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to please ever-elusive, ever-contradictory, endlessly-proficient-at-fatuous-sophistry Joe Manchin. We’re seeing a redux of the defensive panic that plagued the Obama administration. Manchin is being paid by major GOP donors to sandbag Biden’s agenda. Once again, progressives have to draw the line. … Continue reading →

Fance lobbied hard to have this hideously dangerous, expensive, and altogether regressive technology classified as green by the EU. The EU is not in the forefront of climate crisis mitigation.

I attended my first opera performance. Verdi’s “La Forza del Destino” at the Metropolitan, sitting in the Dress Circle, listening to Leontyne Price, Carlo Bergonzi, Cesare Siepi, Kostas Paskalis, Fernando Coreno, led by Michelangelo Veltri. It was an altogether intoxicating … Continue reading →

Hochul is one more elected official dedicated to giving developers whatever they want–and the cost to our cities be damned. She has thrown her support behind the developer-backed plan to allow residential buildings of any possible size to be built. … Continue reading →

January 6, the RNC has just declared ,was “legitimate political discourse.”

by Associated Press’ Matt Lee. Why can’t the State dep’t produce any actual evidence to back up their allegations? Oh, well. It reminds me of an interview I watched with Bill Gates: the moment his policies are challenged, he starts … Continue reading →

The minute I heard that Victoria Nuland was back at the State Department, I knew that we’d be sending troops to Eastern Europe. At Common Dreams, Benjamin details the blood on Nuland’s hands and the inconvenient facts that the corporate … Continue reading →

Elizabeth Warren wants to know why Biden is continuing Trump’s plan to completely privatize Medicare by decade’s end. I called my senators today and asked why they have been asleep at the wheel on this crucial issue.

“Nobody ever talks about the deficit when Republicans are in control.” He packs a lot of history and a lot of logic into a five-minute video.

From The Millionairess: “Ninety percent of our selfmade [sic] millionaires are criminals who have taken a five hundred to one chance and got away with it by pure luck.”