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told me she was horrified by Trump’s senile, demagogic rant in Pennsylvania, finding particularly ominous his attempt yet again to float the trial balloon of lifetime dictatorship, framed ( for now) as a joking hypothetical. She reminded me that Trump’s idol Adolph Hitler wasted no time in suspending elections once he himself had been elected by a mesmerized Germany.

At Common Dreams, Normon Solomon quotes George Seldes:

“The most stupid boast in the history of present-day journalism is that of the writer who says, ‘I have never been given orders; I am free to do as I like.'”

“Seldes noted that reporters routinely ‘know from contact with the great minds of the press lords or from the simple deduction that the bosses are in big business and the news must be slanted accordingly, or from the general intangible atmosphere which prevails everywhere, what they can do and what they must never do.'”

I will repeat that this has been catastrophic for the arts as well as every other sector of American society.

Fox “news” personalities need to prepare for their children’s fury when they discover how their parents foreclosed their futures in the name of short-term financial gain.

Thank you, media deregulators, for bringing us this venue of apocalyptic indoctrination!

His mouthings about how much love he received and how much respect was shown for the office of the presidency–in his words–demonstrate, once again, how he intends to use the converse construction, i.e. criticism of Trump is disrespect toward the presidency itself–to further tamp down on dissent.

In reality, of course, it is Trump who is defiling the office of the presidency and anyone who wants to protect its dignity needs to confront Trump’s desecration.

to admit that the GOP is fascistic–

try their latest attempt to criminalize dissent on for size.

Regarding their current to muffle with the “terrorist” smear anti-Fascist AntiFa, member David Rose tells Truthout that GOP senators “are attempting to open the door to legalizing any form of dissent against racist institutions or groups.”

because any degree of transparency reveals the massive, systemic fraud it is committing against America. For Trump’s sleazy, stupid eldest progeny, referencing already publicly-listed identification of Trumps’ donors is tantamount to mass murder.

This is their value system: this is what their equivalencies are.
It’s a depraved family and administration.

On June 28 he wrote to Council Member Rivera and Mayor de Blasio and his letter
was reproduced in Town and Village.

Berman notes that “the extremely modest commitments made to provide protections or mitigations to the surrounding neighborhood for the negative impact of the planned development have neither been implemented nor even proposed. And several key commitments made by the developer and the city regarding protecting the surrounding community from the impacts of the construction have already been broken.”

The full extent of de Blasio’s scandalous gift of this site to his developer friends at the cost of vast amounts of lost revenue and neighborhood degradation is told on the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation’s home page.

Among other revelations:

“The developer of the planned 21-story office tower on the site will actually be
paying less in rent to the City for the first three years than the 2-story PC Richards store which operated there for decades. After 3 years RAL will pay the City $2.3 million in rent, only $600,000 more that P.C. Richards was paying, but for a building 19 floors taller.”

De Blasio and Rivera gave NYC the bum’s rush. Tech Hub stinks to high heaven.
This is a major, major scandal.

De Blasio had before him myriad plans for the publicly-owned site that would have provided more public space, more public revenue that the one his developer friend submitted–and they would not have required the disastrous upzoning that is the death knell of this neighborhood. De Blasio gave a sweetheart deal to his friend while at the same time using that deal as pretext to upzone.

The GOP is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the NRA, and they’re not going to do anything about the massacres.

So Dems need to go to the Senate floor, read out the names of each and every GOP senator and how much blood money they are accepting from the NRA.

And they need to do that one day a week until the GOP is shamed into actually doing something to safeguard American lives.

with curator Melissa Lyde at a Q/A after she screened “Georgia, Georgia,” Saturday night was a pleasure.

I’ve never been to the Metrograph before, and it is fabulous.

Diana really was something else. The movie is weird and unique and extremely relevant.

And “The Landlord” is now on Blu-ray–Steve tells me it looks great!

Which dictators was Trump on the phone to last night?

This sick, evil monstrosity is fanning the flames raging after the latest massacre by his followers to ratchet up his attacks on a free press.

Lawrence Tribe is sounding the alarm: “So now Trump is blaming the media for the El Paso slaughter that he made more likely. That’s not just sick but dangerous. He’s laying the foundation for an executive order suspending rights. Think ‘national emergency.’”

Every single day, Trump commits impeachable offenses.

Pelosi should call back the house to launch an impeachment inquiry.