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TRUMP & GOP WILL TURN THE POSTAL SERVICE INTO A PRICE-GOUGING MONSTROSITY
The GOP-controlled Congress have tried to wreck the USPS with a preposterously onerous demand for decades of future pension funding–as if the oil companies that get so much US subsidy had anything like that in place. Now, by refusing to … Continue reading
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TRUMP’S MENTAL ILLNESS
“He has no ability to understand anything that is not an immediate tactile or visual experience,” Tom Nichols writes in The Atlantic, “no sense of continuity with other human beings, and no imperatives more important than soothing the barrage of … Continue reading
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MULVANEY SHOULD BE SUED, TOO
While he was ensuring that he was getting tested for COVID-19–not once, but twice–Mulvaney was insisting to the CPAC audience in February that concern about the virus was simply a Democratic plot to take Trump down.
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WHO’S BAILING OUT THE METROPOLITAN OPERA?
Haven’t seen a word, yet, in the corporate “mainstream” media about the calamitous effect coronavirus is having/will continue to have on our performing arts institutions, virtually all of which were in fragile financial shape before the pandemic. Haven’t seen anything … Continue reading
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BILL BARR’S AN IRRELIGIOUS FANATIC
His extreme sect of Catholicism apparently places no store on honesty or morality, as proved once again by Barr’s poisonous lies to Laura “Sig Heil” Ingraham. He is advocating that people ingest a drug that has proven side effects but … Continue reading
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TRUMP IS RUNNING A BLACK MARKET
Harry Lime, anyone? Impounding medical supples on their way to hospitals, mustering medical equipment so he can hand them over to his rich friends and they can price-gouge the states, selling medical equipment at great profit to China even as … Continue reading
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TRUMP IS STEALING THE BAILOUT IN PLAIN SIGHT
Where is that oversight committee Rep. Porter was insisting should be convened like immediately? Was insisting around ten days ago. Wasn’t Speaker Pelosi assuring us that she should protect us from Trump’s kleptocracy?
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THE SUPREME COURT HAS DELEGITIMIZED ITSELF
After yesterday’s outrage, it is time to say Enough and time to start ignoring them. They did this to themselves. Attaching credence to the corrupt, brazenly partisan Republican majority simply enables a sham.
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THE ROBERTS COURT AGAIN INTERVENES TO SANDBAG DEMOCRACY
It’s official: Chief injustice John Roberts’ Supreme Court is the most radical, activist, interventionist in modern history. And one of the most rigidly opposed to democracy. Roberts is a totalitarian who believes America should be run by and for the … Continue reading
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SETH ABRAMSON SHOWS THE MEDIA HOW TO STOP HANDING TRUMP FEED LINES
for his deranged, dishonest rants. Abramson tweets out a new course.
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