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RUBIO ALREADY EXPLOITING KIRK’S MURDER TO EXPAND TRUMP’S XENOPHOBIC AGENDA
With a new jihad against foreigners who don’t talk the way he wants them to talk about Kirk. t’s happening. Where are the Democrats? Why can’t they think on their feet? Why was Sen. Murphy equating the routinely incendiary rhetoric … Continue reading
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KEEPING IT REAL
The Democrats must not in any way accede to the Republicans’ lionization of Kirk. “We can condemn political violence and this hideous murder,” Christopher Cook writes at Common Dreams, “while also condemning Charlie Kirk for the rotten, vile hatred he … Continue reading
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REMEMBER THE DEPRAVED WAY TRUMP RESPONDED TO THE HORTMAN ASSASSINATION?
Ben Meiselas reminds us that there was not a word from Trump of sympathy or concern–just using it as a pretext to attack Gov. Walz. An utterly depraved and treasonous response. His address last night was equally abhorrent. Oh, and … Continue reading
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PATEL HAD JUST FIRED THE HEAD OF THE UTAH FBI FIELD OFFICE
The FBI has been pillaged by Trump & Patel, and the bumbling, feckless investigation that’s taken place is the result. A 22-year old gardening intern is head of domestic counter-terrorism. Elections have consequences.
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IF YOU DON’T WANT TO BE CALLED “HITLER,”
Herr Trump, then stop taking leaves from his authoritarian playbook.
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NOW TRUMP HOPS ON THE BANDWAGON
True to form, this president, who seemingly lives for the chance to sow division, hatred, and violence, blames “left-wing rhetoric” for Kirk’s murder. Kirk was, of course, himself as much a hate monger as Trump himself, so Trump’s reflective impulse … Continue reading
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JESSE WATTERS IMMEDIATELY EXPLOITS KIRK’S MURDER TO INCITE MORE VIOLENCE
As Mary Trump just pointed out, it is the Republicans who perpetually try to foment violence, in part by fanning the flames of paranoia that the right uses to justify its eliminationist ravings. This is exactly what the infernal Fox … Continue reading
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THE GOP’S JESUS RACKET IS OVER
They have blown it sky high by becoming the party of child rape and child sex trafficking.
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JOAN McCRACKEN DANCED DIVINELY, UNIQUELY
BacktoGreat profiles her on its YouTube channel. Also check out Lisa Jo Sagolla’s biography The Girl Who Fell Down.
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TIM COOK THOUGHT HE COULD EMBRACE FASCISM AND RECEIVE NO PUSHBACK
South Park has shown him otherwise. Weirdly regressed and submissive Mark Zuckerberg may have been the oddest tech mogul at the Oval Office Fascism Sabbath last week. But then again, he may not have been. It’s hard to think of … Continue reading
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