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THIS IS REASONED LOGIC IN TRUMP’S CRANIUM
Let Josh Marshall do the analysis: “The mix of the deepening Russia scandal crisis and European leaders harsh rejection of him at Brussels have pushed the President into a rage and humiliation cycle that is playing out before our eyes.”
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THE GOP’S SAVAGE PARTISANSHIP AND LAWLESSNESS
is enabled by the Democrats’ endless capitulations. In The Intercept, Jon Schwartz writes: “Republicans and their conservative media apparatus are engaged in a continuous war against Democrats — or any Republican who moves an inch out of lock step. Democrats exist … Continue reading
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TUCKER CARLSON IS NOT ONLY A FASCIST SYMPATHIZER,
he’s an outright crook. Callum Borchers in the Washington Post investigates the way that Carlson is swindling the IRS.
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TRUMP IS DUMB AND EVIL
I may wait and write a bit about Golden Cockerel for pub. But if ever its caricature of a feckless, inept leader spoke volumes, it’s today in the U.S. No, Trump, you are not “smart.” You are as stupid and … Continue reading
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AND NOW FOR SOMETHING DIFFERENT
Alexei Ratmansky’s The Golden Cockerel ends a four-performance run at American Ballet Theatre today. You need to see it. I’ll talk more about it later. Man, I’m busy. But I saw it Thursday night for the first time and really … Continue reading
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DR. KRUGMAN GETS THIS VERY WRONG
No, Dr. K, nuclear power is not a “non-polluting” power source–anything but. Major emissions are released during the uranium enrichment process and nuclear power generation itself produces plutonium that stays toxically radioactive for thousands and thousands of years. Why do … Continue reading
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PENCE IS PART OF THE EXISTENTIAL THREAT
His comments today pinning concern about climate change on a “left-wing agenda,” show his total unfitness to be not only Vice-President, but doubly so President if/when Trump is removed/reigns. Of course he was speaking on “Fox and Friends,” the fakest … Continue reading
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WHITE HOUSE, INC. ISN’T JUST APOCALYPTIC
it’s hopelessly retro. Part of its destruction of the U.S. economy, let alone the continued ability of the planet to sustain human life, derives from its utter ignorance or apathy toward the fact that renewable energy and environmental protection are … Continue reading
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THE CRADLE ROCKS OUT
Blitzstein’s The Cradle Will Rock will return to the Saratoga Opera in July!
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FLYING MONKEY MICK MULVANEY
True to form, this singularly immoral misinformation mixmaster continues the White House, Inc.’s attack on objective fact by attacking the non partisan Congressional Budget Office because it blows the lid off Mulvaney’s, Price’s, Trump’s, the GOP’s “health care” bill and … Continue reading
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