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Now Trump Is A Genocidal Despot Thanos Wannabe and America Is, Like, Ummm In the spirit of our weird-ass end times, consider that Trump's "War Room" - yes, Private Five-Time Bone-Spurs has a "War Room" - just released a campaign ad portraying our most presidential "president" as murderous comic book warlord Thanos, intent on obliterating half the universe's population, in Marvel's Avengers. Questions inevitably arise: Do they realize he's the bad guy? Do they care? Do they know the movie ends with Thanos expunged like this? Is it all almost over? Read more |
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He Knew (and Did) Everything Despite frantic, shameless gaslighting by all - Trump, Barr, GOP counsel Castor - the impeachment advances blessedly apace thanks. If you haven't the patience to follow it in depth, consider the electrifying testimony of Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), who in under five concise minutes summons the ghosts of Watergate - "What did the President know and when did he know it?" - to lay out a damning, gut-punching, killer Spark's Notes of Trumpian crimes. Read more |
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In Late-Stage Zombie Capitalism, The Poor Are Selling Their Blood Amidst America's "staggering" economic inequality comes a new, macabre, blood-from-a-stone mode of survival for the poors: Making up to a third of their income by repeatedly selling blood plasma - an export worth more than our corn or soy - for about 40 bucks a pop in a booming $21 billion global industry dominated by a few big U.S companies. Their highly profitable, morally questionable business is projected to “grow radiantly,” because of course it is. Read more |
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The Word Is Love It was 39 years ago that John Lennon was murdered by a deranged fan in front of his apartment - or, wrote Jimmy Breslin that night, " became another person who died after being shot with a gun on the streets of New York." He was 40. Yoko Ono posted a searing tribute, calling his loss "a hollowing experience" and noting that 1,400,000 Americans have died by gun since his death. These dark days, God knows we could use his voice, heart, wit and hope. Read more |
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Be Best, My Ass OK, we are now and truly done with the con man and his money-grubbing hussy squatting in the White House. Having stayed silent through endless atrocities - rapes, lies, cruelty, racism, bullying, leaving families hungry, caging 70,000 children and killing six, now including one on video - the Birther Queen of Hypocrisy just offered us a jingoistic tour of tacky Christmas decor and a steaming pile of faux outrage about what "a minor child deserves." The Internet: " Sit down and STFU, lady." Read more |
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Fred Hampton: "Peace To You...If You're Willing to Fight For It It was 50 years ago that Chicago cops executed Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton as he slept, firing over 90 shots into his apartment for the crimes of feeding hungry kids, opening medical clinics, forming a Rainbow Coalition and championing black self-determination. Targeted by the FBI as a danger who could "electrify the masses," Hampton vowed to fight racism with solidarity, capitalism with socialism, and "fire with water." He was 21 when he died. His legacy, and struggle, goes on. Read more |
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A Very Sick Man Oh man. The Stable Genius just fell off the world stage at London's NATO meeting. His wee brain frazzled, his pupils amphetamine-huge, he ranted, rambled, raved: Macron was "very, very nasty," in Syria "I've taken the oil," "the whole situation with nuclear has to be dealt with very strongly," Adam Schiff is "a deranged human being," one day Repubs will impeach a Dem "because somebody picked an orange out of a refrigerator and you don’t like it." Consensus Internet response: #wut. Read more |
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The Right Thing To Do For the start of another week at the circus, a warm, wise, movingly real moment with Elizabeth Warren to give us hope. At an Iowa event, a high school girl, tremulous with fear and feeling, asked Warren for a moment in her life when she struggled with acceptance; her own voice cracking, Warren told a story about her divorce, her mother and a time when "you just gotta do what's right inside." When they hugged, Warren told her, "We're going to be OK." Yes, please. Read more |
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The War On Thanksgiving Sigh. The Stable Genius has been busy - posting that bonkers Rocky photo, asking why we waited 100 years for a centennial, spending 287 years of presidential salaries on golf, and now making up a red-meat-for-the-masses commie plot to kill Thanksgiving. Cue #WarOnThanksgiving - covfefe running low, send pie, Battle of the Turkey Leg - and #WhatLiberalsCallThanksgiving. Favorite answer: The holiday with turkey and stuffing that comes before impeachment. Read more |
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The Rapist Is You Marking International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, hundreds of thousands of women took to the global streets to demand the end of sexual assault and honor the roughly 90,000 women murdered each year by men. In Chile, where sexual violence as a weapon of war has a long history, women joined the country's ongoing protests with a fierce, fearless chant, calling out all the players of the state's toxic patriarchy - cops, pols, judges - as perpetrators. Read more |