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KATIE MILLER IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN MAGAS GO INTO THE REAL WORLD
But one thing she proved on Piers Morgan: there are rarely any surprises with MAGA. Miller pulled out the entire, predictable arsenal of MAGA rhetorical tricks–the screaming, the cries of victimization, the pouting, the lying, the hectoring, the manic repetition, … Continue reading
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WAPO EDITORIAL BOARD NOW THE VOICE OF JEFF BEZOS
And it blasts out his sociopathology on a regular basis. Their defense of Trump’s demolishing the East Wing shows how nutsville they’ve become, thanks to their multi-multi-multi billionaire overlord. And it goes on: Today they/he tell us that health care … Continue reading
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MERRICK GARLAND PRIORITIZED BOY SCOUT COSPLAY OVER SAVING AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
His various attempts to slow walk an investigation into Trump’s coup attempt–so as to project what he viewed as impartiality–aren’t preventing the Republicans from targeting him for investigation. Garland epitomizes the fever dream of delusion that engulfed the Democrats after … Continue reading
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GRAMERCY PARK’S DEFILEMENT MUST BE A TURNING POINT
Landmarks Preservation Commission is now refusing to offer any protection to landmarked buildings . The travesty of what happened to the Gramercy Park historic district is just one of many recent travesties. Sarah Carroll is getting out just in time … Continue reading
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WHY AREN’T DEMOCRATS RUNNING ADS THAT SHOW KAROLINE LEAVITT
informing White House “reporters” that Trump’s principal priority is his new ballroom?
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IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH AFFORDABLE HOUSING
The Mayor’s ballot referendums “do not fund or even mandate deeply affordable units, nor do anything to repair public housing or preserve at-risk rent-regulated homes,” Layla Law-Gisiko writes in The New York Times. “By overstimulating development, they could give landlords … Continue reading
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DON’T LET ERIC ADAMS & THE DEVELOPERS GET AWAY WITH IT: VOTE NO TO BALLOT QUESTIONS 2-3-4
On his way out the door, Mayor Adams is intent on delivering yet again for the developers who funded this rise. These ballot measures propose changes to the NYC charter that will further eliminate public review of NYC development schemes. … Continue reading
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HARVARD SUBMITS TO TRUMP’S WAR ON THE HUMANITIES
Trump and the Republicans don’t want critical thinking encouraged, don’t want American imaginations expanded; Harvard is more than willing to comply. “It is stupefying,” Dr. Bandy Lee writes at Substack, “that Harvard has just announced there will be a 60 … Continue reading
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TIME MAGAZINE BOWS TO THE WISHES OF BILLIONAIRE OWNER MARC BENIOFF
with a ridiculous, fawning cover-story propaganda piece on the Trump-l’oeil peace deal in Israel. We need to always remember that every day and every way, the moguls control the media properties that they own.
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JOHN ROBERTS & HIS POSSE SHOULD FACE NUREMBERG-STYLE PROSECUTION
Relatively de minimis: they each have committed perjury. But their crimes against this country only begin there. Sen. Shiff deems Roberts “Trump’s greatest enabler.” He has allowed Trump “to tear down institution after institution.”
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