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I mean, no one innocent would be spraying the the tweet waves with pre-emptive attacks like this.

The Disturbed Moron-in-chief tweeted in 2014 that “This very expensive GLOBAL WARMING bullshit has got to stop.”

If only it was that easy to stop Global Warming.

stealing from the Medicare trust fund.

Time capsule on youtube: a simulated behind-the-curtain visit to Richard Avedon’s studio, devised for an advertising campaign in 1973.

Avedon has multiple balls in the air, but then the small, wiry maestro demonstrates to long and lanky Jean Shrimpton how he wants her to jump. She expresses uncertainty, but once before the camera, she’s in the zone. Avedon sinks to the ground in homage.

There’s a companion piece where Avedon’s subjects are  languid Anjelica Huston and Pat Cleveland getting kinky, and you see A-team hair and make up artists Ara Gallant and Way Bandy.

And a really madcap one with Lauren Hutton where her dressing room turns into A Night at the Opera.

And a cross-dressing vignette with Veruchka.

Avedon lensed the series for Japanese retail company Jun Rope.

Buzzard Tom Price is happy, because the House bill is also likely to weaken employer-based insurance plans, a long-standing objective of this leering travesty of a caregiver.

Tierney Sneed at TalkingPointsMemo describes how Trumpcare could be exploited by private insurance companies to weaken coverage.

And knowing what we do of our insurance companies and of Tom Price, “could” is going to equal “will.”

He doesn’t succumb to the clannishness that often afflicts Times staff and instead criticizes Bret Stephen’s unacceptable and stupid generalization about Arabs.

Hiring Stephens is an unforced error by the paper.

Supporters of Donald J. Trump calling Stephen Colbert homophobic!

With Fascist sympathizer Tucker Carlson as point man, Fox “News,” the propaganda engine for the GOP, goes after anyone opposed to Trump.

Read James Poniewozick in The New York Times describe how “Fox and Enemies” is ratcheting up the demonization of those who would defend democracy from the depredations of Trump and the GOP.

Preyed upon and emboldened by fanatic Steve Bannon, Trump’s authoritarian instincts are now running wild.

American democracy’s just not fair–not fair to aspiring dictators is his realpolitic.

Christ Hedges writes at Truthdig: “The Roman, Mayan, French, Habsburg, Ottoman, Romanov, Wilhelmine, Pahlavi and Soviet dynasties crumbled because the whims and obsessions of ruling idiots were law.

Donald Trump is the face of our collective idiocy.”