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stealing from the Medicare trust fund.

Time capsule on youtube: a simulated behind-the-curtain visit to Richard Avedon’s studio, devised for an advertising campaign in 1973. Avedon has multiple balls in the air, but then the small, wiry maestro demonstrates to long and lanky Jean Shrimpton how … Continue reading →

Buzzard Tom Price is happy, because the House bill is also likely to weaken employer-based insurance plans, a long-standing objective of this leering travesty of a caregiver. Tierney Sneed at TalkingPointsMemo describes how Trumpcare could be exploited by private insurance … Continue reading →

He doesn’t succumb to the clannishness that often afflicts Times staff and instead criticizes Bret Stephen’s unacceptable and stupid generalization about Arabs. Hiring Stephens is an unforced error by the paper.

Supporters of Donald J. Trump calling Stephen Colbert homophobic!

With Fascist sympathizer Tucker Carlson as point man, Fox “News,” the propaganda engine for the GOP, goes after anyone opposed to Trump. Read James Poniewozick in The New York Times describe how “Fox and Enemies” is ratcheting up the demonization … Continue reading →

Preyed upon and emboldened by fanatic Steve Bannon, Trump’s authoritarian instincts are now running wild. American democracy’s just not fair–not fair to aspiring dictators is his realpolitic.

Christ Hedges writes at Truthdig: “The Roman, Mayan, French, Habsburg, Ottoman, Romanov, Wilhelmine, Pahlavi and Soviet dynasties crumbled because the whims and obsessions of ruling idiots were law. Donald Trump is the face of our collective idiocy.”

According to Politico, “Leaders are also reminding members that, under the bill, insurance companies could only charge people with pre-existing conditions more if they have a gap in coverage. If they remain on insurance, they cannot be charged more than … Continue reading →

“Fox’s constant taunts about liberal bias have made news outlets so anxious and defensive they now spend as much time examining themselves as a body-dismorphic teenager, asking, ‘Oh, my God—does this story make me look liberal?’”