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TRUMP PANICS
You can bet that neither he nor the GOP want any scrutiny of the Pandora’s Box that is the November 2016 election. Flack Kellyanne Conway also loses it. Mmm. . . .
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THIS IS OBAMA AND HIS ADMINISTRATION IN A NUTSHELL
See no evil, hear no evil, blithely assuring America that he’s OK with an election that brought us an aspiring dictator who will work a demolition derby on Obama’s legacy–as well as on American democracy itself. Working actively to cover … Continue reading
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RECOVERING FROM THE ELECTION
With each of us, it will take different forms, different therapies–for me, it involves sampling old Fifth Dimension audio and visual on youtube. Particularly “Save the Country.”
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KT MACFARLAND SEES HELICOPTERS
They were flying over her house, sent by Hillary. No, really. Meet our new Deputy National Security Advisor.
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TRUMP IS TURNING US INTO A BANANA REPUBLIC
Sending his completely ill-equipped son as political envoy, so that the completely ill-equipped dictator can concentrate on ripping off the office of the President to cut more deals.
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BETSY DeVOS vs. AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
Josh Marshall at TalkingPointsMemo brings to light this woman and her family’s radical persecution of the American people and American public institutions. DeVos must not be confirmed.
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ROLL OVER TIME, DEMS?
Trump’s cabinet is the most grotesque concatenation of anti-American, incompetent, destructive rejects mustered by any president in living memory. If the Dems cannot challenge these miscreants, they need to retire from the field altogether.
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ANOTHER GHASTLY TRUMP APPOINTMENT
Who better to destroy the public education system than Betsy DeVos? And destroy it, I might add, with our public education funds.
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TRUMP’S WAR ON AMERICA
Don Hazen at Alternet previews the dictator’s “effort to transform the United States into a new, reality-TV style, social media obsessed, repressive authoritarian state. The goal is to ignore and destabilize the normal checks and balances, and push forward with … Continue reading
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WOULDN’T YOU KNOW IT?
It was President Obama’s slow walk (at best) on progressive issues that was a contributing factor to the Democrats’ losses in 2010, 2014 and 2016 (although we now must begin to wrap our minds around the possibility that Hillary actually … Continue reading
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