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Watching Hannity’s signature repertory of smirks, simpers, grimaces, and mouth-agape Bronx cheers, we see how closely Trump has patterned himself after Hannity and Fox’s roster of genocidal, traitorous demagogues.

American lives are simply collateral damage to this White House as it makes the claim that totally imaginary advances in testing capacity, treatment, et.al., are justifying their decision to open the corona floodgates.

Global outrage against Trump’s latest opportunistic, apocalyptic assault on global health. In the Guardian, Helen Davidson reports: “Richard Horton, the editor-in-chief of the Lancet medical journal, wrote that Trump’s decision was ‘a crime against humanity … Every scientist, every health … Continue reading →

Only Donald dTrump could have ever imagined that a protracted exposure to his inability to answer questions would do wonders in giving his image a presidential gloss.

Has there ever been anything in this country’s history more comically feckless than the President’s council to reopen the economy, make sure everybody gets sick, and crash the economy into a zillion tinkling pieces just in time for the election. … Continue reading →

Trump’s tweets aretaking an increasingly grandiose tone, as he proclaims “let it be fully understood” that he has sole, sovereign authority to decide when states reopen. As always, he is lying and violating his oath of office.

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 →

“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 →

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.

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 →