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Obama used the situation room to monitor the killing of Bin Laden. Trump has been using it to prevent release of the Epstein Files. This is the difference between a president and a pedophile.
November 13, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Obama used the situation room to monitor the killing of Bin Laden. Trump has been using it to prevent release of the Epstein Files. This is the difference between a president and a pedophile.
Epstein wrote in 2018, approximately a year before he was found dead in his prison cell: “You see, I know how dirty Donald is.”
November 13, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Epstein wrote in 2018, approximately a year before he was found dead in his prison cell: “You see, I know how dirty Donald is.”
OMG!
A new Associated Press–NORC poll has Dementia Donnie's approval rating at 33%!
A new Associated Press–NORC poll has Dementia Donnie's approval rating at 33%!
November 13, 2025 at 1:10 PM
OMG!
A new Associated Press–NORC poll has Dementia Donnie's approval rating at 33%!
A new Associated Press–NORC poll has Dementia Donnie's approval rating at 33%!
IDEAL CITIES – Catfiddle Street, Charleston,SC. A small group of intrepid entrepreneurs have been constructing this new neighborhood in a historic city for the past 20 plus years.
www.urbanergonomics.com/projects#/ca...
www.urbanergonomics.com/projects#/ca...
November 12, 2025 at 8:26 PM
IDEAL CITIES – Catfiddle Street, Charleston,SC. A small group of intrepid entrepreneurs have been constructing this new neighborhood in a historic city for the past 20 plus years.
www.urbanergonomics.com/projects#/ca...
www.urbanergonomics.com/projects#/ca...
A beautiful November Saturday evening in NYC!
November 9, 2025 at 4:56 AM
A beautiful November Saturday evening in NYC!
New reporting (by Yahoo, sourced to The New Republic): GOP insiders say they’ve been warned that the unreleased tranche of Epstein-related material is “MUCH MUCH worse for Trump” than what is public.
November 8, 2025 at 1:36 PM
New reporting (by Yahoo, sourced to The New Republic): GOP insiders say they’ve been warned that the unreleased tranche of Epstein-related material is “MUCH MUCH worse for Trump” than what is public.
After a closed-door Republican conference meeting, Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) told reporters: “What we have here is an intergalactic freak show.”
November 8, 2025 at 12:33 PM
After a closed-door Republican conference meeting, Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) told reporters: “What we have here is an intergalactic freak show.”
The Nation writer Jeet Heer: “Two things are both true: 1. Marjorie Taylor Greene is alarmingly batshit crazy. 2. Marjorie Taylor Greene is one of the sanest voices in the Republican party.”
November 7, 2025 at 11:50 PM
The Nation writer Jeet Heer: “Two things are both true: 1. Marjorie Taylor Greene is alarmingly batshit crazy. 2. Marjorie Taylor Greene is one of the sanest voices in the Republican party.”
IDEAL CITIES - We recently shared that even modest buildings have been enlivened by the Art Deco touch. This photo is of the lobby of The Century apartments in NYC. In our own practice, we have used Art Deco curves in our work at 30th St. Station in Philadelphia.
November 5, 2025 at 5:27 PM
IDEAL CITIES - We recently shared that even modest buildings have been enlivened by the Art Deco touch. This photo is of the lobby of The Century apartments in NYC. In our own practice, we have used Art Deco curves in our work at 30th St. Station in Philadelphia.
Our boorish president. He has been trying all his life to achieve the respect of New York society. They have been laughing at him his entire life, and it is not stopping with his garish Home Depot crap in the oval office. What a pathetic clown.
November 4, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Our boorish president. He has been trying all his life to achieve the respect of New York society. They have been laughing at him his entire life, and it is not stopping with his garish Home Depot crap in the oval office. What a pathetic clown.
Adam Serwer:
Trump’s only true skill is the con; his only fundamental belief is that the United States is the birthright of straight, white, Christian men, and his only real, authentic pleasure is in cruelty.
Trump’s only true skill is the con; his only fundamental belief is that the United States is the birthright of straight, white, Christian men, and his only real, authentic pleasure is in cruelty.
November 4, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Adam Serwer:
Trump’s only true skill is the con; his only fundamental belief is that the United States is the birthright of straight, white, Christian men, and his only real, authentic pleasure is in cruelty.
Trump’s only true skill is the con; his only fundamental belief is that the United States is the birthright of straight, white, Christian men, and his only real, authentic pleasure is in cruelty.
Paul Krugman: Trump has also proved willing to be moved by Chinese promises to resume purchases of U.S. soybeans. You might say that he ceded the future to China in return for a hill of beans.
November 3, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Paul Krugman: Trump has also proved willing to be moved by Chinese promises to resume purchases of U.S. soybeans. You might say that he ceded the future to China in return for a hill of beans.
Dementia Donnie corruption on steroids. Not only did his family make billions on the pardon of Binance founder CZ, the $40 billion Argentine bailout, including the purchase of beef, was a cover for the rescue of Tether, the crypto industry’s $127 billion shadow bank.
www.narativ.org/p/new-analys...
www.narativ.org/p/new-analys...
