiler alert: not much difference. The fawning obsequiousness of the “press” as … Continue reading →

Trump says that the hundreds of thousands of federal workers whose jobs he terminated shouldn’t be counted toward the higher unemployment figures since their jobs were “unnecessary.”  Democrats need to finally stand up for the role of government in a … Continue reading →

during her almost-two terms on the New York City Council, aggressively brokering the upzoning that encourages real estate developers to tear down low-rise, historic, lower-rent buildings to build more and more and ever-larger luxury apartment towers. Each upzoning scam is … Continue reading →

The Washington Post details the way that three treasonous psychotics: Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Russell Vought, turned the full force of the American government against the American people.

Like Don Quixote, Trump entertains hallucinations in which windmills are adversaries. Both fictional and factual characters indict the folly of self-delusion. Except Trump’s fantasies do actually have real-life impact–and it is unequivocally catastrophic, no more so than in his attacks … Continue reading →

and other business types. Forget ethics or integrity as guiding principles. It is astounding that Harvard is even conducting talks with mud wrestler McMahon and the rest of Trump’s anti-Semitic, white supremacist administration. Trump’s extortions have worked like a diagnostic … Continue reading →

Nielsen ratings for Trump’s Kennedy Center Honors malfunction were the lowest in the Honors’ history.

Is the Cybertruck the ugliest car ever constructed? The Cybetruck is “a mobile panic room, a place to make you feel strong when you are weak,” Maya Vinokour writes in The Nation. “At the same time, it nudges you to … Continue reading →