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Rachel Maddow on MSNBC reports on Thursday night that a big new human-rights organizaion, "Lights for Liberty," is orchestrating demonstrations on Friday at dozens of Border Patrol locales. Tens of thousands of demonstrators are expected ( Read more... )

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It was another crazy day here in Washington, though the big news for The Donald was back in his hometown, New York ( Read more... )

Today, Wednesday Dec 20, was a horrid day in the ongoing horror that is the Trump presidency. Two aspects are equally sordid and disgusting ( Read more... )

David Brooks is a busy journalist. He goes from being the Friday co-prophet on PBS Evening News to writing important op-eds in the New York Times. He picks pop music for today's column ( Read more... )

Still absorbing the Trumpsky events of the past two weeks, Joanne and I watched the season finale of "Scandal" tonight. That wild-ass TV series -- starring Kerry Washington as Olivia Pope, the ultimate political fixer -- finally inaugurates the first female president in this two-hour episode ( Read more... )

With more politicians focused on the Electoral College (EC), there may still be a slim chance that election of the incompetent, conflict-driven Donald Trumpsky can be successfully challenged ( Read more... )

I've been talking to one of my favorite LJ people, Anna, the Czech linguist, about recent political difficulties in her country. She worries particularly that the flood of refugees into Europe has stoked national passions in unfortunate ways, provoking both the far right (including neo-Nazis) and leftist apologists (actually nostalgic for Communism ( Read more... )

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