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Biden surging toward a “Midterm Massacre” as his forthcoming budget reneges on crouch campaign promises. Party likes it’s 2009, fellas!

One of the reasons for the desperate straits of the news business in America is the endless willingness of major news organization to take orders from the right wing.

Latest case in point: AP just fired reporter Emily Wilder because of her participation in pro-Palestinian protests that took place years ago, before she even came to work for the APl.

How in the world can a readership take seriously a news organization that folds like a cheap suit the moment the totalitarian right gins up a new battle against the media?

After a strong beginning, Biden begins to falter, negotiating with himself and whittling down his infrastructure bill to propitiate Republicans who are never going to vote for it anyway.

Will Establisihment Democrats ever learn how not to be played?

Kenny Stancil at Common Dreams reports:

“Progressive critics argued that Biden’s unprompted embrace of spending cuts is a political disaster that threatens to undermine the nation’s attempt to recover from the pandemic-driven economic downturn and to confront the looming climate emergency.”

and slashing funding for renewables.

Nuclear power is hideously dangerous, inefficient, and expensive.
And it does nothing to curb carbon emissions.

Biden’s windfall is included in the Amerian Jobs Act.

It has got to change.

In her upcoming bomb for Simon & Schuster [oops–I mean Penguin Random House], Barrett is ostensibly going to talk about how personal beliefs shouldn’t affect judicial decisions.

That, of course, ia a joke because Bardrett has and will continue to let her personal and religious beliefs affect her rulings.

Her lack of judicial ethics and integriy is also screamingly obvious, most recently in her refusal to recue her self from a case brought before the Supreme Court by the right-wing, dark money group that helped get her confirmed.

If Barrett had any ethics, she would never agreed to be confirmed under the aegis of a corrupt GOP majority ramming through a nominee during an election.

Not would she have posed with Mussolini on his balcony.

EXPAND THE SUPREME COURT! IT HAS BEEN CAPTURED!

Rep. Stefanik’s reference to working with “President” Donald Trump gives away their game.

Tchernichova told me in 1991 that when she’d asked Baryshnikov to appear at a gala she was convening in Vienna, he told her, “Gala Schmala [sp.?] I’m not playing those games anymore!”

I think he was ABSOLUTELY right. He had recently resigned as ABT director and didn’t have to go through the gala ringer any more.

Although I also think it’s nice that these days, he does sometimes either attend or lend his participatory presence to the fund-raising rumble.

Taylor Greene compensates for the knowledge that she is totally without posistive distdintion by harassing her betters, in this case, AOC, whom MTG uses as a sounding board to project her treasonous support for domestic terrorism.

The Republicans are the Party of Treason.

Torn out of an unidentified trade newspaper, yellowed but unbowed, this clipping from a century-or-more-ago proclaims my grandfather’s ascent:

JOE LOW PRODUCTIONS
Will Furnish Acts For Shuberts’ Ad-
Vanced Vaudeville
New York, June 6 –
Negotiations have been completed by
The Joe Low productions to furnish acts working in “one” for the Shubert Advanced Vaudeville Circuit next season. Four such acts with a cast not exceeding people each will be placed in rehearsal shortly. These acts will be used to fill in between headline turns. They will be equipped with special sets. The Low Productions concern comes from Chicago and while they have been operating in New York but a short time they have gotten the jump on most of the vaudeville proucers here in putting thru this deal with the Shuberts.