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GRAMERCY PARK’S DEFILEMENT MUST BE A TURNING POINT
Landmarks Preservation Commission is now refusing to offer any protection to landmarked buildings . The travesty of what happened to the Gramercy Park historic district is just one of many recent travesties. Sarah Carroll is getting out just in time … Continue reading
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WHY AREN’T DEMOCRATS RUNNING ADS THAT SHOW KAROLINE LEAVITT
informing White House “reporters” that Trump’s principal priority is his new ballroom?
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IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH AFFORDABLE HOUSING
The Mayor’s ballot referendums “do not fund or even mandate deeply affordable units, nor do anything to repair public housing or preserve at-risk rent-regulated homes,” Layla Law-Gisiko writes in The New York Times. “By overstimulating development, they could give landlords … Continue reading
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DON’T LET ERIC ADAMS & THE DEVELOPERS GET AWAY WITH IT: VOTE NO TO BALLOT QUESTIONS 2-3-4
On his way out the door, Mayor Adams is intent on delivering yet again for the developers who funded this rise. These ballot measures propose changes to the NYC charter that will further eliminate public review of NYC development schemes. … Continue reading
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HARVARD SUBMITS TO TRUMP’S WAR ON THE HUMANITIES
Trump and the Republicans don’t want critical thinking encouraged, don’t want American imaginations expanded; Harvard is more than willing to comply. “It is stupefying,” Dr. Bandy Lee writes at Substack, “that Harvard has just announced there will be a 60 … Continue reading
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TIME MAGAZINE BOWS TO THE WISHES OF BILLIONAIRE OWNER MARC BENIOFF
with a ridiculous, fawning cover-story propaganda piece on the Trump-l’oeil peace deal in Israel. We need to always remember that every day and every way, the moguls control the media properties that they own.
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JOHN ROBERTS & HIS POSSE SHOULD FACE NUREMBERG-STYLE PROSECUTION
Relatively de minimis: they each have committed perjury. But their crimes against this country only begin there. Sen. Shiff deems Roberts “Trump’s greatest enabler.” He has allowed Trump “to tear down institution after institution.”
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TRUMP TELLS MAGA MIKE JUST DOUBLE DOWN ON THE LIES
The gestures, the hype, the lies get more Trumpian every day–Mike Johnson is a cipher who takes coloration from his cult leader.
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TRUMP BRINGS TO D.C. THE TACTICS OF NYC DEVELOPERS & CITY PLANNERS
Lie endlessly, hoodwink the public at every turn, ruthlessly destroy historic structures.
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ALL MAGA ASKS FOR IS THE LICENSE TO HATE
Dr. Russell Razzaque explains why they will cheer on Trump as he razes the country and destroys their lives, so long as they get to vent their irrational bigotry on the way down.
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