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Monday’s ‘Rachel Maddow Show’ was a good example of the problem of both ‘Republican’ and ‘Democratic’ mainstream political shows: screw serious evidence, we’ve got some bonding to do! As mainly Daily Howler but also me points out.

This November, send California Senator Barbara Boxer a human rights for Palestinians message. Photos.

Real News: A senior Palestinian official demands that Israel show the world its borders; if it does so, and the West Bank and East Jerusalem are not included, then the Palestinians will recognize Israel any which way it wants.

Only 19.3% of Senate Dems oppose cuts in Social Security, if signing onto to the equivalent of House member Raul Grijalva’s “No Cuts” resolution is a reasonable indicator. As far as you should be concerned, that means 80.7% of Senate Dems support cuts. And things are a little better in the House, where 43.9% of Democrats have signed onto Grijalva’s resolution. What are we gonna do about it?

Amira Hass asks what delays treatment of a 47-year-old Palestinian woman in desperate need of medical tets, other than the desire to punish and bully someone who opposes occupation?

Matt Taibbi gives Obama obscene cover while pretending to tell the story of how the hedge fund multimillionaires managed to get their obscene 50% income tax break to survive.

I’m offering the following to fill out on last week’s very brief diary (see P.S. 2 for a belated explanation in reaction to the execution of the original).

Why are there no openly gay U.S. heroes killing Afghan peasants?!

Recent elite left/right media discussion and non-discussion of schools demonstrates, as Bob Somerby of Daily Howler says, that ‘no one cares about black kids!’

The only thing beautiful about the internet mainstream ‘news’, aside from the visuals, are the subversive anti-corporate-rule comment sections. The gas line explosion catastrophe near San Francisco provides an excellent example.