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THAT’S WHY IT’S CALLED AN HISTORIC DISTRICT
Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation has unearthed more history about the historic brownstones on lower Fifth Ave. within the historic district, that the city is proposing to allow a developer to replace with another anonymous, ahistorical investment-opportunistic apartment tower. … Continue reading
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JEANINE PIRRO’S TASTE, DIGNITY, AND RESTRAINT
as well as her honesty were perhaps overstated a bit last night on Saturday Night Live, but, hey, that’s the prerogative of parody.
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IT WILL BE INTERESTING TO SEE BEN SASSE REALLY, REALLY STAND UP
I mean, it’s not like Sen. Sasse postures about standing up for justice, and then invariably buckles to McConnell’s malign designs, and then blubbers out an excuse, is it? So we know he’ll stand up for American democracy against Donald … Continue reading
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CIVILITY CAN COVER A MULTITUDE OF SINS
Isn’t it great to hear Pelosi say she doesn’t really care what the Republicans say? I mean, after that glassy-eyed ghoul McConnell launched his latest fraudulent, traitorous rant?
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HOW THE GOP WILL GIVE THE COUP DE GRACE TO OBAMACARE
First Trump and Susan Collins’s tax bill stripped the individual mandate. Now a rght-wing appellate court has ruled that w/o the mandate, ACA is unconstitutional. Now, Injustice John Roberts will wait until after the 2020 election to kybash the ACA … Continue reading
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CHUCK TODD TAKES AMERICA’S PULSE ON IMPEACHMENT
by talking to Republicans. “If that doesn’t pull back the curtain on today’s coverage,” Eric Boehlert writes at Daily Kos, “and how it’s being told literally through the eyes of the Republican Party,I don’t know what does.”
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CALLS FOR BARR’S IMPEACHMENT
Has the United States ever had a more lawless, traitorous Attorney General? Doubtful. Common Cause is demanding redress.
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FOX “NEWS” IS A THREAT TO OUR NATIONAL SECURITY
Garrett M. Graff writes at Wired: “The lies and obfuscations forwarded ad infinitum on Fox News pose a dangerous threat to the national security of the United States.”
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NOW THE DEVELOPERS ARE GOING AFTER HISTORIC, RENT-REGULATED BUILDINGS IN LANDMARK DISTRICTS
If you didn’t think that NYC developers were completely out of control, dig this: Madison Equities is proposing to demolish two 1842 formerly-private homes at Fifth Avenue between 8th and 9th Street–one of the very last survivors of little old … Continue reading
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DOUG COLLINS’S IDIOTIC, SNEERING LAUGHTER
when confronted with his lies at the impeachment hearings tells you what the GOP thinks of protecting America these days. The party en masse is all in with ensuring that Trump’s criminality goes unpunished and allowing him to rule as … Continue reading
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