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America has been very, very good to the Murdochs.

And in return they gave us Fox “News” and led the country off the cliff of pandemic.

The lawsuits have begun, The Daily Beast reports.

Trevor Noah and The Daily Show have put together a video mash-up of the right-wing conspiracy to downplay the threat of coronavirus.

These death-dealing media/political freaks must be prosecuted.

recounted in alarming detail by Ross Barkan in the Nation.

Cuomo is not a health-care hero.

Richard Davis’s “Wotan’s Daughter: The Life of Marjorie Lawrence” is great. Mixes the personal, the professional, and the vocal analysis seamlessly. An indispensable work if you care anything about opera.

The wealthy have to stay out of government.

No, I’m serious. Today’s wealthy are for the most part so out of touch with how 99% of the country live, or, indeed with most states of reality, that they scatter dysfunction like pollen.

The nicest way to describe Jared Kushner would be to call him a wet-behind-the-ears doufus, suffering from toxic entitlement and nepotism dependence, skilled only at palace intrigue.

Gabriel Sherman at Vanity Fair gives some of the more recent examples.

“I don’t blame anyone,” the sham meister-in-chief says about his and TrumpWolrld’s months-long belittling of the corona threat.

When he in fact is the biggest culprit.

The clown rictus, eyes-rolling-in-her-head lunacy. . .

John Stoehr at Raw Story explains:

The president knows he doesn’t have to do anything he doesn’t want to, and the GOP will back him up no matter how much he betrays our country.

“Yes, Trump will block the states from getting coronavirus testing in order to keep the national number of dead artificially low.”

Jordan Kurker-Mraz says that the originators of cultural intersectionality never dreamed how it would be manipulated. “It’s been gentfrified: white people are using it to pick on each other!”

You can read his new story, “A Guide to Life Without Baseball,”at jordne.online.

He tries to distract from his failure and his negligence by leveling outrageous, scattershot accusations–now it’s the apocryphal mask-hoarders.

Vile, vile man–but one thing we know:he never learns, changes, does anything new, so we can always predict what he’ll say/do. Therefore no one should be flustered or flummoxed, no matter how shameless he ges.