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AI poses no danger, global warming is a hoax. Nothing this insane has ever been heard in the General Assembly, except for his address there a year ago.

Trump is not just America’s shame, but the world’s, as UN delegates and government officials from around the world confront the world’s most powerful madman. The Cuban delegation rightly walked out when Trump started threatening their country; why didn’t more delegates walk out as Trump threatened the world? There was shock and disbelief on their faces, but the international appeasement of Trump has fed his catastrophic contagion.

On matters of style, interesting, is it not, the way when the ever more senile Trump isn’t high on Adderall he now manifests a tone of childlike importuning as he pleads with his audiences to share in his delusions.

Oh, for sure, she never supported the Iran war! That is her latest hustle. Fox “news” hosts think the public is so mentally defective that it cannot retrieve memories of less than a year ago.

Every word he says is a lie. The lies are ludicrous and easily-disproven but almost no one wants to dare, and if they say “Where do you start?” I have some sympathy for that. (It is the Democrats who should be holding daily press conferences to correct and rebut the lies.) The same lies, over and over, interspersed with self-avowals of his greatness and petty, bitchy swipes at anyone who opposes him.

More often than not, Trump makes no attempt to answer journalists’ questions but instead pivots to defamation about Biden or another one of his scapegoats, or he just strings words together haphazardly about nothing. If anyone responds with a follow up question or asks a question he doesn’t like, he insults him or her and then picks another reporter/enabler. The legitimate functioning of the press would be better served by a boycott.

cognitive issues that we should concern ourselves with?

The consultants in the temple are now telling Democratic elected officials and candidates to go easy on AI regulation–after all, a oligarch might put out ads agains them.

Simple solution: refute the ads and identify who’s paying for them, “dark” as the money may be.

Curbed recently claimed that preserving low-rise buildings from being demolished to build wildly overscaled luxury towers purposed as investment opportunities for the international financial community is undermining affordable housing,

Naturally, Village Preservation was targeted.

Village Preservation responds: Curbed “included provably false statements about our record, a quote taken out of its original context, and it left out facts about our affordable housing work that were shared with the magazine directly. We raised each of these issues with the editors before and after publication. They chose not to correct any of them.”

This is how the corporate media operates, and this is one reason why we are losing our city.

And this is one reason that Steve and I will be setting up our own nyoutube channel!

Village Preservation should do the same. (Actually, they have!)

Environmental annihilation = human annihilation, and Trump is moving aggressively to achieve those goals.

The New York Times reports on the Trump administration’s plan to obliterate all regulation of planet-warming pollution.

The Democrats have been running scared on environmental issues, particularly since the 2024 election fiasco. The moron “autopsy” commissioned by the DNC, (which didn’t say a word about the Dems inability to make affordability an issue in the campaign) said that voters didn’t understand why environmental initiatives were benefiting them. The Democrats responsibility, then, is to explain those benefits–not to ignore them altogether.

Then the party is still in the thrall of has-been Democratic consultants like David Axelrod, who counseled the Dems– once the Democratic establishment had helped engineer Trump’s return to office–not to “swing at every pitch,” and James Carville who told them to (continue) to “roll over and play dead.”

As Trump steers America into the abyss, environmental messaging should be increasingly easy, even for the Democrats: a simple message of survival. “Trump is destroying your children’s futures.”

Dr. Bandy Lee on the Medias Touch’s Weekend Show reminds us that the American Psychiatric Association decided to shut down her and the allied psychiatrists who warned America in their book “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump.”

Imagine if the APA had not intervened on the pretext of defending the completely discretionary “Goldwater Rule”? If Dr. Lee and her colleagues had not subsequently been expulsed from the corporate media? Dr. Lee calls the APA’s intervention on behalf of Trump “the greatest act act of medical malpractice in U.S. history.” It also resulted in Congress members who had been consulting with these psychiatrists now ghosting them.

Biden and his administration’s response to Trump demonstrated their lack of psychological insight and how badly needed was continued consultation with Dr. Lee and her colleagues.

“Everything will work out just fine.”

Why, oh why, did Harris not make his sabotage of our recovery from COVID an issue in her 2024 campaign, as she had in 2020?

Why, oh why didn’t Biden and his camp fight back against Trump’s trolling about age, etc.?