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LET ME ASK YOU SOMETHING
Would you trust a “Harvest Box” of food approved by Mick Mulvaney? It would probably be bottled water from Flint and a lot of instant mashed potatoes. And then Mick would put out a press release talking whole grain and … Continue reading
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SESSIONS DEFENDS THE CONSTITUTION?
You know, there really must be something in that marijuana that Sessions is trying to re-criminalize. The Attorney General offers a mild defense of the Constitution, as though his loyalty was supposed to be with American democracy rather than the … Continue reading
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HOPE HICKS AGGRAVATES HER OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE
by playing cute with the House Intelligence Committee. Eenie-meenie-miney mo — ooh, I won’t answer that, oh, OK, I might answer one of those if you ask with sugar on top, well, let me talk to my lawyers and the … Continue reading
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NRA PULLS TRUMP’S PUPPET STRINGS
After lunch with nefarious Wayne La Pierre, the invincible action-hero President decides he won’t support even the minimal gun control legislation he was sorta touting the other day. CALL HIM OUT, DEMOCRATS! I mean, Sen. McCaskill was even able to … Continue reading
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TUCKER CARLSON CAUGHT OUT IN YET ANOTHER CONSPIRATORIAL LIE
The “news” personality actually apologized this time, when it turned out that his accusations about CNN scripting a Parkland student survivor’s question were, of course, complete and utter hooey. Given his batting average where the truth is concerned, however, Carlson … Continue reading
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JANIS JOPLIN MAKES IT
Didn’t know she’s got her own postage stamp! I immediately bought a book, of course.
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EVIL SCOTT PRUITT, COURTESY OF THE KOCHS
Miranda Green in The Hill: “A federal environmental program that distributes grants to test the effects of chemical exposure on adults and children is being shuttered amidst a major organization consolidation at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). What can one … Continue reading
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UNCOUPLED MAGNETIZATION
I realized that I’d forgotten, when I caught up with The Go-Between last week at the Quad, that Alan Bates and Julie Christie, yes one of the 1960s most magnetic parings in 1967’s Far From the Madding Crowd, are here four … Continue reading
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KOCHS GLOAT OVER HOW MUCH DAMAGE THEY’VE DONE TO AMERICA
Over the past year, David and Charles Koch have had extraordinary success in their fanatical crusade to destroy democracy in the U.S. and end human life on the planet. Lee Fang and Nick Surgey report on the Kochs’ memo in … Continue reading
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IVANKA’S CHEAPJACK PLAN
to pit paid leave benefits against the beneficiary’s Social Security benefits tells you what a fraudulent sharpie this little acorn is. She’s as bad as the big, bad tree. No Trump progeny wins his approval–why do they care, at this … Continue reading
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