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DO YOU HAVE YOUR MARIA TALLCHIEF QUARTER?
I was just given one; I didn’t know it had been minted in 2023, as part of an “American Women Quarters” Program.
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MORE PROOF THAT TRUMP CONTAGION AFFECTS ANYONE NEAR HIM
At 92, Sen. Chuck Grassley has decided to end his carer in utter disgrace. Turns out he’s a full participant in the GOP’s attempt to railroad FBI agents for the purported crime of doing their jobs, attempting to preserve law … Continue reading
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BRADLEY-MARTIN BALL REDUX?
130 years ago, the masquerade ball thrown by the Bradley-Martins at the old Waldorf Astoria so appalled the public by its ostentation that it marked the end of the Gilded Age. Bezos may have done that to the Costume Institute … Continue reading
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JEFF BEZOS IS SPECIAL
Robert Reich crowns him on Substack:”What really puts Bezos at the head of all the other robber barons in this second Gilded Age is his slavish sycophancy toward the worst president in American history.”
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EVERY DEMOCRAT RUNNING FOR OFFICE NEEDS TO BE ASKED:
“What are you going to do about the traitorous, corrupt, viciously partisan Roberts Supreme Court majority?“ And no, “commission a new study” is not an acceptable answer.
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NEPO BABY TUCKER CARLSON
who was fired even from Fascist platform Fox “News” for lying about the 2020 election, is planning to run for president as an outsider! There is no fatter target for the Democrats than Carlson, but will they blow it again? … Continue reading
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APPARENTLY, DENYING AFRICAN AMERICANS ELECTORAL REPRESENTATION
is one of those “Tennessee Christian Values” that Marcia Blackburn aspires to embody. Sen. Blackburn wastes no time after the Roberts mob gives democracy a body blow in demanding a new electoral district be created in Memphis; it’s needed, so … Continue reading
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JOHN ROBERTS AND HIS GANG HAVE CEASED EVEN TO PRETEND
that they are anything else than a cell of right-wing-extemist political operatives. They breached protocol by showing up in toto at Trump’s disgustingly partisan, all-Republican state dinner for the British monarchy.
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OBAMA ALLOWED McCONNELL TO STEAL A SUPREME COURT SEAT; BIDEN REFUSED TO INSTITUTE ANY REFORM OF THE BLATANTLY CORRUPT ROBERTS COURT
Once again, the racist, traitorous Roberts mob has come out swinging against democracy and put their thumbs on the scale to benefit Republicans. But they couldn’t have done it without a supine Democratic Party. The Democrats have to profoundly rethink … Continue reading
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HEADS UP & HATS OFF FOR ANDRÉ LEVINSON & JOHN GOODMAN
Yale University Press has just published Goodman’s new translation of watershed dance texts by Levinson from early in the previous century: “Dance Today–Studies–Notes–Porraits.”
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