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GOV. CUOMO WANTS TO CUT MEDICAID, BUT DOESN’T WANT TO TAX BILLIONAIRES
And, of course, New York’s billionaires keep showing their love. In the Guardian, Walker Benjamin and David Sirota repot on the billionaire-driven war chest that Cuomo has commanded.
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PLEASED
to see that Dancing on Water is now going for $70-something on Amazon. Perhaps it should be reprinted. It would be nice, however, if University Press of New England hadn’t gone out of business. . . That’s publishing!
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TRUMP’S BITCHY, BILIOUS BABBLE
Watching him today spew arrogant, contemptuous bombast about the Democrats, you just wonder, even on the most superficial level, how America can tolerate someone so unpleasant.
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GOP EXPLOITING COVID TO ATTACK SOCIAL SECURITY & MEDICARE
Together with.a smattering of turncoat Democrats, the Republicans are ramming through a fast-track commission to cut Social Security benefits as well as Medicare, via the so-called TRUST act introduced earlier this year, by opportunisticaly sticking it into the GOP’s alleged … Continue reading
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I NEVER SAID THEY WERE HEADLINERS. . . BUT MAYBE THEY WERE
Seems that Grandpa Joe was part of a “Spring Carnival/8 Big Acts 8/All Headliners in which his man-woman act, Low and Johnson, was featured at the Garden theater in Trenton, New Jersey. Of all the things he didn’t keep, Grandpa … Continue reading
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TRUMP TO OPEN NEW FRONTS IN HIS WAR ON AMERICA
Our President is planning a coast-to-coast invasion of our cities–particularly ones with Democratic mayors.
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HAIL THE ANARCHISTS
Portland mothers, protecting the city’s peaceful protesters from Trump’s paramilitary gangs, sing “Hands up, please don’t shoot me.”
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WHY WON’T THE DEMOCRATS POUNCE?
Why is Trump allowed to describe the economy he inherited from Obama as “the economy I created”? The economy created by Trump is the disaster the country is facing right now.
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MULVANEY CARES ONLY ABOUT HIS OWN
Remember how Mick Mulvaney was telling everyone–say, about three months ago–that COVID was a hoax spawned by the Democrats to bring Trump down? Seems that now that Mulvaney’s kids are having trouble getting test results right away, etc. Mulvaney’s all … Continue reading
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DEREGULATION KILLS
Every time a Republican perversely tries to extol the party’s “achievement” in cutting regulation, one or more Democrats need to make clear what the cost to American society is. New York University’s School of Law has put out a new … Continue reading
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