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For the moment we won’t dwell on the recent Kennedy Center board dinner, where Trump rambled nonsensically and spewed numerous lies, while his complicit, completely unqualified KC deputies laughed their heads off.

The latest blow to the Center’s programming and prestige is the decision by Washington Performing Arts, the city’s major booking organization, to re-direct its clients aaway from the now tainted, discredited Center.

Typical for Trumpland, Rick Grenell, the Trump goon installed to run the Kennedy Center into the ground, is hurling every kind of lying accusation at the previous board, sans any evidence presented whatsoever. That is to distract from the grevious harm that Trump and Grenell have inflicted on Kennedy Center.

So says a recent poll taken by the Jewish Voters Resource Center.

Surely that will give moreDemocrats the confidence to onfront the sham concern for anti-Semitism that Trump is using to destroy our democracy.

Dropping a banner of himself on the Department of Agriculture only makes more visible that creepy official portrait demonstrating that he can’t open his right eye.

When is America going to be told the truth about the state of Trump’s health? 

Tom Joseph tweets Jake Tapper a question: “ how’s your work progressing on your next book about Trump’s raging dementia?”

Trump, stumbles, bumbles, suffers constant synaptic glitches, walks into walls, says absurd things and can’t even lie with finesse, is visibly disoriented, and the corporate media just lets it all wash over them.

Trump at its best makes less sense than Biden at his worst.

Biden made more sense in the disaster debate than Trump did. Did any corporate media journalist take any time to actually read a transcript of the debate without the visual skew of Biden’s halting delivery? Has anyone dared to parse the insanity and lies that pumped out of Trump at that debate?

is simply the latest episode in the corporate media’s campaign to shift attention from Trump’s insanity and senility to Biden’s cognitive decline.

It’s yet another example of corporate publishing’s investment in books that are not books but instead put-up jobs. In all likelihood, his agent concocted the idea together with him, and then extorted big money from an ever-gullible corporate publisher; although it’s possible that it was commissioned. It was  undoubtedly written in frantic haste and the writing is probably perfunctory. But this is the kind of overly-promoted project for which the reviews are all but already written before the book is published–often by journalists who think that going along to get along will get themselves a better book deal.

Penguin deserves to lose every penny that they squandered on this.

The whole thing reeks.

It’s very interesting, by the way, that the corporate media was afraid to touch Michael Wolff’s latest Trump expose but they are all over Tapper’s Biden reveal.

The Daily Beast is reporting that the Disney brass who control ABC are now putting the squeeze on the women of The View to muffle their criticism of Herr Trump.

Corporate consolidation of our media has been an unmitigated disaster. People gasp when I tell them that there were 50+plus media companies controlling media when I started out, and there are now 5. 

For once they can’t be caught flat footed: when the catastrophic cuts to Medicaid and Medicare start destroying the lives of Trump’s constituents, the Republicans will come up with a new fake narrative to distract: it was all the fault of the “illegals” who were receiving health care that they shouldn’t.

Harris herself lost control of the campaign. The Nation reports that Harris had instructed her campaign to increase funding for ads in Black media. Her campaign paid no attention.

The neoliberals still hold to the condescending belief that voters of color have “no where else to go.” The fact is, they don’t have to go anywhere at all, including the polls, as they demonstrated last November.

Kali Holloway tallies “The Democrats Lost Millions.” 

City Hall’s determination to demolish the landmarked Tony DaPalito Recreation Center on Carmine Street motivated their refusal for years to make needed repairs.

Rally on June 1 to save a handsome building that has served the needs of New York City workers for over 100 years. 2:30 p.m. at the Center on Seventh Ave. So. and Clarkson St.