Wednesday, June 4, 2025

New York Values: What Tiny Ted Will Never Get About the Big Town

Only a rube thinks that New York is about money and media alone; it is much, much bigger than that.

Trump’s budget director declares class war on the American people

With these words, Mulvaney has brought that class war out into the open.

NatCon kingmaker?

The most dangerous thing about rightwing populism or ‘National Conservatism’ is that the plutocrats that fund it and have become its standard bearers pretend that they have the interests of working people at heart.

Making sense of reactionary victim culture

Along with their portrayal of themselves as the real victims of made up or almost entirely online concepts like ‘cancel culture’, many on the right from politicians to pundits also excel at projection.

The aggressive Defense Space Strategy

“The plan is in motion, the U.S. is leading the pack to weaponize space, and ever so ‘innocently’ accuses its primary competitors of doing what Washington itself is doing.”

Vance cockups sabotage Trump’s core pitch: that his smarts guarantee hiring only the “best...

Vance has pushed beyond tone-dead and as a campaigner into brain-dead territory.

The Money Primary

Running for America's highest office in our democratic republic has been perverted into a gold rush. The donors and political sycophants involved in this obscene corruption of the system are playing with dynamite.

The bipartisan BIG LIE: Trump’s climate genocide is normal

Emulating Goebbels—but through Deafening Silence Anyone acquainted with propaganda’s sordid history will recognize the words “big lie”—capitalized for...

Five biggest border lies debunked

Republicans are lying about immigrants and the border.