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WHY IS COMEY NOT YET UNDER INVESTIGATION?
The GOP is now trampling on every last vestige of democracy and legitimate judicial/government process and procedure. Comey broke the law. He broke it in collusion with Congressman Chaffetz as well as how many others in the GOP. Nate Silver … Continue reading
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POST-DEMOCRACY AMERICA
We have an electoral and judicial system that now actively suppresses democracy, and today’s Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision is just the latest demonstration of that.
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IN GOOD CONSCIENCE
How can the electors possibly install Trump? His inflammatory, categorical denials about Russian interference tell us all we need to know about how he was “elected,” as much as do the assault on the recounts. And the people around Trump … Continue reading
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SHOULD BE AN INTERESTING CHAT
On January 16, I’ll be interviewing Mimi Paul and Edward Villella for the Balanchine Foundation, after they rehearse their old roles in Balanchine’s Bugaku with New York City Ballet’s Maria Kowroski and Jared Angle. Bugaku was created in 1963 for … Continue reading
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FASHION SHOULD BE FREEING
It’s all gotten so excessive. I mean, honies, what type of message do you think you’re sending about yourself when everything is new and everything is some type of fashion statement? Where do you fit in? Be free, be confident. … Continue reading
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THE FREAK SHOW
Josh Marshall writes at TalkingPointsMemo: “Trump’s administration ends up being made up of plutocrats, right wing extremists and generals. Basically, exactly what you should have expected, unless you were stupid.” Not a populist, not a genuine man or woman of-the-people … Continue reading
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HARRY REID’S STRONG FINISH
Liberated from having to toe Obama’s line, he denounces to Joy-Anne Reid the seditious James Comey: “I think he should be investigated by the Senate. He should be investigated by other agencies of the government including the security agencies because … Continue reading
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ONCE AGAIN, SANDERS CALLS IT
Trump is indeed, as Sanders just told Chris Hayes “a pathological liar.” [I love Hayes’s tweet last night: “I honestly, I have no idea what’s happening and everything is totally insane. Good night!”] Why didn’t/hasn’t Hillary said this about Trump? … Continue reading
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HOW MUCH DAMAGE HAS OBAMA DONE
to America as well as the Democratic Party by his failure to act decisively and thus presidentialy by facing down the Republicans as they became ever more extreme? Obama leaves in his wake a chain of cowering reaching to the … Continue reading
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NBC ADVERTISERS MUST BE BOYCOTTED
If the network is OK about being complicit with Trump in making a mockery of American democracy and obliterating ground rules about avoiding Presidential conflicts of interest. What is it Donald–do you need the extra money?
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