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THE RIGHT WING’S EXPLOITATION OF CHRISTIANITY
When are the Democrats going to call out the Republicans the way that pastor John Pavlovitz calls out Sarah Huckabee Sanders? “Maybe your Jesus is good with deporting immigrants. Maybe your Jesus celebrates the poor staying poor. Maybe your Jesus … Continue reading
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WHO LEAKED WHAT, WHEN, WHERE AND WHY?
Looks like what was leaked was a cheat sheet sent directly from the Trump camp to that “fake news” media that only bothers Trump when it tells the truth.
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CONDI RICE KEEPS ON WAR MONGERING
Of course she was on Fox and Friends–they love war criminals who lie our country into disastrous wars. Rice, of course, has no problem with Bolton/Trump’s determination to withdraw from the Iran deal–somewhere in her twisted psyche there must be … Continue reading
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JOHN BOLTON’S WAR ON PEACE
He’s actively and pre-emptively working to sabotage Korean denuclearization. Gareth Porter at Truthdig describes the samo tactics of the apparently incorrigible Bolton.
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BLISTERINGLY RELEVANT
Alessandro Bussa’s The Creative Destruction of New York City: Engineering the City for the Elite.
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LET’S GET VISUAL AND GET REAL
Strawberry blonde next to ebony is striking. And so it proved at the Saturday matinee two-days-ago Four Temperaments at New York City Ballet, when Olivia Boisson and Lars Nelson danced the First Theme. They made their debuts in this during … Continue reading
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VIVA MICHELLE WOLF!
and Get Lost: pitiful, corrupt, prostrate-before-power White House Correspondents Association. Jake Johnson at Common Dreams highlights some of the best twitter responses to the WHCA’s disgraceful attack on its own institution–the “free” press.
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HOW BADLY DOESN’T PELOSI WANT THAT GAVEL BACK?
If she and Hoyer don’t get their regressive, reactionary snouts out of those primaries, they can kiss the upcoming election good-bye.
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HUCKABEE SANDERS & CONWAY WERE STALKING HORSES
Leave it to Trump’s White House. Snowflake President Donald J. couldn’t screw up his courage and attend the WHCA’s dinner, so he sent his flacks. As Marlow Stern notes at The Daily Beast: “the White House offered up Conway and … Continue reading
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AND IF THE WHCA
can’t handle free speech and political satire, why doesn’t it admit that it has become a travesty and close down shop?
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