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No Democrat should align him or herself with movement that supports deregulation, which is the undermining of measures taken to protect the health, finances, and general well-being of Americans.

Just look at the billionaires flooding the coffers of Abundance organizations if you are at all confused about what this movement is really about.

Abundance is closely aligned to and a direct correlative to the “Affordable Housing” scam that City Hall and NYC developers (funded by international money) have used to destroy landmarking and neighborhood preservation as well as sane, right-size zoning guidelines. In Manhattan above all we see the result: less and less affordable housing, more and more radically-overscaled luxury development.

The regressive, dystopian, authoritarian Abundance game is unpacked by Dylan Gyauch-Lewis in The New Republic. She identifies what’s behind the anti-regulation frenzy: oligarchs’ determination to do whatever the hell they want, no matter the cost to the public. “Community input meetings, air quality standards, and public interest lawsuits are frequent boogeymen of the abundance framework.” Naturally enough, those are the measures used by local communities to combat invasion by the Big Tech oligarchs who support Abundance.

They wet their pants when Trump boasted about the food he’s taken from the mouths of hungry Americans–via his savage cuts to SNAP benefits enacted so that billionaires can pay even lower taxation rates than they did before the Monstrous, Hideous Bill they passed last year.

Both sneering and smarmy, the simpering smiles that Grinders Vance and Johnson sported all evening kind of said it all.

every single cancer-causing chemical that Trump and his Environmental “Protection” Agency head Lee Zeldin are approving for consumptions by Americans.

That’s why donations have fallen off.

DNC Chair Ken Martin won’t make public the 2024 election autopsy report he commissioned, undoubtedly because that report will expose the failed policies that the DNC won’t correct.

Ralph Nader reports that Martin is refusing to meet with progressive organizations.

in The New Republic, Susan Milligan notes that Democratic donors are instead giving to individual candidates of choice.

and build more luxury housing in its place.

Amid the licentious deterioration of the Landmarks “Preservation” Commission, that may very well happen, but we still need to protest outside 139 Thompson Street this Friday at 1:00 p.m. Village Preservation will be hosting City Councilmember Chris Marte, one of the few Councilmembers with a true commitment to neighborhood and landmark preservation–and, yes, they go hand in hand.

Are Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries going to reward AIPAC’s patronage by refusing to prevent Trump’s insane invasion plans?

as do major environmental organizations. Trump’s nihilist Environmental Protection Agency head Lee Zeldin is firmly committed to advancing the climate crisis.

While the Democrats finally rouse themselves to push back on Trump’s assault on the future, announcing that they will hold hearings to challenge Trump’s EPA’s outrageous assertion that public health is not a factor to be considered as they slash all environmental regulation.

Soulless cipher Rubio–lacking ethics, patriotism, even basic common sense–thinks he has any credibility on climate? Ridiculing Europe for its “climate cult” while his own home state of Florida is in the process of flooding?

Then he skips over to Hungary to stump for fascist Viktor Orbán.

You can’t make this stuff up, and Rubio must never be forgiven. His political career is over.

needs to answer for Musk’s decimation of USAID and the hundreds of thousands of deaths that have directly resulted–and the destruction of American farms that formerly sold surplus harvests to USAID.