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He believes that his prim, pinched expression and his verbal abuse could take him far. He certainly would do less damage to the country if he kept his practice private. Instead Carlson demanded a Soviet-style public recantation from Ted Cruz. … Continue reading →

That’s what Tchernichova used to say about private patrons in the ballet world. Reminds me of how Gates was able to rehabilitate his criminally-tainted reputation via the Gates Foundation.

Wondered about that when Jake Tapper reminded us of that shabby incident with Georgia’s secretary of state in 2020–one more in Graham’s career of ruthless political malfeasance, usually couched in a high-pitched hectoring screed–when Sen. Graham dared to accuse President … Continue reading →

The inevitable result of his embrace of vaccine Apartheid and patent-protection-before-people. In The New Republic, Alexander Zaitchik describes Gates’ long-term practice of “reinforcing the system responsible for the very problems he claims to be trying to solve.” The article was … Continue reading →

I received an email invitation from one Donald J. Trump inviting me to dinner with “your favorite President.”

His insistence on work requirements is a body blow to millions of Americans who’ve been raised out of poverty. “There go all the grandparents raising children,” Joan McCarter writes at Daily Kos, “the disabled people who can’t work, those who … Continue reading →

is proving too much even for the feckless European Union. Steven Erlanger and Benjamin Novak discuss in the Times how the EU has no choice but to impose consequences for Orban’s authoritarian transformation of Hungary.

which translates in Kayleigh McEnany’s feverish, venomous little mind to “upscaling testing.” McEnany lied to the public every single day she was in the White House, then said that Jesus would never have let her lie, is now part of … Continue reading →

Will they ever, ever learn?

then uses his money as a battering ram to undermine democracy and impose his policy choices. The latest case in point is the nuclear reactor he’s building in Wyoming, for which, once again, he has conscripted elected officials to enable … Continue reading →