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So says triumphant Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, as Jair Bolsonaro’s apocalyptic presidency comes to an end.

the exodus must begin, and a new platform for decent Americans established.

In fact, the exodus already has begun, and Musk hasn’t even let Trump back on yet.

Why is this ghastly, treasonous network allowed to incite violence on a daily and nightly basis?

Fox “News” and its affiliates in the right-wing propaganda bubble bear direct responsibility for the attack.

“It is all a lie,” Michael Moore writes today in his daily bulletin. “They have no clue what they are taking about. They tell the story they want to tell. If it doesn’t fit their narrative, it’s not in the story. You are being misled, bamboozled, hoodwinked, scared to death, and made to believe that the economy has imploded when the factual truth is that wages are up, unemployment is at the lowest in half a century, more jobs have been created during this presidency than any other president in their first two years, inflation has slowed, the economy grew 2.6% last quarter, and everyone on Social Security is going to get a whopping 8.7% increase in their monthly checks in the coming year.”

Penguin Random House’s decision to pay cult member and extremist political hack Amy Coney Barrett $2 million for her story on paper is one more disastrous betise by the corporate publishing world. This advance will never earn out. Her agency all but embezzled the publisher, but it is, of course, an easy mark for this type of hustle.

This acquisition is all you need to know about why corporate publishing is in freefall.

But more than that, it is an affront to human rights, as the open letter signed by 250 literary figures makes clear.

His moldy, pasty delivery–he’s part village yenta and part village idiot–
is now fully engaged in training its seamy defamation against John Fetterman.
This right after Tucker had a cow about his son’s nepotistic trajectory being made public.

And Tucker is who the Murdochs want to pay millions to. This is what they want to inflict on America.

and the craven, right-wing, repressive American Psychiatry Association spurned her–and then received a windfall of government funding–after which Yale University fired her, at the behest of–are you sitting down?–Alan Dershowitz.

Needless to say, every prediction Dr. Lee made has been borne out. Nothing like telling the truth to enrage Establishments.

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In America, cultural aspiration follows economic. With economic mobility basically paralyzed after forty-years of Reaganism and neo-liberalism, millions of Americans were tired of any internal or societal pressure to improve or elevate, or expand themselves. They backslid to a position of primal stupidity, hatred of anyone who had any cultural sophistication, or basically anyone who could think or had actual expertise they could contribute to the general good. Thus the radical belief that whereas Mr. and Ms. MAGA would demand that plumbers or dentists know their jobs, climate scientists who warned them what was coming were talking down to them.

That made Trump, the stupidest, most ignorant, least cultured, most boorish candidate imaginable, very attractive indeed.

If DeSantis wins election, it is time to declare Florida a rogue state, replete with Stalinist public education and the whole nine yards.

As Charlie Christ took him to the woodshed time after time, Ronny D looked like he was able to start crying.

Sure, Ronny can keep up the lies and bluff–so long as there is no one there to challenge him.