And many of those essential workers were the same immigrants Trump is deporting.
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And many of those essential workers were the same immigrants Trump is deporting.
I believe the news conference with Epstein's victims is scheduled for Sept. 3 -- that is Wednesday.
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Broderick and Ruck are in Vancouver, B.C. filming a movie titled "The Best Is Yet to Come" in which they play two friends who go on a road trip. Sound familiar? They weren't at Wrigley Field but at a minor league ballpark that's home to the Vancouver Canadians. www.msn.com/en-us/entert...
And they now have job training to fill the jobs of all the gardeners and landscapers Trump has deported not to mention the National Park Service workers Trumpers has fired.
I could see Stewart playing the role of Professor Henry Higgins in “My Fair Lady.”
Keep Netflix. And make sure to drop subscriptions to Paramount+ and Amazon Prime.
Was Melania wearing her I Don’t Really Care Do U? Jacket when she was spotted at Walter Reed?
JD Vance could be more dangerous than Trump when it comes to implementing Project 2025.
With all the reports of Trump's imminent death, I'm reminded about all the reports of the impending death of Spanish dictator Generalissimo Francisco Franco. And then he died. Maybe we'll see an update on this SNL classic when Trump finally kicks the bucket. youtu.be/axByUFSa7N8?...
Meanwhile Stephen “Nosferatu” Miller is ensconced at the White House.
Remember Hitler's Gestapo didn't wear masks because they were not afraid of retaliation. ICE agents wear masks because they fear being identified.
What’s overlooked is Qatar’s links to Hamas. Students who support Palestinian rights and criticize Israel get accused of supporting Hamas, while Trump and his family get gifts and money from Qatar.
Maybe New York AG Tish James can investigate RFK Jr. for mortgage fraud.
Just bury him next to Ivana at the Bedminster resort’s golf course.
What’s often overlooked is that $400M plane was gifted to Trump by Qatar, which has supported Hamas both financially and politically. Just imagine how Fox News would have reacted if Qatar gifted a plane to Newsom.
Trump is the king of bankruptcy. What he did to his own companies, he’s doing to the entire country.
The anti-Mamdani Jewish vote is largely concentrated among the ultra Orthodox who supported Trump and those who don’t realize that Netanyahu is harmful to Israel as Trump is to the US. NYC’s highest ranked elected Jewish official Comptroller Brad Lander has enthusiastically backed Zohran.
They have been pressed into service to do the work of National Park Service workers who were fired. And then Jeanine Pirro will try to make littering a felony.
And this could happen based on a technicality. Seniors were vulnerable. Some people in creative fields had big income swings from year to year. And the decontrol threshold wasn’t always adjusted for inflation by Albany. If you are not from NYC then don’t back Cuomo on this.
What my landlord used to do is send every rent-regulated tenant a form requiring them to detail their income and attach copies of their income tax returns. If a tenant didn’t meet the deadline for whatever reason, the landlord would then petition to decontrol the apartment.
At $40,000 a year a person could not afford Mamdani’s 1-bedroom apartment which rents for $2,300. Cuomo wants to introduce a means test for having a rent-regulated apartment. We had luxury decontrol before. An apartment would be decontrolled if a tenant’s household income reached a certain level.
Zohran scores again by just being there and speaking out. That’s what he did by participating in the No Kings Day protest and marching in the NYC Pride Day parade with AG Tish James holding a trans flag.
The apartment won’t be a problem when Zohran is elected and moves into Gracie Mansion. And Cuomo will move to Florida since frankly he really doesn’t give a damn about NYC.
Just the accessory to go with your Trump costume to really scare people .
So why are National Guard troops from as far away as Louisiana and Mississippi picking up trash and spreading mulch in DC parks rather than fighting crime The Washington Post says its to make up for staff cuts at the National Park Service ordered by Trump. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Gere's my $250K solution. Keep the old man and the barrel, but drop the word "Barrel" and change the restaurant chain's name to "Cracker." That should make the MAGA cultists happy
If I were to compare Jesse to any '60s protest songwriter, it would be Phil Ochs rather than Bob Dylan. youtu.be/_T9MHFldX1E?...
