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I wonder how much play the corporate media will allow of yet another demonstration of Trump’s senility, as he flashed his few trademark crowd-greeting gestures at a crowd that wasn’t there on Monday.

From the perspective of choreography, Trump’s gestures are executed so robotically that it really doesn’t matter if anyone’s there or not.

And I do mean “wage.”

Imagine if El-Sayed had been Harris’s campaign manager in 2024?

Ben Meiselas imitates Trump dancing to “YMCA.”

affect MAGA’s embrace of toxic masculinity?

“I never imagined some of the stuff that’s been going on in our country lately,” he says in a video fundraising pitch.

Received an email today from the Mayor’s office, with the subject line: “We Can’t Address Affordability Without Addressing Climate.” Certainly that’s true, and I’m glad he’s explaining that to people. It’s certainly better than what President Biden and his people did–enact legislation to combat the climate catastrophe without explaining its importance to the public.

But you also cannot address affordability in NYC until you address the massive, affordabilit- and-neighborhood destroying luxury over development going on in this city and above all in Manhattan.

colluded to prevent the Union Square South neighborhood from receiving the historic district designation it deserves. The developers saw it as their latest takeover spoils, and so that was that.

Mayor Mamdani seems content to perpetuate Adams’s terrible legacy with regard to landmark and neighborhood preservation. One historic building after another has been torn down for new luxury development since the neighborhood was upzzoned in 2019. The latest target is a very historic and scenic brick house at 86 University Place.

There are still sufficient buildings left in the district to warrant designation. LPC’s continued denial of designation for this neighborhood flies in the face of recommendations by the state and national registers of historic places. The corruption and dereliction of civic duty could not be more blatant

So J.D. Vance invites more ridicule by making gay jokes about James Talarico.

This is what a political party resorts to when it has no positive accomplishments, no deserving candidates, and is led by a disastrous figurehead.

And when a second-in-command is so desperately battling internal conflicts.

Keep that in mind as our insane tech moguls try to make AI supplant every other type of information gathering.

to the surrounding blocks. Any number of appallingly over-scaled towers are going up in the West Fifties.