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FOX “NEWS” IS A THREAT TO OUR NATIONAL SECURITY
Garrett M. Graff writes at Wired: “The lies and obfuscations forwarded ad infinitum on Fox News pose a dangerous threat to the national security of the United States.”
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NOW THE DEVELOPERS ARE GOING AFTER HISTORIC, RENT-REGULATED BUILDINGS IN LANDMARK DISTRICTS
If you didn’t think that NYC developers were completely out of control, dig this: Madison Equities is proposing to demolish two 1842 formerly-private homes at Fifth Avenue between 8th and 9th Street–one of the very last survivors of little old … Continue reading
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DOUG COLLINS’S IDIOTIC, SNEERING LAUGHTER
when confronted with his lies at the impeachment hearings tells you what the GOP thinks of protecting America these days. The party en masse is all in with ensuring that Trump’s criminality goes unpunished and allowing him to rule as … Continue reading
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SAMANTHA BEE
did a great segment on White House Inc.’s hideously cruel and hypocritical contraction of SNAP. Btw, the Democrats need to explain to the people in pro-Trump rural areas who will perhaps be most heavily hit who did this to them.
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DESTROYING NYC. . . ONE NEIGHBORHOOD AT A TIME
Now it’s Little India, located in the blocks around Lexington Ave in the 20s. This unique sector exists because of low-rise and relatively low-rent old buildings. No way its special character can survive the juggernaut of the towers.
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BUG-EYED TRAITOR LOUIS GOHMERT’S
sole qualification for Congressional office is perhaps his exhaustive study of the movies of Ed Begley. Gohmert’s illegal, traitorous and eye-bulging outing of the whistle blower means he must be repulsed from the House.
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TED RALL IS A TRUE INDEPENDENT VOICE
which is why he was blackballed by, among other outlets, the New York Times and the Washington Post in 2004, who refused to continue publishing his cartoons when he wouldn’t pull his punches about George W. Bush. “Major news outlets … Continue reading
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LIE CENTRIFUGE DONALD J. TRUMP
Now Peter Strzok must sue Trump for defamation after the prevaricator-in-chief spun his latest shitload of lies about Strok and Page at last night’s Nuremburg rally. Of course he only “heard” it from one of the imaginary choruses that earworm … Continue reading
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THIS IS WHY THERE’S NO ARTS FUNDING
Sen. Sanders and Rep. Khanna denounce the latest obscenely bloated and wasteful military spending bill: “Congress must vote against this disastrous Pentagon authorization—a bill of astonishing moral cowardice. Congress should have used this National Defense Authorization Act to stop our … Continue reading
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OF COURSE AMAZON’S COMING TO NYC ANYWAY
Greg Leroy’s The Great American Jobs Scam: Corporate Tax Dodging and the Myth of Job Creation tells you all you need to know–except that there’s always more to know since the syndrome keeps repeating and repeating–about the shakedown Amazon was … Continue reading
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