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The simplest explanation for lawyer Michael Godwin’s law is that the longer a debate or disagreement extends, it will eventually...
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On Jan. 6, Donald Trump took advantage of a phalanx of weak-minded sheep to do his bidding, sending them into...
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The Trump-Cheney schism is scary for the country, but it should be even more frightening for the GOP
Whenever I feel compelled to freak myself out about the GOP’s seemingly ineluctable march toward cult-of-personality authoritarianism, I have to...
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Republicans desperately want you to forget the events of Jan. 6 and their aftermath. Unfortunately, the guy who caused the riot...
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OK, Moscow Mitch may have lost a bit of his edge lately, pulling lame stunts like biting the corporate hand...
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Remember when Brett Kavanaugh was embroiled in controversy during his Supreme Court confirmation hearing and we all thought the powerful...
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The GQP declares it’s all about the violence. The Second Amendment was discussed (as well as the host’s invocation of...
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Marjorie Taylor Greene, the one-woman wrecking ball of the GOP (OK, she’s not the only one, but one of her...
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Democracy is an afterthought for Trumpists. Whether it’s the “sense of style” or “good men knowing their limitations” the movie...
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Trump losing his SAG card probably will make little difference to him, although that puts him one rung below Reagan....
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The Big Lie must be thoroughly erased. This delusion is unfortunately the trope deployed as a grand commodity for a national...
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Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth’s (D. IL) re-election campaign: Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D. IL) Here’s something...
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Staring at the Andrew Jackson portrait in the Oval Office must have had a stochastic effect. Like Nixon talking to portraits,...
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It’s not the Bastille. Trump did incite a riotous mob to disrupt the legislative branch. People died. Trump got excited...
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Bandy X. Lee is a forensic psychiatrist, editor of The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, and president of the World Mental Health...
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We’re now at the end of the road where Trump imagines that he can affect future architectural style in federal...
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Contradictions and false consciousness inhabit many Trumpists and Trump voters, demanding a crypto-fascist election outcome, a sad commentary on the...
There’s an agitated Trump up late tweeting more conspiracy nonsense as the Electoral College has voted and the sedition attempt has failed...
The Jewish Action group Twitter account, shared an image of Senator Kelly Loeffler with a former leader of the KKK. Chester...
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I recently came across a typical Twitter argument about the CIA promoting modern art as propaganda. The usual distorting tweet-discourse occurred but...
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Old John Brown's body lies moldering in the grave, While weep the sons of bondage whom he ventured all to save; But tho he lost his life while...
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This is a view from abroad as I have been an expat since the middle of the second term of...
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Today’s Trump campaign press conference was called by Chris Krebs, late of DHS, the most dangerous piece of television in US...
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Regular Trump golf partner Chris Ruddy disclaims any NewsMax takeover by Trump who was only offered a weekly spot among...
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Typically, nations around the world watch but don’t celebrate the selection of our leaders. This year is a big difference....
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Are we yet ready to reassure folks that DHS/FBI/BATFE are taking the election even more seriously. xHere. We. Go https://t.co/EwRQeEk7RY—...
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I’m going to close out the day with some more good polling out of Arizona courtesy of The Justice Collaborative...
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Trump eventually will be directly responsible for a quarter-million deaths from COVID. “We’re actually experiencing more death than we thought...
Here’s the latest news today out of Minnesota: xSuffolk University/USA TODAY poll of Minnesota likely voters: (9/20-9/24) – SenateTina Smith...
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Another day of stupidity from IMPOTUS*, but he has promised to go into exile and flee prosecution. xThe President suggests...
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Sure, why not? Trump telling Americans outright lies about their vulnerability to a killer virus is just like Churchill trying...
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Trump just hasn’t arrived at getting folks to the boxcars yet. He's attacking things on the basis of race while...
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David von Drehle writes on Trump’s negativity, often revealed as the usual reactionary, anti-modern attitudes of conservatives. It coincides with...
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WaPo published an update to the estimation of whether Trump was more than a rhetorical trope as a fascist, or more...
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"I’m the only thing standing between the American dream and total anarchy, madness and chaos.” Trump at the Council for...
Full disclosure: I actually interviewed Ted Nugent once, years ago, when I was working for — ironically — an entertainment...
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Wow: xI joined @JackPosobiec on @OANN to discuss why I had to call out the BLM political organization — and...
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Fortunately Twitter decided to rein in QAnon, one of many cults projecting both the main tenets of Trumpism but also...
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Trump's cosplay paramilitary uses repression stunts to reinforce GOP's voter suppression message, pointing their tiny mushrooms. x"I can't turn my...
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I know that focusing on just one portion of an interview that was actually a wire-to-wire cavalcade of fucknuttery may...
Trump apparently believes that science should not stand in the way of full schools, because his truism is that the...
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How good are the cameras at Rose M. Singer Center (Rikers for Women)? The goods: laundry, baggage, etc. and the...
I’m not one to engage in hyperbole, even though I’m fucking awesome at it. If I wanted to, I could...
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Yesterday, former WH chief of state John Kelly contradicted Trump’s story about firing SecDec Jim Mattis, reminding the world that...
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It’s worth reading Anne Applebaum’s Atlantic article “History Will Judge the Complicit”, or does the GOP wish to reveal the truth...
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Wow, Donald Trump is really upset about reports that he hid in his bunker like a shivering Pomeranian during a thunderstorm. Someone...
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So much media framing, proliferating COVID-19 at an Ozark pool party sharing breath unlike the loss of breath days later...
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Michael Tomasky at The Daily Beast has a new piece out this week that talks about certain state that went...
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I knew this would happen. Knew it, knew it, knew it. Because Donald Trump’s clear penchant for racism, misogyny, perversion,...
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Trump’s revanchism now manifests itself in the second attempt by Trump to recycle old grievances, mainly from ”Obamagate” first proposed in...
