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BATSHIT BILL ACKMAN GOING AFTER HARVARD NOW
It seems when his daughter attended she learned about someone named Karl Marx, which has apparently so unsettled Ackman that he’s put Harvard on his enemies list.
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THE COURT OF TRUMP
is frantic to deflect attention away from Trump’s rapidly-accelerating senility. Thus, its insistence that the transcript of Biden’s interview with Robert Hur will reveal “a coverup” of Biden’s allegedly unreliable faculties.It won’t. Meanwhile, Biden nimbly negotiates a comeback loop in which … Continue reading
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ELISE STEFANIK, SHILL FOR TRUMP’S WHITE SUPREMACIST, NE0-NAZI WHITE HOUSE
has the unmitigated gall to attack Wendy Raymond, president of Haverford College, for not being sufficiently vigilant about anti-Semitism. When will more Democrats speak up about Herr Trump & Co.’s sham, totally hypocritical concern about anti-Semitism? And the way they … Continue reading
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HOW’S THAT “STRONGLY WORDED” LETTER TO TRUMP WORKING OUT, SEN. SCHUMER?
Flaccid, performative resistance by Democratic leaders, and meltdowns by the oldies crew of consultants who specialize in leading Dems to defeat–as well as from the corporate Democrats in Congress. Hasn’t the neoliberal corporate Dem community done enough damage already?
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HEGSETH ANNOUNCES THE U.S. MILITARY WILL DO NOTHING TO ACKNOWLEDGE CLIMATE CHANGE
He’s “done with that shit.” And yes, Wall Street and Silicon Valley , this is what you voted for. Meanwhile, Trump works the phones trying to get neo-Nazi sympathizer Ed Martini confirmed as U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C. That’s how … Continue reading
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HOYLMAN-SIGAL & KAVANAUGH’S 13% SHAM
So long as new construction provides at least 13% of “affordable” housing, it can waive almost all zoning and height restrictions and override landmark designation for any religious structure. But the language in their bill is so vague that what … Continue reading
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TRUMP IS OBVIOUSLY CONSIDERING SUSPENDING THE CONSTITUION
Thus all his sudden playing dumb about whether he has to follow it. His sleazy, second-rate lawyers are undoubtedly looking for different kinds of possible justifications to obviate our founding document.
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NBC CHERRY- PICKED WELKER’S INTERVIEW TO PROTECT TRUMP
Some of the most embarrassing–for both Trump and Welker–footage wasn’t shone in prime time but is available their web site. As Ben Meisels says, riffing on Trump’s ridiculous law suit against “60 Minutes”–to which Shari Redstone’s greed may capitulate–aren’t we … Continue reading
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SURELY THE CORPORATE MEDIA WILL NOW BE RUNNING DAILY STORIES ON TRUMP’S DEMENTIA
Every single public appearance he makes is a giving-the-game-away disaster. Biden was impaled by the corporate media for statements, actions, public appearances that were miracles of clarity and dignity compared to the ongoing Trump unraveling.
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NYS LEGISLATURE AGAIN EXPLOITING THE CHIMERA OF “AFFORDABLE HOUSING”
to justify more assaults on landmark and neighborhood preservation. Titled in Orwellian fashion the “Faith-Based Affordable Housing Act” would in fact “nullify all future landmark designations to allow oversized developments on any religious site,”Village Preservation warns us. It is in … Continue reading
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