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DEMOCRATIC LEADERS OFFER PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE SUPPORT FOR TRUMP’S WAR
Why are House Democratic leaders postponing the War Powers Resolution vote until, at the earliest, mid-April, by which time we may already have troops in Iran? Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner framed to David Hogg the advice he’s give to … Continue reading
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COME BACK OUT TO DEMONSTRATE
today at 1:00 p.m. in front of the landmark Dapalito Recreation Center on Carmine Street, which has served working-class New Yorkers for over a hundred years. Now NYC wants to tear it down. After having deliberately neglected the building’s maintenance … Continue reading
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AS TRUMP DESTROYS AMERICA, FORMER PRESIDENTS BASK IN LUXURY AND COMPLACENCY
“Our former presidents have no excuses. They simply lack a modicum of courage,” Ralph Nader writes at Common Dreams. They should be leading the resistance instead of wallowing in self-indulgence.
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THE COURT OF THE ORANGE TSAR
(with a hat tip to Simon Sebag Montefiore’s “Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar.”) You cannot make these people up: Lawless Deputy AG Todd Blanche is so deeply under the spell of Trumpian self-hypnosis that he just provided at the … Continue reading
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YET ANOTHER DEMONSTRATION OF HOW DANGEROUS IS NUCLEAR POWER
All those bombs flying across Iran could trigger an unimagineable catastrophe. According to the Middle East Monitor, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi “warned that any damage to Iran’s Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant could cause a … Continue reading
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IN A NUTSHELL
Why can’t the Democrats be as blunt as French Senator Claude Malhuret? He lays out Trump’s Cabinet: “An anti-vaxxer, former heroin addict as minister of health, a climate skeptic minister of economy, an alcoholic TV anchor, minister of the armed … Continue reading
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THEN RESIGN IMMEDIATELY, TRUMP
Trump sinks into his own mire of inane, brazen projection and hypocrisy when he announces that he doesn’t want “a stupid president” leading the country.
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TRUMP TRIES TO DEFLECT ATTENTION FROM HIS SENILITY BY CONSTANTLY IMPUGNING BIDEN’S VASTLY-SUPERIOR COGNITIVE & PHYSICAL FUNCTIONALITY
No one should be laughing at Trump’s, sick, feeble defamation. Shame on that functionary at Graceland who did.
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THE ASSASSINATIONS OF RFK & MLK
“set us up as a nation to become as mismanaged as we are presenting ourselves to be at this moment,” Harry Belafonte says in the 2020 documentary, “The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts the Tonight Show.” It’s about the week in … Continue reading
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HOW KAMALA BLEW IT
When asked about Trump’s racist denigrations of her, she decided to be smug and cute and leave it at “same old tired playbook.” If she had been well-advised, she would have been prepared to use that moment to dissect and … Continue reading
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