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Yes, it is happening here. I find the story of 22-year-old Daniela Vargas, a “Dreamer” detained and threatened with deportation right after speaking out against Trump, ominous and chilling. The psychotic Bannon/Trump dyad, aided by a morally bankrupt GOP, is … Continue reading →

Trump and the GOP don’t have a lot left, rhetorically speaking, do they? Except outright lying. Is that a rhetorical trope as well?

His divorce from reality is nowhere better demonstrated than in his counsel to Trump to tear up the Paris climate change accord. Coral Davenport reports in The New York Times the latest evidence that Bannon is certifiable.

Speaking under oath, AG Sessions volunteered a denial about his contacts with Russia, despite the fact that Sen. Franken hadn’t asked him about his personal contacts. Sessions had obviously been coached about how to parry the question he WASN’T actually … Continue reading →

  Why has the “mainstream” media not identified the Hitlerian precedent of Trump’s immigrant crime registry? Farron Cousins at Ring of Fire gets it, however.

Trump’s brazen exploitation of Carryn Owens’ grief, his refusal to take any responsibility for any action he takes or statement he makes. As Josh Marshall writes: “This is a moment when we’ll see how just how earnest the press is … Continue reading →

That’s why Sessions didn’t recuse himself a long time ago. The entire Trump posse was in on this one.

Brian Beutler at The New Republic decries the media’s “shameful” coverage of Trump’s flim flam last night. Bannon/Trump’s unceasing attacks on the media have done their job: any ratcheting down on the attacks and the media come to heel.

Read in the Guardian Carole Cadwalldr expose Robert Mercer and his attempt to subsume us into an alternative universe of propaganda.

The Trumpster salutes America’s artists and rewards the artists by eliminating the National Endowment for the Arts & National Endowment for the Humanities.