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VANCE EQUATES MUSK’S TREASON WITH THUNBERG’S ACTIVISM
The moral vacuum that is J.D. Vance took his trademark petulance and fake outrage to Germany in the service of trying to normalize the Trump administration’s aggressive assaults on America. And he continued his defense of hate speech, calling attempts … Continue reading
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CENSORSHIP BEGINS AT THE KENNEDY CENTER
Trump’s uninformed, uncultured, politically fanatic board has just nixed the tour of a show that Kennedy Center was sending out because it promoted tolerance and not hate. According to the Washington Post: “In 2023, the center commissioned “Finn,” a children’s … Continue reading
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KENNEDY CENTER BOYCOTT BEGINS
The Washington Post reports that comedian and actress Issa Rae canceled her scheduled performance at the Kennedy Center, explaining it was “”due to what I believe to be an infringement on the values of an institution that has faithfully celebrated … Continue reading
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CORPORATE MEDIA WON’T EVEN PROTECT CORPORATE MEDIA
Why hasn’t the Washington “press corps” walked out in protest of Trump banning the Associated Press? The White House Correspondents Association also has done nothing, revealing that they are nothing but a suck-up-to-power guild. [2/14 – my bad, the issued … Continue reading
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IT WILL TAKE THE THREAT OF PRIMARY CHALLENGERS
to get time server Schumer and ex-corporate lawyer Jeffries actually to lead. No messaging, no media strategy, and a refusal to use every procedural lever to stop the coup are what we’re seeing now. As “CupaJoe” writes at Daily Kos: … Continue reading
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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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