This is what Trump's favorite dictator did to the "vermin" who were "poisoning the blood" of his country

One of the readers of this newsletter, Peter Keller, wrote me recently to tell me that his father had served in the American Field Service in Italy at the same time my grandfather commanded the VI Corps and Fifth Army during World War II. Because his father was deaf in one ear, he wasn’t eligible to serve in a combat unit, so he became an ambulance driver for the AFS. He was attached to the British 8th Army in North Africa and then in Italy through the campaign at Monte Cassino and the liberation of Rome. He was assigned to the British Army’s 11th Armored Division near the end of the war and followed them into Germany and was present with his ambulance unit when the armored division liberated the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on April 15, 1945.

Kevin McCarthy is just a bump in the MAGA road

Leon Trotsky just had a good day in the Congress of the United States. He was the man who conceived of the ideology of permanent revolution, of endless war against the bureaucracy and the evil establishment. That pretty much sums up the far-Right radicals of the Republican Party. They’re not satisfied with a win here, a win there, maybe a draw in between. They want it all, and they want it now. When Kevin McCarthy wouldn’t play their game, they sent him into internal exile. To hell with governing! Up the revolution!

Clarence Thomas is the worst thing to happen to this country in my lifetime

I don’t say that lightly. After reading ProPublica’s latest report on Thomas’ trips – by private jet, natch – to be the featured speaker and star draw at two gatherings of wealthy donors to the ultra-conservative Koch network in Palm Springs, I spent the rest of the day putting that thought to the test. Worse than Richard Nixon? A pussycat compared to Clarence. George Wallace? The racist Alabama governor repented, made several appointments of Black people to his last administration, and asked Black citizens of his state for forgiveness before he died. Joe McCarthy? His sidekick Roy Cohn? As much damage as they did to the people who lost their jobs, were blacklisted, or even committed suicide due to McCarthy’s and Cohn’s manic pursuit of purported “communists,” those two were pikers compared to the Supreme Court’s current longest-sitting justice.

Hey Proud Boys, was it worth it?

I’ll bet you can’t guess who Joe Biggs, Dominic Pezzola, Zachary Rehl, Ethan Nordean, and Henry “Enrique” Tarrio would be voting for next year if their rights to vote were not unceremoniously stripped from them and they were not locked up behind iron bars and steel doors in federal penitentiaries, having been convicted for the roles they played in assaulting the Capitol on January 6, 2021. All five are so-called Proud Boys, members of a white nationalist organization that has clashed violently with anti-fascist protesters at events around the country over the past six years.

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Trump Jan. 6 Indictment Relies Heavily on House Panel’s Work

The special House committee that investigated the attack on the Capitol created the road map for the charges against the former president.