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He jump-started America’s plunge into the Trumpapocalypse, argues James Carroll persuasively at Tom Dispatch.com “The Crusades were, of course, a centuries-long medieval catastrophe. Bush’s Global War on Terror, in contrast, has already wreaked comparable havoc in a paltry 17 years, … Continue reading →

Joan McCarter at Daily Kos has a good laugh over the Washington Post op-ed in which Charles Koch, who as McCarter notes, is “the guy who with his brother has bought the whole Republican House conference and about a third … Continue reading →

So the Democratic senators betraying their constituencies and their party don’t like being called out by Sen. Warren for rolling back the mild regulations of the Democratically-propelled Dodd-Frank bill? You know what you can do with yourselves. A lot of … Continue reading →

The tapes that recently came to light show that Scott Pruitt is criminally insane or simply criminally dishonest. But he is a criminal. We have rarely heard such a mangled mish mash of distorted theology and capitalism-gone-beserk propaganda. How Pruitt … Continue reading →

The Broadway Advocacy Coalition and the Alliance For Quality Education are headed for Albany March 12, joining forces to “stand alongside parents from all over New York State, and tell the stories of education inequity through drama, song and dance.”

Predictably, this prime example of authoritarian double-think performance art didn’t go over well. Education heroine Diane Ravitch reports, and directs us to Jessica Schladebeck’s account in the Daily News. Naturally enough, DeVos refused to speak with actual students, as opposed to … Continue reading →

I was at my local newstand–the fabled Casa Magazines–and yes, I picked up a magazine that had an article on an actor I’d be interested in reading about. No offense, man — But the hushed, breathless tone of the opening … Continue reading →

Just an all-around execrable kind of guy. He’s adept at bigoted dog-whistles. Jacob Sugarman at Alternet de-scrambles them loud and clear.

The U.S. government would have quite a different take on California’s sanctuary cities, wouldn’t it?

In that black two-piece dress with bias-cut, slightly gored skirt she wore yesterday. But her high heels are still too high. The Jackie O-plus-hooker look needs to fall slightly more decisively on the Jackie O side–for my taste.