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This is the standard playbook of Trump and the GOP: lie, lie, lie, in order to establish a fake pretext for a pitiless assault on the public interest.

KC’s new CFO Donna Arduin obviously doesn’t have the slightest idea or appreciation of what makes KC unique: it is not simply another commercial house, but a home for non profit arts that immeasurably enrich American humanity. That doesn’t a matter a bit to her or to the Trump gang.  

She is lying about KC’s finances, as Travis M. Andrews reports in the Washington Post:

“Several staffers disputed Arduin’s claim of a $100 million deficit, pointing out that it appears this is only the case if just ticket sales — and not donations and grants — are counted as revenue. The center, like most arts nonprofits, relies heavily on donations. The staffers spoke on the condition of anonymity because they feared retaliation. . .The most recent available tax filings, for the fiscal year ending in September 2023, shows the center made a profit of $6,495,064.”

It should also be noted that many KC offerings are free to the public.

Trump has never “saved” or “fixed” anything in his life. He has only degraded and trashed whatever he touched. The fact that the Democrats didn’t make clear last year is shameful.

“I know nothing!”

The treasonous Justice Roberts, directing the most partisan and corrupt Supreme Court majority in our history, intervened in the 2024 election, first refusing to rule on  Trump’s immunity appeal for months, dragging it out to buy more time for Trump, then mangling the Constitution to give Trump monarchial immunity from prosecution. The fact that Roberts was actually surprised at the outcry that followed shows you just how high on his own delusional supply he is.

Now, what has happened is what anyone could have predicted: Trump has gone off the rails. His megalomania, insanity, lawlessness, vindictiveness, and senility combined to produce a full-bore attack on our entire judicial system.

Roberts has found out what the New York Times and so many other individuals and institutions have: the more you do for Trump, the more he will turn on you if you attempt to draw any line.

On Democracy Now, Amy Goodman interviews the Guardian’s Chris McGreal about the very unsavory allegiances behind the two authoritarians. 

will win by calling out Musk’s election interference. not to mention, of course, his lawless wrecking of our country.

is now trying to exact Stalinist forced confessions, as an eye witness tells America that the Venezuelans deported to a concentration camp in El Salvador were beaten and told to “Sign this!”

Is this the regime that Columbia University and our major corporate law firms feel comfortable aiding, abetting, and surrendering to? Apparently.

Lisa Needham writes at Public Notice:

“Paul, Weiss’s agreement to provide tens of millions of dollars of free labor to the administration inevitably makes them collaborators in Trump’s agenda and compromises the firm’s integrity. It also puts them in the same position as Columbia, constantly needing the administration’s approval to stave off new shakedowns. But the administration, like any bully, will keep attacking, will keep changing the terms, and no acquiescence will ever be sufficient. That’s exactly why bending the knee is such a bad idea.”

Beyond Nuclear describes how the Breakthrough Institute’s Ted Nordhaus makes it is his business to try and kybash qualified commissioners from being elected to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Always remember: nuclear power is at least as dangerous as burning fossil fuels.

But, oh, she’s just hyperventilating because Rep. Crockett wants to join a non-violent protest against Musk.

Oh the sham! Oh the manufactured outrage!

The entire Trump regime is made up of parodies like Bondi, except they’re also very dangerous and treasonous.

Adam Schiff during one of his recent You Tube bulletins–his channel is surprisingly entertaining, this is what Schumer and Jeffries don’t understand that they need to do–relates that he, too, is concerned about how college administrations handled the recent protests. But he emphasizes that Trump’s shakedowns against Columbia and other universities is nothing other than an attempt to bring these institutions under his control so that they succumb to Trump’s anti-fact agenda. And Schiff showed footage of J.D. Vance spewing fascist propaganda against higher ed. (After, of course, Vance had milked everything he could from the Ivy League.) What the universities must do, Sciff emphasized, is band together and provide a united front against Trump’s war on learning and fact.

Law firms should do the same thing.