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As you can see from the twitter time stamps, El Presidente-elect Señor Trumpanzee only got-- at most-- 6 hours sleep, probably less.

Blacklists, that is.by Gaius PubliusRussia is an enemy of freedom, as is China. So too is the globalized wealth regime, which wants every dime on the planet for its own.

Friday, Morning Consult published polling that shows that among Republican voters, priorities aren't identical to Trump's. Passing an infrastructure bill seems to be what he's signaling what he wants to do first. It's way down the list for his supporters, as you can see in the chart below. Trump, when asked: "A lot of really great priorities.

"How the fuck did she lose to this clown?-David Keith, Democratic operative

Congressman Wright Patman (D-TX), chairman of the House Banking Committee, 1963-74, led the fight in Congress to stop the manipulators of the Federal Reserve System from 1937 to his death in 1976It flipped me out earlier in the cycle when Obama sent out numerous communications-- including radio ads-- to Democratic base voters in Florida, particularly African-Americans, that reactionary New Dem Patrick Murphy is a progressive.

Ryan and his horde of congressional zombies have discovered hash tags and can't get enough of #BetterWay which is nothing more than a package of failed reactionary austerity plans that would utterly destroy the lives of working families.

Zadie Smith in 2014"Whether we still know, in Britain, what a better life is, what its necessary conditions are and how to achieve them, is what’s now in doubt."-- Zadie Smith, in "Fences: A Brexit Diary,"in the August 18 New York Review of Booksby KenThough Zadie Smith is probably better known as a fiction writer (and teacher of fiction writing; she's a tenured professor at N

"What is truly revealing is [Antonio Sabato Jr.'s] implication that believing something to be true is the same as its being true. Because if anything, that was the theme of the Republican Convention this week. It was a four-day exercise in emphasizing feelings over facts."-- John Oliver, on last Sunday's Last Week Tonightby KenIs it possible for one and the same person to be the one who talks a would-be jumper out onto the ledge and the one who gives him the hope he needs to come back down from it?

"578,000 live homeless on any given night" (click to enlarge; source)by Gaius PubliusIf you think of the country as in decline, as most people do, and you think the cause is the predatory behavior of the big-money elites, as most people do, then you must know you have only two choices — acceptance and resistance.Why do neo-liberal Democrats, like the Clinton campaign, not wa

Hillary Clinton in September 2015 on TPP. That text will soon be released, and Clinton will have a Keystone-like opportunity to improve her standing. Will she take it?