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Trump’s hands clawed the air weirdly as he bellowed greetings last night to his glad-to-be-fleeced club members. As Ben Meiselas points out, his splayed hands–in evidence when he fell asleep in the Oval Office yesterday–now seem to fall naturally into … Continue reading →

Bari Wess is turning CBS “News” into a fully-integrated propaganda arm of the White House. According to the Washington Post, “Some newsroom employees say Weiss’s sensibility has begun to shape editorial operations at the network.” Indeed.

In his feeble, addled voice, Trump summons his cognition to launch a new attack on SNAP recipients a la Reagan’s “Welfare Queens” defamation.

How can Cornell president Michael Kotlikoff expect to command any respect after he bends over to service Trump’s extortion?

Of course they are congratulating him today. You cannot call yourself a “progressive,” then vote to give billionaire developers carte blanche. It looks like we’re going to see another bait-and-switch administration a la De Blasio, which is not surprising given … Continue reading →

Imagine the uproar if Biden had chosen to make himself up this way. And imagine the uproar if Biden had put on the kind of moth eaten spectacle that Trump did today. As Aaron Rupar tweets, “Hannity would immediately start … Continue reading →

It didn’t take long: after not endorsing the monstrous ballot referendums, at the very last moment he did, thus perhaps ensuring their passage. They will result in less affordable housing, not more, and if he is gullible enough to think … Continue reading →

Their power has just been eviscerated by the Adams/developers scam ratified yesterday by New Yorkers blitzed with billionaire-funded propaganda about these ballot issues. The old “affordable housing” nag was led once more around the track. These atrocious measures will, in … Continue reading →

FROM VILLAGE PRESERVATION:“NYC voters approved ballot measures 2,3, and 4, which permanently hand unilateral decision-making authority to the Mayor on an incredibly broad range of land use decisions, removing the City Council and by extension the public from having a … Continue reading →

At Common Dreams, Jon Queally salutes Mamdani’s victory as “a new kind of politics that puts the needs of working people at the center after decades of failed leadership that put corporate interests and the desires of the wealthiest first.”