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FOX FLEA CIRCUS KNOWS THAT TRUMP CAN’T DEBATE
So, it goes to its Hitlerian playbook and flips the script: now it’s Biden who will somehow injure Trump so that he won’t be able to show up. Not to worry, Fox: Trump’s handlers won’t ever let their addled, insane … Continue reading
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“STATEMENT FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES ON PRESIDENTIAL COVERAGE”
Publisher A.G. Sulzberger bitches about Biden, deflects from his own failure to address the obvious, glaring shortcomings in the Times news coverage, as well as in any number of its other departments Sulzberger himself is the problem, one of the newspaper’s … Continue reading
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THE GOP COULD HAVE NAMED CONSERVATIVE JUDGES TO THE SUPREME COURT
Instead they picked authoritarian extremists The Roberts Supreme Court is the most corrupt in the nation’s history and one of the most extreme. The idea that political operative John Roberts is “an institutionalist” who was concerned with burnishing his legacy … Continue reading
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HOMELESSNESS COURTESY REAGANOMICS
Thom Hartman assigns blame where it belongs: “Both homelessness and today’s inflation are the result of America — unlike many other countries — allowing housing to become a commodity that can be traded and speculated in by financial markets and … Continue reading
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TECH BROS DIDN’T GET WHAT THEY WANTED, THIS TIME
I’m reading at the Village Preservation’s web site Andrew Berman’s breakdown of what’s in Gov. Hochul’s just-unveiled budget. The Tech Bros’ attempted assault on the landmarks law didn’t make it in this time. Tech Bros will be back, though. There … Continue reading
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TECH BROS ATTACKING LANDMARK PROTECTIONS
It truly is open season on New York City, as the developers and the moguls and private equity scheme to overturn every last proviso the city has established to protect itself. A tech-funded astroturf group is now furiously lobbying to … Continue reading
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REALTORS & NYC POLS ACTUALLY DRIVING THE CITY TOWARD A MARKET COLLAPSE
This was pointed out to me yesterday by a friend who worked for NYS for decades. The post-pandemic ity is now glutted with excess office space, while City Hall gives the green light to ever more gargantuan office projects, like … Continue reading
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NOT 1 SINGLE UNIT OF AFFORDABLE OR EVEN “AFFORDABLE” HOUSING
has been built, or is likely to be built, in the Soho-Noho-Chinatown catchment area that was brutally upzoned two years ago. It was all in the service of affordable housing, so we were fraudulently told. At that time, it didn’t … Continue reading
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IT’S TIME FOR MORE LAWSUITS AGAINST FOX
As Jesse Watters engages in obstruction of justice to protect Trump by sabotaging jury selection. And shouldn’t the Deartment of Justice finally step in to curtail Fox’s nightly traitorous incitement as well as subversion of the law?
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TRUMP’S TRIAL IS FOR ELECTION INTERFERENCE–GET IT?
Too much of the media–corporate and otherwise–keeps minimizing and misrepresenting the charges against him. No, it’s not just about hush money.
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