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If 1965 marked the cultural high point of American history, when the National Endowment for the Arts was founded, this year marks its nadir, as Trump is allowed to weaponize and degrade the Kennedy Center and the Kennedy Center Honors.

Let’s be clear: the KC Honors were already in decline, degenerating into a celebration of corporate entertainment product that more and more excluded the non-profit, classical arts. Nevertheless, Trump’s miserably unfunny and ungainly speechifying, and the sad, appalling imprint of a moronic philistine’s cultural despotism, sunk the KC and its Honors to depths that I’m sure no one could have predicted before Trump.

Now Trump is commencing his oldies tour tonight in Pennsylvania. He and his courtiers think that the Trump brand of blame, lies, abuse, and reality-denial actually provides sufficient entertainment value to make people forget the economic wreckage he is brokering for this country.

“No factors were more pivotal than the outlooks and actions of the Democratic Party leadership,” Norman Solomon, author of The Blue Road to Trump Hell, writes at Common Dreams. “Scrutinizing them now is vital not only for clarity about the past. It also makes possible a clear focus on ways to prevent further catastrophe.”

turn into potted plants again and again as Trump launches psychotic diatribes against any reporter responsible enough to correct his endless lies. It happened again today.

Meiselas has an infant at home, and the NRC raising the level of radiation exposure it considers acceptable will lead to higher cancer rates among women and children in particular.

Beyond Nuclear reports on the ominous fallout from Trump’s Executive Order 14300, titled in true Orwellian fashion “Ordering the Reform of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.”  

It is absolutely amazing to me that the citizen journalists like Meiselas, who do such great work covering so much of Trump’s calamitous presidency, simply ignore the energy and environmental issues that are sealing this country’s fate.

And what about the “MS NOW” hosts? Why is every host covering exactly the same few issues, none of which seem to touch on ensuring the survival of the human species?

for the survival of this country and of the human species.

At Common Dreams, Les Leopold reminds us that Kamala Harris “didn’t offer a sound that offended the donor class.”

And don’t believe Harris’s spin: her campaign didn’t fail because they didn’t have enough time, as she claims. Week by week, between the debate and then election, her popularity sagged. The more America saw of her, the less impressed they were. Bernie pleaded with her publicly to course correct, and she and her team of trough-feeding corporate consultants refused.

Predictably, they handed the election to Trump.

marks the Trump-Fox Propaganda galaxy of robotic fascists the least stylish fashion strata ever seen.

This is trivia compared to their ongoing destruction of this country and their war on facts and truth, but nevertheless. . .

But Ken Klippenstein has obtained the memo issued by traitorous, lawless Department of Justice head Pam Bondi, who wants her now-purged department to draw up list of any organization that they decide to call “un-American,” and mark them for prosecution.

Trump’s ramping up his war on free speech in America has gone largely ignored by corporate media, who once again are dismissing as beyond the pale the actual, stated intentions of Trump and his puppeteers at the Heritage Foundation.

At this point, no rational person could honestly believe that anything is beyond the Trump administration, so the corporate media’s ignoring this blueprint for fascist suppression should be understood as an endorsement.

and Republican treason. As fascist mouthpiece Karoline Leavitt recently informed us, the tacky white elephant is Trump’s first priority. It will deface Pennsylvania Avenue until a Democratic president with spine is finally elected. He/she must either demolish it, radically downscale it, or repurpose it in a way that befits America’s aspirations to democracy.

condescendingly scolding America’s youth, and speaking at an event organized by billionaire far-right Trump supporter Miriam Adelson.

Good old Hllary–she never learns.

Tom Joseph tweets:

“Trump fired the architect he had hired to build the White House ballroom bc he refused too make it gargantuan. Trump’s mental disorder and evil intent is reminiscent of Hitler’s desire to build the 180k seat Volkshalle indoor stadium. Like Hitler’s failed attempt Trump will never build his ballroom.”