Once Upon A Time in Milan (Out New Yorker-ing the New Yorker)

The New Yorker explored Benedetta briefly here.

Of course we went a few layers deeper.

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ARE THE DEMOCRATS EVER GOING TO ACT?

Yes, “another red line has been crossed,” with Trump’s fascist White House beginning to arrest judges who won’t condone its illegality. When are the Democrats going to wage a commensurate, proportionate response? There are no excuses anymore. There haven’t been for a long time.

Btw, where is the People’s Cabinet that Democratic House members were going to convene? Has any political party mastered the art of dithering like the post-Reagan Democrats?

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HOW IS IT POSSIBLE THAT MOST INDEPENDENTS BELIEVED IT WAS THE DEMOCRATS, NOT THE GOP, WHO THREATENED DEMOCRACY?

Harris’s campaign was even more inept than Hillary Clinton’s or Kerry’s. And this is the record that Neoliberal corporate Democrats insist must be rewarded with more of the same patronage.

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WHY IS RAHM EMANUEL BACK?

Why are we getting such a heavy dose of his disastrously reactionary views and reads on things? Hasn’t he done enough damage already to the Democratic Party, the city of Chicago, and the United States of America? What is he angling for? 

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PAUL, WEISS DEFAMED ITS OWN ATTORNEY TO PROPITIATE TRUMP

Prostate before Trump, fully complicit with his attempt to declare himself above the law, Paul,Weiss made the absurd and utterly reprehensible accusation that Mark Pomerantz was guilty of “wrongdoing” when he worked on  one of the many cases attempting to hold Trump to account for his boundless illegality. 

Senator Blumenthal and Rep. Raskin are demanding answers from Paul, Weiss regarding their possibly illegal cooperation with Trump, as well as from other mega firms that bent the knee to an aspiring dictator, a traitor who incited a coup against this country.

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DNC IS STILL THOROUGHLY COMMITTED TO LOSING

Thus new chair Ken Martin’s ultimatum to vice-chair David Hogg that no primary challengers be allowed, even in the midst of a party overburdened withe superannuated time servers. The neoliberal corporate Democratic establishment is determined to exert its will even at the price of the party’s own survival. 

If Hogg should be pushed out, any contribution to the DNC that you were thinking of making should instead be directed to Hogg’s Leaders We Deserve.

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BARNARD NOW GIVING TRUMP CELL PHONE #s OF FACULTY & STUDENTS

who are then texted by Trump and asked if they are Jewish. 

Akela Lacy of The Intercept broke the story.  “‘The federal government reaching out to our personal cellphones to identify who is Jewish is incredibly sinister,’ said Barnard associate professor Debbie Becher, who is Jewish and received the text.  “’They are clearly targeting what most of the United States, I hope and I think, defines as freedom of speech, but only in the case of anti-Israeli speech.'”

Sharon Otterman reports in The New York Times: “Nara Milanich, a Barnard history professor, said it reminded her of her research into 1930s Italy, when lists of Jews were put together by the local government. ‘We’ve seen this movie before, and it ends with yellow stars,’ she said.'”

Barnard has committed a serious beach of privacy rights.  In for a penny, in for a pound: as Barnard-Columbia continues to collaborate with Trump, he continues to withhold their funding.  These joint administrations are actively participating their own debasement by Trump. 

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EDUCATION SECRETARY SAYS KNOWLEDGE IS WORTHLESS

Linda McMahon tells us that it’s the fault of students pursuing “worthless” degrees–she believes in college only as vocational training–that justifies Trump’s new initiative to gouge debt-ridden graduates. I guess McMahon’s B.A. in French was worthless, too, since it didn’t prepare her for her future career in the ring. The last thing in the world the GOP wants is an electorate capable of critical thinking. Not since Lauren Boebert assailed students seeking debt relief as habitudes of lesbian dance classes has the Trump’s regime attempt to stigmatize education been so frankly expressed.

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IT’S CLEAR THAT TRUMP’S ORIGINAL PLAN WITH TARIFFS

was to use the imaginary wealth he would claim was flooding into the country as justification for attempting to entirely repeal income tax–that’s why he keeps claiming that the years leading up to 1913, when income tax was first instituted,  were America’s wealthiest. And of course, Wall Street and Silicon Valley would support that–it’s just that they can’t stomach the damage done to them by the tariffs.

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DERELICT TRUMP WANDERS THE NORTH LAWN

Later he explains it was because he wants to place a 100-foot American flag there.  No, excuse me, two 100-foot flags. This is actually for real.

We must never forget how Trump and the corporate media teamed up to pretend it was Biden, and not Trump who was in an extreme state of mental dilapidation.

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MAYOR ADAMS LAUNCHING A RENEWED ATTACK ON OVERSIGHT & SELF-GOVERNANCE

Fresh from his under-the-table deal with Trump, Mayor Adams is embarking on a new round of attempted oversight evisceration.  He is convening a Charter Revision Commission to make changes to the NYC constitution, to be voted upon in November. Village Preservation know what he’s up to: “The Mayor has made clear he intends to use this process to make it easier for developers to build without public oversight, review, or approval, and pro-deregulation lobbying groups are joining in the push.”

Submit a written comment via a portal on Village Preservation’s web site.

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