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WHY DO WE KEEP LETTING THEM GET AWAY WITH IT?
Juan Cole at Informed Consent characterizes Americans as “masochistic sheeple who let the rich and powerful walk all over them and thank them for the privilege.”
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ME NEITHER
“The unbridled greed of America’s billionaires never ceases to amaze me,” Robert Reich tweets, citing Jeff Bezos’s refusal to give employees paid sick-leave and hazard pay.
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BIDEN DISPELS TRUMP’S LIES ABOUT “HIS” ECONOMY
His latest ad shuts down Trump’s lies about the strong economy he inherited from Obama and reminds viewers that what Trump did was to crater our economy because of his indifference to COVID. I do not know why the Democrats … Continue reading
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GOV. CUOMO WANTS TO CUT MEDICAID, BUT DOESN’T WANT TO TAX BILLIONAIRES
And, of course, New York’s billionaires keep showing their love. In the Guardian, Walker Benjamin and David Sirota repot on the billionaire-driven war chest that Cuomo has commanded.
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PLEASED
to see that Dancing on Water is now going for $70-something on Amazon. Perhaps it should be reprinted. It would be nice, however, if University Press of New England hadn’t gone out of business. . . That’s publishing!
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TRUMP’S BITCHY, BILIOUS BABBLE
Watching him today spew arrogant, contemptuous bombast about the Democrats, you just wonder, even on the most superficial level, how America can tolerate someone so unpleasant.
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GOP EXPLOITING COVID TO ATTACK SOCIAL SECURITY & MEDICARE
Together with.a smattering of turncoat Democrats, the Republicans are ramming through a fast-track commission to cut Social Security benefits as well as Medicare, via the so-called TRUST act introduced earlier this year, by opportunisticaly sticking it into the GOP’s alleged … Continue reading
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I NEVER SAID THEY WERE HEADLINERS. . . BUT MAYBE THEY WERE
Seems that Grandpa Joe was part of a “Spring Carnival/8 Big Acts 8/All Headliners in which his man-woman act, Low and Johnson, was featured at the Garden theater in Trenton, New Jersey. Of all the things he didn’t keep, Grandpa … Continue reading
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TRUMP TO OPEN NEW FRONTS IN HIS WAR ON AMERICA
Our President is planning a coast-to-coast invasion of our cities–particularly ones with Democratic mayors.
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HAIL THE ANARCHISTS
Portland mothers, protecting the city’s peaceful protesters from Trump’s paramilitary gangs, sing “Hands up, please don’t shoot me.”
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