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He reiterated his determination to destroy all federal programs that benefit working Americans. Military, he said, is the only thing with which the federal government should concern itself.

Then he fled the moment that the arguments didn’t seem to be going his anti-Constitutional way. More cloddish, campy theatrics from the bluffer-in-chief.

Today he calls it “dilapidated and structurally unsound.” We know what that means. It’s the same argument that NYC is making about the Dapalito center, while we know learn from Village Preservation that FOIA request has uncovered documents–from NYC’s own files–that reveal how much City Hall knows that it’s all a lie.

about his latest, war-profiteering scandal.

Democrats must heed Rep. Raskin’s call to hold shadow hearings on how this ophidian family is self-dealing while it steers America onto the shoals. Remember, Netaanyhu used to sleep in Jared’s bed, and now he is Bibi’s mole in the White House, all the while shaking down Arab nations throughout the Middle East.

to restore and re-open Dapalito?

Why are House Democratic leaders postponing the War Powers Resolution vote until, at the earliest, mid-April, by which time we may already have troops in Iran?

Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner framed to David Hogg the advice he’s give to Chuck Schumer: “Stop having a problem with the illegal wars we’re starting simply because the paperwork wasn’t done properly. You should be against them because they’re fundamentally immoral, unethical, and illegal.”

today at 1:00 p.m. in front of the landmark Dapalito Recreation Center on Carmine Street, which has served working-class New Yorkers for over a hundred years.

Now NYC wants to tear it down. After having deliberately neglected the building’s maintenance needs for years, City Hall is now lying about whether those issues can be addressed. Supposedly they’re not planning to put up a luxury tower on the site, but we must always remember the City Hall has been captured by NYC developers. Anything asserted by land-use officials in our municipal governance has got to be taken with a grain of salt. I attended a public hearing concerning the recreation center where it was clear that the city is, once again, acting in bad faith.

“Our former presidents have no excuses. They simply lack a modicum of courage,” Ralph Nader writes at Common Dreams.

They should be leading the resistance instead of wallowing in self-indulgence.

(with a hat tip to Simon Sebag Montefiore’s “Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar.”)

You cannot make these people up:

Lawless Deputy AG Todd Blanche is so deeply under the spell of Trumpian self-hypnosis that he just provided at the CPAC conference a lengthy, granular itemization of his crimes against our judicial system.

Attorney Mark Zaid, who is representing FBI employees illegally fired by Kash Patel, tweeted:

“Thank you Deputy Director Blanche for providing yet another great court exhibit for our ongoing (and more forthcoming) litigation against FBI, DOJ and this Administration for its unlawful political fil[r]ings of federal employees who simply performed their jobs.“