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That uniquely Russian amalgam of the intimately affectionate and the patrynomically deferential was the way that Tchernichova addressed Inna Zubkovksaya when they conversed in my presence. Nothing is ever totally what it seems with Russians. Both Tchernichova and Zubkovskaya knew … Continue reading →

Oil and gas executives–you know, the ones curtailing the future of America’s children–are ecstatic about how easy it is to get the ear of our president. And to direct policy. Jon Queally at Common Dreams details the latest exposure of … Continue reading →

That’s what his desperate professed bafflement about how someone who didn’t run for election can administer an investigation is about. Trump is telling us that he was elected to be dictator. He wasn’t–but he wishes he had been.

Ran into a Nebraska native now living in NYC, who mentioned that the reddest parts of the state suffered catastrophic flooding. Will they now finally get it about climate change?

Jeff Cohen at Common Dreams gives the ex-President credit where it’s due, but also makes clear how Obama’s two terms tilled the ground for Trump. ‘When corporate-beholden Democrats win the White House and implement cautious, status-quo policies while inequality worsens, … Continue reading →

About a municipal government that keeps pursuing the developers’ agenda at the expense of the city’s and keeps happily scamming the public about it? Vote them out. Picket every day at the offices of those still serving their terms. This … Continue reading →

Strzok is a patriot who knew what a Trump presidency would mean, who privately expressed misgivings about it, and refrained from exploiting his position at the FBI to commit any inappropriate act that would unfairly harm the Trump campaign. And … Continue reading →

And so years, then decades ensued. Vicki and I lost touch with each other, but I never forfeited or forgot her journal. It was in storage in my apartment, it was in storage out of my apartment. Meanwhile, Vicki began to … Continue reading →

at the Museum of Modern Art Monday evening, when they’re showing While New York Sleeps, the 1920 film with footage of the Midnight Frolic at the New Amsterdam Roof Theater.

Kilmeade confesses it absolutely incomprehensible that anyone might consider Beto O’Rourke’s reading books an asset in running for president and/or possibly serving as president.