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What else can he nab them for?

Surprise, surprise!
According to the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, the sham neighborhood review process that was launched two yeas ago was, indeed, nothing but a cover for another developers’ wet dream come true.

Soho zoning, which already permits much-too-tall buildings, is now going to be stratospherically boosted.

the fight for a legitimate Supreme Court.

Joshua Holland at Commmon Dreams writes that “it was disappointing to see Joe Biden and Kamala Harris both dodge the question of whether they would expand the Courts if they win and Senate Republicans confirm Amy Coney Barrett in a shambolic process. The question is a layup that they should have been able to convert into a slam dunk. Evading it made them seem defensive when public opinion is clearly on their side.”

Once again, Roberts’ Supreme Court majority votes in favor of voter suppression, giving thumbs up to onerous mail-in ballot requirements in South Carolina, thus, not incidentally, giving a big fat goose to Lindsay Graham’s sorry reelection campaign.

Not just the Conways. How do they enforce morality and integrity at home when they routinely violate it on TV?

Kellyanne Conway lies for a living. Her daughter Claudia has seen her mother go on national television almost every day for the past four years and not only spew blatant lies defending her sociopathic boss, but try in good Fascist style to assail the very notion of truth and fact.

Claudia Conway undoubtedly has realized by now as well that virtually every public policy embraced by, in fact, both of her parents will ultimately harm her own future.

And the Conways wonder why their daughter is now rebelling with a vengeance?

For the Wall Street Journal, I’ve reviewed Anne Searcy’s Ballet in the Cold War: A Soviet-American Exchange.

the difference between Biden’s response to Trump’s illness and Trump’s response to Hillary’s pneumonia four years ago.

Let’s face it: how similar was Trump’s assault last night to Kavanuagh’s ferocious ad hominem diatribe two years ago. . .to Mrs. Alito’s histrionics at hubby’s confirmation hearing in 2006. . .to GW Bush’s recidivist adolescent insolence at his first debate with Kerry in 2004
???

screaming out the same exhausted lies, looking like he’s hopped up on something, attempting to shout down Biden with the lies, upchucking bile all over the stage.

The question will be asked from now until eternity: how could the United States have fallen for it?

I remember 1968, but I’ve never known America to have tortured itself quite to this degree. We have become a cautionary tale for the world.