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TWITTER CAVES TO MARSHA BLACKBURN’S PROPAGANDIC FILTH
Between Google suppressing progressive news sites like AlterNet, and Twitter genuflecting before a lying demagogue like Blackburn, we’re now seeing exactly what these mega companies mean when they talk about weeding out the wheat from the chaff. Criminally insane Bannon has … Continue reading
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WAR PROFITEER ERIK PRINCE
is the latest criminal goon to be endorsed for Congress by Bannon and the Mercers. Heather Digby Parton at Salon contemplates the line-up, with nary a genuine populist sentiment or sympathy among them. She notes Bannon’s plot “to stoke division … Continue reading
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DID CALIGULA PLAY GOLF?
Trump’s incontinent insanity is quickly approaching Roman Emperor caliber.
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TRUMP & PENCE USE FLAG AS A FIG LEAF
It is they who are disrespecting the flag every day of their lives, professing loyalty to a piece of cloth while destroying every constitutional ideal and protection, every civil right ever symbolized by that flag, turning the United States into … Continue reading
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PRUITT WANTS TO WIPE OUT HUMANITY
D’Artagnan at Daily Kos responds to the Environmental Degradation Agency’s intent to repeal Obama’s Clear Air Act, describing the way that Trump’s administration “has set its sights on destroying the future of the country and condemning the entire planet to … Continue reading
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FAMILY LORE
The definitive definition, from my father’s new autobiography: “If somebody who was there at the time and, more important, was actually a participant in an event that involved or significantly affected you, and if you were absent, or even if … Continue reading
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SEEMS LIKE OLD TIMES
Pia Catton, who was once my editor at The New York Sun, interviewed me for Dance.com about the Bolshoi’s Le Corsaire, which will be transmitted live to theaters here October 22.
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REMEMBER THAT TRUMP RAN TO THE LEFT OF HILLARY
Thomas Frank writes in The Guardian: “It sometimes seems like the history of the populist right – with its calls to ‘organize discontent’ and its endless war against ‘the establishment’ and the ‘elites’ – is nothing but a history of … Continue reading
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TRUMP’S END GAME
He’ll launch wars against Iran and North Korea to shied himself from RussiaGate. The results will be catastrophic. And if the Dems do not mobilize effectively against him, they are finished.
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IS TRUMP HIGH?
In Puerto Rico he seemed to be suffering nearly a full-scale psychic break. Is he on drugs? and/or is his toxic megalomania now exacerbated by dementia?
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