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SEN. CORNYN UNDERSTANDS LEGAL JEOPARDY
What with Sen. Grassley and Graham now guilty of conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and treason, Sen. Cornyn suddenly rediscovers democracy and patriotism, assuring us that he supports Sen. Feinstein’s release of Simpson’s interview.
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MIMI PAUL ON ILLUMINATIONS
On Feb. 5, Alastair Macaulay’s speaking at the Library for the Performing Arts via the Center for Ballet and the Arts about Balanchine and Ashton. On his Instagram he’s posted photos of different casts in Ashton’s wonderful Illuminations, created for … Continue reading
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WHICH HATE MAESTRO WILL THE MERCERS NEXT INSTALL?
Now that Bannon’s out, the Mercer family needs a new slugging arm at Brietbart to incite apocalyptic societal and environmental dissolution. Jen Hayden at Daily Kos ponders.
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FINALLY, A DEMOCRAT GETS TOUGH
Responding to the treasonous behavior of Senate Judiciary Chair Charles Grassley, ranking member Dianne Feinstein goes ahead on her own and releases the GPS Fusion transcript. Grassley has been suppressing it because it gives the lie to Grassley and the … Continue reading
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ZEITGEIST
It’s exciting writing a book about Diana Sands for so many reasons. Steve Willis and I are excited by how plugged in she was to her time and place. About her affair with Dr. Alvin Poussaint in 1968, we write: … Continue reading
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SEEMA VERMA’S HATRED OF THE AMERICAN POOR
lead her to make the filthy claim that Medicaid should not be given to “able-bodied adults,” thus demonstrating that in addition to her enmity toward Americans she does not understand the economic as well as medical benefits of preventative and … Continue reading
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TRUMP USES LIES AS AUTHORITARIAN PRECEDENT
He falsely claims that RFK and Eric Holder were dedicated to serving their presidents rather than American democracy, then uses his smear to justify his own demand that the Attorney General serve his own interests rather than America’s. Kennedy and … Continue reading
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ME THINK THE GOP DOTH PROTEST MUCHLY
Have we ever in modern American politics seen a circle-the-wagons-and-grovel operation like the one the GOP is mounting as it prostrates itself before Trump?
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GOP IS OH SO STALINIST
Trump and the GOP will expulse Attorney General Sessions by confronting him with the crimes he committed because Trump asked him to.
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BANNON GETS HIS TAIL STUCK BETWEEN HIS LEGS
The fawning and dissembling Batshit is engaged in remove the one attribute that one could possibly find admirable about Bannon. His populist mewlings are, of course, unsubstantiated by any action whatsoever. He is a demagogic hate-monger and a liar. But … Continue reading
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