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UNTOLD STORY: MiCHAEL AVEDON
Michael Avedon began attending New York City Ballet performances as a teenager in the 1950s. Later he pursued a career in photography that included many NYCB dancers as subjects. He married NYCB’s Mimi Paul, and later was NYCB’s head of … Continue reading
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TRUMP LIES CONSTANTLY & HE’S TERRIBLE AT IT
The average fifth grader would immediately tumble to Trump’s sham–but MAGA can’t. Just another sign of the cognitive and emotional regression of his cult.
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I DON’T THINK GAVIN NEWSOM WILL BE INVITED BACK TO FOX “NEWS” VERY SOON
Truth is to Fox as sunlight to a vampire, which is why Governor Newsom utterly vanquished Fox carnival barker Sean Hannity. Newsom showed what happens when you go on Fox armed with facts and a refusal to be intimidated.
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WHEN REPUBLICANS AREN’T COMMMITTING TREASON, THEY’RE DEFENDING IT
I can’t wait for the egg-dripping-down-face by GOP politicians, and penny-dropping-in-mind by the American public we’ll see when it’s revealed that Trump was selling or leveraging his cache of secret documents. Kaitlin Collins: “Did you show them to anybody?” [paraphrase] … Continue reading
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GOV. HOCHUL IS BACK WITH HER PLAN TO DESTROY NEW YORK CITY
She’s trying to ram through her heinous proposal to lift ALL caps on residential development in this state. Remember, she’s got to perform for her developer contributors. This is part of a concerted, coordinated attempt to hamstring any check on … Continue reading
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BIDEN TRIES TO PUT LIPSTICK ON A PIG
Progressives aren’t buying the president’s snow job on his utterly unnecessary capitulation/collusion with the most reactionary, seditious Republican caucus in history. This is the most humiliating moment of his presidency so far. It could all go downhill from here. He and … Continue reading
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WILL CARLINA RIVERA SUCCEED IN INFLICTING HERSELF ON THE WEST VILLAGE?
Council Member Rivera is downtown Manhattan’s doyenne of displacement and demolition, consistently pleasuring the developers who are ruining our city and funding her campaigns, while making ersatz proclamations of new victories for affordable housing. In reality, everything that Member Rivera … Continue reading
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BIDEN’S SURRENDER (OF COURSE) EMBOLDENS THE REPUBLICANS
Now they’re going after Social Security and Medicare, after pledging earlier this year that they wouldn’t.
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DID BIDEN FALL ON HIS SWORD AS HE CAVED?
Jessica Corbett at Common Dreams writes that “As the U.S. House of Representatives prepared to vote on President Joe Biden’s debt limit deal with GOP negotiators Wednesday evening, the youth-led Sunrise Movement warned Democrats that the so-called Fiscal Responsibility Act could … Continue reading
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DEBT CEILING AGREEMENT SHOWS THAT WE ARE AN ANTI-LIFE KAKISTOCRACY
Biden degrades himself, ridiculing legitimate claims about the hundreds of thousands of Americans who will be kicked off food assistance as a result of him caving to the deathmongers of the GOP. And he agrees to shovel more money down … Continue reading
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