TRUMP WANTS US IN THE DARK

Every day he shuts down democracy a little more.

Now the Pentagon will refuse to let us know how rapidly mission creep is spreading in Syria and Iraq.  No more disclosures about how many more troops they send.

W.J Henigan at the Los Angeles Times has the story.

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AUSCHWITZ SURVIVOR MAKES CLEAR THE PRECEDENT FOR BANNON/TRUMP

Bernard Marks, 87-year-old survivor of Auschwitz and Dacha, confronts ICE official in California.

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CORPORATE AMERICA IS NOT DEMOCRATIC

I’m all for citizen governance, but moguls are generally not equipped to function within the norms of democracy.

At the State Department, employees are now instructed not to speak to or even make eye contact with Secretary ex-Exxon Tillerson.

In the Washington Post, Anne Geaeron and Carol Morello report on Tillerson’s chilly remove from the public servants he is intended to direct.

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BANNON/TRUMP WANT MORE COMBAT CIVILIAN DEATHS

thus guaranteeing more terrorist recruitment.

It’s part of their take-America-down presidency, trapping us in a death cycle of eternal war.

It needs to be made clear what their priorities are.

In The New York Times, Charlie Savage and Eric Schmitt report on the White House’s “easing of combat rules meant to protect civilians” in Somalia.

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IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHY DEMS LOSE, LISTEN TO CLAIRE McKASKILL

She’s with the hand-wringing caucus.

Obviously she does not understand how much more extreme Gorsuch is than even Scalia.

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TRUMP’S MINI-ME

Isn’t it interesting that as Rep. Nunes becomes more and more compromised by Trump’s web of corruption, he becomes more Trump-like: more truculent, more disdainul of any and all of the laws and governing protocols of this country, more mocking and defiant with the press?

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GOOD-GOLLY, IT’S A COUP

What we’re really seeing with Gorsuch and the unfolding evidence of Trump’s illegitimacy is a slow-moving coup kicked off in 2010 by John Roberts, perhaps the most activist judge in American history. It all meshes together.

Roberts’ Citizens United ruling led to the unrestricted intrusion into American politics of the  anti-democracy Mercers. They funded Breitbart and its psychotic Bannon, then they installed him in the White House together with psychotic Donald Trump, whose path to the White House involved collusion with Russian sabotage.

Both Roberts and Gorsuch are, of course darlings of the far-eight Federalist Society, which released one of its officers on leave so that he could shepherd Gorsuch’s nomination.

The Federalist Society is attempting a full-scale retrofit of the American judiciary system, and Gorsuch will be its latest Supreme agent.

The Democrats must explain to the American public what they are trying to protect them from by fillibustering Gorsuch–namely, the culmination of a coup.

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GOP IS COMMITTING OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE

Given the massive, systemic cover up being waged by the GOP, the Dems should no longer cooperate with anything until order is re-established.

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THE MYTH OF BANNON AS POPULIST

Exactly what kind of populist would be plumping for a health care bill that strips health care from 24 million Americans in order to give a whopping tax cut to the very, very, very rich?

Bannon is as phony as Gorsuch.

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GORSUCH HAS BEEN A LOUD MOUTHED ELITIST ALL HIS LIFE

When his mother was forced out as EPA head because of her criminal misuse of SuperFund money and her utter disregard for the health and safety of Americans,  not a bit of  concern for families impacted by toxic waste did adolescent Neil evince.

It was all OK, the fifteen-year-old claimed, because Anne Gorsuch was doing what President Reagan wanted.

And this is the man who claims political considerations exert no influence on him.

“American Can’t Afford Another Gorsuch in Government,” Love Canal survivor Lois Marie Gibbs reminds us at Alternet.

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