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One of the corporate media’s greatest betrayals of America has been its willingness to carry water for anti-abortion zealots by calling them “pro life.” They are not. Anti-abortion politicians invariably vote against any proposal that will benefit nonwealthy post partum Americans. The right-wing political operatives serving on the Supreme Court hate Americans and humanity in general, as evidenced by their latest pro-gun ruling on bump stocks. 

Clarence Thomas, the most corrupt Supreme Court justice in our history, wrote the majority opinion.  Of couse it makes no legal sense whatsoever.  Of course the right-wing justices have once again made themselves self-styled experts on subjects that they know nothing  about.

This is what the Founding Fathers feared that the nascent Supreme Court would become.

It is time for Biden to say that these grotesque rulings by a thoroughly compromised Court will no longer be heeded.

In the Washington Post, Ron Charles reviews Ramin Seetoodeh’s “Aprentice in Wonderland: How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett Took America Through the Looking Glass.”

The Republican Party has sunk to a level of traitorous idolatry and degradation once thought impossible for any major political organization in this country to descend to.

Trump would again crash the economy should he be elected.  Trump-supporting moguls, obsessed with their belief that they should not be subject to taxation, are shooting themselves and the country in the foot.

who is attempting to turn this country into a theocracy, as the latest behind-closed-doors raving proves beyond the shadow of a doubt. He is completely opposed to an open, tolerant, pluralistic society.  In other words, he’s treasonous.

Sen. Durbin isn’t going to send more letters, is he?–letters that he knows the thoroughly unfit Roberts majority will ignore. We need subpoenas.  We need impeachment.

will lie about anything at all. His moral degradation is more evident by the day. Slathered in make up as if in imitation of his North star–does he experiment at home?– Vance recounts on Bartiromo’s freak show on Fox Propaganda an either imaginary or a staged conversation where Trump. who has insulted and demeaned veterans over and over again, now allegedly praised dtem to J.D.’s very own ears.

Spare us.

The Landmarks “Preservation” Commission is a city organization that now seems to largely exist for the purpose of withholding landmark designation from deserving properties.  It had the audacity to dispute the factual information unearthed by Village Preservation concerning tthe storied history of 50 West 13th street. the last surviving 19th century row house on the block between Fifth and Sixth Avenues,

Yes, as I told you all in 2021, I made my theatrical debut here in 1969, when it was the 13th Street Theater. But, believe it or not, even that does not exhaust the building’s historical importance!

From VP:

“From 1858 to 1884, it was home to Jacob Day, one of New York’s most wealthy and successful 19th century African American businessmen and real estate owners, crusader for African American civil rights, and a prominent supporter of African American institutions. 

” Sarah Smith Tompkins Garnet, a prominent leader in the movements for abolitionism, women’s suffrage, and advances in education,l ived in the building for close to a decade.” 

For over three years, the LPC has been stonewalling attempts by VP and other preservation advocates to win landmark designation for this notable piece of NYC history. They are allowing the  owner to neglect it to the point of no return. Every time I walk by it’s in worse shape–the windows now are broken.

Once again, a reminder that moguls are an absolute disaster running anything that is designed to fulfill a public interest.

Instead of sicc-ing Will Lewis and his white, male, politically reactionary cronies on the Washington Post, Bezos could subsidize the paper without the necessity of even a cut to his pizza take-out budget.

It’s worth nothing that as Bezos has been making more and more far-right public pronouncements, he has been steadily replacing top-level Post staff with the like minded.

It’s also exceedingly rich that the Wall Street Journal has just  laid off more journalists despite Murdochland posting record profits.  Editor-in-chief Emma Tucker spouts generic gibberish along the lines of advertising slogans to defend her decision. Were Stone’s cutbacks responsible for the disgraceful lapse in QC evidenced by the WSJ’s hit job on Biden earlier this week?

Tucker is behaving true to form as a Murdoch puppet, and, again, we see that moguls’ commitment to journalism and the public good is transactional at best.

And why does America continue to believe that Brits know more about journalism than we do?

Executive editor Sally Buzbee refused and shortly afterward she was out at thePost.

Is it not possible for Bezos to find someone savory to run the  Post?

Benjamin Mullin and Katie Robertson report in the Times on one of the initial lowlights of Lewis’ tenure.  There already have been many more. 

Any grand jury in this ountry would laugh any one of the GOP’s retribution prosecutions out of court.