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These senators are weaponizing their treason, as GOP Senate Leader Thune is trying to secure a payday for the insurrectionists in the new funding bill. Their claims that Jack Smith tapped their phones and violated their rights are completely baseless, … Continue reading →

Schumer voted against, but actually AUTHORIZED the Democrats’ surrender caucus to broker a capitulation to the Republicans. “The mystery is why Schumer keeps flirting with capitulation in exchange for nothing,” David Dayden wrote in The American Prospect two days ago. … Continue reading →

They seem to be on the verge of another one of their calamitous caves, voting to end the shut down without ANY protection of ACA subsidies. Even when Democrats win in a rout, they still govern as if they lost. … Continue reading →

Trump’s hands clawed the air weirdly as he bellowed greetings last night to his glad-to-be-fleeced club members. As Ben Meiselas points out, his splayed hands–in evidence when he fell asleep in the Oval Office yesterday–now seem to fall naturally into … Continue reading →

Bari Wess is turning CBS “News” into a fully-integrated propaganda arm of the White House. According to the Washington Post, “Some newsroom employees say Weiss’s sensibility has begun to shape editorial operations at the network.” Indeed.

In his feeble, addled voice, Trump summons his cognition to launch a new attack on SNAP recipients a la Reagan’s “Welfare Queens” defamation.

How can Cornell president Michael Kotlikoff expect to command any respect after he bends over to service Trump’s extortion?

Of course they are congratulating him today. You cannot call yourself a “progressive,” then vote to give billionaire developers carte blanche. It looks like we’re going to see another bait-and-switch administration a la De Blasio, which is not surprising given … Continue reading →

Imagine the uproar if Biden had chosen to make himself up this way. And imagine the uproar if Biden had put on the kind of moth eaten spectacle that Trump did today. As Aaron Rupar tweets, “Hannity would immediately start … Continue reading →

It didn’t take long: after not endorsing the monstrous ballot referendums, at the very last moment he did, thus perhaps ensuring their passage. They will result in less affordable housing, not more, and if he is gullible enough to think … Continue reading →