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Appointing Bruce Reed deputy chief of staff, Joe Biden ensures that in yet-another Democratic administration, Social Security will not be safe.

Jeff Cohen of RootsAction describes its “No Honeymoon” campaign as:

“an effort to help save Biden from himself and from following in the footsteps—missteps, really—of his predecessors Obama and Clinton. Too much hesitation, vacillation, corporatism in the first two years will likely bring on a Republican landslide for Congress in 2022, as Clinton’s vacillation and corporatism, like NAFTA, did in 1994, and Obama’s in 2010, for example his bailing out Wall Street but not homeowners through a foreclosure freeze.”

Singing “Ritorna Vincintor” in English in 1949, her diction is super crisp.

Yes, she could have been a great dramatic soprano.

At Truthout, Sasha Abramsky writes about the pandemic’s catastrophic toll on the arts in this country.

Needless to say, “a brutally cutthroat media market in the U.S. has put a premium on rant-radio and rant-cable-TV, often at the expense of the arts.”

Very important piece by DC Report at Raw Story about highly suspicious Republican Senate victories mediated through ES & S voting machines.

AOC voted to retain Pelosi as Speaker. Rep. Kathleen Rice did not.

So who does the Democratic establishment vote to fill a seat on the Energy committee?

Rice, not AOC, of course.

You can’t make the Democratic party up.

When you turn off the sound on all fakes, freaks, traitors buttressing Trump, their facial fakery gives them away even more egregiously.

Today’s Senate “voter fraud” hearing was yet another example of the GOP’s traitorous manipulation of its voters.

After months of propagandizing its voters to fear the chimera of “voter fraud,” the GOP senators were today insisting that by giving credence to the delusions of their victims, they were supporting the legitimate rights of American citizens.

It sure seems like it, what with Barr finally deciding he’s participated in enough traitorous criminality for now, and Trump mouthpieces making very martial noises indeed.

Mikhail Bulgakov’s 1925 anti-Soviet satirical allegory The Fatal Eggs describes what happens when society’s wires get entirely crossed. A magic ray is used to cure a virus that’s killing off chickens. Except that test-case chicks are sent to the ray-inventor’s lab in Moscow, and a menagerie of reptiles on which the scientist wanted to experiment are sent by accident to the countryside, where they mutate and perpetuate murderous mayhem. And mayhem takes hold at the Moscow lab as well. There’s more than enough mayhem to go around. Things have gotten completely out of hand.

But no, in Bulgakov’s novella, Kellyanne Conway is not referenced.