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They crave a winter frost, which is why they have always been so abundant and so celebrated in Russia.

It is likely that global warming will eventually make it impossible for lilacs and so many other perennials to thrive.

“Only Republican leaders hold true power”

This cabal of partisans-on-steroids a/k/a political hacks, is exposed by Amanda Marcotte at Salon.

It is time for Biden and the Democrats to grow a spine and call out this thoroughly corrupt court.

And you know what, Amy Coney Barrett? You may be the most egregious political hack of them all.

They are abusing judicial review, which is not in the Constitution. “It’s a third rail that’s rarely been challenged,” Tom Joseph tweets,” but these hacks are pushing it.”

a Democratic president would have told two rogue turncoats like Sinema and Manchin that he was turning them loose, he was finished with them.

kicks off its anti-life season of eviscerating government regulation that protects the health and safety of Americans.

“The conservative majority of the court is intent on gutting the authority of regulatory agencies to interpret federal laws,” writes Robert Reich.

is now trying to ban presidential debates.

They know that Trump is more unfit by the day.

has now–together with her Republican colleagues–doomed the voting rights bills.

Biden must inform her that he will be supporting a primary challenger when she’s up for re-election in 2024.

Not only did Chin ram through the developers’ demolition-and-displacement agenda, doing enormous harm to her communities and constituencies, she also targeted the Soho residents who opposed her merciless attack on their community. When Soho cried foul, she seems to have lost her mind and plotted revenge in a spasm of vengeful fury.

I thought that her last act of civic vandalism was colluding with the developers to pass the Soho/Noho/Chinatown upzoning, but–there’s more. She’s left a poison pill in her wake. Soho artists who cannot show that they are “certified” by NYC will now face enormous fines and could lose their homes as a result. Chin’s discriminatory bill was actually passed by the city council. It is another tool to drive displacement in Soho.

Of course, NYC has “certified” very few artists in years, and btw, can you imagine any City Hall administration with the capacity to objectively decide which artists are worthy of “certification”?

Village Preservation is calling on Mayor Adams to veto the bill.

NYC Council works against the interests of this city and its residents. Without structural change in NYC governance, this city is finished.

Witness Trump’s hasty Good-bye when Steve Inskeep confronted him with the reality of his lies.

Excuse me, did an one ASK for her advice?

Oh, yes, an NBC reporter did.

Please.