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BS IN DAVOS
Robert Reich writes at Common Dreams: “It’s hard to come up with any group of Americans, outside of Trump and his congressional loyalists, who have done more to destroy public trust than the senior executives of America’s biggest corporations — corrupting democracy … Continue reading
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TRUMP WAS INCOHERENT IN NEW HAMPSHIRE SPEECH
Will the corporate media again choose not to notice?
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ONCE THE HYPE CLEARS
Turns out that Trump’s showing in Iowa was not nearly as strong as the corporate media–and of course, Trump’s entourage of flacks–wanted to claim.
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AND I MEANT IT
I told the late Ellen Holly, when I interviewed her a year ago, that the fact that her role in 1959’s Take a Giant Step–I had seen it recently–didn’t lead to more movie roles and a career in Hollywood [no relation … Continue reading
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WHILE BIDEN’S OTHER CHEEK WAS TURNED
he allowed Trump’s sideshow to steal a march on the upcoming election. No, it is not enough, as Biden and his manege have perhaps finally realized, for Biden to refer to “the former guy.” Half of America won’t even know … Continue reading
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DA WILLIS SHOWS HOW YOU DEAL WITH TRUMP’S TREASONOUS LIEUTENANTS
like MTG. You publicly call them out, shame ’em, confront their vile hypocrisy.
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DEVELOPERS’ TOOL GOV. HOCHUL
is back in the saddle trying to destroy New York City. Once again, she’s proposing that the height limits on new development–which are already so ax that they’ve waved through a generation of monstrouly over built towers–be abolished altogether. Go … Continue reading
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TRUMP PLANNED A “FRIENDS, ROMANS,” etc. SIDESHOW
Judge Engoron wasn’t going to enable Trumpian stagecraft and insisted that Trump stay within the minimum boundaries of legal propriety. Once he did, Trump’s lights, cameras, and action instantly shut down.
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TAX EXEMPT STATUS OF THE EVANGELCALS NEEDS TO BE REVISITED
They have decided to become political organizations, and their tax status should reflect that decision.
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KRISTEN WELKER PURRS AS REP. STEFANIK ESPOUSES TREASON
Welker couldn’t be bothered to correct Elise Stefanak when Rep. Stefanik issued a full-throated endorsement of treason by calling the January 6 domestic terrorists “hostages.” And that was just for beginners. As Mary Trump writes, Stefanik then “admitted on live television she … Continue reading
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