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SAN FRANCISCO (FINALLY) HOLDS CORPORATE LANDLORDS ACCOUNTABLE
As Truthout, Tyler Walicek describes how SF’s Proposition M “will disincentivize large landlords from leaving units unfilled, while the revenue it brings in will go towards homelessness prevention and affordable housing.”
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DeSANTIS IS ANTI-LIFE
The moral vacuum leading Florida wants to loosen gun restrictions while demonizing life-saving vaccines. Floridians re-electing him have signed up for the destruction of their state.
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THE DISCRIMINATORY MADNESS OF “OWN VOICES”
Imagine if I, as a white half-Jew, suddenly announced that no person of color should be allowed to write about the Holocaust? That is what is happening in reverse in the publishing industry, as it gloms onto yet one more … Continue reading
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THE NUMBERS TELL THE STORY
of an America stupidified and deculturized by Republican design. Back in 2017, when Trump was trying to kill the NEA and the NEH, Christopher Knight noted in the Los Angeles Times that: “Since Ronald Reagan, the arts agency has been … Continue reading
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MARKETING
I was fingering some type of commemorative medallion that my father’s father received when he mustered out of the US Army following World War I in 1918. On the back there’s a raised letter inscription “THE GREAT WAR FOR CIVILIZATION,” … Continue reading
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FOX “NEWS” & THE MURDOCHS
have been utilizing Ye to promote fascism for a long, long time. At Salon, Amanda Marcotte reports on the long-standing matrix of evil between Fox, overpaid Murdoch puppet Tucker Carlson, & Ye, and, of course, the Republican party, which is … Continue reading
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DeSANTIS’ ANTI-SEMITISM
is integral to his political platform, and fits right in with his complete lack of a moral compass. He is totally transactional. He deems the support of neo-Nazis crucial to his future political fortunes, heaven help us. Heather Digby Parton … Continue reading
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NYC NOW ALLOWING SKYSCRAPERS IN GREENWICH VILLAGE
As part of an ongoing pattern of brazen complicity between City Hall and the private development sector, the unique character of the Village is now going to be assaulted by two residential skyscrapers slated to rise at the corner of … Continue reading
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DeSANTIS IS AS ANTI-SEMITIC AND RACIST AS TRUMP
As soon as Ronny D graduated from a fact-based educational institution he started lying his way through a teaching career, inculcating alternate facts about the Civil War in his high school students. DeSantis is a Christo-Fascist, funded by wealthy Christo-Fascists … Continue reading
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“THE AMERICAN MYTHOLOGY OF THE BILLIONAIRE”
Can’t we please put it to rest, before Musk, Gates and the entire flotilla of malevelent dingbats drive this country over the edge? Amanda Marcotte writes in Salon: The infatuation with our richest capitalists is related to, but in many … Continue reading
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