TRUMP ASSUMES THE ISRAELI MILITARY SECRETS HE BLABBED TO RUSSIA WERE SENT TO IRAN

That’s why he keeps prating about how the terrorist offensive all comes from Iran.

Leave it to Trump to create catastrophe, then use the catastrophe he’s created as a specious argument for why he should be given license to generate additional mayhem.

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JOSH HAWLEY’S LATEST PERFORMATIVE SPASM OF SHRILL FAKE OUTRAGE

Boy, does he think he knows how to fake it.

Hawley is one of the traitorous Christo-fascists who attempted to overthrow our democracy in 2021 and are now pretending to care about anti-Semitism. They’re doing this as a way to opportunistically score points against the Biden administration, and as a continuation of their January 6 coup attempt.

Sen. Hawley’s Soviet-style heckling of Secretary Mayorkas was cheap, disgusting theatrics. His attempt to smear the entire Department of Homeland Security because of posts one employee made is part of Hawley’s ongoing attempt to take down our democracy. 

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PHARISEE, THY NAME IS MIKE JOHNSON

Could anyone please name for me a single policy position that the fast-talking huckster advocates that in any way comports with the teachings of Jesus Christ?

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TRUMP’ S EMBRACE OF NETANYAHU WAS DISASTROUS FOR ISRAEL

Trump is an anti-Semite and neo-Nazi who embraced Netanyahu because he embraces right-wing militarism wherever he finds it, and because he wanted to propitiate the evangelicals.  Everything Netanyahu (who supported Hamas for a long time) is doing in Gaza right now (with Biden’s apparent blessing, and, of course, to the accompaniment of cacaphonic pom-pom waving by Trump) will perpetuate the cycle of violence and lead to more terrorist attacks on Israel.

Thank goodness for Jewish Voice of Peace. Their sit-in at Grand Central yesterday was heroic.

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BIDEN & THE DEMS NEED TO REMIND US WHAT HAPPENS WHEN TRUMP SAYS HE’S GOING TO “FIX’ OR “SAVE” ANYTHING

Americans suffer from collective amnesia, something that Obama didn’t quite get, so Biden has to instead hammer home the reality that Trump can accomplish nothing but chaos and  catastrophe. No better example than the way he sabotaged our response to COVID.

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PRONOUN EFFUSION

I mean, doesn’t humanity have more existential issues to deal with?

A very progressive octogenarian I interviewed still does guest teaching. When asked recently by one school what her pronoun was, she put down: “My pronoun is Her Majesty.”

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HOMANS’S MR. B

Jennifer Homans’s Mr. B: George Balanchine’s Twentieth Century reviewed by Orel Protopopescu.

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BEAUTIFULLY SAID BY ABBEY ZIMET AT COMMON DREAMS

A voice of sanity:

‘In a bitter, ravaged Middle East where both sides seek to out-war-crime each other – Hamas kills innocents, Israel rains down genocidal hellfire on a trapped populace – moral distortions and misinformation keep pace with atrocities. For the record: Hamas is not Palestine; Bibi and his gang of racist thugs are not Israel; sometimes evil, whether dressed in the language of liberation or righteous vengeance, is just evil; and amidst searing oppression and the carnage it begets, ‘Neither tragedy negates the other.””

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COMING ATTRACTIONS

You’ll read it here first:

Orel Protopopescu has written a consideration of Jennifer Homans’s Mr. B: George Balanchine’s 20th Century.

Naturally enough, Orel, whose biography of Tanaquil Le Clercq was published in 2021, gives a lot of thought to Homans’s portrayal of Le Clercq, as a consummate Balanchine ballerina and his last wife.

I’ll post it within the next few days.

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TRUMP KEEPS CONFUSING BIDEN AND OBAMA.

Is the corporate media going to continue to choose not to notice?

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