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WHAT’S 33 YEARS?
Way back ca. 1986, Victoria Uris loaned me the diary she’d kept back in 1970, when she was a student at NYU. Why, you ask? tbc Because I was putting together our interviews into first person, dramatic monologue form for Ballet … Continue reading
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BEN SASSE, ONCE AGAIN, REFUSES TO STAND UP FOR DEMOCDRACY
Do you think Sen. Sasse will start blubbering again, the way he did when he voted for confirmed perjurer and likely-sex offender Brett Kavanaugh to sit on the SUPREME COURT? Sen Sasse continues to buckle in every test of patriotism, … Continue reading
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THEY’RE COMING FOR MORE NYC NEIGHBORHOODS
With the City Planning Commission (the developers’ municipal front group) Manhattan Borough President Brewer and Council Member Chin making the now-familiar noises about rezoning, (i.e., how do we get more towers built?) a committee to save Soho & Noho has … Continue reading
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YOUSEFF MUNAYYER vs. IGNORANT PIG TUCKER CARLSON
Munayyer tweets the ironic disconnect between Iraq’s role as progenitor of Western civilization and Carlson’s disparaging remarks about the country. It is the media dereregulation practiced by both Democratic and Republican administrations that brought us to the point where Fox … Continue reading
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PROTESTS OUTSIDE FOX “NEWS” TODAY
We can only hope–for the sake of America and the continued existence of the human race–that this toxic media disaster site will finally be subject to Super Fund clean up.
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TRUMP’S BRAZEN ANTI-SEMITISM
Remember, every accusation Trump makes or has ever made is a projection, an admission of guilt. At Talking Points Memo, Josh Marshall flags Trump’s “Epic History of Coddling, Promoting and Refusing to Denounce Anti-Semitism.”
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ONE TRILLION SMACKEROOS FOR A PLANE
William Rivers Pitt at Truthout reminds us that: “The F-35 Lightning II fighter aircraft is expected to cost at least $1.5 trillion before all is said and done.” And we live in a country where millions go to bed hungry, millions are … Continue reading
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DEMS DON’T WANT O BE CHUMPS FOR TRUMP TV
As Chris Hayes correctly terms Fox “News.” Fox isn’t a news station; it’s a bog of seditious propaganda. It wouldn’t know what a journalist standard is if it got bitch slapped with it. So no, Dems, don’t reconsider: no debates … Continue reading
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HOW MANY CRIMINAL CONSPIRACIES DOES IT TAKE TO GET A TRUMP “ELECTED”?
A hell of a lot more than it takes to get any lightbulb screwed in–anywhere, anytime. The outrageous suppression of his school records by wealthy Trump supporters reminds us that we are learning piece by piece about an all-but unprecedented … Continue reading
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ARTICULATE PERCUSSION
Age one to age seven or eight, my mother spent summers at Woods Hole on Cape Code, where her father undertook biological investigations at the research center. The fog horns she heard there at night scared her, until her mother … Continue reading
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