Salon.com: Groveling before the mad king: Donald Trump’s Cabinet of sycophants

June 15th, 2017 [President Donald Trump speaks in the Cabinet Room] [Groveling before the mad king: Donald Trump’s Cabinet of sycophants]( Chauncey DeVega Our president's cultlike craving for constant worship and validation has become the new normal. How do we escape? [Michael Savage] [Michael Savage thinks there’s too much freedom of speech going on]( Michael Glassman Michael Savage is blaming Rachel Maddow for Steve Scalise's shooting, and may want censorship of MSNBC and Facebook [New York Times-Meal Delivery Service] [New York Times tries, fails to blame Virginia shooting on Bernie Sanders]( Brendan Gauthier America's newspaper goes left-punching for a hot take about Wednesday's Alexandria shooting [TOPSHOT-US-VOTE-REPUBLICANS-TRUMP] [Republicans aren’t feeling too good about the future of the country]( Jeremy Binckes With Republicans in control of both houses of Congress and the White House, you'd think GOP voters would be happier [Mideast, Noam Chomsky] [Noam Chomsky on Trump: The worst is yet to come]( Alexandra Rosenmann, [Alternet]( This administration's legislative agenda is uniquely cruel, even for the far right [Rodney Davis; Donald Trump; Chris Collins] [Republican reaction to Alexandria shootings: Massive hypocrisy and loose talk of “terrorism”]( Chauncey DeVega Even after the rise of Trump and an epidemic of right-wing violence, the GOP twists a tragedy to its own purposes [COVER_PHOTO-GoldilocksEffect] [WATCH: Why older generations don’t accept video games]( Amanda Marcotte Psychologist Patrick Markey, who wrote “Moral Combat," says, "Every generation thinks they had it just right" [Donald Trump] [GOP’s defense of Trump reaches new low: Ignorance of the law is no excuse for obstruction of justice]( Jeremy Binckes Trump is no toddler and Republicans should stop covering up for him [donald-trump-alex-jones] [Trump’s favorite right-wing websites aren’t listening to his calls for unity following GOP shooting]( Charlie May Infowars is hyping the shooting in Alexandria as the "first shots" in the "second U.S. civil war" [Jeffrey Tambor as Maura Pfefferman in "Transparent"] [“Transparent” season four trailer: Family’s gross, but it’s important]( Katie Serena See what the Pfeffermans have been up to VIDEO ["Friends From College"] [See the trailer for Keegan-Michael Key’s “Key & Peele” follow-up, “Friends from College”]( Katie Serena The Netflix project sure looks binge worthy VIDEO [Yoko Ono; John Lennon] [Yoko Ono gets overdue co-songwriting credit on John Lennon’s “Imagine”]( Matthew Rozsa Lennon himself said that Ono deserved to share credit for the legendary song [Donald Trump and Malcolm Turnbull] [Listen to Australia’s prime minister imitate Donald Trump]( Brendan Gauthier Malcolm Turnbull says his imitation was the sincerest form of flattery and not mocking [Hannity-left-wing] [Sean Hannity accuses Democrats of “dehumanizing” GOP after Alexandria shooting]( Taylor Link Hannity forgets to mention Eric Trump said Democrats were "not even people" when finding blame for the shooting [Donald Trump] [Here’s the GOP’s attempt at damage control over the Mueller investigation report]( Matthew Rozsa The GOP simultaneously insists that the leaks prove nothing and that the leakers should be thrown in jail [Guns on the counter] [Don’t miss the point on Alexandria and San Francisco: There is a solution for mass shootings]( Heather Digby Parton Even an attack on their own won't change Republicans' minds about guns. But Australia proves there's a way forward [businessman_money] [Now five men own almost as much wealth as half of the world’s population]( Paul Buchheit, [Alternet]( While Americans fixate on Trump, the super-rich are absconding with the fruits of our labor [John McCain] [John McCain makes a striking admission: America was better off with President Obama]( Alexandra Rosenmann, [Alternet]( Prominent Republicans fear Trump is sabotaging our standing with the rest of the world [solar_rect] [The U.S. hit a wind and solar power milestone in March]( Bobby Magill, Climate Central States are upping their renewable energy goals, and the results are significant ["The Killers"] [Listen to The Killers’ first single in five years, “The Man”]( Charlie May The band is currently on tour and scheduled to release its fifth studio album later this year follow salon Most Read - [[John McCain] John McCain makes a striking admission: America was better off with President Obama]( - [[Artist's conception shows two merging black holes similar to those detected by LIGO. 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