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TRUMP ATTACKS AMERICA’S PUBLIC HEALTH–ONCE AGAIN
The same president who sabotaged our recovery from COVID and caused the death of hundreds of thousands of Americans has now returned to finish off what he started-withdrawing from the World Health Organization demonstrates anew his hated for this country.
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TRUMP AND THE GOP HAVE NOW FULLY EMBRACED DOMESTIC TERRORISM
and repudiated law and other, with his pardon of the shock troops he sicced on America four years ago. Will the Democrats please do more than mewl out some genteel protests over this abomination?
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MUSK TURNS INTO PETER SELLARS IN “DR. STRANGELOVE”
Just couldn’ t repress his Heil Hitler salute. Not once, but twice, and each time his raging malovolence was shocking. His is a sick, distorted psychology. nd the Anti-Defamation League is just fine with that, immediately rushing to Musk’s defense. … Continue reading
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“DRILL, BABY, DRILL” IS THE BATTLE CRY OF A POPULATION WEAPONIZED AGAINST ITS OWN SURVIVAL
Wouldn’t it have been nice if Kamala had mentioned “global warming or “climate change” rather than putting her campaign in the hands of has-been neoliberal operatives from the Clinton and Obama administrations?
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BIDEN’S “LOOK FORWARD NOT BACK” CRAP MAY HAVE DOOMED DEMOCRACY
We thought Biden must have learned from Obama’s monumental failure to hold anyone accountable. We were wrong. He became another passive, mute Democrat enabling an ever-more radical and subversive Republican party. In the Guardian Mehdi Hassan implicates Biden in Trump’s … Continue reading
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TO WIT
“Authoritarian regimes gain strength by undermining local institutions and ignoring community voices,”Timoth Snyder writes on his substack today. As in Trump’s Washington, so in New York City, where City Hall lies to us over and over again, institutes policies to … Continue reading
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GREENWICH VILLAGE IS UNDER SIEGE
by the avaricious developers and a bought-and-paid for City Hall. The West Village is the first-designated–and one of the largest– historic districts in New York City. To the developer/municipal governance combine, it represents a firewall that must be breached, and they are … Continue reading
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TRUMP’S INAUGURATION A WAKE FOR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
Exactly how many international fascist leaders are attending? And how many of our own home grown fascist oligarchs? The Democrats should be expressing outrage.
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MICHELLE DECIDED THAT WHEN TRASH IS PUT OUT, SHE DOESN’T HAVE TO SMELL IT
It took her a (too) long time to reach that conclusion, but hooray for her that she did. Now, if only the rest of the Democratic party would follow suit.
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STOP THE CHARADE THAT BIPARTISANSHIP IS POSSIBLE, DEMS
The Republican party is nothing more–and nothing menacingly less–than the cult of a insane, senile fascist dictator. We know that Sen. Ernst cares so, so much about women in the military, and her work with Sen. Gillibrand is so, so … Continue reading
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