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Robert Kraig at OurFuture.org calls the GOP’s health-care hustle “one of the most audacious and tragic bait-and-switches in American history.”

Alex Ross at The New Yorker prognosticates “The Fate of the Critic in the Clickbait Age”

Again, like so much of our MBA-and-mogul-dictated editorial content, eliminating arts criticism does not reflect the reality of what many people are doing: “critic-free cities still have well-attended opera houses and orchestras, which loom large in local cultural economies.”

Nevertheless the lack of media exposure is crippling the arts.

The point is, editor dunderheads, content that is not the most click-intensive may still serve an important public as well as consumer interest.

Remember public interest?

Remember consumer interest?

And the “mainstream” media wonders why it’s in freefall.

The more the media chases trends rather than setting its own agenda, the more weak and irrelevant it becomes.

Well, we certainly know why Trump’s gang of shysters was trashing the CBO, don’t we?

Representative Gallego calls Ryan “one of the best liars in the world.”

I wouldn’t say “best,” however, I would say “most brazen.” But Gallego clarifies: Ryan will look anyone or any camera straight in the face and lie.

He’s got absolutely no compunction about it.

The more the “mainstream” media fails to do its job of holding Trump and the GOP accountable, the more easy it is for Trump to exploit people’s feeling that they are being conned and join his crusade to throw the baby out with the bathwater–thus allowing Trump and his Fascists full sway.

Why weren’t the Sunday talk show hosts confronting Price and Ryan about how their sham of a bill destroys Medicare and Medicaid?

Ben Mathis-Lilley at Slate reports that Steve Bannon is a big fan of an absolutely lunatic-fringe anti-immigrant novel, The Camp of the Saints.

Truly, they have reached new depths of deceit and rhetorical sleight-of-hand.

They’re monsters.

This champion of self-reliance doesn’t even pay his own phone bills.

The “de” Kochs and their friends have every intention of taking over this country by rewriting the Constitution. And they may very well make it happen.

Thom Hartman at Alternet describes what the evil oligarchs are up to.

Bannon’ s game plan to bring American down is proceeding full steam with the Trump administration’s evisceration of the regulations that protect us, the institutions that allow society to function.

DC Report chronicles Bannon’s unfolding template for American flame out.

Why is this sinister, unmoored fanatic at large? Why is Bannon in the White House?