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THE MOMENT THERE IS A DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT
John Roberts’ mob at the Supreme Court will start to walk back their endless rulings supporting an authoritarian Trump presidency.
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DEMOCRATS DIDN’T SUFFER LOSSES TO TRUMP–THEY ENGINEERED THEM
The 2016 and 2024 Democratic campaigns were so inept you almost wonder if people were bribed to take a dive. And yet the Democratic establishment still insists that they know best. “The last people who have any right to lecture … Continue reading
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REPUBLICAN MEN COWER BEFORE DESICCATED DRAG QUEEN DONALD TRUMP
and then assail James Talarico’s manhood. Go figure.
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YALE UNIVERSITY ABOUT TO FALL ON ITS SWORD
As if taking orders from Alan Dershowitz wasn’t bad enough, Yale now wants to irrevocably sully its reputation by settling with the Trump administration over its entirely-frivolous accusations of bias in admissions policy. The New York Times has the story. … Continue reading
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NO, JESSE WATTERS, MOST NEW YORKERS AREN’T PAID MILLIONS A YEAR TO SPOUT TRAITOROUS TRASH LIKE YOU
On Fox Propaganda, Watters launches a new attack on the city’s needy.
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SOCIALISM FOR THE RICH IS THE CORE DOMESTIC POLICY OF THE REPUBLICANS
Accompanying that is their existentially brutal attack on the lives and livelihoods of working Americans. The Republicans’ agenda is now so sick that any policy that benefits working Americans is tarred as “Communism.” Progressive Democrats need to make that clear … Continue reading
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“LOOK, LET THEM GO TO MARS!” LAURA SAYS ABOUT THE OLIGARCHS
Well, Peter Thiel may have gone on the lam to Argentina, but as a whole the oligarchs see their future on colonized planets such as Mars. What’s clear, too, is that they no longer see themselves as part of any … Continue reading
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AT LEAST IN MANHATTAN, YIMBY IS THE ENEMY OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING
“Yes in My Back Yard” means different things in different locales. Too often it is simply another Trojan horse wearing the silks of “affordable housing.” In Manhattan, we’ve seen the obliteration of zoning regulation and height restrictions lead to the … Continue reading
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IMMIGRANTS BUILT AMERICA
The Republicans’ Hitlerian anti-immigrant hate agenda is a sign of how little the party understands America and how much contempt for it they have. That is how the Democrats need to message about immigration. No playing defense. No touting how … Continue reading
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SUSAN SARANDON CAPTURED BETTE DAVIS WITHOUT MIMICKING HER
In Feud, Sarandon fuses her own inflections and intonations with a chaser of Davis’s and creates a fresh characterization that steers clear of caricature. Hopefully, Tallulah will one day reap the same reward.
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