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THE WEAKNESS OF THE DEMOCRATS
“Senate Democrats simply do not know how to wage a bare-knuckle fight any more,” Jill Abramson writes in the Guardian. Obama’s preemptive appeasement when nominating a replacement for Scalia cost him his Supreme Court seat. “Instead of picking a liberal … Continue reading
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WE NEED TO BE THERE
July 10, when the New York City Council convenes its one and only hearing on the Tech Hub project. 9:30 a.m. at City Hall. Zoning and landmark protections must be put in place or else we will see a wholesale … Continue reading
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JIM JORDAN IS ABOVE THE LAW, JUST LIKE TRUMP
The GOP doesn’t care how much sexual abuse Rep. Jordan ignored–nor how much he lies. Lying is exactly what he’s there for: just let the rabid little reptile chomp on our rule our law and our judicial system, just keep … Continue reading
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THE REPUBLICANS HUMILIATE US ON THE WORLD STAGE
The Kremlin hasn’t hosted such a bunch of pushover saps in 500 years.
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PRUITT IS TRUMP’S IDEAL OF A PUBLIC SERVANT
Here’s what it’s about: screw the public and the public interest like nobody’s business. kiss Trump’s ass shamelessly. steal so much that you make Trump look normal.
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OOMPH FROM DOWN UNDER AND HIGH UP NORTH
The preserved acts 2 & 3 from the Met’s Die Walkure of December 18, 1937 star Australian Marjorie Lawrence as Brunhilde, Norwegian Kirsten Flagstad as Sieglinde, German Friedrich Schorr as Wotan, Danish Lauritz Melchior as Siegmund, Swedish Kerstin Thorborg as … Continue reading
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TRUMP’S END RUN AROUND AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
It is time for the Democrats to stand up and ask it: “Which country is Donald Trump working for?”
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YUK AWAY, JUNIOR ALITO
Why is it that the children of totalitarian Supreme Court justices are so fatuous? I wonder. As an undergraduate at the University of Virginia, Philip Alito, son of the infamous Supreme Court “Justice” Samuel Alito, wrote a laugh-riot bio from … Continue reading
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THE SAME ELITIST CLUB vs. THE REST OF US
Justice Kennedy’s family and the Trumps are the new-normal bedfellows. They belong, as David Little writes in the Washington Post, to: “an elite increasingly cloistered not just from the poor but also from America as a whole. America’s super-rich and … Continue reading
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TRUMP’S CULT IS PROFOUNDLY ANTI-DEMOCRACY
NPR’s decision to air the Declaration of Independence again this year is therefore, naturally once again assailed by the cult as evidence of partisan bias.
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