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Preposterously, the White House insists that “poverty in the United States has nearly disappeared,” reports The New York Times. And, the fact that almost half of American cannot pay for necessities? Inconvenient.

He is utterly incapable of running Facebook, or any other corporation that solicits the public trust.

The House GOP shows us what treason looks like. And Strzok is what patriotism looks like. Are the Democratic leaders paying attention?

Their railroading of Peter Strzok for the alleged offense of having political opinions gets stopped in its tracks.

Judge Kavanaugh is the quintessence of far-right-wing judicial activism. Read Steven Perlstein’s 2012 analysis of one of Kavanaugh’s environmental-regulation toxic judicial emissions. Cody Fenwick at Alternet links.

“Germany is totally controlled by Russia.” Trump has about one-and-a-half rhetorical gambits in his arsenal, and projection is the most frequently deployed.

Hello, Bret Kavanaugh, and his fanatic opposition to environment regulation. Brad Plummer in The New York Times lets you know just how ominous is Judge Kavanugh. He loves legislating from the bench to cripple the US government’s capacity to do … Continue reading →

In Harper’s, Kevin Baker chronicles “The Death of a Once Great City: New York and the Crisis of Affluence.”

Seth Abramson tweets a comprehensive thread about it. “It’s common for SCOTUS Justices to decide—privately and personally, in consultation with family and (sometimes) close friends—when they’ll retire on the basis of who occupies the White House. But clandestine negotiations between … Continue reading →

Sen. McConnell is like a Method actor using his own emotions to inform the character’s– except in this case, McConnell’s using his very anxiety about whether he can pull off his latest mau-mau against America–remember he told Trump that he … Continue reading →