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JUDGE CANNON SHOULD BE TRIED ALONGSIDE TRUMP
She is engaged in obstruction of justice in the service of election interference, as she works to ensure that the electorate will not be able to weigh the likely guilty verdict that Trump would suffer were he tried. Utterly indifferent … Continue reading
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TRUMP BACKERS ARE FINE WITH HIS SENILITY
It will make it that much easier to overturn democracy in America, as they will simply put a pen in his hand and direct hm to sign one authoritarian directive after another.
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WHHY DOES CNN GIVE A PLATFORM TO LARA TRUMP?
Of course she shouts down the host. Of course she won’t answer the questions.
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VIENNA: A CITY THAT BUILDS ACTUAL AFFORDABLE HOUSING
“Imagine a beautiful city where a centrally located two-bedroom apartment can cost you as little as $600 a month. For many US policymakers, it’s a pipe dream. And yet in Vienna, it’s a reality.” Kirsty Lang reports in the Guardian.
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WHEN NYC PUBLIC SCHOOLS TAUGHT MUSIC AND ART
They also bussed students to the Metropolitan Opera House for special matineess–and with top artistic personnel.
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THE COMPANY THEY KEEP
Why are we not surprised that Amy Coney Barrett’s husband, Jesse Barrett, is defending Fox Corp., parent to Fox”News” in yet another defamation lawsuit? You’d think if he had any respect for decency or propriety that he wouldn’t get near … Continue reading
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IT IS TIME TO RADICALLY REFORM THE SUPREME COURT
Alito’s refusal to recuse and Roberts’ apparent endorsement of that malfeasance should be the last straw. This is a majority that is contemptuous of this country and won’t even make the most perfunctory attempts to disguise that fact.
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HAIL MARILYN BENDER
Long-time NYT editor and reporter Marilyn Bender published her book The Beautiful People in 1967, in which she kept close watch on the fashion industry, the fashion journalism industry, and the fashion celebrity industry. I don’t have the book in front … Continue reading
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BIDEN SHOULD CONTINUE TO HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THE NYT
He sees what they did to both Clintons. The Times’ brass’ duplicitous attempts to defend their lopsided false equivalences–by which they attach as much weight to lies as to truth, just so there are an equal number of positive and … Continue reading
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FANTASTIC
The Biden campaign goes into the belly of the beast. They transform Trump’s attempted appropriation of the courthouse into a staging ground for defamatory, subversive propaganda. They strike a blow for truth and reality.
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