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It’s not inertia; it’s plutocracy. If government told the Dolans it was going to knock down horrible old Madison Square Garden and give them another site for an arena next to Yankee Stadium, you’d have a beautiful new Penn Station.
November 13, 2025 at 1:58 PM
It’s not inertia; it’s plutocracy. If government told the Dolans it was going to knock down horrible old Madison Square Garden and give them another site for an arena next to Yankee Stadium, you’d have a beautiful new Penn Station.
But it wasn’t a crisis of democracy when only Republicans did it in NC, TX, FL, GA which allowed them to keep the House in 2024?
No link to pisspoor @nytimes.com discussions with “some experts.”
No link to pisspoor @nytimes.com discussions with “some experts.”
November 9, 2025 at 6:20 PM
But it wasn’t a crisis of democracy when only Republicans did it in NC, TX, FL, GA which allowed them to keep the House in 2024?
No link to pisspoor @nytimes.com discussions with “some experts.”
No link to pisspoor @nytimes.com discussions with “some experts.”
Let me save you an hour of your one life:
No.
What ruined the workplace were entitled white male a*******s like Weird Ross.
No.
What ruined the workplace were entitled white male a*******s like Weird Ross.
November 6, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Let me save you an hour of your one life:
No.
What ruined the workplace were entitled white male a*******s like Weird Ross.
No.
What ruined the workplace were entitled white male a*******s like Weird Ross.
Coming up next in @nytopinion.nytimes.com :
Why the election results are not a triumph for progressives and actually endorse giving me authority to stick my arm into every woman’s uterus.
By Weird Ross Douthat
Why the election results are not a triumph for progressives and actually endorse giving me authority to stick my arm into every woman’s uterus.
By Weird Ross Douthat
November 5, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Coming up next in @nytopinion.nytimes.com :
Why the election results are not a triumph for progressives and actually endorse giving me authority to stick my arm into every woman’s uterus.
By Weird Ross Douthat
Why the election results are not a triumph for progressives and actually endorse giving me authority to stick my arm into every woman’s uterus.
By Weird Ross Douthat
So you can churn out 2500 words while wearing a hot dog suit!
November 2, 2025 at 2:57 PM
So you can churn out 2500 words while wearing a hot dog suit!
Is this the same newspaper whose lead story last week was scolding Democrats for being too anti-Mad King and not cruel enough to trans kids?
November 2, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Is this the same newspaper whose lead story last week was scolding Democrats for being too anti-Mad King and not cruel enough to trans kids?
Insane clickbait from St. David Brooks, pointing out how the left has always supported starving children to take away health care and establishment of a corrupt violent plutocracy. (I assume; I don’t read his crap)
No link to pisspoor content.
No link to pisspoor content.
October 31, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Insane clickbait from St. David Brooks, pointing out how the left has always supported starving children to take away health care and establishment of a corrupt violent plutocracy. (I assume; I don’t read his crap)
No link to pisspoor content.
No link to pisspoor content.
If one side is bombing and killing civilians, in what sense is that a truce, @bostonglobe.com ?
October 29, 2025 at 11:39 AM
If one side is bombing and killing civilians, in what sense is that a truce, @bostonglobe.com ?
Good morning from the unlivable immigrant-overrun hellhole that is Frankfurt!
October 25, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Good morning from the unlivable immigrant-overrun hellhole that is Frankfurt!
Let me guess: by following the advice of a small bunch of Harvard/Dalton a******s who tell them to embrace bigotry and Social Security cuts.
No link to pisspoor content per policy.
No link to pisspoor content per policy.
October 25, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Let me guess: by following the advice of a small bunch of Harvard/Dalton a******s who tell them to embrace bigotry and Social Security cuts.
No link to pisspoor content per policy.
No link to pisspoor content per policy.
Coming up like never on page one of the @nytimes.com :
Elite Upbringing Gave Andy Cuomo Idea He Could Sexually
Harass Women with Impunity
(PS the “elite” school was a public high school in the Bronx normally beloved by Times poo-bahs )
Per policy, no link to pisspoor content
Elite Upbringing Gave Andy Cuomo Idea He Could Sexually
Harass Women with Impunity
(PS the “elite” school was a public high school in the Bronx normally beloved by Times poo-bahs )
Per policy, no link to pisspoor content
October 23, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Coming up like never on page one of the @nytimes.com :
Elite Upbringing Gave Andy Cuomo Idea He Could Sexually
Harass Women with Impunity
(PS the “elite” school was a public high school in the Bronx normally beloved by Times poo-bahs )
Per policy, no link to pisspoor content
Elite Upbringing Gave Andy Cuomo Idea He Could Sexually
Harass Women with Impunity
(PS the “elite” school was a public high school in the Bronx normally beloved by Times poo-bahs )
Per policy, no link to pisspoor content
Just for s***s and giggles (the Mad King's surefire meme recipe), here's the front page of The New York Times the day after the nationwide Moratorium demonstrations in 1969:
October 19, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Just for s***s and giggles (the Mad King's surefire meme recipe), here's the front page of The New York Times the day after the nationwide Moratorium demonstrations in 1969:
In an impressive show of unity, 7 million Americans united to confront the gravest threat to
our Democracy since the Confederacy but the hacks at @nytimes.com lead with some tired pissing contest among Democratic consultants and flacks.
