Another captured politician doing the bidding of the developers and Wall Street, lying about who benefits from lifting the cap on residential construction. It sure isn’t NYC residents who need affordable housing. Affordable housing will actually take a hit, because upzoning encourages the demotion of rent-regulated housing stock.
It’s a disgrace that Levine is using taxpayer funds to promote such an outage against the public interest.
One of the transparently fraudulent arguments used by the developers and their stooges in public office is that NYC must plan to house 12,000,000 residents, even though our population is 6 million and falling–and it will continue to fall, as the city becomes less and less affordable.
Lifting all caps on residential development in NYC will render our city unviable and increasingly unlivable. Our elected officials and their paymasters in the development community are again plying their insidious “affordable housing” hustle to justify a winner-take-all pillage of the city by even more monstrous over-development that what has so far been inflicted. This has nothing to do with actual affordable housing for New Yorkers most in need, nor even with “affordable housing”–housing for those on the lower rungs of the 1 percent–which is as affordable as it gets with any new construction in Manhattan.
Despite their news division’s abhorrent attempt to ensure Trump returns to the White House.
He’s declared war on the United States, and he wants us all to make him Commander-in-Chief.
In her latest Orwellian blast at America, she questions whether the robust employment numbers are actually a good thing.
Why didn’t Fox fire Bartiromo, even after she cost them millions in defamation damages? The very wealthy, self-styled fishwife did as much as ludicrous, loathesome Tucker to spread the Big Lie about the 2020 election. Yet she remains in place. It’s another key to the sick funhouse of Fox, where personal relationships to the ruling, authoritarian Murdoch family mean more than anything else.
As Kevin Drum wrote in Mother Jones in 2021, “It is Fox News that has torched the American political system over the past two decades, and it is Fox News that we have to continue to fight.”
Trump belches more attacks at Jack Smith, this time for exposing the delay & dismiss game that Judge Cannon is playing, devised undoubtedly by her and Trump’s attorneys.
This is the caliber of judge that Trump, McConnell, and the GOP-at- large inflicted on America. They could have given us genuinely conservative jurists. Instead they gave us ethically compromised right-wing radicals, all the way up to the Supreme Court.
confronts us again in all his perverse duplicity via newsreel footage in Gavin Hood’s Official Secrets. His lies and posturing were almost as grotesque as Trump’s. The corporate media fell right into line, functioning for a time practically as a propaganda adjunct of Bush’s White House, as it led this country into a catastrophic war based on sham.
Watchng Official Secrets brings it all back–it was appalling then, and it’s appalling still.
Monstrously unfit and dishonest politicians like GW softened America up for Trump.
A handwritten note to me, postmarked August 10, 1978, from Sir Cecil Beaton: “Tallulah was such a difficult woman to know & liked to put on a different act each time.”
I didn’t know him, don’t know what he was “really” like, but when I called him cold and said I wanted to interview him about Diana Sands, and he said, “It would be my pleasure. . .,” well, you knew why he was a star.
