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They just fired half of the employees in the Department of Homeland Security’s anti-terrorism unit.

The Democratic party is now “leaderless,” she tells Mehdi Hassan. But since Schumer and Jeffrries won’t lead, or perhaps subscribe to a completely moribund concept of what leadership is, it’s time for others to open a new way forward.

because what he has to say is lying drivel. The way not to be pinned down about anything is to speak so rapidly that the listener is flummoxed. It’s the old used-car-salesman trick so popular with MAGA hustlers.

The “market” is constantly subject to intervention by the government, primarily to benefit the people inhabiting the very top echelons. 

As Jamison Foser writes on his Substack, “‘free market’ advocate Jeff Bezos is an extraordinarily rich man in part because Amazon and its subsidiaries  have enjoyed more than $1 billion in state and local government subsidies. “

Foser makes clear that Bezos is now significantly influencing not only the editorial pages but the division.

“Bezos’s increasingly right-wing agenda cannot have gone unnoticed by the people whose paychecks he signs, and though journalists have long insisted that cannot possibly have any effect, conscious or subconscious, on the way reporters and editors do their jobs, pretty much everything we know about human behavior tells us it does.”

I did renew my digital subscription to the Post because I just had to read their articles on Trump’s takeover of the Kennedy Center. But as Bezos continues to degrade the paper, I’m really concerned that he will make it insupportable.

“It’s all downhill from here,” Foser writes, “for at least as long as Bezos owns the paper.”

that he, the abused party, apologize to Trump and Vance, the aggressors.  Once again, by initiating this charade, Bret Baier gives away the game–he ain’t no journalist.

Democratic presidents Clinton, Obama and Biden bear enormous responsibility for the catastrophe that is the Trump reup. Clinton turned the Democrats into Republican-lite, Obama rescued the banksters but not the forelosed, while Biden actually achieved some progressive legislative victories but declined to inform the American people what they were.

All three ex-presidents owe it to America to start speaking out; Trump never kept his rictus mouth shut for a single day, and that’s in large part why he won. Biden’s refusal to refute Trump nourished Trump’s propaganda blitz.

If Clinton, Obama, and Biden continue to refuse to speak, they will then be complicit in the downfall of America. It’s their choice.

Two people who package themselves as absurdly as Trump and what’s his name, objecting to Zelenskyy not wearing a suit.

He has completely neutered the Washing press pool that not only do they not challenge his lies to his face, they help him perpetuate them. The lie he just uttered somehow becomes incorporated in the next “reporter”‘s question, as they attempt always to propitiate him. He says there’s been a 90% reduction in border crossing. Bull shit. Then a “reporter” says something like, “Even with the 90 per cent reduction. . . ”

These are out-of-work entertainers posing as journalists.

Pro Publica–you know, a news source that actually protects the public interest– explores this completely. dubious design for living, grifting, and traitorous undermining of the separation of church and state embedded in our Constitution. This is part of their plot to eviscerate democracy in this country, and so does qualify as statutory treason.

and corporate America says, “How high?”  Their abandonment of DEI initiatives is disgusting, must be met with boycotts, and shows how the post-Reagan model of corporate governance has contributed so heavily to America’s decline. All for the shareholder–no concern for public good. Shareholders will soon discover, however, how their capitulation to Trump’s indecency threatens their earnings.