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NEVER THOUGHT I’D BE READING CHICK LIT

but Jessica Gigi’s “How to Judge a Book by its Lover” drew me in. It manages to construct stanchions of romance and its vagaries to support a tautly barbed satire of today’s publishing, literature, and media eosystems–as adroitly as Percival … Continue reading

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BONDI JUST MOVED THE NEEDLE ON BLANCHE’S DISBARMENT

I’m sure he’ll return the favor.

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HUNTER DOING WHAT JOE BIDEN REFUSED (ALAS!) TO DO

Hunter Biden is providing a head-on, no-holds-barred refutation of the lies, defamation, and misinformation perpetuated by MAGA as well as by “journalists” like Jake Tapper.

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IF THE DEMS WANT TO FUNCTION ONCE AGAIN AS AN ACTUAL POLITICAL PARTY, THEY NEED TO FOLLOW REP. LIEU’S EXAMPLE

Greg Sargent at The New Republic: “It seems to me Democrats don’t do this kind of hand-to-hand combat enough. They don’t make Republicans deny what’s true about them. They spend. . . their time denying Republican lies about them.” Lieu … Continue reading

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THE ANTI-STEM, PRO IMAGINATION CURRICULUM

Jean Houston said in 2013: “Look, if you put art back as central to the curriculum, so that a child dances and sings and emotes and incarnates and becomes, and is really cooking on more burners, then a child is … Continue reading

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JAKE TAPPER DEFLECTS FROM TRUMP’S DECLINE TO ATTACK JILL BIDEN

Dr. Biden’s theory about her husband’s debate showing is at least as credible as anything that transactional Tapper has tried to retail about Biden.

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SAVE HARLEM NOW!

The developers have gone hog wild there destroying one essential cultural site after another in their frenzy to construct more and more luxury housing. The Landmarks “Preservation” Commission continues to simply look the other way. Save Harlem Now! was founded … Continue reading

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UK BARS CENK UYGUR BECAUSE HE CRITICIZED ISRAEL

Authoritarianism spreads as Uygur* was not allowed to fulfill speaking engagements in Britain, which explicitly informed him that his criticism of Israel was costing him his visa and Hasan Piker. * and Hasan Piker

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TRUMP WAS NEVER GOING TO REFURBISH THE KENNEDY CENTER

He was going to build a condo tower on top of it. Probably with the participation of the Kushner family. Trump’s latest unhinged Twitter monologue goes into his customary Chicken Little prognostication: the Kennedy Center will now collapse without his … Continue reading

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BOTH NUCLEAR POWER AND OUR CONTINUED RELIANCE ON FOSSIL FUELS ARE AN EXPRESSION OF HUMANITY’S COLLECTIVE DEATH WISH

as explicated by Freud. We need to demand from our politics and the media some truth-telling as well as psychological sophistication about why humanity is choosing to extinguish itself.

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