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GLASSY EYED, SHEATHED-IN-SLEAZE AND ORANGE MAKEKUP J.D. VANCE
will lie about anything at all. His moral degradation is more evident by the day. Slathered in make up as if in imitation of his North star–does he experiment at home?– Vance recounts on Bartiromo’s freak show on Fox Propaganda an … Continue reading
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NYC IS FINE WITH HONORING AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE–SO LONG AS IT DOESN’T BOTHER THE DEVELOPERS
The Landmarks “Preservation” Commission is a city organization that now seems to largely exist for the purpose of withholding landmark designation from deserving properties. It had the audacity to dispute the factual information unearthed by Village Preservation concerning tthe storied history … Continue reading
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WHY ISN’T BEZOS COVERING THE POST’S LOSSES?
Once again, a reminder that moguls are an absolute disaster running anything that is designed to fulfill a public interest. Instead of sicc-ing Will Lewis and his white, male, politically reactionary cronies on the Washington Post, Bezos could subsidize the … Continue reading
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WILL LEWIS WANTED THE WASH. POST TO COVER UP HIS PAST
Executive editor Sally Buzbee refused and shortly afterward she was out at thePost. Is it not possible for Bezos to find someone savory to run the Post? Benjamin Mullin and Katie Robertson report in the Times on one of the … Continue reading
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AFTER GOING AFTER BIDEN & HIS FAMILY FOR YEARS, THE GOP VOWS TO GO AFTER BIDEN & HIS FAMILY
Any grand jury in this ountry would laugh any one of the GOP’s retribution prosecutions out of court.
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DOESN’T MAGA THINK THERE’S SOMETHING WEIRD
about the fact that Trump insists “there’s never been anything like it” about every single item on his agenda and personal grievance docket?
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WSJ IS NOW PUBLISHING REPUBLICAN PROPAGANDA AS FACT
On the Maddow blog, Steve Benen analyzed the Journal’s outrageous violation of journalistic ethics: It relied “on Biden’s Republican foes — during an election season — to substantiate one of the Republican Party’s core criticisms of the Democratic incumbent.” Everyone … Continue reading
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DID BEZOS INSTALL WILL LEWIS TO ENSURE THAT TRUMP CAN STEAL THE ELECTION?
Ir’s really the only explanation that makes sense. Lewis is an atrociously bad fit for the Washington Post, as was demonstrated when he called an editorial meeting and then proceeded to insult the Post’s distinguished journalistic personnel. Murdoch’s yeomen never … Continue reading
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MURDOCH’S VIRTUAL TAKEOVER OF THE WASHINGTON POST
His henchman are now running the paper, and are likely to steer the Post into a Trump-subservient, Tory-branded retreat. Dan Froomkin at Presswatchers clues us in to what to expect. Owner Bezos installed Murdoch toady Will Lewis, whose record is … Continue reading
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BERNIE REBUTS MIKE JOHNSON’S DISGUSTING, IMMORAL SMEAERS
The overfed Speaker Johnson feasts on our democracy while children in Gaza starve. “And I would say to Speaker Johnson that when you attend your fundraising dinners with your billionaire friends, and you eat your fine steaks and your lobsters … Continue reading
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