New Analysis: Trump's $40 Billion Tether Rescue
Argentina's emergency bailout coincides with a crypto pardon and Tether's mad scramble to raise $20 billion. What’s the connection to Trump's newly minted crypto family fortune?
www.narativ.org
November 2, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Dementia Donnie corruption on steroids. Not only did his family make billions on the pardon of Binance founder CZ, the $40 billion Argentine bailout, including the purchase of beef, was a cover for the rescue of Tether, the crypto industry’s $127 billion shadow bank.
www.narativ.org/p/new-analys...
www.narativ.org/p/new-analys...
Many of us have had our Ayn Rand/libertarian phase and still feel it's seductiveness. Here is a compelling argument in favor of classic liberalism and the American experience.
open.substack.com/pub/mikebroc...
open.substack.com/pub/mikebroc...
Libertarianism is Dead
A Return to Liberal Tradition
open.substack.com
November 1, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Many of us have had our Ayn Rand/libertarian phase and still feel it's seductiveness. Here is a compelling argument in favor of classic liberalism and the American experience.
open.substack.com/pub/mikebroc...
open.substack.com/pub/mikebroc...
Krugman: America has alienated its democratic allies and established a reputation for reneging on agreements. America used to have unmatched economic leverage. Now the world knows that China has more.
October 30, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Krugman: America has alienated its democratic allies and established a reputation for reneging on agreements. America used to have unmatched economic leverage. Now the world knows that China has more.
Sara McGee, who is running for state rep in TX, on Trump’s MRI: “Hi. Imaging professional here. We use serial MRIs to monitor the progression of Alzheimer’s. Carry on.”
October 28, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Sara McGee, who is running for state rep in TX, on Trump’s MRI: “Hi. Imaging professional here. We use serial MRIs to monitor the progression of Alzheimer’s. Carry on.”
David Graham wrote a lengthy essay in The Atlantic about the many ways that Trump will try to rig the 2026 and 2028 elections. These plans are already unwell underway. Read it.
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October 28, 2025 at 11:38 PM
David Graham wrote a lengthy essay in The Atlantic about the many ways that Trump will try to rig the 2026 and 2028 elections. These plans are already unwell underway. Read it.
archive.ph/QNBY6#select...
archive.ph/QNBY6#select...
The Bulwark: "This president is unwell." I like the Bulwark, because these are Republicans who are agast at what is happening to their country, not Democrats who could be accused of always crying that the sky is falling.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh_z...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh_z...
New Trump Post Shows That His Mind Is Slipping
YouTube video by The Bulwark
www.youtube.com
October 28, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The Bulwark: "This president is unwell." I like the Bulwark, because these are Republicans who are agast at what is happening to their country, not Democrats who could be accused of always crying that the sky is falling.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh_z...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh_z...
Fox News showed a edited clip of Biden apparently wandering off stage, which didn't happpen, and the news lit up. The Japanese prime minister just had to take Dementia Donnie by the hand and no one says anything! Double standard alert!!!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aig-...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aig-...
Watch Japanese PM Takaichi’s ‘Jaw Drops’ As Trump Walks ‘Cluelessly’ At Guard Of Honour | Full Video
YouTube video by TIMES NOW
www.youtube.com
October 28, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Fox News showed a edited clip of Biden apparently wandering off stage, which didn't happpen, and the news lit up. The Japanese prime minister just had to take Dementia Donnie by the hand and no one says anything! Double standard alert!!!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aig-...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aig-...
Paul Krugman: SNAP payments will end on Monday. It sounds crazy to say that Republicans are making children go hungry to protect pedophiles, but it’s actually a reasonable interpretation of the situation.
October 28, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Paul Krugman: SNAP payments will end on Monday. It sounds crazy to say that Republicans are making children go hungry to protect pedophiles, but it’s actually a reasonable interpretation of the situation.
Even conservative Reason is sounding the alarm bells on Trump: “The intense acceleration of the quest to aggregate power in the WH is now unambiguously the more immediate threat to liberty.
October 26, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Even conservative Reason is sounding the alarm bells on Trump: “The intense acceleration of the quest to aggregate power in the WH is now unambiguously the more immediate threat to liberty.
The latest Gallup poll shows that Americans now think Democrats, rather than Republicans, are the better party to keep the country prosperous, by a margin of 47% to 43%. This is a shift of 18 points in just over two years!
October 25, 2025 at 11:39 AM
The latest Gallup poll shows that Americans now think Democrats, rather than Republicans, are the better party to keep the country prosperous, by a margin of 47% to 43%. This is a shift of 18 points in just over two years!
To round out a week of beautiful October evenings, Old City, Philadelphia, the Customs House, Ritter and Shay. And the Trump regime wants to sell it!
October 24, 2025 at 11:56 PM
To round out a week of beautiful October evenings, Old City, Philadelphia, the Customs House, Ritter and Shay. And the Trump regime wants to sell it!
HCR: A nonpartisan independent research organization found that 56% of Americans agree that “President Trump is a dangerous dictator whose power should be limited before he destroys American democracy."
October 24, 2025 at 12:09 PM
HCR: A nonpartisan independent research organization found that 56% of Americans agree that “President Trump is a dangerous dictator whose power should be limited before he destroys American democracy."