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There is no better illustration of the orgy of white-collar criminal excess that colors the last forty years of Reaganomics and elite enrichment than Donald J. Trump. He is the poster boy (perhaps more accurately the “WANTED!” poster boy) for...
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on Sun Apr 16, 2023 at 09:20 AM PDT
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I have previously written about the separatist elements within both the intellectual and populist right-wing that currently controls the Republican party. The populist separatist sentiment was best illustrated by Marjorie Taylor Greene’s call for a...
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on Tue Apr 04, 2023 at 06:56 AM PDT
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I have no idea what charges the grand jury in New York has indicted Trump on, and neither does anyone else. But the reports that it contains over 30 counts certainly indicate it is likely to be far broader than we have been led to believe. I’m not very...
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on Sun Apr 02, 2023 at 08:32 AM PDT
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Over the weekend, the Treasury/Federal Reserve/FDIC stepped in to guarantee the deposits at the failed Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and did the same for Signature Bank in New York, a more crypto-focused bank which was also put into FDIC receivership....
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Mark Twain was reputed to have said that history never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme. And when you review the course of American history, you can certainly see the same battles being fought over and over again, each time on slightly different...
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on Tue Mar 07, 2023 at 08:49 AM PST
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The Republican party’s descent into proto-fascism is best understood as the end result of the failure of the conservative project as a whole. Conservatives today openly admit that the policies of Goldwater/Reagan conservatism have been an abject...
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- This is the third installment of a series of diaries that provide an overview of the corrupt alliances, and decades of efforts, that overthrew American democracy, and allowed Vladimir Putin to install Trump in the white house. (The first two are: Trump...138 comments 233 Recs
- The line from Republican fascism and authoritarianism to never Trump patriotism is a broad long line. It’s not a digital, either you’re a fascist or you’re a never Trump country over party constitution understanding patriot. The movement to Trump...331 comments 502 Recs
- There’s a mathematical problem in which the goal is to optimize the route among multiple locations that often goes by the name of “the traveling salesman problem.” It can be tough. ...433 comments 393 Recs
- Victor Pickard, associate professor of communication at the University Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School, talked with Jacobin's Meagan Day recently about the threat to the internet posed by the Federal Communication Commission's looming decision to do...58 comments 160 Recs
- Virginians (and, well, the majority of Americans vicarious) felt rather good a few weeks ago. We turned out and turned many Republicans out of office while keeping a Democrat in the Governor’s mansion. It felt good .. but basking in the sun can’t last...86 comments 155 Recs
- THANK YOU, Lawrence O'Donnell for a brilliant and courageous response ("Empty Barrel" Oct. 19, 2017)When I heard the “empty barrel” news conference today, I was troubled, but hours later I still had trouble getting my head around the problem. I knew that something was really wrong, and was groping my way to clarity at the time The Last Word aired...243 comments 356 Recs
- you really cant just make this stuff up….. Liliy Tomlin: no matter how cynical I get, I just can;’t keep up. GOP lawmaker accuses CNN host of making up severity of Puerto Rico crisis Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) on Thursday accused CNN...20 comments 24 Recs
- “We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.” Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis I want to tell you a story: in rural North Carolina there was a poultry farmer. Unfortunately,...17 comments 12 Recs
- Lets face facts: Jeremy Corbyn did much better than anyone expected, but he still didn't win. If you're a Labour supporter who wants to actually govern, and not just consume socialist speeches, its also clear that Labour has to reach beyond the folks...102 comments 17 Recs
- Corporate personhood speaks to the issue of seeing feudal lands as the personification of divine monarchical rule, where “Feudal relations were blatantly unequal and crowned by monarchical divine right that was nothing less than arbitrariness...29 comments 16 Recs
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