I’m not smelling Pulitzer.
our Democracy since the Confederacy but the hacks at @nytimes.com lead with some tired pissing contest among Democratic consultants and flacks.
I’m not smelling Pulitzer.
October 19, 2025 at 1:40 PM
In an impressive show of unity, 7 million Americans united to confront the gravest threat to
our Democracy since the Confederacy but the hacks at @nytimes.com lead with some tired pissing contest among Democratic consultants and flacks.
I’m not smelling Pulitzer.
our Democracy since the Confederacy but the hacks at @nytimes.com lead with some tired pissing contest among Democratic consultants and flacks.
I’m not smelling Pulitzer.
October 18, 2025 at 5:47 PM
This just in: life-long Christian extremist and National Review mouthpiece shocked, shocked to discover that gambling is going on in his holy casino. (Don't worry, St. Renault is still pocketing his winnings from @nytopinion.nytimes.com )
October 16, 2025 at 5:01 PM
This just in: life-long Christian extremist and National Review mouthpiece shocked, shocked to discover that gambling is going on in his holy casino. (Don't worry, St. Renault is still pocketing his winnings from @nytopinion.nytimes.com )
Also in @nytopinion.nytimes.com today ex-hero Danielle Sassoon says that pro-Palestinian speakers have it easier on campus than poor persecuted Likudnik "scholars." Unless they're arrested by ICE and asported to jail for signing letters, that is.
I guess "evidence" is only for courtrooms.
I guess "evidence" is only for courtrooms.
October 14, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Also in @nytopinion.nytimes.com today ex-hero Danielle Sassoon says that pro-Palestinian speakers have it easier on campus than poor persecuted Likudnik "scholars." Unless they're arrested by ICE and asported to jail for signing letters, that is.
I guess "evidence" is only for courtrooms.
I guess "evidence" is only for courtrooms.
As a public service I will save you five minutes of your one life and answer the question.
Because one party is devoted to corruptly overthrowing democracy and constitutional government in the United States to advance white supremacy..
Don’t thank me.
Because one party is devoted to corruptly overthrowing democracy and constitutional government in the United States to advance white supremacy..
Don’t thank me.
October 13, 2025 at 1:23 PM
As a public service I will save you five minutes of your one life and answer the question.
Because one party is devoted to corruptly overthrowing democracy and constitutional government in the United States to advance white supremacy..
Don’t thank me.
Because one party is devoted to corruptly overthrowing democracy and constitutional government in the United States to advance white supremacy..
Don’t thank me.
Fixed another one for you, @nytimes.com Copy Desk
October 11, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Fixed another one for you, @nytimes.com Copy Desk
No doubt, as part of the @nytimes.com ‘s commitment to fair and balanced coverage, on tomorrow’s front page they will run:
Andy Cuomo Path To
Becoming An Entitled
Ass-Grabbing Prick
Andy Cuomo Path To
Becoming An Entitled
Ass-Grabbing Prick
October 11, 2025 at 1:52 PM
No doubt, as part of the @nytimes.com ‘s commitment to fair and balanced coverage, on tomorrow’s front page they will run:
Andy Cuomo Path To
Becoming An Entitled
Ass-Grabbing Prick
Andy Cuomo Path To
Becoming An Entitled
Ass-Grabbing Prick
Fun, sun, football, and parties — or as the medieval scholastics called it, the “quadrivium.”
Via @bostonglobe.com
Via @bostonglobe.com
October 3, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Fun, sun, football, and parties — or as the medieval scholastics called it, the “quadrivium.”
Via @bostonglobe.com
Via @bostonglobe.com
If you read down to para 42 or so you eventually learn that the issue isn’t “standing up” to Pres VD Amin, it’s defending academic freedom from a ravenous fascist extortionist.
Another triumph of sanewashing from the @nytimes.com copy desk.
Another triumph of sanewashing from the @nytimes.com copy desk.
September 29, 2025 at 12:52 PM
If you read down to para 42 or so you eventually learn that the issue isn’t “standing up” to Pres VD Amin, it’s defending academic freedom from a ravenous fascist extortionist.
Another triumph of sanewashing from the @nytimes.com copy desk.
Another triumph of sanewashing from the @nytimes.com copy desk.
Another Sunday in the crime ridden immigrant coddling high-tax war zone that is Massachusetts where no one want to live anymore.
This calls for invasion!
Via @bostonglobe.com
This calls for invasion!
Via @bostonglobe.com
September 28, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Another Sunday in the crime ridden immigrant coddling high-tax war zone that is Massachusetts where no one want to live anymore.
This calls for invasion!
Via @bostonglobe.com
This calls for invasion!
Via @bostonglobe.com
Just a reminder that good things can happen to you if hire Leni Riefenstahl’s publicist!
No link to pisspoor @nytimes.com apologias for bigoted disinformation.
No link to pisspoor @nytimes.com apologias for bigoted disinformation.
September 28, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Just a reminder that good things can happen to you if hire Leni Riefenstahl’s publicist!
No link to pisspoor @nytimes.com apologias for bigoted disinformation.
No link to pisspoor @nytimes.com apologias for bigoted disinformation.