We are going to start seeing more examples of jury nullification as a result of the weaponized DOJ.
The problem is that many people are forced into taking Medicare Advantage policies because they can't afford the Medigap policies. Medicare Part B only pays 80% of hospitalization costs -- and you're stuck with a huge bill if you don't have a Medigap or Medicare Advantage policy.
It looks like Londoners are just trying to outdo Zohran Mamdani’s fare free bus plan for NYC.
There's a saying that a prosecutor could get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich. We need a new saying for PUI (Prosecutor Under the Influence) Jeanine Pirro; She couldn't get a Grand Jury to indict a hero sandwich tosser. Was there any ham in that sandwich? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
So who will next year’s Kennedy Center honorees be? I’m placing my bets on Trump choosing Kid Rock. Mel Gibson, Lee Greenwood, Jon Voight and Kanye West.
Well we do have Randi Rainbow repackaging show tunes to fit the times.
But Pyongyang has bigger, more beautiful military parades for their Dear Leader.
This just seems like the aftermath to Trump’s military parade on June 14 to celebrate his birthday and the 200th anniversary of the US Army.
It was the same in the US in 2016 when the TV screens gave Trump so much time. Les Moonves, the CBS CEO, said : “It may not be good for America but it’s good for CBS” because of the ratings and ad revenue.
Even Fox News realizes that Trump is not as hot as he things he is. And he had posted on Truth Social that Taylor Swift was "no longer hot." newrepublic.com/post/199634/...
Only one former justice gets a magnet, and the honor goes to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. supremecourtgifts.org/collections/...
There was a Tom Tomorrow post with photos of magnets sold at the Supreme Court Gift Shop, run by the Supreme Court Historical Society, with quotes from Roberts and Alito. There are magnets with quotes from all 9 justices, including the three liberal female justices.
Meanwhile Kari Lake is decimating the Voice of America, Radio Free Europe and Radio Free Asia . And she arranged for One America News to provide a newsfeed to VOA. Soon it will be difficult to distinguish between VOA and Russia’s RT.
Jury nullification is the next step in the resistance when people face trumped up federal charges from the likes of Jeanine Pirro. I wonder if they will get DC jurors to indict or convict the hero sandwich tossed.
The way things are going there are a number of blue states that might welcome being provinces of Canada. Just think Canada could claim all of Niagara Falls and you get Disneyland as well.
If Trump/Vance had been in office in 1940 during the Battle of Britain, they would have rolled out the red carpet for Hitler in DC and told him the Nazis could keep the territory they had occupied.
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And Woody Allen did fight in the Russian army in his Tolstoy-inspired epic "Love and Death," released 50 years ago. youtu.be/ELI212NgR6M?...
Well, accused child molester Woody Allen needs a distraction from reports that he palled around with his neighbor pedophile Jeffrey Epstein in NYC. nypost.com/2023/05/04/w...
Andrew, I think the thousands of Zohran supporters who rode the subways during Sunday's scavenger hunt would beg to differ with you. And Zohran has made affordability, especially affordable housing, a centerpiece of his campaign from the beginning. youtu.be/cv0yB_wo12I?...
It took a long time but 164 years after firing shots at Fort Sumter, South Carolina troops have finally occupied Washington DC.
Trump is the last person who should be talking about someone else’s appearance,especially their hair.
Hey Eric, New Yorkers would be worrying less about rent if the Rent Guidelines Board that you appointed hadn’t raised rents for rent-regulated apartments each year of your term. Zohran will appoint a board that will freeze rents for these apartments.
I did three stops before having to drop out to keep another appointment. I didn’t get a card for the scavenger hunt. But the best thing about it was the people I met and spoke with during the afternoon. It was a welcome respite from all the darkness brought on by Trump.
