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ONCE AGAIN, NBC FALLS INTO THE TRUMP COLUMN
Let’s not forget that it was NBC, sexual harrasing Jeff Zzucker, and Christo-fascist producer Mark Burnett who rehabilitated Trump from punchline to putative national success story on The Apprentice. Now, NBC has just nailed its colors to the mast–as if … Continue reading
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ONCE AGAIN, OUR LEGAL SYSTEM BENDS OVER BACKWARDS TO HELP TRUMP
Lawrence Tribe tweets: “The NY appellate court’s unexplained reduction from $454M to $175M in the bond Trump must post in 10 days to secure the judgment pending appeal is a travesty of justice.”
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NEW BOOK BY MARIANNE SCHULTZ
Dr. Schultz (you’ve read her in Ballet Review) writes from New Zealand about a biography she’s working on, with the working title Stepping Lightly: The Dancing Life of Thomas O’Carroll/Jan Caryll. It is the first biography of “one of New Zealand’s … Continue reading
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HAS IT BECOME OUR NATIONAL PASTIME?
James Baldwin in 1964: “The plight in my view is simply that we confuse democracy with mediocrity. There is a virtue in this country in being simple-minded.”
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CITY HALL DOESN’T WANT NEW YORKERS READING
This is a minicipality that bends over backwards to give billions of dollars of tax breaks to real estate plutocrats, yet is proposing massive cuts to our public library system. Go to the New York Public Library’s web site at … Continue reading
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WHY DIDN’T AG GARLAND SMOKE OUT TRUMP’S MOLES IN THE DOJ?
Why did he, in fact, empower them? Now that proof emerges that Trump apparatchik Robert Hur lied about Biden in his special counsel report, isn’t it time to bring Hur up on criminal charges? Why was Hur allowed to resign … Continue reading
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FASCIST FANBOY DONALD J. TRUMP
He stands on the stage at Mar-a-Lago, arms stiffly at his side in one of those uniquely awkward stances he assumes, gushing over the dictatorship of Victor Orban. The Biden camp needs to go to town with this footage.
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LIES, HATE & SYNAPTIC MISFIRES
That’s the bill of fare in Trump’s ghostly, flyblown rally routine.
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BIDEN SHOWS HE’S OLD ENOUGH
to handle a bunch of spoiled, treasonous, anarchic brats. Someone half his age couldn’t have done it any better.
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THE USUAL SUSPECTS
The same people now telling us that Biden is falling behind Trump are the ones who insisted, week after week, that fall 2022 was going to be a wipeout for the Democrats.
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