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Tom Engelhardt relates what it’s like to be “Living in a Sci-Fi world.”

“Not even in my worst nightmares of half a century ago was this the American world I imagined.”

Ron Johnson, who married into big money, and Rick Scott, who stole millions from Medicare, are the two Republican senators leading the charge to destroy Social Security.

Thus the New York Post editorial slamming him.

when the public good is no longer considered, the wealthy refuse to pay taxes, and civil investment is starved.

When you enact policy that benefits the American people, your approval rating rises.

Who gives him very expensive toys.

But Sen.Rubio has the gall to call Americans seeking debt relief “freeloaders.”

And no matter how much defensive noise the Republicans (and the talking heads) make, he has to continue to tell the truth about them.

Mark Levine, the new Manhattan Borough President, also refuses to support judicious landmark designation for the Eye Infirmary.

I wonder how much the real-estate industry contributed to his campaign?

Not surprisingly, she’s opposed to landmark designation for the landmark-quality, nineteenth-century former Eye infirmary on lower Second Avenue.

First Rivera sold out her constituents and violated her campaign pledge to defend Union Square South from De Blasio’s Tech Hub upzoning scam. Then the councilmember was part of the perfidious three on the City Council who brokered the former-mayor’s even more damaging and precedent-setting Soho/Noho/Chinatown upzoning scam. Her partners-in-abuse were ex-councilmembers Corey Johnson and Margaret Chin, both of whose careers in politics are now as irredeemably over as De Blasio’s himself.

Like all of Fox ‘News”‘ pick-ups, Ron DeSantis was a complete nonentity when Fox started featuring him, but obviously willing to parrot the Murdoch anti-democracy line without the slightest bit of compunction or patriotism.

DeSantis only objects to any media, corporate or otherwise, that is fact-based and thus in a position to contradict the daily poisonous lies he spouts.