It was Rudy Giuliani. He made the Staten Island fare free for the only borough that is majority GOP.
There were most definitely enough buses and trains. The crowds reached the stops at different times, not all at once. We’re New Yorkers and know how to get around without cars, using public transit.
If you listen to what Lavrov is saying about Russia bombing civilians in Ukraine, he could just as easily be Israel’s foreign minister talking about bombing civilian targets in Gaza. He is using the same argument as Netanyahu’s cabinet members.
At least JD is getting up off of the couch to go on vacation. The couch welcomes the break, not quite sure how Usha feels getting booed everywhere they go.
Detectives Stabler and Benson would have done a better job interviewing Ghislaine Maxwell than DAG Todd Blanche. A 2011 episode of "Law & Order: SVU" titled "Flight" was ripped from the headlines about the Epstein-Maxwell case. lawandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Flight_...
He loves only 24K gold. Trump is a Bond villain. It's time to lock down Fort Knox from President Goldfinger. Golden words he will pour in your ear But his lies can't disguise what you fear ... Pretty girl beware of this heart of gold This heart is cold youtu.be/6D1nK7q2i8I?...
An intellectual carrot. The mind boggles.
Just to piss Trump off I hope it includes a provision to allow California companies to invest in mining rare earth materials in Greenland.
Trickle-down economics is best described as the rich pissing on the rest of us.
This is the movie I'm most looking forward to seeing this fall. "Nuremberg" -- Judgment is coming. youtu.be/CKDPldf0xvE?...
"Pirate Jenny" from the Brecht-Weill musical "The Threepenny Opera." Absolutely chilling. youtu.be/V7awW5nrDHk?...
And she gave a riveting performance in which she expressed by deep sorrow and rage at what happened. "Mississippi Goddam" begins at the 6:39 mark. youtu.be/Yof-6E1H_78?...
The most emotional live performance of "Mississippi Goddam" came at the Westbury Music Fair in New York just three days after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis. Simone sang a ballad written by her bassist Gene Taylor: "The King Is Dead," and segued into "Mississippi Goddam."
The filming took place when martial law was still in effect in Poland. At one point some of the Polish extras went on strike, and they were taken to the local police station wearing their striped prison uniforms.
And it was even more bizarre to see a barracks used for a catered meal for the foreign crew members. And children brought in as extras playing with the German Shepherd guard dogs off set in another building. Just seeing the death camp come to life again for the filming was chilling.
I was a correspondent in Poland when they filmed scenes for the miniseries “War and Remembrance” starring Jane Seymour and John Gielgud on site at Auschwitz-Birkenau. It was surreal to see flames coming out of the fake crematoria and an actual train coming through the gates.
Somehow this Rolling Stones' song seems fitting. "Paint It, Black"! youtu.be/O4irXQhgMqg?...
And many of these soccer players have tattoos!
It's why these right-wing pastors dream about turning the U.S. into the Republic of Gilead from Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale" in which women have no rights and can be forced into an arranged marriage at the age of 15.
Alina Habba is a graduate of Widener University Commonwealth Law School, ranked in the bottom 20 percent of law schools by US News & World Report. She's apparently persona non grata at Widener. She can always represent her 2nd husband's parking garage again. www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...
What I worry about is when the time comes thatICE agents don't feel they need to wear masks. That's when the fascist takeover is complete. Remember the Gestapo didn't feel any need to wear masks to hide their identities.
Here's a story I wrote for the progressive website Uncharted Blue about the phenomenon of Trump-Mamdani voters. #@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social www.unchartedblue.com/dont-lecture...
When reading about Trump wanting to get into heaven, I was reminded of this satirical 1971 anti-Vietnam War song by John Prine about phony patriotism during Nixon's presidency: "You're Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore." Prine died due to COVID in 2020. youtu.be/mIaWb1CJpb4?...
