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Dispatches From The War On Truth

Being our occasional journey to an alternate reality where the sky is sort of écru plaid. Comey Ruining Smoking Cohen Awards Punks Nikki Nikki You’re So Fine Teachers Suck Facebook Sucks Actually that last one is a fact.

A Car, But With Black People In It

Police: Trust us, the black man we gunned down outside a Walmart deserved it by Alan Pyke, Think Progress Apr 19, 2018 Barstow Police Department officers shot and killed 26-year-old Diante Yarber on April 5 in his cousin’s black Ford Mustang. Yarber and three others were parked outside a Walmart in the southeastern California city …

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Love Your Suit

“Why does Sean Hannity, the guy who made $36 million last year, retain a graduate of the actual worst law school in the country?” You see a lot, Doctor. But are you strong enough to point that high-powered perception at yourself? What about it? Why don’t you – why don’t you look at yourself and …

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Problems in Tortureland

You see, the thing to remember about Gina Haspel is that she’s a murdering, torturing War Criminal who not only supervised those acts herself at the CIA Black Site in Thailand but also, when returned to Langley, advocated, performed, and wrote the justification for destroying the evidence of her crimes. She is no better than …

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West Side Story

Only it’s not just the West Side IT’S THE WHOLE DAMN ISLAND AND THESE PEOPLE ARE UNITED STATES CITIZENS EVEN IF THEY ARE TANNED AND SPEAK SPANISH! Officials probe cause of island-wide blackout in Puerto Rico Associated Press 04/18/2018 An island-wide blackout has hit Puerto Rico, which is struggling with an increasingly unstable power grid …

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Cherchez la Femme

Of course I mean this in the literal “look for the woman” sense and not the more sexist (but perhaps historically accurate) meaning of “blame the woman”, after all it’s not their fault that the more chromosome damaged members of the species tend to think with two things- their dick and their wallet. Which brings …

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The Neo Liberal Instinct

Charlie Pierce calls them “death funnels” and he’s exactly right. He’s referring to pipelines designed to transport Alberta Tar Sand, the dirtiest fuel on the planet, to refineries or ports to refineries that can turn it into technically more usable types of oil. It never gets very good, more the type you can lubricate heavy …

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Death And…

Waffle House– was conceived and founded by Joe Rogers Sr. and Tom Forkner. Rogers started in the restaurant business as a short-order cook in 1947 at the Toddle House in New Haven, Connecticut. New Haven is also the home (though not the birthplace of) my favorite traitor, Benedict Arnold, as well as being the most …

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Waiting for 2 pm? It’s already over. (Now With Exciting Update!)

Michael Cohen is in Contempt of Court. He has refused to release a list of clients to Judge Kimba Woods by the 10 am deadline for his written filing because… Well, just because. Judd Legum at Think Progress reports– From 2007 to 2017, Cohen said he only worked for Donald Trump and the Trump organization. …

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Not A Rant

Been a busy week. Remember this? This was Wednesday. Time flies and all. The Paul Ryan Story: From Flimflam to Fascism By Paul Krugman, The New York Times April 12, 2018 I do have some insight into how Ryan — who has always been an obvious con man, to anyone willing to see — came …

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