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THE NEW INVADING HOARDS OF NEW YORK
Ken Cybulska recommends Adam Piore’s The New Kings of New York. “Very readable account of how bigger and bigger players tore down everything worth a sugar in the city, including the obliteration of neighborhoods for their higher income per square … Continue reading
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AMERICA NOW FLIES BY THE SEAT OF TRUMP’S (STAINED) PANTS
He has no idea what he’s doing or even why, nor does imbecile sot Pete Hegseth. (“Despite being intelligent in his younger days, he has killed too many brain cells from alcohol abuse, and is functionally incompetent,” Tom Joseph tweets.) … Continue reading
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WE GIVE OUR MILITARY 1 BILLION A YEAR
and they’re running out of ammunition?? Why aren’t the Democrats skewering Trump’s bullshit claims that he “rebuilt” the military? And remember those “Sir” stories he made up where soldiers complained to him that they had no ammunition? It appears that … Continue reading
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KASH PATEL FIRED ALL THE IRAN EXPERTS AT THE FBI
Competency and expertise counts, America, and it might be a good idea to finally abandon the war on efficiency and knowledge that (primarily) the GOP has waged for forty years–as well as the war on law and order instigated by … Continue reading
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TRUMP ABANDONING AMERICANS STRANDED IN THE MIDDLE EAST
This is what comes of Trump/Musk/Rubio’s gutting of the State Department. Our citizens are being told to evacuate the area immediately–on their own steam, as airports are bombed and flights grounded!
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THE WHITE HOUSE CELEBRATES ANTISEMITISM
hanging a banner of notorious antisemite Charlie Kirk on the facade of the Department of Education. The Trump administration’s alleged concern over antisemitism is simply a convenient pretext to attack free speech and higher education in this country.
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THE WAR FIENDS RUNNING OUR COUNTRY ARE PLANNING TO INVADE IRAN
Jennifer Taub notes in a tweet that Hegseth’s voice “goes up up several notches, gets very high and girly when he is pressed on whether we will have boots on the ground.” Hegseth, Caine, Trump & Netanyahu need to be … Continue reading
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DR. BANDY LEE WAS FIRED BY YALE UNIVERSITY FOR WARNING US WHERE TRUMP WOULD TAKE AMERICA & THE WORLD
She was blacklisted by the American Psychiatric Association, banned from The New York Times and the rest of the corporate “news” media. Trump has claimed that the carnage in Ukraine and Gaza wouldn’t have happened on his watch. Of course … Continue reading
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IS JAKE TAPPER GOING TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT TRUMP’S COMMENTS TO HIM TODAY ARE INSANE, ADDLED GIBBERISH?
When is Tapper (as well as the rest of the corporate “news” media) going to own up to the fact that their endless prattle about Biden’s cognitive state served to give cover to Trump’s dangerous unfitness? No sector did more … Continue reading
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IF GEN. DAN CAINE HAD ANY INTEGRITY OR TRUE PATRIOTISM
he would have resigned rather than initiating an illegal war. There’s a reason he was appointed by psychotic Trump and supported by psychotic Hegseth.
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