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She just threw away any leverage she had to ensure zoning and landmark protections for the Tech Hub environs, and yet she thinks we are so dumb that we would swallow her claim that she signed on the dotted line … Continue reading →

The Kochs led America to ruin, and now they are being targeted by the ever-more maniacal hoardes of ill-informed graduate students in Tea Party Trumpery. At Daily Kos, Mark Sumner describes step-by-step how the Kochs “turned the GOP into a crazy … Continue reading →

Deputy Mayor Glen? De Blasio himself? The ululations comeong from the De Blasio administration let you know that the fix was in and they’re crowing about it. Rivera had a potentially distinguished career in front of her, which she has … Continue reading →

After saying on the campaign trail that she wouldn’t vote for Tech Hub without neighborhood protections, she goes ahead and votes for Tech Hub without neighborhood protections. This is one more reminder that we don’t have anything approaching representative government … Continue reading →

Another GOP hack ends his long career in disgrace: Sen. Hatch has the temerity to kvetch that Democrats are insisting on examining Brett Kavanaugh’s paper trail. This is the same Orrin Hatch who conspired with Mitch McConnell to deny Merrick … Continue reading →

Andre Gide in Journal of The Counterfeiters: “each new chapter must pose a new problem, be an overture, a new direction, a new impulse, a forward plunge–of the reader’s mind. But the reader must leave me as the stone leaves the … Continue reading →

The Sociopathic Siblings have done more than just about anyone to rip up this country. “xaxner” at DailyKos cartographs the landscape of the tragically, cosmically absurd inhabited by the Kochs.

Thomas Hartman at Common Dreams reminds us that: “as George W. Bush noted to his biographer Mickey Herskowitz in 1999, war gives a president political capital. Bush even thought he’d get enough political capital from invading Iraq (this was before he was … Continue reading →

are too stupid to be able to explain to their constituents how Brett Kavanaugh will retract every individual and collective right they may now still enjoy, Sen. Schumer should simply de-priorittize their re-election campaigns.

But why won’t they go to something classical??