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“Trump got another fake physical. It’s a stunning pile of lies and fabrications. ‘Advanced imaging’ means brain scans like MRI or PET to track his dementia and meds. It doesn’t even mention “chronic venous insufficiency” which the WH claimed he had when his big ankles were spotted. That’s because he doesn’t have it. He was wearing dementia balance supports that made his ankles look swollen. The cover-up of Trump‘s health decline and dementia is one of the biggest scandals in US history.”

vented his insanity in a series of secret lectures that the Washington Post has uncovered.

and he’s sure blowing up a lot of South American fishermen. Nevertheless, the GOP insists that he deserves a Nobel Peace Prize.

The Republicans are desperate to turn this sow’s ear into a silk purse–and the more derelict, illegal, and demented his behavior becomes, the more vociferously they make more and more outrageous demands that he be glorified.

Almost. (You know how I value nuance.)

The Editorial Board and/or Bezos apparently consider Trump attempting a coup to be an “official action.”

A new low.

Former Post columnist Philip Bump Blueskys:

“I spent more than a decade at The Post. It was good to me and I was proud to work there. I’ve largely refrained from being critical since I left. But this framing of the special counsel probe is embarrassing and flatly wrong. Stunning, but not.”

Bumps is one of many excellent Post staffers who were bought out by Bezos as he pillages the newspaper.

The outage doesn’t stop at Bump, as Robert Davis at Raw Story documents.

A major lieutenant in Trump’s not-so-slow moving coup, Pam Bondi’s C-list histrionics reminded us, as if we needed reminding, how subversive this regime is, how contemptuous of America and our democracy. They really are defecating on our nation. And no matter how many hours Bondi practiced in front of the mirror, she just doesn’t have it.

Let’s look forward to cheering when Bondi is jailed for perjury and obstruction of justice–the way that Bill Barr should have been.

Thank you to Sen. Schiff for calling out her “canned tricks” –the fake outrage, the performative petulance, the insults, the Dynasty fleering, the deflection–and reciting an inventory of her chronic stonewalling.

I’m reading Lewis’ It Can’t Happen Here, a fictionalized, quasi-verite (FDR is a character) chronicle of a fake populist fascist’s takeover of America.

Lewis understood America to a T: “There’s no country in the world that can get more hysterical—yes, more obsequious! than America,” one character states.

This was one prong of their all-out attempt to get Trump re-elected.

Stephen Prager at Common Dreams surveys the gathering outrage.

we might remember what D.D. Guttenplan said in The Nation last May: “Identifying, conditioning, and credentialing the ruling class is what Ivy League universities are for.” But, still, we expect them to stand up for freedom of thought and expression–for everyone.

Dye her hair blonde and have plastic surgery in order to look like the army of MAGA media zombie women.

Evince hyperventilation as she accuses Trump’s political opponents and his victims of malfeasance.

Play victim the moment her lies are exposed.

Like shameless and incessantly. Pepper your lies with “frankly,” the way that Trump does.

Wear a crucifix necklace at all times.

Triump lies constantly, but we have to take it seriously when he said that Harvard is going to forfeit their status to conform to the Trump agenda that wants to denigrate higher education and insists that education should be primarily utilitarian. The White House doesn’t want an informed public that knows how to deploy critical thinking. Instead, Harvard is apparently going to be spending $500 million on setting up vocational training schools.

Harvard’s president and trustees demonstrate that no matter how educated you are, without integrity and emotional intelligence you’re not fit to lead.