Make that Thomas Massie. Spellcheck strikes again.
Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna and GOP Rep. Thomas Maddie are planning to hold a news conference on Sep. 3 in DC with a number of Epstein’s victims to demand the release of the files.
Can't wait for Mr. Hankey to make an appearance on a new South Park episode. youtu.be/YFbDuWisGWA?...
Al Schmidt is a Republican who was a member of the Philadelphia election commission. He refused to go along with Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. He testified before the House Jan. 6 select committee. Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro appointed him Secretary of the Commonwealth of PA.
We can save taxpayers millions of dollars by giving ICE Barbie a fleet of these planes, which only cost $80 each. The planes even come with a cute, obedient puppy. youtu.be/15ArjUGzUe4?...
We can save taxpayers millions of dollars by giving ICE Barbie a fleet of these planes to play with. They only cost about $80 each. She can deport brown and black Ken dolls and fly in white ones. And Mattel even throws in a puppy. youtu.be/15ArjUGzUe4?...
Dementia Don has such memory lapses on a regular basis and the mainstream media is largely silent. I remember how hysterical the MSM got when President Biden made a gaffe by referring to Egyptian leader El-Sisi as the president of Mexico during a news conference on the special counsel report.
What nonsense. Bed, Bath & Beyond has been closing stores in NYC and it has nothing to do with politics. Its CEO should really be more concerned about the impact of Trump’s tariffs on their already failing business.
Trump would have made a perfect rich guy villain on an episode of "Columbo." Actually this substack piece imagined how Columbo would have investigated Trump in the Epstein case. "Just one more thing, Mr. Trump ..." wade91757.substack.com/p/just-one-m...
Perhaps he’s counting the war on Christmas.
And thanks to RFK Jr the US can proudly claim that we have measles outbreaks and rank behind Nepal in some public health measures.
I doubt that Newsom is up at 1 am to post tweets about whoever has insulted him recently.
Or maybe some of those anonymous masked federal agents are also members of far-right groups.
If anyone’s security clearance needs to be revoked, it’s Tulsi Gabbard’s. Her position is best described as Director of National Stupidity.
The new high water mark of the Confederacy. Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee and South Carolina are among the six GOP-controlled states that have sent National Guard troops to occupy Washington, D.C. Trump has accomplished what Confederate President Jefferson Davis failed to do in the Civil War.
The same thing happened in NYC with our corrupt mayor Eric Adams paying several hundred dollars per night per room to hotel owners to provide shelter.
And while Marjorie Taylor Greene's right-wing reporter boyfriend can ask inane questions about Zelenskyy's attire at two White House events, The Associated Press remains barred from the White House press pool for refusing to bend the knee over renaming the Gulf of Mexico.
My father, a NYC newspaperman, got transferred to the staff of Stars & Stripes in Paris during WWIl where he worked with cartoonist Bill Mauldin and other journalists who went on to distinguished careers. He later managed the S & S New York office.
The Murdoch - controlled NY Post and Fox News did the same thing in describing hotels used to house migrants in NYC after there was a huge influx of asylum seekers.
According to the cheerleading website Flocheer, four future U.S. presidents were male cheerleaders. 1. George W. Bush (Phillips Academy and Yale) 2. Dwight D. Eisenhower (West Point) 3. Franklin D. Roosevelt (Harvard) 4. Ronald Reagan (Eureka College)
Trump's solicitor general is D. John Sauer. As Trump's defense lawyer, he made the bonkers argument that even a president directing SEAL Team Six to kill a political opponent would be an action barred from prosecution given the executive's broad immunity to criminal prosecution.
Brian Glenn, chief WH correspondent of Real America’s Voice, also praised Trump for his crime crackdown in DC. His girlfriend is Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. The NY Post quoted Glenn as saying: “I walked around yesterday with MTG. If you can walk around with DC with MTG, the city is safe.”