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Rep. Barbara Lee tweets: “Let me reiterate: White House is blacklisting outlets for printing the truth. This is chilling. Our bill of rights isn’t up for debate.”

Instead, his fingers are on the levers of power. As “Dartagnan” writes at Daily Kos: “Bannon is a fanatic, a clear and present danger to the America we all know and care about. Unfortunately, his fanaticism, poured into the ear of … Continue reading →

Shares his vision at the CPAC event today, outlining the apocalypse he plans. “If you look at these Cabinet appointees, they were selected for a reason, and that is the deconstruction.” The “administrative state” he plans to destroy comprise the … Continue reading →

is like a month in the country at lilac time. I was able to achieve a portion of such bliss Monday when I spent over six hours in a studio at the Rose Building watching as Mimi Paul and Edward … Continue reading →

The arts generate tremendous economic activity, so forget that bullshit about cost-saving (and of course what the Fed gives the arts are droplets in the bucket). And as the Met Museum’s Thomas Campbell writes in the Times today: “I fear … Continue reading →

to whom the United States denied immigration, as well as the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect, condemn Trump’s craven anti-Semitism, his mingy attempt to make us forgot that raging anti-Semite Steve Bannon is co-President. Statement by Steven Goldenstein, Executive … Continue reading →

of Trump’s appointees and nominees, supplied by Laura Clawson at Daily Kos: “rich people who think they’re doing the world a favor in agreeing to take on jobs they’re not qualified for.”

I meant that the white working class receives the most from our totally inadequate safety net. But it is the rich who receive the lion’s share of subsidy in today’s United States.

and decries fake news from the other. The fact that 9,000 people in Florida didn’t walk out tells us about the cult worship nature of much of his support. If people choose to suspend rationality, logic, truth so totally we … Continue reading →

that Trump and his Fascists want to create, in which the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities are “waste,” is one we need to fight like hell against.