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TRUMP CALLED OUT FOR HIS GENOCIDE
Watch the new ad from MeidasTouch.
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THIS IS SO LE CLERCQ–AND I SAY THAT W/ADMIRATION
Going through things, found a note from Bob Gottlieb dated November 19, 1981. He had just received a note from Tanaquil: “I really think, as long as I don’t want to have anything to do with a book about me, … Continue reading
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DID WE PAY FOR KELLYANNE’S PLASTIC SURGERY?
Would be interesting to find out if/how she manipulated her government-supplied health insurance to manifest The New Look.
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BILL BARR IS A TRAITOROUS AUTHORITARIAN
And he dares to invoke religion at the same time he crimes left and right and wages war on justice. The religious hypocrisy of the right wing must be hammered home to America voters.
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BEWARE THE DEMOCRATS
Thirty Democratic members of the Home have signed onto the latest Republican bill to cut Social Security in the name of addressing (GOP created) national debt. The fact that Social Security cannot, by law, contribute to the national debt means … Continue reading
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JOHN BOLTON EMBODIES AMERICA’S SICKNESS
There is no public interest any more. Only personal profit. Simon & Schuster has sunk to a nw low, aiding and abetting Bolton’s obstruction of justice. Walter Schaub tweets: “There are many ways to be complicit in the Trump administration’s … Continue reading
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WHY WE ARE WHERE WE ARE
I’ve talked to/worked with many capable people in publishing. Some are actually inspiring. But only a handful of them had any particularly interest in or knowledge of the arts.
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OLIGARCHS NEED IN-SERVICE TRAINING
in patriotism and humanity. We have surrendered national leadership to a cadre of greedy, selfish megalomaniac mogulpaths. Our mindless veneration of oligarchs–which in recent years has increased in inverse proportion to our antipathy to culture–is now breaking the United States. … Continue reading
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THE REPUBLICAN ELDERS ARE SENILE (FORTUNATELY)
McConnell’s insisting that the GOP stick with Trump all the way to the bitter end.
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SOCIAL DISTANCING FOR THE KUSHNERS
Jared and Ivanka–that vile, amoral pair of climbing grifters who went all in with Papa Trump’s attempt to bring down this country–need to be pariahs for the rest of their natural existence. Will they be? Hannah Seligson, writing in The … Continue reading
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