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because does anyone think after Trump’s Meet the Press nterview that he’s going to be able to get throuh an Inaugural Address?

Kristen Welker, of course, kept her eye on her paycheck as she waged almost no pushback against Trump’s senile lies.

That was revealed yet again this week when the Council voted to approve Mayor Adams’ atrocious “City of Yes” scam, which is the latest chapter in City Hall’s conspiracy with the development community to remove all restraints on development in this city.

“City of Yes” says No to democracy, further removing local citizen input into NYC development, while it simultaneously wipes away the alredy extremely generous ceiling on the size of new construction.  It’s one more nail in NYC’s coffin. 

Three members of the Council’s Land Use Committee recognized this scheme for what it is, and voted No, but they were outvoted by a four-vote majority on the Committee. Thus it went to the full Council, sodden with developer campaign contributions. 

Next: the developers are coming for Greenwich Village, Village Preservation head Andrew Berman warns us. The upzoning juggernaut that des troys one neighborhood after another will soon be pointed our way.

And remember: none of this has anything to do with building actual affordable housing.  The city’s solution to the housing crisis? Build more gargantuan towers as instruments for the international investment community.

Republican primary voters rejected him. He’s a vacant, malicious freak, and they already had their favorite vacant, malicious freak. Now he’s enacting his revenge, determined to rob working Americans of every economic security they’ve earned.

So call your Democratic senators today and tell them that you will never vote for them again if they approve cuts to Social Security, Medicaid, Medicaire, or SNAP.

if Sen. Thune plays ball with Trump’s plan to do an end run around Senate confirmation hearings for Trump’s cabinet of horrors.

The “regulatory state” as the Republicans like to call it, sustains and protects American life. The Demcorats need to make cleaer what the impact on American life and livelihood will be if Mike Johnson and the billionaires are able to rollback regiulations and let the polluters and the oligarchs run roughshod over Ameria.

The future of American children will be sacrified to the greed of sociopaths like Musk and Ramiswami, and performative Christians like Johnson, who actually worship the god of Mammon.

The “Department of Government Effiiency” is a full frontal attack on America. The GOP is looking at Argentina, where over 50% of the population live in poverty, as a model for what America should be.

And the corpoate media calls these people “conservatives.”

Kash Patel’s eyes instantly telegraph his insanity–

But MAGA has been conditioned to obtusely reject the evidence of their eyes and ears. They now lack the ability to discern even the most obvious visual clues to personality and psychic health. Or perhaps it is only insanity in their leaders that now makes them comfortable.

But on youtube, the Meidas Touch network is picking up the slack.

And corproate media wonders why it’s in the toilet?

if it goes along with the Republicans’ plans to cut Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security in order to pay for more tax cuts for the very wealthy.

Already the GOP is trying its usual mind fuck on the Dems, framing its betrayal of millions of low-income Americans as a show of courage.  That’show they frame attacking the most vulnerable Americans. It’s traitorous. It’s as morally grotesque as Trump’s clown makeup is a visual affront that denotes his psychological disturbance.

Trump’s cabinet picks represent his declaration of war against America.