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Trump says it’s a Scary Time for Young Men; Imagine the Boys detained in his Immigrant Camps

As the Brett Cavanaugh controversy rages on, overlooked is a news item about the tent city set up for the migrant children in Tornillo, Texas. According to the New York Times, in the past few weeks around 1,600 children were rounded up from detention centers and foster homes to be moved into this new version […]

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Top Five Signs Kavanaugh might have been a mean, Black-out Drunk Capable of Anything

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – George W. Bush is supporting Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination. But Bush is more honest than the judge. He was asked by journalists during one of his campaigns if he had ever used cocaine. He made waves when he declined to answer the question. He later admitted that the reason he did […]

Supreme Court

Eisen calls “Cover-Up” as Charges swirl Trump is Micro-Managing FBI Kavanaugh Inquiry

AFP

“it is malpractice for WH to rule out Swetnick, Yale boozing”

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55% of GOP say Sexual Assault not Disqualifying for SCOTUS; What is Wrong with Them?

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – What in the world is wrong with self-identified Republicans in the United States. I mean, look, I’m a historian and a world traveler. I get that different people have different ways of looking at the world, different norms and customs. It is to be expected. But the blatant amorality of […]

Supreme Court

SNL: Matt Damon Rakes Kavanaugh over Coals as Angry, Hysterical, Privileged Drunk

Saturday Night Live

I’M HERE BECAUSE OF A POLITICAL CON JOB ORCHESTRATED BY THE CLINTONS, GEORGE SOROS, KATHY GRIFFIN AND MR. RONAN SINATRA

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Blasey Ford Cued Survivors to Speak out, from Jeff Flake’s Elevator to Alyssa Milano

Charlotte Plantive

there was a 201 percent increase in calls to the National Sexual Assault Hotline on Thursday

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Lindsey Graham disregards Violence toward Women, & his State is a Women’s Murder Capital

Juan Cole

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) made it abundantly clear in the hearing on Thursday that he cares more about Republican Party control of the Supreme Court than about rape victims. He implied that the charges of sexual assault that have surfaced against Brett Kavanaugh are a Democratic Party plot to deny Trump a Supreme Court justice. […]

National Security State

How the Neocons’ ‘New American Century’ Crashed and Burned

Tom Engelhardt

(Tomdispatch.com) – When you think about it, Earth is a relatively modest-sized planet — about 25,000 miles in circumference at the Equator, with a total surface area of 197 million square miles, almost three-quarters of which is water. It’s not so hard, if you’re in a certain frame of mind (as American officials were after […]