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I’m sort of watching all but simultaneously The Hours and Genius.

Good, bad or indifferent, I don’t care!

Films that concern literature!!

In a frantic, frenetic attempt to fend off the legal jeopardy he’s in resulting from his conspiracy with the anti-Clinton NY FBI office to influence and interfere with the 2016 presidential election.

Of course he’s on Maria Bartiromo’s show. Of course he is.

That’s America, under Auctioneer-in-Chief Trump.

In the New York Times, Hiroko Tabuchi describes what the Sociopathic Siblings are doing to defeat public transit projects.

It is time our arts and non-profit community decouple from these apocalyptic monsters.

Trump will claim that it exonerates him, of any and all legal charges, make that on any matter whatsoever, for all time, retroactively and going forward. .  .forever.

Zack Beauchamp at Vox:

“Border Patrol officers have apparently been telling parents that they’re just taking their kids away to bathe, only for the parents to realize hours later the kids are never coming back. This is the exact same thing concentration camp guards told people before being taken to gas chambers to stop them from panicking. . . ”

Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo decodes Trumps Nazi tweets:

“The use of the word ‘infest’ to talk about people is literally out of the Nazi/anti-Semites’ playbook for talking about the Jewish threat. It was also a standard for talking about Chinese in the western United States and it remains part of the vocabulary for talking about Romani (Gypsies) in parts of Europe. This is the most hard-boiled kind of racist demagogic language, the kind that in other parts of the world has often preceded and signaled the onset of exterminationist violence.”

Let’s put Ingraham in a cage — and then tell her it’s really a summer camp.

Let’s make it clear: this woman is a Fascist and a Nazi, an insidious, brazen propagandist for hate. She would have stood right at Hitler’s side and the Nazi salute she previewed at the GOP convention is something she must have been practicing in her spare time over many years.

There is a special place in hell for Murdoch, his Fox “News” and all the scum who shriek from his rostrums.

Once again, Ingraham covers herself in excrement with her attempt to rebrand Trump’s concentration camps.

And remember: first they came for those seeking refuge. . .

Unspeakable Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Neilsen won’t apologize for just doing her job.

That’s what I’m calling my essay on the stylish ballerinas of 1950s New York City Ballet for the exhibition catalogue to the Fashion Institute of Technology’s upcoming show: “Ballerina: Fashion’s Modern Muse.”

My title is a riff on Le Clercq’s being described a “dryad of Fifth Avenue” in Afternoon of a Faun.