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ALLA OSIPENKO 1932-2025
I wrote an obituary for the Washington Post.
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BLOATED, HAGGARD, SAGGING TRUMP CALLS SPRINGSTEIN “A DRIED UP PRUNE”
You’d think that Trump might possess an ounce of self-awareness, but he doesn’t, one reason for the macabre enthrallment of his cult–most have never experienced anyone as ludicrously impervious to humiliating self-owns as Trump. He is so embedded in his … Continue reading
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WHY ARE THE HIGHEST LEVELS OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY STILL SO NAIVE AND COMPLACENT?
Sen. Klobuchar just said nothing to worry about there, as Stephen Miller and the Trump administration threaten habeas corpus–why? Oh, because it is in the Constitution. Is she kidding? She thinks that would stop them–after their record of the last … Continue reading
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HEGSETH’S MANIC GESTURES
help him identify himself as the alcoholic huckster that he is.
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A WHITE HOUSE OF DRAG QUEENS HATES DRAG QUEENS
Caked in makeup, Trump and his men seem to be conducing a drag ball, revealing the hypocrisy and the repression behind their excoriating of drag. But of course they’r no better at drag than they are at anything else, except … Continue reading
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THE RUINOUS 2021 SOHO/NOHO/CHINATOWN UPZONING
has brought none of the benefits that City Hall promised would result. Instead its impact has been regressive. Village Preservation reports in its new study that “Not a single unit of the promised affordable housing has materialized, compared to the … Continue reading
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WHY ISN’T THE CORPORATE MEDIA
discussing the fact that Trump couldn’t open his right eye all the way at today’s bonkers presser? Seems like White House, Inc. is covering up the state of Trump’s heath, and the corporate media is cooperating.
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IS MIKE JOHNSON GOING TO TELL US THAT MOSES ADVISED HIM TO RIP HEALTH CARE AWAY FROM THE MOST VULNERABLE?
Speaker Johnson and the Republicans’ exploitation of Christianity to promote the most immoral and traitorous policies of governance has perhaps never been as blatant as it is in their assault on Medicaid to ensure that the billionaires don’t. have to … Continue reading
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BATSHIT BILL ACKMAN GOING AFTER HARVARD NOW
It seems when his daughter attended she learned about someone named Karl Marx, which has apparently so unsettled Ackman that he’s put Harvard on his enemies list.
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THE COURT OF TRUMP
is frantic to deflect attention away from Trump’s rapidly-accelerating senility. Thus, its insistence that the transcript of Biden’s interview with Robert Hur will reveal “a coverup” of Biden’s allegedly unreliable faculties.It won’t. Meanwhile, Biden nimbly negotiates a comeback loop in which … Continue reading
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