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have scuttled Sarah Bloom Raskin’s nomination to serve on the Federal Reserve. Raskin committed the cardinal sin of telling the truth about global warming. This needs to be hammered home in the midterms: the GOP is trading away America’s future … Continue reading →

Yes, she finally tells us, she was at the January 6 insurrection rally. But noooo, she had nothing, nothing at all to do with planning anything that went down that day. Bullshit.

It’s extraordinary that the GOP is so ensorcelled by this con man that they can’t recognize the condition that he’s in.

I’m all for redressing and preventing abuse; but crippling an art form with artificial restrictions that impair a learning environment is another thing. Ballet has enough problems as it is.

The billionaire oligarchs who own Major League Baseball are insisting that the sport be further monetized with ad patches on uniforms and helmets. Bernie Sanders is right: the sport has been sufficiently defiled; it’s time to end the anti-trust exemption … Continue reading →

Sen. Blackburn cites low gas prices in 2020 as a way to indict Pres. Biden for . . . something. Forgets to mention that America was quarantining at the time. AOC won’t stand for it: “Unemployment also hit 14.8% in … Continue reading →

“Barr’s overweening egotism, so flamboyantly displayed in his new book and accompanying promotional appearances, is second only to Donald Trump himself,” Heather Digby Parton writes at Salon. Barr is, as always, the same right-wing extremist he’s always been–except now more … Continue reading →

the Bush/Cheney war crimes that led directly to Trump. Twenty yeas ago my father wrote a piece recalling his year abroad at the University of Frankfurt in the early 1950s. He was disturbed by the reluctance of Germans, even liberals … Continue reading →

is deconstructed by Philip Bump in the Washington Post. As usual, Tucker aimed his venom at a woman of far greater intellect and stature than himself. Bump notes the absurdity of Tucker, “a longtime television talking head. . .disparaging the … Continue reading →

In the Guardian, Rep. Grijalva decries the drill-baby-drill propaganda ambush that the industry began lobbing at the U.S. within hours of the Russian invasion. “We can’t let the fossil-fuel industry scare us into a domestic drilling free-for-all that is neither … Continue reading →