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WHAT HAPPENED TO SEN. GILLIBRAND’S SO, SO UNCOMPROMISING CONCERNS ABOUT SEXUAL HARASSMENT?
They went out the window with Andrew Cuomo.
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AS USUAL, DEMOCRATS TOOK ALL THE WRONG LESSONS FROM 2024–AND CONTINUE TO BASE THEIR ENTIRE PLATFORM ON REACTION
Moira Donegan writes in The Guardian: “They respond to polling and to a vague sense of the cultural zeitgeist, aiming less to persuade than to imitate. Often, Democrats seem as if they are not offering a different policy vision for … Continue reading
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NETANYAHU’S WAR OF OPPORTUNISM
Sen. Murphy reminds us that “Netanyahu’s strikes against Iran began the day his government was up for a no confidence vote in the Knesset. His hardline stances on Iran and Gaza appear to be dictated more by what keeps him … Continue reading
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THE GOP IS DESPERATE TO CONVINCE US THAT THE EMPEROR IS CLOTHED
This their ridiculous, outlandish demands that public institutions be named after him, that a place be cleared on Mt. Rushmore for his degraded visage, et. al., et. al. Not one of these Republicans must ever be allowed to live down … Continue reading
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OUR FOREIGN POLICY IS NOW CONTROLLED BY BIBI AND AIPAC: NOT SUSTAINABLE
Trump is the dummy. Bibi/AIPAC are the string-pullers. The Republican Party are the shock troops of lockstep compliance.
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JESSICA RAMOS MAKES A FOOL OF HERSELF
First the New York State Senator tried the appeasement argument, saying that Mamdani might make Trump mad so we all needed to keep our heads down–tell that to the ghost of Neville Chamberlain. At one point, she realized she was … Continue reading
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AND WHEN WILL TRUMP START DANCING ON THOSE POLES?
“Who would have dreamed that American culture would fall to its knees?” a writer around my age said to me recently.
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IF WE WANT TO SUPPORT ISRAEL
We must demand the ouster of genocidal, war-mongering criminal Benjamin Netanyahu.
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TRUMP COMMITTING “the most serious impeachable offense our Founders strove to safeguard against.”
At Common Dreams, Ralph Nader reminds us that “The war declaration power is EXCLUSIVELY exercised by Congress (Article I, Section 8, Clause 1). The Founders most adamantly rejected the idea of a king plunging the nation into wars.”
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CUOMO’S CORE CONSTITUENCY
Michael Bloomberg has contributed over 8 million dollars to Cuomo’s campaign.
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