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THE DEMS NEED TO STOP PLAYING DEFENSE ON THE GOP”S ABSURD SMEARS ABOUT “SOCIALISM”
It’s socialism’s blunting of the destructive edge of unregulated capitalism that has made this country great. The GOP has perverted socialism with their insistence that it be employed only to benefit the wealthy. Robert Freeman at Common Dreams warns Democrats … Continue reading
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IS LIZ CHENEY THE MOST DANGEROUS WAR MONGER IN CONGRESS?
In her nihilistic frenzy to rehabilitate her father’s catastrophic legacy, she mounts a passionate defense of Daddy’s fellow war criminal John Bolton, virtually panting with importunate hunger to hit Iran and thus complete and compound the mayhem they accomplished.
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GOOD THINGS COME TO BETSEY WHO WAITED
Remember how I told you in May, 2018, that I was going to explain the idiotic reasons that Diary of Betsey Johnson never got published thirty years ago? Well, I’m not, because Betsey has picked up where we left off … Continue reading
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DEPARTMENT OF OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE
That’s what AG Barr has made the DOJ. He needs to be impeached and disbarred.
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SURELY
The Washington Post will now provide in-depth coverage of Jeff Bezos’ decision to cut worker benefits at Whole Foods, right?
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THE PUBLISHING INDUSTRY’S ABOUT TO GET TAKEN TO THE CLEANERS AGAIN
John Bolton is a proven liar and war criminal. And now the publishing industry is about to pay through the nose for a self-serving look back at his months trying to goad Trump into attacking Iran? Boy, are they going … Continue reading
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BREAKING UP BIG TECH
“The rule of law, absent from American business for several decades, may be on its way back,” Mott Stoller opines in the Guardian.
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THE GREAT DERANGEMENT
While the “mainstream” “news” media and our current slew of apocalyptic Republicans go on denying climate change, the reality of climate change continues apace. Amitav Ghosh’s “The Great Derangement” examines the central conundrum of our time: why humanity continues to … Continue reading
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SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS THINKS THAT PREVENTING MASSACRES OF AMERICANS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH MORALITY
I don’t have the stomach to actually watch Fox “News” in real time, so I thank Raw Story for pre-digesting a travesty appearance by Sanders. She demonstrated again that she is a narcissistic, sleazy, duplicitous hypocrite, pivoting from the GOP’s … Continue reading
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TIMES HAVE CHANGED
I was talking to someone my age who recalled that back in the 1970s, it was the kids in class who were demonstrably launched on an arts or science track who were considered A-list, while the kids were going to … Continue reading
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