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“I Don’t Think 500 Billionaires Are Reason We’re in Trouble.” Another presidential candidate that the Democratic base can stay at home for!

Is there anything more emblematic than pictures today of Trump’s vacant, insentient face performing another show-and-tell ritual with his sanctions edict?

Ryan Cooper in The Week calls out Truimp’s  “parade of warmongers, cretins, and outright liars” demanding the Iran nuclear deal be scuttled. Iraq redux–and then some–here we come!

The New York City “Planning” Commission, which now exists solely to promote the monstrous over-mega-development of this city, has suddenly scheduled a last-minute, let’s-hope-nobody-knows-about -it hearing on the proposed Tech Hub development rampage planned to advance from East 14th Street … Continue reading →

Laura Jacobs will be reading from her new book, Celestial Bodies: How to Look at Ballet, tomorrow evening, May 8, at the Corner Bookstore at Madison and 93rd.  Page-turning starts at 6:00 p.m., and there’s a reception that follows.

Pelosi and Hoyer telling us they know how to pick winning Congressional candidates. Repeat after me: 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016. . .

Trump and the GOP have truly reduced America to its nadir. They are the greatest internal threat this country has ever faced.

Andrew Berman in The Gotham Gazette writes about De Bloomberg’s “Mistaken Attempt to Supersize Buildings.” “With all the problems facing New York City right now, from dysfunctional subways to crumbling public housing to crippling congestion, why is this an issue … Continue reading →

Oh, the company Trump keeps. And oh, the company they keep. Fascist Guiliani demands that our Attorney General shut down the Department of Justice to minimize the legal jeopardy to which Trump’s criminality renders him.

Another reason the Democratic leadership must be replaced: their total refusal to bring environment issues to the forefront of electoral politics. They have refused to explain to Americans that environmental degradation = end of human species. They will not take the … Continue reading →