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Anyone looking or listening to Trump knows that he is so debilitated and so far into senility that all this talk of a third term is simply another way for Trump, Bannon, and all the fascists to gaslight us.

So the Washington Opera has discovered, as donations surge in the wake of of the Opera parting ways with Trump’s Kennedy Center,

as Trump pulls out of every international treaty and accord regarding the climate crisis.

If they think they can simply drop the environment as an issue because their lame-brained, corrupted consultants tell them to, you can be sure that Mother Nature is going to have something to say about it.

If their focus is affordability and the economy, why aren’t the Democrats reminding voters that clean energy projects are a major source of job creation?

Bezos’ purchase of the Washington Post has turned into an end game for the paper.

Lauder has been pressuring moron Trump into invading Greenland and starting World War III.

At 81, Lauder seems to care only for mad schemes to further enrich himself; putting it mildly, The Guardian writes: “Like many of those around the president, Lauder’s policy suggestions appear to intersect with his business interests.”

They now own the disaster militarism that Trump is planning.

And a special shout down of blatherskite Josh Hawley–Trump’s co-conspirator on January 6, 2021–who switched his vote at the last minute to ensure that Dear Leader’s mad ambitions proceed without a hitch.

As Village Preservation has documented, the Landmarks “Preservation” Commission has come to the end of the road. In fact, it might now be described as the place where NYC landmark preservation goes to die.

Requests for designation are now met by Landmarks with a hailstorm of derision and denial, in which they try vainly to question indisputable facts of history. It’s difficult to take a stroll in Manhattan without encountering the now-vacant site of a designation-worthy building.

Waking east on 57th Street today, I saw four huge empty development sites, one of which formerlly contained the original1912 Henri Bendel department store. In 2017, Manhattan Community Board 5 recommended that Bendel’s be granted landmark status, but the LPC, then run by the completely discredited Meenakshi Srinivasan–Mayor De Blasio’s first pick to destroy the Commission–refused.

Furthermore, the old brick house that stood just west of Bergdorf Goodman has been torn down and replaced with a medium-sized tower. It had a plaque on it designating its historical significance; I don’t know if it was an official NYC landmark.

Taking a bus down Fifth Avenue, I saw that the unique 574, an 1890s holdover about which I wrote in 2018, has now been demolished as part of an enormous block-wide clearance.

Mamdani better wake up soon and realize that mammoth luxury redevelopment is the enemy of an affordable city. And he needs to appoint a legitimate preservation officer as LPC Chair to replace the disgraced Sarah Carroll, who succeeded Srinivasan and then presided from 2018-2025 over the darkest, most shameful period yet in the history of the LPC. Designations fell to an all-time low, and Carroll starting signing off on the demolition of officially-designated landmarks, colluding with developers to rob the public of its history, its cityscape, its architectural and cultural inheritance.

You can be sure that the corporate media will give these essential issues only the bare minimum of coverage, since their executive boards are made up of finance and development personnel.

As they gear up to execute Tump’s lunatic invasion of Greenland, Rick Wilson describes the way that Pentagon chiefs are “trying to figure out how to drape a flag over an impending crime of such sweeping malice, stupidity, and toxicity that it will shame this nation for generations.”

It is known fact–fact being anathema to Trump’s White House–that attacking a nation results in its population rallying around the presiding government.

Kaden Rummler was permanently blinded by ICE in one eye last Friday as he was protesting the cold-blooded murder of unarmed mother Renee Good.

This is Trump’s reign of terror against America.