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BIDEN ACCURATELY CALLED OUT GOP FASCISM
And no matter how much defensive noise the Republicans (and the talking heads) make, he has to continue to tell the truth about them.
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JUST WHAT NYC DOESN’T NEED: ANOTHER ANTI-PRESERVATIONIST IN HIGH PUBLIC OFFICE
Mark Levine, the new Manhattan Borough President, also refuses to support judicious landmark designation for the Eye Infirmary. I wonder how much the real-estate industry contributed to his campaign?
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CARLINA RIVERA IS DOWNTOWN DOYENNE OF DISPLACEMENT & DEMOLITION
Not surprisingly, she’s opposed to landmark designation for the landmark-quality, nineteenth-century former Eye infirmary on lower Second Avenue. First Rivera sold out her constituents and violated her campaign pledge to defend Union Square South from De Blasio’s Tech Hub upzoning … Continue reading
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DeSANTIS ATTACKS THE CORPORATE MEDIA THAT CREATED HIM
Like all of Fox ‘News”‘ pick-ups, Ron DeSantis was a complete nonentity when Fox started featuring him, but obviously willing to parrot the Murdoch anti-democracy line without the slightest bit of compunction or patriotism. DeSantis only objects to any media, … Continue reading
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MY FATHER WAS AN ATTORNEY IN THE NAVY, TOO
just like the tail-switching fascist Ron DeSantis, but he didn’t strut around in fighter pilot drag like DeSantis does in his new ad, to which Meidas Touch responds by highlighting an actual Navy pilot veteran pull the wings off DeSantis … Continue reading
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DE BLASIO & RIVERA’S BETRAYAL OF UNION SQUARE SOUTH
is paying off really big for developers, who are slowly turning it into midtown. Ex-Mayor De Blasio aggressively and duplicitously pushed through the district’s upzoning in 2018 to please his developer funders, and local Councilmember Rivera reneged on her campaign … Continue reading
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TRUMP: THE MIND OF AN INFANTILE SOCIOPATH IN HIS SECOND CHILDHOOD
Why, oh why, he pines, can’t I have my highly-classified, blackmail-leveraging, sold-to-the-highest-bidder toys back?” The fact that vast swaths of the American public are willing to vouch for this shows the extent of the mass psychosis the country is experiencing.
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MURDOCH-OWNED HARPER COLLINS GIVES SWEETHEART BOOK DEAL TO JARED KUSHNER
and Murdoch family friend Kushner goes on Murdoch-owned Fox Propaganda Outlet to cry victimhood. This is, unfortunately, how too much of the American media/political game is played.
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WHY IS IT SO HARD FOR TRUMP TO SIMULATE HUMAN EXPRESSIONS?
People have discussed how Trump’s facial expressions seem to have been patterned after various animal kingdom physiognomies, particularly those that he thinks will register feral dominance. The problem is that he is a part, however aberrant, of the human community. … Continue reading
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CHRIS LICHT BEGINS HIS DEGRADATION OF CNN
The first casualty of Licht’s determination to make CNN MAGA-friendly is Brian Stelter and “Reliable Sources.” As Dan Froomkin tweets: “This is a terrible move by CNN. @brianstelter was the symbol of a media establishment willing to question itself. He … Continue reading
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