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“Mahmoud is one of the most upstanding people I have ever met,” a Jewish Columbia student writes at the Zeteo substack. If Trump can get away with this, he can get away with arresting any American whose protests don’t meet with his approval.

Maria Bartiromo is endlessly rewarded for her perpetual, brazen, ludicrously false lying–which should have gotten her fired when Carlson was. Now Trump has even rewarded her with a seat on the Kennedy Center’s thoroughly degraded board, where her squawking and smacking will no doubt be appreciated.

Since Biden had gone even more silent that he was as president, will a single Democrat start correcting the revisionist narrative hawked by Trump and handmaidens like Bartitomo?

“You’ve ruined this place,” irate concert goers yelled at J.D. and Usha. It took no time at all. Trump can fix or create nothing; he can only fleece and destroy.

Sally Quinn tells David Smith in the Guardian: “The Kennedy Center has been so much a part of the city for so long and suddenly it’s gone. They’ve lost in the first couple of weeks 50% of their ticket sales. They’re not getting the donations they used to get. All kinds of acts are cancelling and people I know say they won’t ever set foot in that place.”

Let’s not forget that he was an architect of the failed 2016 campaign against Trump, and then repeated the same daffy and feckless policies in the failed 2024 election against Trump.  Why would anyone trust him on strategy?

Even Nancy Pelosi opposed his latest betise, surrenduring to Trump because he was going to promote his inane “Schumer Showdown” slogan. Couldn’t you, Leader Schumer, have come up with your own inane alliterative slogan to retaliate?

Why are the politically prominent and powerful staying silent as the Musk-Trump-GOP coup expands and worsens?

As Nader writes at Common Dreams,  “mum’s the word,” which it comes to the Bushes, the Clintons, the Obamas, the Bidens. And Kamala Harris as well. She can forget about being elected to anything ever again.

If they were interested in saving America, they would come out as a united front against the coup. But it’s looking like when America needed them most, they were absent. We will never forgive them for their deplorable acts of cowardice. As Nader states, “Silence is complicity!”

Nader rightly calls out The New York Times for under-reporting that resistance that is being waged by others. But then again, their news department worked overtime to get Trump re-elected, so I don’t think we should expect too much.

Nader mentions the “unofficial hearings” the Democracts have claimed they will be convening. When?

His announcement of military action is a Hail Mary to distract from his and Musk’s coup and his leveling of our economy.

His declaration of war against Venezuela is a prelude to him declaring martial law in the U.S. to defang Americans protesting his dictatorship.

IF YOU DON’T HAVE A PUBLIC THAT KNOWS”

Gov Walz explains the GOP’s hatred of public education and a wildly enthusiastic audience in red-state Iowa get it. 

This is what works to engage and mobilize an electorate.  Schumer’s second guessing and Carville’s “roll over and play dead” do not.

One participant called for “viral videos that show Democrats fighting back”–the last thing our phlegmatic neoliberal Democrats have on their minds.  Their disastrous non-engagement paradigm must be revised.

Trump’s assault on democracy nationwide is almost matched by Adams’ in NYC. The impulse is the same.

Unbelievably, City Hall now wants to partner with the private Real Estate Board to encourage demolition of historic NYC structures! On our dime, of course.

Village Preservation calls this outrage “unprecedented.”

“The plan runs diametrically opposed to environmental best practices. It ignores the unique ability of older buildings to adapt to new uses, while distinctive history and architecture that can’t be recreated are retained.”

AOC  tweets: 

“I hope Senate Democrats understand there is nothing clever about setting up a fake failed 30 day CR first to turn around & vote for cloture on the GOP spending bill. Those games won’t fool anyone. It won’t trick voters, it won’t trick House members. People will not forget it.”

If the Dems enable the monstrous GOP Continuing Resolution they will be facing even more primary challengers next year.

Minority Leader Schumer needs to finally get it: We’re not going along with TRUMP l’oiel “resistance.”

Only now are we really being allowed to hear what Walz has to say. This is another reason why David Ploufffe’s campaign strategy was so calamitous. Instead,  for a while we had Liz Cheney as Harris’s virtual running mate. 

Again: why are Plouffe, Axelrod, and Emanuel still allowed to steer Democratic policy?