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Ernst Lubtisch’s 1923 silent Rosita features what may very well be Mary Pickford’s finest performance, in an atypical role for her–she’s an adult, and she’s a light-living street singer. Tomorrow night at the Museum of Modern Art, a digital restoration … Continue reading →

Sniveling crybaby Trump cancels summit because his feelings have been hurt, while Evil Minder Bolton smolders with war-fever in the corner of the playroom.

“Tristam Pretorious” at Daily Kos reminds us that “Until 1973, federal law did not encourage health insurance providers from functioning under a profit motive.” And this scribe has reams of corrobatory evidence.

The latent affinities between professional sports and totalitarianism in America were just cranked up a notch when the NFL capitulated to Herr Trump’s demand that sideline protests be banned. The NFL is a bullshit organization that should now be boycotted. … Continue reading →

The DOJ can and will be extorted. By Trump. It was today. This can’t go on.

Is to inform working Americans what Neil Gorsuch and the right-wing-extremist Supreme Court majority is doing to them.

Isn’t it a law, an axiom? That’s why I just had to plop into Tallulah’s 1927 tub on Farm Street in London, quite a few decades after she’d last had her final bubble-infused script conference there.

Yeah, I know you can’t believe I’m saying that. And when I say it I’m not being sarcastic either. She voted against Gina Haspel, and now she’s forcefully explaining her reasons why. Of course, she’s also equivocating by reminding voters … Continue reading →

How do we wind up with people like this in positions of such influence? Now the heedless whelp has signed up for one of those chimerical liberal bias litmus-tests, powered by none other than Rebekah Mercer’s Heritage Foundation! Tess Owen … Continue reading →

Today’s GOP–McConnell, Ryan, and all the rest–is treasonous, attempting to elevate Trump above the rule of law.