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Garrison Keillor won’t have it.  “I voted for Hillary, so I’m an elitist, but still. We use regular old G.E. light bulbs.”

The million dollars a day the Trumps are sticking NYC with for Melania’s security–pay it yourself, alleged billionaire!!–were given instead to the city’s Health and Hospitals budget?

The latest GOP judicial coup: “Make no mistake, a travesty has occurred,” Steven Rosenfeld writes at Alternet. Sound familiar?  “a three-member appeals court of Republican judges. . . ordered a state vote canvassing board to shut down the recount.” The … Continue reading →

As Rebecca Solnit writes in The Guardian: “The United States’ voting system is an incoherent patchwork of systems of varying degrees of reliability, many with easily hackable machines, all managed by local election officials of varying levels of probity and … Continue reading →

It’s time to name names: the Democrats have to make a daily show-and-tell-presentation about exactly who is funding the climate deniers in Congress. Embarrass them. Confront them and confront Americans with the truth about them.

Trump’s frantic, ferocious, and successful attempt to shut down the recount tells us all we need to know.

Trump pulled his usual bait and switch. Oh, and Ivanka, in between shopping for more heels and using meetings with heads of state to cut more deals, is going to be the combat-climate change czarina? Give me a break. Trump’s … Continue reading →

“Remember what I’ve been telling you: it’s bluff–in America you’ve got to bluff.” So Claudette Colbert tells Maurice Chevalier in 1930’s The Big Pond. They’ve met in Paris, and then he’s coming over to learn the tricks of her father’s … Continue reading →

And my uncle was a big wig in the Anti-Defamation League in Detroit – And I am appalled by the ADL’s attacks on Keith Ellison.

up for re-election in states that fell for Trump– Do you realize the damage that Trump will have done to your state by the time 2018 rolls around? The more you play ball with Trump, the more your Senatorial re-election … Continue reading →