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HAS IT BECOME OUR NATIONAL PASTIME?
James Baldwin in 1964: “The plight in my view is simply that we confuse democracy with mediocrity. There is a virtue in this country in being simple-minded.”
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CITY HALL DOESN’T WANT NEW YORKERS READING
This is a minicipality that bends over backwards to give billions of dollars of tax breaks to real estate plutocrats, yet is proposing massive cuts to our public library system. Go to the New York Public Library’s web site at … Continue reading
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WHY DIDN’T AG GARLAND SMOKE OUT TRUMP’S MOLES IN THE DOJ?
Why did he, in fact, empower them? Now that proof emerges that Trump apparatchik Robert Hur lied about Biden in his special counsel report, isn’t it time to bring Hur up on criminal charges? Why was Hur allowed to resign … Continue reading
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FASCIST FANBOY DONALD J. TRUMP
He stands on the stage at Mar-a-Lago, arms stiffly at his side in one of those uniquely awkward stances he assumes, gushing over the dictatorship of Victor Orban. The Biden camp needs to go to town with this footage.
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LIES, HATE & SYNAPTIC MISFIRES
That’s the bill of fare in Trump’s ghostly, flyblown rally routine.
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BIDEN SHOWS HE’S OLD ENOUGH
to handle a bunch of spoiled, treasonous, anarchic brats. Someone half his age couldn’t have done it any better.
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THE USUAL SUSPECTS
The same people now telling us that Biden is falling behind Trump are the ones who insisted, week after week, that fall 2022 was going to be a wipeout for the Democrats.
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OF COURSE THE NYT EDITORIAL BOARD DOESN’T SUPPORT TRUMP
But the news division does, and no amount of editorials by the Times’s center-left editorial board is going to change that fact.
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RAW STORY HAS TO DO BETTER
I love Raw Story, but they’d better vet their reporters. Sky Palma writes that Nathan Wade “has been paid over $600,000 for his work on the case — a rate that reportedly exceeds the usual pay for similar contract work.” … Continue reading
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McCONNELL ENGINEERS HIS OWN EXISTENTIAL HUMILIATION
It’s not that McConnell has a conscience. He’s a traitorous sociopath. But his utter lust for political domination has now turned on itself, as he decides to endorse his tormenter Donald Trump, thereby eliminating any last vestige of dignity or … Continue reading
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