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Our current Supreme Court majority is the most corrupt, anti-democracy, and partisan in our history, and one of the most heartless. They proved that today when they clawed back the legal status and green lighted the deportation of thousands of Venezuelans, who will almost certainly face abuse. Of course they did so by the stealthy shadow docket-the Republicans are the party of personal responsibility, remember–and as well they oevrturned a lower court ruling–sometehing they do all the time. They are lawless.

that people could live without limbs but not without a torso, a center–by way of explaining the importance of an expressive torso in his work? Of course you do. It’s in my 1995 interview in Ballet Review with his assistant Airi Hynninen. I told that to a ballerina once and she said it gave her a key about how to perform his ballets. It showed on stage.

Anyway, I was thinking about that today and how people like Vance lack any ethical or patriotic center–let alone a spiritual one, despite how strenuously they use their professed Christianity as sword, shield and alibi. As a result, they are existing in a weird, unstable limbo where every statement, interaction is flyaway because completely transactional.

Would his seething, insatiable rage at America and his chronic duplicity be at quite the same level on the Richter scale that it is now?

The muddled, amorphous identity confusion at his core has made him particularly ripe for fascist recruitment, as we see with his all-in allegiance to Trump and Vance’s mentor Peter Thiehl.

shows how deeply unserious he is about resisting Trump’s fascism. This country is under siege by our own White House. There should be a Democratic shadow cabinet, shadow hearings, and daily press briefings about the GOP’s coup nd what the Democrats are doing about it. Neither Schumer nor Jeffries is capable of following a resistance, let along leading it

And that means don’t rely on practically anyone from the Clinton, Obama, or Biden administrations.

Mary Trump writes:

“Democrats need to be on every news outlet they can find, and be on twenty-four hours a day, because the White House has a much bigger platform and a much louder bullhorn. They have to do whatever they can to counter that. They must drown out the abject nonsense that is coming from the Republicans.”

Decades of abject messaging failures by the Democrats cannot be allowed to continue.

It’s like the DC equivalent of Bloomberg’s Billionaire’s Row. A totally misshapen manifestation of greed and the edifice complex. Trump’s sleazy, garishly encrusted ballroom is actually going to be larger than the White House itself. Trump vandalizes everything he touches.

but the reality is that he was already there before the election. The corporate media, however, chose to circle the wagons and normalize his condition as much as it could.

for the military coup that he is planning to launch. Yesterday’s speech was the beginning of an indoctrination campaign to convince America’s military brass that there is legal justification for betraying their vows.

Can Harvard University actually be ready to irreparably besmirch its prestige by truckling to Trump?

Trump tells Hegseth to treat American’s Democratic-run cities as subject war zones.

Untreated alcoholic Hegseth scampers around disgracing our military by preaching an end to any rules of engagement and defiance of the real-world actuality of global warming.

Epicene fascist gremlin Maga Mike Johnson gavels out the Congress on the eve of a shutdown–and smirks while he does it.