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A new report issued by Village Preservation demonstrates the way that NYC landmark designations have ground to a halt; there are fewer under the Adams regime than any under any previous mayor since the Landmarks Presevation Commission was established in 1965. … Continue reading →

In The Guardian, Rebecca Solnit writes that “The first thing to say about the hate and scorn currently directed at the mainstream  US media is that they worked hard to earn it. They’ve done so by failing, repeatedly, determinedly, spectacularly … Continue reading →

A.G. Sulzberger takes to the pages of the Washington Post to insist that when the Times is asked to practice journalism, it is actually being asked to practice electioneering. That’s now become the go-to dodge for the corporate media when … Continue reading →

at the demented babble that gushed out of Trump during their “interview.” But Levin didn’t dare interrupt, which just made it all the more damning for Trump.  He demonstrated that it is time for him to go into Assisted Living–not anywhere … Continue reading →

No, Mr. Trump,American Jews do not recognize Netanyahu as their president. And a significant percentage of Israelis realize that he’s not their president, either. Jack Johnson at Common Dreams reports that “The strike was called by Histadrut, Israel’s largest trade union. … Continue reading →

No, he’s not just urning his head from to side to read (haltingly, because he’s functionally illiterate) the teleprompter. He can barely face America head on, or maybe he can’t control his head movements or he’s too dilapidated to hold … Continue reading →

or the Dems will be wiped out in the 20226 midterms, the way they were in 1994 and 2010. Contrary to how the corporate media and Establishment Dems spun those losses, they occurred largely because both Clinton and Obama abandoned … Continue reading →

Many, if not most, actors offer a dominant theme of characterization deployed with variations throughout their careers. In Tallulah! I analyzed the veritable critical furore over Tallulah “playing herself” and how much it had to do with the self she embodied … Continue reading →

will break any law to benefit himself or his cult-and-ring leader Donald Trump–and will then use his professed Christianity as an alibi.

Stoehr’s commentary at Raw Story: “It didn’t matter what Joe Biden did – pull the country out of a pandemic, dodge a recession, tame inflation, grow jobs, grow wages, enforce anti-monopoly laws, revive every single one of the so-called ‘left behind’ counties … Continue reading →