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THE GOP HAS UNLEASHED RFK, JR. ON AMERICA’S CHILDREN
You’re no moderates, Sens. Collins and Murkowski, and, no, Mitch McConnell, after all your sins against America, it is too late for you to redeem your reputation. Republicans no longer belong to an actual American political party; they’re simply part … Continue reading
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DEMOCRATIC LEADERS FURIOUS THAT WE’RE INSISTING THEY LEAD
Schumer and Jeffries insist that they’re powerless: the same refrain the Democras make year in and year out, equally when they’re in the majority. Jake Johnson at Common Dreams quotes progressive organizer Aaron Regunberg. “‘Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer are architects of the … Continue reading
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KENNEDY CENTER BOARD SHOULD HAVE RESISTED
They had been appointed by President Biden to six-year terms. If Trump is going to impose his war on woke on the Kennedy Center, it behooves America to turn its back on a citadel of culture that has succumbed to … Continue reading
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BOYCOTT OF THE KENNEDY CENTER BEGINS TODAY
It took about two days for the Kennedy Center to fall unconditionally to Trump. He is chairman, and the board is now defiled by tobacco lobbyist Susie Wiles, VP enabler Usha Vance, et.al. The cowardly KC brass have allowed Trump … Continue reading
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BERTOLT BRECHT TO THE DEMOCRATS
“IF ONLY YOU WOULD ACT INSTEAD OF TALKING, YOU WOULDN’T ALWAYS END UP ON YOUR ARSE” —Arturo Ui
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COLLINS & MURKOWSKI DEMONSTRATE THAT THERE IS NO MODERATION IN THE GOP
They have rubber stamped one unfit and dangerous Trump cabinet nominee after the other. They work for Trump, not for America, or rather, they work against America.
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OUR NEUTERED WASHINGTON “PRESS CORPS”
won’t ask billionaires Musk and Trump why they are ensuring starvation in the Sudan. Why isn’t anyone but Lawrence O’Donnell keeping this issue front and center?
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THE REPUBLICANS BUILT THE MOST VIRULENT PROPAGANDA NETWORK IN THIS COUNTRY’S HISTORY
while the Democrats sat on their hands. The moment that Murdoch launched Fox Propaganda the Dems should have been preparing a response. The late Robert Parry on his great Consortium News blog begged the Dems year after year to respond … Continue reading
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MUSK OWES HIS FORTUNE TO THE U.S. GOVERNMENT
As Amanda Marcotte writes in Salon: “At every turn, Musk makes money only because he grabs onto technologies that were invented at taxpayer expense. . .Musk’s ingratitude is breathtaking. It also fits the larger pattern of tech billionaires spitting venom … Continue reading
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COMBATING MALWARE MUSK
Canada has the right idea: floating the possibility of 100% tariffs on Tesla. The corporate media has pretended that the oligarchs are invincible and have unique super powers. They’re not. They don’t. The ideas that they’ve borrowed/stolen/inherited from other people … Continue reading
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