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WHAT ARE WE TO DO ?
About a municipal government that keeps pursuing the developers’ agenda at the expense of the city’s and keeps happily scamming the public about it? Vote them out. Picket every day at the offices of those still serving their terms. This … Continue reading
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PETER STRZOK EXONERATES HIMSELF
Strzok is a patriot who knew what a Trump presidency would mean, who privately expressed misgivings about it, and refrained from exploiting his position at the FBI to commit any inappropriate act that would unfairly harm the Trump campaign. And … Continue reading
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TBC con’t
And so years, then decades ensued. Vicki and I lost touch with each other, but I never forfeited or forgot her journal. It was in storage in my apartment, it was in storage out of my apartment. Meanwhile, Vicki began to … Continue reading
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BE THERE
at the Museum of Modern Art Monday evening, when they’re showing While New York Sleeps, the 1920 film with footage of the Midnight Frolic at the New Amsterdam Roof Theater.
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BRIAN KILMEADE WANTS AMERICA AS DUMB & IGNORANT AS POSSIBLE
Kilmeade confesses it absolutely incomprehensible that anyone might consider Beto O’Rourke’s reading books an asset in running for president and/or possibly serving as president.
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WHAT’S 33 YEARS?
Way back ca. 1986, Victoria Uris loaned me the diary she’d kept back in 1970, when she was a student at NYU. Why, you ask? tbc Because I was putting together our interviews into first person, dramatic monologue form for Ballet … Continue reading
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BEN SASSE, ONCE AGAIN, REFUSES TO STAND UP FOR DEMOCDRACY
Do you think Sen. Sasse will start blubbering again, the way he did when he voted for confirmed perjurer and likely-sex offender Brett Kavanaugh to sit on the SUPREME COURT? Sen Sasse continues to buckle in every test of patriotism, … Continue reading
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THEY’RE COMING FOR MORE NYC NEIGHBORHOODS
With the City Planning Commission (the developers’ municipal front group) Manhattan Borough President Brewer and Council Member Chin making the now-familiar noises about rezoning, (i.e., how do we get more towers built?) a committee to save Soho & Noho has … Continue reading
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YOUSEFF MUNAYYER vs. IGNORANT PIG TUCKER CARLSON
Munayyer tweets the ironic disconnect between Iraq’s role as progenitor of Western civilization and Carlson’s disparaging remarks about the country. It is the media dereregulation practiced by both Democratic and Republican administrations that brought us to the point where Fox … Continue reading
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PROTESTS OUTSIDE FOX “NEWS” TODAY
We can only hope–for the sake of America and the continued existence of the human race–that this toxic media disaster site will finally be subject to Super Fund clean up.
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