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NY CITY COUNCIL HAS NO ONE BUT ITSELF TO BLAME
Their power has just been eviscerated by the Adams/developers scam ratified yesterday by New Yorkers blitzed with billionaire-funded propaganda about these ballot issues. The old “affordable housing” nag was led once more around the track. These atrocious measures will, in … Continue reading
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AS NYC VOTES FOR A NEW ERA, IT SIGNS ITS POTENTIAL DEATH WARRANT
FROM VILLAGE PRESERVATION:“NYC voters approved ballot measures 2,3, and 4, which permanently hand unilateral decision-making authority to the Mayor on an incredibly broad range of land use decisions, removing the City Council and by extension the public from having a … Continue reading
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“DECADES OF FAILED LEADERSHIP” IN NYC
At Common Dreams, Jon Queally salutes Mamdani’s victory as “a new kind of politics that puts the needs of working people at the center after decades of failed leadership that put corporate interests and the desires of the wealthiest first.”
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OF COURSE GENERATION Z TURNED OUT
They want a future. They know that current policies are denying that to them.
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TRUMP IS BACK TO INSULTING JEWS
reviling them “stupid” if they vote for Mamdani. This just goes on and on with him; remember how Trump told us a year ago that if he lost it would be the fault of Jews? And let’s not forget that, … Continue reading
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DON’T LET ADAMS AND THE DEVELOPERS WRECK DEMOCRACY IN NYC
Vote NO on ballot questions 2-3-4.
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THE AUDIENCE QUIETED TO THE OCCASION
It was a pleasure to hear actual human voices articulate from the stage of the Studio 54 Theatre during Almeida Theatre’s Oedipus, a clever contemporary transposition of Sophocles’ 2,500 year old tragedy. Actors really knew how to project back then … Continue reading
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YES, MR. OBAMA,
you did warn us about what another term for Trump would mean. But your decision to pardon the banisters in 1008 and then let the foreclosed hang out to dry ushered in the conditions that made Trump or a Trump … Continue reading
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TRUMP & HIS MINIONS HAVE DESTROYED THE KENNEDY CENTER IN RECORD TIME
Isn’t interesting that this morning the Washington Post was reporting on the Center in freefalll, when this afternoon Trump LieSocial’d a post about how supposedly gorgeous his Marie Antoniette redecoration scheme there is. True to form, in the process of … Continue reading
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LEE GRANT IS 100 TODAY
She was a joy to interview about Diana Sands, Hal Ashby, and The Landlord back in 2016. Glad to finally now see her words in print. Steve and I can assure you that you’ve never read them before! She’s very … Continue reading
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