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Thus their preposterous victimization claims when anyone, most recently the cast of “Hamilton,” stands up and demands to be treated as full stakeholders in American democracy.

The election was the culmination of years of voter suppression and voting roll purging by the GOP. Greg Palast documents. That’s another reason for choosing Sessions as AG–so that voting rights can be further contracted. We’ve got the anti-democracy brigade … Continue reading →

Last week I was talking to a lawyer and told him that I thought the GOP had committed the radical and unprecedented step of refusing to respect the US judicial and governance systems by denying hearings to Merrick Garland. My … Continue reading →

Rather than attend state meetings in a complete violation of federal law and protocal. And btw, those high heels are hideous and you need to find something else to put on your feet–so stay away a long time. I mean, … Continue reading →

The past ten days have seen the Trump organization follow the Bolsheviks’ example and declare a decisive break with national norms that just eleven days ago would have seemed inviolate.

Trump’s cabinet is drawn from Dr. Strangelove and The Munsters. They’ve rounded up every superannuated freak, fiend, and half-wit they could find. Trump has made us a global laughing stock and a pariah nation. Will Attorney General Sessions call for … Continue reading →

The political resurrection of Michael Flynn as Trump’s National Security Advisor promises the holy war that ISIS has been dreaming about. Flynn is so loony an extremist  that legitimate security personnel are leery of working for him. The solution: hire … Continue reading →

Yes, Israel is becoming increasingly secularized, but the Israeli ambassador’s specific endorsement of Bannon tells us that in the aberrational force field of Trumpuniverse, weird, mind-boggling, indeed unholy alliances will be forged.

According to the contorted illogic of the Senate Finance Committee chairman, Medicare must be cut to make Trump’s policies fiscally sound. Those policies, of course, couldn’t possibly be the tax cuts Fearless Leader promised the patrons of 21 the other … Continue reading →

That’s the question that the Democrats should pose to Trump and the GOP. They clearly hate American poor, American students,  American sick, American elderly,  American African-Americans, American Asian-Americans, American Hispanic-Americans, American immigrants and immigrants in America, American Jews, American LGBT, … Continue reading →