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Jeff Bezos, who cut pension benefits for Washington Post staff when he purchased the paper for pin money, threw a real Monster Mash at his Washington, DC mansion last night.

Why in the world does he need 11 bedrooms?

From Rinconete and Cortadillo

After stealing the sexton’s purse, boy thief Corado approaches him to steal once more:

“He began to talk such utter drivel and spin such a yarn about the theft and recovery of the purse, raising his hopes and failing to finish a single sentence that he began, that the poor sexton was quite mesmerized listening to him.”

It’s happening NOW, beginning with Trump’s attempt–masterminded by the Mulvaney monster–to cut Social Security Disability benefits.

Our Treasury Secretary’s stupid, arrogant comments in Davos remind Greta Thunberg and the generation she represents that to save their futures, they will have to directly oppose much of the older generation.

Roberts’ decade-long attack on American democracy now forces him to preside over the fruits of his labors, and it’s not a pretty sight.

Dana Millbank writes in the Washington Post:

“Citizens United, and the resulting rise of the super PAC, led directly to this impeachment. The two Rudy Giuliani associates engaged in key abuses — the ouster of the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, the attempts to force Ukraine’s president to announce investigations into Trump’s political opponents — gained access to Trump by funneling money from a Ukrainian oligarch to the president’s super PAC.”

on behalf of his master, Donald J. Trump.

Well, I mean, he’s tried everything else so far, with predictable results.

Now will that also be Sen. Graham’s defense for his own behavior?

Obama’s intervention into the primary process is going to spark a much more surgical examination of his own presidential record.

As David Bromwich writes in American Breakdown: the Trump Years and How They Befell Us:

“Anyone who voted twice for Obama and was baffled twice by what followed–there must be millions of us–will feel that this president deserves a kind of criticism he has seldom received. Yet we are held back by an admonitory intuition. His predecessor was worse, and his successor most likely will also be worse.”

Bromwich wrote these words in 2015; all of what he describes, however, will start to shift the moment Obama steps back into the intra-prarty fray.

if he goes out and campaigns against Sanders.

She’s oh-so-offended by Nadler’s arguments.

That would be the same Sen. Murkowski that some Democrats in their naivete thought might rise and defend our democracy.

She does whatever Daddy Mitch tells her to do.

Let’s drop any pretense that the GOP Congressional delegation is anything but a traitorous bunch of rogue pro-totalitarians.

They are, indeed, enemies of the American people.

The syrupy fraud voted last night to destroy democracy and let Donald Trump–you know, the one who just said he wants to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid–rule as a dictator.

My, that is exceptional.